eye candy

I paid a visit to one of my most loved shops a couple of weeks ago. The Hambledon in Winchester is a treasure trove full of beautiful, quirky and retro finds, including homeware, stationery, decorations, toiletries, cameras, gifts and lots of art and illustration books. Be warned it’s hard to keep a trip brief! The only thing that inspired me to leave was the scorching day I’d left behind outside.

Here are a some of the lovely cards I spyed. Even on my days off I can't seem to stay away from cards.

Lisa Jones Studio

I have no note of where this was from but I like it!

Keep Studio

Hello Lucky

Rose Lazar

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future mr and mrs

Here's another lovely wedding stationery project I've been working on over the last few months! My good friends Heather and Adrian requested a colourful, hand painted look for their country fete style wedding in August. I tend to do a lot of sketching, collage and computer work but it has to be said, I was very pleased to be reunited with my paintbrush for this little adventure.

Heather and Adrian have been together nearly five years and spent a good amount of that time talking about getting married so it's super exciting that this is the year! The photo above was taken at my wedding by Rebecca Wedding Photography back in September. Now it's only 60 days to go!

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now i know my abc

A couple of Saturdays ago Nick and I decided it would be fun to bake some alphabet cookies. Perhaps not everyones weekend activity of choice but it was ours! Our initial hope was to make enough letters to play an edible game of scrabble, until we realised (only after an amusingly long amount of time) that we’d be able to see each others letters from the other side. It wouldn’t have made for a very challenging game at all so instead we baked nearly three alphabets worth of cookies and just had some fun playing around.

We used my alphabet cutter set which was one of my exciting freebies from the Jamie Oliver Party I held and decided two different types of cookie would be much more exciting than one. Half were gingerbread biscuits  with cream cheese frosting, and the other half were chocolate cookies (minus the gooey centre)  with peanut butter frosting. Yum! We started at 2pm and finished at 8pm. That’s a proper bake-athon indeed!

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love to stamp

There’s something really nice about the worn, uneven look of a stamp, with each attempt looking slightly different to the last. It’s a sweet way to give something a personal touch. Here are some lovely finds for you to take a look at...

This is Anne Marie Loves Paper. The etsy shop is full of lovely type based stamps for you to play around with.

If you prefer a hand drawn effect the Eat Pray Create have some very sweet stamps. The way they’ve printed white ink on to brown paper makes a nice change. 

Here is one of my favourite online stationery shops called Wonderlust. There are some really eye-catching stamps for sale. See above for the whole range and make sure you check out the rest of the shop as well as the lovely blog.

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happy friday!

Bonjour le soleil! It’s Friday and the gorgeous sunshine is here to stay for the weekend...big smiles all round. I hope you find a fun way to enjoy God’s awesome creation in the sun over the weekend. I’ve decided that’s it’s time to dust off the picnic basket and head for dinner in the open air for date night this evening. The joys of Summer!

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