Weekend

We went fossilling

but didn't find any.

We went to the Vintage Market

but didn't buy anything.

(Why?  Why did I not buy those cushions!!!)

We had a nice weekend.

Sofa Crush

I seem to have developed a hopeless, can't-stop-looking-at-the-picture,

need-to-get-me-some-of-that, full on girly crush on this sofa and its styling.

I'm loving the midcentury-modern-meets-Finnish-folk feel of it.

It's giving me all kinds of ideas as to what to put in our summer house 

now that it's getting colder (and my mum has nicked her sofa back).

(Image from Living Etc. January 2011 - Oliver Heath's House)

Good Books

I've found some very nicely illustrated children's books recently.

The first two were picked up at a book fair in Collioure 

and are published by Editions Grandir.  

We were lucky enough that they had the 

English translations of the 2 books we loved.

The last one came from a car boot sale a few weeks back.

The other browsers at the stall may still have the bruises 

from my elbowing past to grab it.

I like the slightly Christmassy feel of the last image.

Which reminds me, I'd better get busy making....

Holiday Snaps

I've been enjoying playing with my new toy.

Here's our holiday, ahem, courtesy of Instagram and Hipstamatic

(late to the bandwagon as ever)

We stayed here, here and here.  

I can't recommend Casa Migdia highly enough...

(click around the floor plan on their site to get a good look)
It is run by a French family, so feels both French and Spanish at the same time.

My expectations of it were pretty high, but it far exceeded them.

For example, I wasn't expecting it to smell quite so NICE everywhere.
I wasn't expecting our room to have THE BEST SHOWER EVER
(and the most amazing sleigh bed for Nelly)
I wasn't expecting the gentleman who was minding it for the owners
to be so very affable
I wasn't expecting the breakfast in the garden to be quite so delicious
I wasn't expecting a Babyfoot table in the bar, cold beers and a wonderfully eclectic assortment of French chanteurs coming from the speakers.
I wasn't expecting to find a thrillingly huge collection of French interiors magazines...

Can't wait to go back.

Acorns and Conkers

I've so many things I want/need to blog about I don't quite know where to start...holiday snaps, great book finds, recent commissions, future plans... but I think I really should start with these two little pieces, since I listed them on Folksy and Etsy before I went on holiday and then promptly closed both shops (which are now both open again)!

As it's September, I can legitimately rattle on about all things Autumnal, so here are my Friendly Acorn and Friendly Conker designs.  Me and the girls have been collecting a lot of shiny, newly-fallen treasure from the trees lately (we even got a couple of Spanish lads to leap up and grab conker branches for us in a park in Girona the other day) so I thought it would be nice to capture those friendly little nuggets of polished goodness tucked inside their textured cases.