Holiday time

After what was a pretty ordinary week in many ways, I'm off to sunnier climes for a bit of rest, relaxation and working out what I would like to do next with my design career. And most importantly, I will be celebrating a very talented friend's 40th birthday! 

Perfectly mauve

Beautiful interiors with just the tiniest (and perfect) amount of mauve and lilac.

Photography by Petra Bindel

Elle Interior

Back to the drawing board

It's time to get started on the next Hiccups range - Winter 2012. I like to tackle the girls designs first - its always nice to design a floral or two in between the trucks, tractors and aeroplanes!

Little Bohemians

Whimsical products perfect for a bohemian princess from the Winter 2011 edition of Shop 4 Kids magazine. That's our striped throw spread on the floor!

Styling by Alissa Thomas

Photography by Andrew Finlayson.

Behind the scenes

Ahh, the not so glamourous world of photoshoots! Danielle and I have spent the last few days creating a variety of room sets for the new Hiccups Summer 2011/12 designs - with a lot of help from the S.A.S furniture brothers and their woodworking / construction skills. Our photographer has produced some lovely shots, and with a tiny bit of tweaking our rather haphazard constructions should look just like a little girl's dream bedroom!

Drawing on the job - an artwork for one of the room sets.

Danish delights

From Scandinavia with love - an inspiring collection of cool, calm and collected children's rooms from the pages of Bolig Magasinet.

Photo by Karina Tengburg

Photo by Karina Tengburg

Photo by Karina Tengburg

Photo by Svend Dyrvig

 Photo by Lisbett Wedendahl

Photo by Lisbett Wedendahl

 Photo by Wolfgang Drejer

 Photo by Phillipe Kress

 Photo by Phillipe Kress

 Photo by Phillipe Kress

Photo by Phillipe Kress

A spoonful of Swedish sugar

I think its time for a visit to the creative shores of Sweden. These images are from the always inspiring Swedish magazine Family Living.

Vera's bright and happy nursery

Photo by Jonas Gustavsson

A pattern a day keeps the doctor away

Photo by Tia Borgsmidt

Mint green and mimosa  - a lovely colour combination

Photo by Tia Borgsmidt

Vintage details

Photo by Tia Borgsmidt

 A cosy nook

Photo by Jonas Ingerstedt

Bold patterns and primary colours

Photo by Pernilla Hed

A sweet corner for baby Iris

Photo by Carl Dahlstedt

http://www.familyliving.se

Setting the scene

Our Hiccups designs are released twice a year, and the latest collection for Summer 2011/12 has just been unveiled to customers at the Linenhouse Market Week. As soon as the last customer has departed the showroom a mad rush of photographing each bed linen design takes place. Yesterday we had a very early start (no Royal Wedding hang-overs permitted!) and created a couple of set designs from scratch, including this blackboard design which I worked on with the aid of a few bottles of Diet Coke. I love the contrast of this yellow Tolix chair against the chalkboard background.

Our super stylist Danielle creates the sets

The early stages of my chalkboard drawing...

.... and a little detail of Danielle's finished room set.

The Summer 2011/12 Hiccups collections will be released from July 2011.