Elegants and Mushrooms

Love these adorable illustrations by Melinda Josie...

Tania Mason

is the artist responsible for these wonderful ink illustrations

(images from Tania Mason)

I do like Tea

While taking a break from the coursework that is currently taking over my life - it's amazing how in programme coding a little missing "," can make your life so miserable! I discovered the amazinly talented Tabitha behind Tabitha Emma, her illustrations are so beautiful and sweet I wanted to buy her whole shop!

I love her tea themed illustrations the best as I know if I looked at any of her cute cupcake illustrations I'll get hungry ;)

How pretty are these teacups? I am putting this at the top of my wishlist!

I couldn't leave without buying a thing so I bought this sweet little calendar, ONLY $1.50! Shame the other two designs sold out otherwise I would so buy all three! :)

I feel like I need some tea now, and maybe with some cakes ;)

(images from tabidesigns)

{Dear Diary}: Awards & Cute illustrations!

I have always loved cute illustrations and when I came across Yuuco's store at Etsy, I just couldn't resist this cute series of postcards, at such affordable prices too! ($6 for 7 prints!) I received them the other day and just wanted to show them to everyone, the one with the cute cuddly bear wearing the red scarf says "you make me so happy", wouldn't it make a great present?

Also I feel so honoured to receive this wonderful award from Liz at the gorgeous blog Violet Posy:

and I'm passing on the award to some of my favorite blogs, as alwasy it's so hard to choose as i have so many! Here goes:

Mary Jo at Trust Your Style {amazing fashion posts & love her style interview posts!}

i.d. at Just Fashion. Art. Design {wonderful fashion photography & she just started fashion school and promises to share her journey, how exciting!}

Emily at Cupcakes and Cashmere {two of my favorite things and her blog is just as gorgeous as the name, she tranforms high fashion into everyday outfits and does this by example (effortlessly may I add)!}

Candi at Dolce Chic {Candi is the sweetest and I promise you'll love her blog!}

Rachel at Design Lovely {always has amazing finds, and she has a great interior blog too dwellings and décor }

Julia at The Red Otter Shop {Julia has such a good eye for beautiful things and I can't describe exactly why but reading her posts always makes me feel happy}

Kimberlee at Brown Button {Kimberlee finds the most amazing objects, photography, interiors... the list just goes on and on!}

Think the rules are to link to the person who gave the award & also leave a comment on people you've given the award to so they know! Right I'm off to leave my comments now ;) hope you're having a good Sunday evening or Sunday afternoon/Monday morning depending on where you are in this lovely world! xxx

Black & White Prints

Thought I'd get into the Halloween mood early by posting some beautiful black and white prints. These illustrations are by the talented Eveline Tarunadjaja based in Melbourne, I just love all the details on hair!

(images from lovepad)

Adopt a cute little bird

Came across these adorable bird illustrations at the Etsy shop - little doodles. They are the cutest birds I have seen, all fluffy and fat! The prints all have a warm feeling as well, due to the coloured background maybe?

Also, check out the talented illustrator Kate Wilson's blog here.


(images from littledoodles)

Julia Pott

Julia Pott is an illustrator and an animator based in London, UK. I love her work, especially her humanlike animal illustrations. See more of her wonderful work at her blog or her Etsy shop.

She has also done two designs for To Dry For tea towels (see previous post), can't wait to see those in the online shop!

(all images are illustrations by Julia Pott)

Artist Spotlight: Mandy Sutcliffe

Mandy Sutcliffe is an illustrator based in London and the creator behind Belle and Boo. Mandy uses soft pastel colours to illustrates children's innocence perfectly. More details on her blog.


(images from http://www.belleandboo.com/)

Artist Spotlight: Jamie Atherton

Jamie Atherton is an illustrator and designer based in London. He is also one-half of the stationery design group Atherton Lin. I discovered his work while looking for calendars on Etsy! (see post below) you can find more of his illustrations here on Atherton Lin's website.

this beautifully illustrated card is avaible from Little Otsu & for more info on Atherton Lin see their Etsy shop.