Spring photos

The sun is shining and spring flowers are popping up in gardens all around Eastbourne.

my weekend finds

1950's marbles bag

another delightful Golden Book, I love the farmer!

 What a happy little world!

they may be kitsch, but I really like these ceramic swans!

new prints

I'm finding myself dreaming of warm summer days, perhaps that's what inspired me!
I will have them listed in my shop by the end of the week!

DJECO matching game

It's always nice to receive an unexpected parcel in the mail, especially when they are the finished products of projects I have been working on. Djeco, a company based in Paris are leaders when it comes to stylish children's games, their packaging is really lovely too. This cute little game is for kids between 5-10, it involves matching either the hats, cheeks or the jumpers of cats, it's actually more challenging than it looks! (the eyes are just a red herring!)

Groovy, retro scales

I am very busy right now working on some hush hush projects, I can't wait to tell you about them!
Till then, you probably know by now, one of my fave past times is scouring my local second hand shops for mid century treasures. These scales leaped out at me today, this is why I love this era so much, not content with producing this practical (and often reviled) product, someone thought to them selves, why not "groovy" it up with a big green and blue butterfly! I have never really wanted to own scales but these are too good. (my husband chooses to disagree!)
Oh yes and this is my cushion all made up, its got a spring vibe, something we here in New Zealand are very much looking forward to!

Before and after!

I thought you might like to see a before and after! The design on black is my original paper cut, it's amazing what a difference a more vibrant colour and a few details can make!

Bellebebeblog feature

Lovely Kamila at BELLEBEBEBLOG has kindly featured my cushions on her blog!
She has chosen this design as her weekly give away, it will be drawn on Ausust the 30th,
so simply follow the link if you would like to be in the draw!

NATIVE NEW ZEALAND FLOWERS PRINTS FOR IMAGE VAULT

 KOTUKUTUKU

 KOWHAI

 MANUKA

 POHUTUKAWA

 POROPORO

PAUWHANANGA

these are my latest Image Vault  additions.

They'll be available soon!

School Wall decals finished!

and here they are finished!
as soon as they are installed I'll show you!

wall decals in progress

I've painted the paper, enlarged the elements to my maximum scanner size A3 and have made a start on the big tree, I've also finished the first tower. It always takes a while to get going, but once I've established a few things like the style and colours, it usually speeds up. One things for sure, I make a lot of mess, all of which has to be sorted at the end of the day!

Wall decals for an after school care room in New Jersey.

It doesn't happen very often that I can talk about a project I am working on, I asked the lovely client's who I am designing for at this very moment if it would be ok for me to show my work in proress,
I thought you might like to see, they said that's fine,
so following are the beginning stages of a private school after care room renovation in New Jersey.
My client is wanting to apply wall decals to create a fun and unique space.
They found my work on Etsy (go Etsy!) I'm looking forward to seeing my designs huge!
what fun, so here we go...

 I really like their colour palette! very much the sort of colours I like to use, a mixture of bright and off beat!

 These are their rough concepts of the space, only 1 wall will be blue (the main wall for the decals)

 This is my first version of the main wall, featuring a washing line to hang kids art work.

 

roughs for the 2 small children's areas, decals to surround a play market and play kitchen ,

they are very happy with this concept.

 

This is the revised version for the main wall.They sent me an example of one of my designs as a guide. Beacuse there is a mix of ages using this space, my client felt this wall needed to be a bit "older" and not to young, this will need to be much more stylised and graphic, The plain rectangle at the bottom is a couch so this gives you an idea of the scale, it's quite big! I have had to get my head around feet and inches! 
They are happy with this so now it's time to get started!
I'll post as I go!

COMPETITION WINNER

I also want to let you know that I placed all those that entered my recent competition on my Blog and Facebook page in a bag and randomly pulled out a winner, it's Paula Hudson, congrats! yes indeedy, it is a retro clock!

POP UP STORE IN WELLINGTON

Off they go to their new homes (soon hopefully!) these are destined for sale at a local pop up shop!

THE SHOP IS LOCATED ON THE CORNER OF WAKEFIELD AND TORY STREET IN WELLINGTON CITY