Twenty Three

A new week, and I'm another year older! My plan to have a half-weekend off didn't quite work out, we were picking up stock on Friday evening and even squeezed in a visit to Spotlight on Saturday morning! 

Joshua and I spent Friday night in the city, doing a little bit of shopping and dinner. I gave Josh the year off from making one of his ridiculously good chocolate mud cakes, so we picked up a Salted Caramel Praline cupcake from Sparkle. 

We were blessed with gorgeous weather on Saturday, for a harbour side lunch with my family. I forgot my real camera, and no one else took any photos, so my iPhone snaps will have to suffice!

Here's to 23! Hoping it's a good one!

Scarf Showcasing

We borrowed the Made590 studio space last weekend to take some snaps of our products for the upcoming Finders Keepers market. I've been sickly this week (so inconvenient) and spent a day on the couch editing and getting some things ready for post-market Etsy listings and promo pieces for whatever happens next with these babies! The response to them so far has been incredibly encouraging, and hopefully I'll be able to add a few more to the City Series family before people are completely sick of them!

We're taking half the weekend off to celebrate my birthday (hip hip!) and I'm really looking forward to some good cake, good company and squeezing in a bit of shopping in the city. We'll be back next week with some photos of what we got up to, I'm sure! Hope your weekend is a good one!

Stereo Spanning

These great little banners are all taken from vinyl record sleeves and are amazing little pieces of custom typography from decades past. They're all scanned in by American record store Jive Time Records. You can see the growing stack at their website Stereo Stack, but these are a few of my favourites.

Icecream Vans and Yellow Taxis

My love for ice-cream vans is a long and well documented one. I saw one putting along the very busy highway near my house last week as I waited for the bus and it put me in a good mood for the rest of the morning, There's just something so great about that old signage, the pictures, and that bright candy pink that is so often a feature. We've been working on something new for McKean Studio inspired by the ice-cream van we hired for our wedding, Newcastle's most famous pink and blue one. We're also working on a yellow taxi to feed my love for all things NYC. Joshua drew these ones, and I did the colouring. Fingers crossed they turn out like we hope for the final product!

Chair Tuesday: Pelt chair

I feel like every time Benjamin Hubert puts out a new chair I have to put it up here. Something about the work he produces really resonates with me, and the Pelt chair is no different. Not too dissimilar in style to the previous Chair Tuesday Arc, this is another great looking chair. 

I really like the concept behind the chair, where the plywood is stretched over the frame like an animal hide, hence the name I guess. You can see the craftsmanship Hubert puts into all his work and in this chair it's evident in the joinery and points where the skin meets the frame.

And like most of the work on his site there are lots of process pics where you can see how the product was formed. 

Ice Cream

Now that we've finished acquiring furniture for our house, we've started to move onto some art pieces to adorn our walls. We've started off our collection with a beautiful ice cream print from Melbourne artist Dawn Tan. It looks every bit as delicious in real life too! If you'd like your own you can head over to her online store, Handmade Love, where there are lots of other tempting paper treats!

Cushions

We've had cushions made up in the same city prints that feature on our scarves. It's been hard finding ways of using the illustrations for other square shaped things, but they translate really well to the cushions. I've already nabbed San Francisco for our couch, but the rest of them will be available at The Finders Keepers and then hopefully online. 

Made590 Giveaway

There's a wonderful competition happening over on the Made590 blog where you can win a whole outfit from the store! I'm a little biased, but haven't shopped anywhere else for a very long time. They're real good outfits! Head on over to the blog, join the mailing list and leave a comment on which outfit is your favourite to be in the running! The winner is drawn tomorrow, so be quick!

Finders Keepers Preparations

We've started doing some preparations for The Finders Keepers markets next month in Sydney. First up, a pegboard backdrop for our stall, to hang clocks and scarves and all sorts of goodies! Our very limited storage space (read: non-existent) at our place has meant that we've had to get creative with where everything lives for the next few weeks - so for now we have a headboard for our bed! I have an inkling that storing all of our stock for the market might not have such an easy result. Gulp.

Chair Tuesday: Arc

This nifty little chair is from Spanish design team Yonoh Estudio Creativo. Beautiful looking chair with an amazing side profile. The super thin legs give it an amazing feeling of lightness that I'm really drawn to. 

It comes in some great colours but I think my favourite is the chromed steel frame with natural timber seat and backrest. I really like the generous curvature of the backrest gives a good space to lean and nestle, especially compared to chairs with very flat backrests.

Apparently I'm not the only one to like this chair as it was awarded an IF product design award earlier this year.