The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

These notebook started their existing as wedding invitations ^_^… you can read the whole story at studio mikmik where you can buy them for £8.00 each or £12.00 for two. I love the whole eco approach to printing using recycling paper and vegetable oil based inks. It makes me wonder how eco friendly my screenprints actually are … another nice story is how I actually found the site…
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I was browsing the Illustration Friday Flickr group a while ago and found this lovely Flower garden by moto moto. I love the colour and the contrast between the fine lines and the dark fill of her hair. Moto moto is an independent artist and designer from Tacoma, Washington. She is selling her print on esty and she just started her blog.
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Puh! Another deadline. If you want to take part in the MAiLmeART project: deadline is the 30th January. All info “about” and “how to”, examples and everything else is explained on the MAiLmeART webpage.

The address to send your submissions to is
LCSV4
26 Andrew MacDonald Close
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
LE16 7ED
United Kingdom

This will be my task for next weekend! Geeeee… what am I going to draw, stitch, print or whatever?

It is done ^_^… The 6th edition of design a calendar is out! Feel free to preview, download and print. This year’s topic is time stretch. The 5 organiser went to find 52 participants and gathered 52 designs. I sent out invitations to some of my flickr contacts and the response was just great!

So many thanks to “my” group of participants:

Yara Kono . Lisbon. Portugal
Chez Meb . Montréal, Canada
hannah sheffield . hertford, uk
Maicen . Mjondalen. Norway
Tanja Israel. Zillertal. Austria
Sara Harvey . Kansas City, United States
Hans Kraeling aachen, germany
Sasha Solovjova, Vilnius, Lithuania

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I know these painting from somewhere, but I can’t remember where I have seen them before… anyway I found them again at etsy ^_^ and I love this one.
The 33 year old artist from Birmingham loves modern design and is inspired by anything Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, George Nelson and Irving Harper.

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I had a terrible day today. Browsing around this evening I found this. This is exactly how I feel ^_^… There is lots of nice stuff from illustrator Michael Fleming aka tweedlebop on his website at flickr and at etsy… Enjoy!

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Arrived today: Just be Quiet by Sara Harvey, bought at her etsy store. The print is just amazing and I am so happy to have it here ^_^. Sara sent one of her lovely new Gocco prints too. The colours are great… Hm, maybe I get one for myself after xmas… ^_^!

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