Nursery Design Reveal – Part 2 (doing the sums)

After revealing the nursery the other week, I promised a follow-up on all the bits and bobs, where I got stuff and how much it cost. So here it is! I’ve broken everything down into sections, to make it easier in my own head. DECOR Wall Decal – Etsy, LeoLittleLion, with shipping total cost $120, [...]

I love new design books!

Today I got 3 in the mail care of Amazon, and last week I got one with a Borders book voucher I got for Christmas from Erin. weeeeee =) Also I made a tumblr account, I’m going to do a 365 photographs project where I plan to show 365 of my own original photos throughout [...]

*bespoke* zine hot off the press!

Jess has got the proof copy of bespoke zine in her hot little hands, and it look gorgeous! This is my first complete zine design (I did the graphic design for this, cover to cover!) and it is really quite exciting =) You can pre-order your copy over at bespokezine.com.

Melbourne Town & Tim Burton

This weekend we went down to Melbourne from Thursday night til Sunday, and had a really great time =) Our friends Phil and Beck (you might remember their wedding back in February) have moved down there for 12 months, and were kind enough to offer us a bed for the time we were there, and [...]

Working on: Zine Design

Here is a little sneak peek of the zine I’m designing for Jess of Epheriell Designs. It’s called *bespoke* and it’s going to be be absolutely drool worthy, such amazing content, I’m telling you! So keep your eyes peeled for it’s release! You can see I used my little birdy in the Twitter feature below [...]

Crazy Life

Does it regularly happen that peole have 1000+ posts to read in their RSS feeds? I’ve recently switched from iGoogle to Google Reader and every couple of days I try to catch up on all my feeds, but by the end of the week it’s always back up to 1000+… Nice to know there’s a [...]

Branding your handmade products correctly

If you read my little blurb over to the right, you’ll see I have too many ideas in my head. Sometimes this means to get one out quickly to make room for the others, I don’t always resolve every aspect fully, and when I come back to it later I’m not entirely happy with it. [...]

in brief – design hell

How a web design goes straight to hell, comic from theOatmeal.com

Working on handmade items

I posted about the Goose & Gander idea / brand / creations a couple of days ago, and I am still working on completing the other character canvases, but I have made some progress for the brand itself! I’ve sent away for a sample swatch of fabric from Spoonflower, which will take a couple of [...]

Design & Craft ♥ Favourite Friday Five

1. The whole post in my first link is so true for me. Grover is the best, and I LOVE that book. Go check out the Crafty Grover Hand Puppet on Make and Takes

2. Interior Design – Kitchen makeover with before and after photos over at Design Sponge.

3. Bathroom cabinets and accessories from Ikea - I’ve decided to get these when we renovate our bathroom, it’s sort of modular but they look great when put together.

4. DIY Favour boxes on Twig and Thistle – these are a lovely design, I will be sharing this on the Just Details forums!

5. Dresser Drawer ribbon organisers on Mod Podge Rocks, which I posted about yesterday also.

Enjoy your weekend everyone, I’ll be back sunday night!