Colour and pattern - just the right mix

A lovely girl's bedroom by UK photographer Sussie Bell. 

Floral lovelies from Country Living Magazine

Tamar Mogendorff bird houses made from floral fabrics - from US Country Living Magazine. Bella!

Celia Birtwell

Celia Birtwell is one of those rare designers who successfully manage to re-invent their design output to the fashions of the time. From her celebrated partnership with fashion designer Ossie Clark during London's swinging 60's, through to her interior furnishings business based in Notting Hill today, Birtwell's designs retain her original and distinctive handwriting.

'Beasties' is one of Celia Birtwell's most popular designs and was inspired by a 16th c. V&A textile fragment. It is one of my favourite textile designs.


Printed linen from the 'Jacobean' collection. I love this one too....

Beautiful Birds

More beautiful bird designs, this time from local stationery company Poppies for Grace. I love the hand-drawn motifs, fresh colour palette and the tactile layers of paper. All of the designs pictured are printed with vegetable based inks on recycled paper. I found my cards at Empire Vintage in Albert Park.

So pretty!

Fairy Village stickers

Create your own fairytale with our new sticker collection for girls.

Moon Rabbit

'Moon Rabbit' by Natalie Russell is a beautifully illustrated tale of a little city-dwelling rabbit who looks at the moon and begins to wonder.....  is there another little rabbit out there who likes doing the same things that she does?

I love the colour palette used in this book - very moonlight sonata-esque!

Vintage hoo's

I love these vintage wallpaper hand-cut owls by UK artist Helen Musselwhite. Check out her delicately crafted artworks here!

Trees please

Vironi - another great wallpaper design from UK company Harlequin.

Malin Ngoie

More beautiful photography - this time from UK based Malin Ngoie. Malin sounds like a Swedish name to me, so I flipped through a couple of Swedish children's design magazines I have here at home, and sure enough, Malin's work features in petit magazine. Just lovely!







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Blog happiness

A big thank you to Corine for mentioning Hiccupings on her excellent Hidden in France blog! This is one of my favourite daily blog reads - I love the mix of brightly coloured eye candy and her ever-so-slightly sardonic and very funny writings. Corine has introduced me to a host of fabulous design blogs, including keltainen talo rannalla and the very colourful French blog Une touche de. Visit the post here!