Paintings by Beth Allen

Loving these painting by Beth Allen over at Etsy.

Painting, 'Color 1', by Beth Allen at Le Petit Cheval.

Pattern Wednesday #9

I found these AMAZING pattern rollers over at The Painted House on etsy.  They can be used on walls, fabric, wrapping paper, you name it.  My favourite is the deer pattern, cool eh?

Weekly Web Round-up

Well, it's not really weekly but  I couldn't resist the alliteration.

Warning: This is quite an eclectic mix of things.

• First up are two kitten websites for those so inclined; Lola is Beauty and dreamcats.  The first does a wonderful series on bloggers and their cats which makes me more inclined to include my two on this blog.  I know I can get a little cat crazy so do try to keep the crazy in check when interacting with others.  Dreamcats is a tumblr site filled with many pictures of kitties.  If you do like cats I would also recommend the Catorialist which I have mentioned here before.

• Eddie Vedder Portrait
  Can't believe it has taken me so long to post about this one - the portrait has actually been done now.  Read here about the 85 day project to lobby Eddie Vedder to take his portrait.

• DIY Children's Book
  
  
  Check out this awesome book this couple created for their nephew for his first birthday.  It's given me inspiration to create something for twins for their 4th birthday this year - I love being an aunty! (at The Indigo Bunting)
  
• steedicons
  
  
  
  
  Steedicons is a pack of hand drawn icons for purchase for use on business cards and websites and the like.  The general design of the website makes me want to buy them and I really like the twitter/facebook icons.  Encourages me to do more of this kind of drawing. (via A Cup of Jo)
  
• Elephant - a book of opposites by Pittau & Gervais
  
  
  
  My lovely sister Katie showed me this site of a few stills from the book Elephant.  Not your typical kids book but it definitely made me laugh.  Thought is might be hard to find but you can get it on Amazon.com and it looks like there are a few other tittles as well such as 'That's Disgusting" and "That's Dangerous".
  
• Camera Lenses for your iPhone
  
  
  
  Photojojo sell Fisheye, Macro and Wide Angle lenses that magnetically attach to your iPhone (or other camera phone).  Don't know how well they work in person but I would love to try them!
  
  
• Pattern from Wikstenmade
  
  
  
  Haven't done any sewing this year but am eager to finish my quilt as it's getting colder here.  I love Wikstenmade and an easy tank pattern might be enough to get me in the mood for more sewing :)
  
• Wedding Quilt
  
  
  
  Speaking of sewing check out this beautiful quilt.  Thinking I might make it my next project (if I can ever finish the current ones). (at The Purl Bee)

• Colouring Book
  
  
  
  from Thirddrawdown
  
  
• Cloud Jewellry
  
  
  
  from sofiaclementine on etsy.com
  
  

• Art
  
  I've been thinking a lot recently about starting to invest in some art pieces and am checking out what's available locally as well as on the net.
  
  
  
  This is a piece called Sweetheart by tastesorangey.
  
  Also looking at other sites like Art Park and 20x200.

Well that's it for now. :)

Etsy Round Up for February

Here are all the latest things I've been coveting on etsy...

Rachel's Studio - Watercolour paintings of animals (Read: kittens) with custom requests available

Get Bent Metal -  Check out this awesome Octopus Lamp!

Lenny Mud - Oversized Moustache Soup Mug - says it all really!

Sweet Perversion - Their 'Kill them with Kittens' poster (as opposed to kindness) is pretty cool (and disturbing) but I do love stationery so!

Tangentine - Cancer Constellation Pendant.  (Please note that while I LOVE astronomy I have no time for astrology but this uber-cute necklace ticks the first box for me :)

Handz - Pirate Love Poster (and what's not to love about this)

And that's all for now :)

Our Print Is On It's Way

So a little while back I featured some beautiful prints from Nan Lawson and I ended up ordering a custom print for our anni coming up in May and I got the final electronic versin yesterday!  The hard copy should be in the post soon and I am soooo excited.  Since I know Steve won't read my blog, here it is!

My Latest Badges

by Kearnsie @ shop.craftvic.org.au

Button Empire @ etsy .com