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Archive for March, 2010

After a lot of hard work and bribery to my fiancé, my portfolio website is complete.

It shows new designs for both surface pattern, greetings cards and childrenswear alongside my screen printed wares. Hope you all like it!

Oh and I had a little clean up on lovelittle and altered the shop and collections pages. Enjoy!

Credits : Cherry Blossom Girl and TFS

I have been obsessed with Paris and French people for years, I think I went through a huge stage actually wanting to be French, I actually havent got over this yet. On friday night I watched the amazing film, An Education and Carey Mulligans character set me off again. Quick note before I start harping on about Paris, An Education is the most inspiring film I have seen in ages. It literally had everything that I love in the world all wrapped up in one film, including custard creams. I adored Carey Mulligan in it and basically I cant wait to watch is again, and again, and again (you get the idea), especially the part in Paris, the cinematography is beautiful.

Ok Paris, France, and me being so obsessed! I love the French style, the language, the food, the art, the buildings, I just cant wait to get back. So yesterday when I was on my french trawl of the internet, whilst waiting to watch Amelie for the 15th time, I found Little Brown Pen. Little Brown Pen is run by Nichole Robertson a copywriter who lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and she too is a raving Francophile like me, except she gets to spend three months a year in Paris. Her website is stunning and gives a really feel of Paris especially the colours.

Here is her descrpition of what she loves about Paris.

A woman after my own heart. You can buy Nichole’s photographs on her Etsy shop here.

A few weeks ago I completed a hard backed book course at Hot Bed Press. Its the first book binding course that I have done and I loved it. I had previously done a Portfolio box making course at Hot bed press and I throughly enjoyed that as well. Both courses are taught by the talented Lucy May Schofield who is brilliant teacher. Its lovely to spend the weekend with a group of ladies learning a new skill (and eating biscuits) and I will most definintley be doing more book binding courses at Hot Bed Press when they next come up.

So here are pictures of what I created. This is my hard backed book, its GORGEOUS. Metallic purple buckram with a stunning iridescent hand made paper from Liberty end papers.

I have since made some pamphlet notebooks with my prints which I am now selling through my Etsy and Folksy shop. Each has a bright contrasting belly band and end papers.