Kitchen with hanging plants and cool shoes

While I'm on the subject of gardens and plants here's a kitchen I love (found via 2 or 3 things). Also some cool shoes that are a collaboration between Vivienne Westwood and Melissa. xxxx

Garden drawing

Here's a picci of a garden I did inbetween jobs the other day. I've been growing these plants in the backyard. xxxx

Justine Ashbee

I found this amazing drawing by Justine Ashbee via Dear Ada. You can see more on her website. xxxx

Jakob Nylund

Found this typeface by Jakob Nylund via i love typography. xxxx

Maria Sibylla Merian

When I was making the kalidescope-butterfly image I was looking at a book of illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian, who was a botanical artist working in the 1700's. I've posted the front cover of the book along with another illustration of hers which I found here. xxxx

Yulia Brodskaya

I saw the above Christmas image in the Guardian, which led me to find out who the artist was: Yulia Brodskaya. I found the other great paper illustrations from her website. Lovely and festive for the first post of the year. xxxx

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year

Hope everyone has a great Xmas - and a lovely New Year too! I found these retro catalog images here. xxxx

Back from a long blogging break!

Almost a month off line - that's a record. Moving house, renovations, phone line problems etc etc. Here's a couple of pics for an upcoming exhibition about collective animal nouns. I chose ' a kaleidescope of butterflies' and my friend Anna did 'a tower of giraffes'. You can see a larger view of the butterflies here.
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Moving house

We're moving all our stuff into our tiny new house on Monday, so may be offline for a while. We're gonna have to dump everything into the front room in boxes and spend the next couple of weeks unpacking. I'd love to be able to say that things will be as organised and neat as the picture above, but I kind of don't think it will be. I scanned the image from a 1960's Swedish magazine appropriately called 'Form'. xxxx

Kitchen cupboard handles

I found these cute 1950's cupboard handles at the restoration yard and got a combination of No. 22 and No. 32 for our kitchen. xxxx