These Birdball peanut feeders are beautiful. Sleek, modern - and made in the UK. They're designed to be accessibly to the small birds, but deter the big thugs, and those pesky squirrels. I'd love to have a few in different colours (they produce a nesting ball, too), but failing that several in white would just look great in the garden, all year round. I'm also hoping that having a white 'target' to point out will make them easier to spot than the traditional camouflaged variety for little ones.
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So much good stuff here.
I just adore this. I love that it is so colourful without veering off into nursery school territory.
Can't wait til the kid is old enough to appreciate this. Cardboard airplane (plus dens, rockets, forts and building bricks) from Paperpod.
Wow. Now I'm really feeling wanty. Mirrored staircase showcased at http://etc-alltherest.blogspot.com/2009/08/30.html.
Esther Coombs is an illustrator based here in London and I love her work reusing old glass and china. She finds glassware and crockery at car boots and charity shops, and draws over top of them - in a gorgeous 'doodly' style - to create really beautiful, unusual pieces. I especially love the piece above, the 'My Garden' cake stand, which uses floral patterned china and illustrations of Esther's own garden.
See it, and loads more, in her Etsy shop.
So pretty, so delicate, RubyRecycled's butterfly cut-out note cards look like they might just fly away.
I have a big event coming up in November, and if something amazing happens to my bank account before then, I'll be wearing this beautiful piece from Thread Social's Resort 09 collection. If not, I'll be dreaming about it.
Anna, you do not need another striped bag.
Salad wrenches @ atypyk-e-shop.com
Moustache pencils @ atypyk-e-shop.com
I know one person who's getting salad wrenches for Christmas, and a bunch of others who are getting moustache pencils.
PS: a favourite way to give cash as a gift is to wrap a £ note around a pencil, fasten it with a spot of tape, and wrap the whole thing.
It really feels like autumn today, time to get ready for the rain. 'Bubble' brollies are so much fun and I feel like my little guy would enjoy the novelty of being inside - dry - instead of outside - wet - even more with the clear version.
Yellow Ciré Rain jacket @ bibaloo.com
Wow. Good karma is coming in droves to the people at Feed Your Soul: The Free Art Project. Every month they're adding more free art to download, print and frame. These are my two favourites from the August downloads, and the one thing missing from the kid's room is some art on his walls.
Who doesn't love stationery? The offerings at Present & Correct are so gorgeous, it was difficult to choose a product to illustrate this post.
Emily Peacock's Etsy shop went into my 'favourite sellers' list in double-quick time - I just adore the whole steam fair aesthetic. If I didn't have a crafting to do list as long as my arm, these kids would already be bought and on their way to me. How lovely would the 'Hug' one, especially, be made with a removable rice/lavender/hop pillow inside, the kind that you warm up in the microwave and drape over an aching neck?
