Pippin Perfect

The soothing colours of porcelain installations, After the Rain & Shifting Dune by Pippa Drysdale represented by Michael Reid.

Carte Postale

Postcards by Lyndie Dourthe from La Marelle Papier.

Curiosities

It's funny how you know what you like, reinforced each time you're drawn to the same thing. I loved these flower pins on Lolliblog via Oh, Happy Day and tracked them back to artist Lyndie Dourthe. She is the artist who created the old green clock with paper flowers and a skeleton face I bought my sis for Christmas last year. She has a site coming soon too. And as someone with a thing for biology and birds, I love her anatomie and treasure boxes.

Hardly More Than Ever

Oh, how I'd love that top image on my wall. Divine detritus by Laura Letinsky from To Say It Isn't So, The Dog & The Wolf and Hardly More Than Ever series' via women in photography.

I need a dictionary to understanbd all the words in this bio, yet I still think its gorgeous - "Laura Letinsky's elegiac photographs of detritus on a table-top are both elegantly prosaic and art historically resonant in their reference to Dutch vanitas still life painting of the Seventeenth Century."

Biscuits, Plastic Plates & Tower Cakes

It's a week of birthdays this week - my nephew Oscar turns 3 on Wednesday and I turn the day after, so the next few days are devoted to kid's parties...such amazing stuff is out there (remember how good fairy bread is?) View more of Martine's amazing food temples and installation buffets on my foodie blog.

images from Martine Camillieri.

Exquisite Collisions

Japanese artist Shinich Maruyama captures the exquisite airborne collisions of black Indian ink and water photographed moments before they inevitably flood his studio with the resultant murk of grey water. How does he do it? With strobe light technology with speeds up to one 7500th of a second. Amazing.

Images by Shinichi Maruyama via Lifelounge

Water Bottles & Ink

Gülnur özdağlar is an architect in Ankara, Turkey who somehow magically takes something as ordinarily uninspiring as a discarded recyclable water bottle, and using an open flame, scissors, a knife and a soldering iron, she creates create these ethereal jellyfish-like sculptures. She hand pierces every single tiny hole individually. Her Etsy shop Tertium Non Data displays her fascinating range of products, from wearable art: brooches and necklaces to sculpture like useable art: bowls, vases and plastic petal chandeliers. What a beautiful way to make a statement about an adversity to waste.

I've been following Natsumi's blog for as long as I've been blogging. I don't remember how I came across her work but the tiny delicate art works she creates just struck a chord with me. I still can not get this one out of my head.

Image 1 & 3 from Etsy via automatism. Images 2 & 4 by Natsumi Nishizumi.

It's Raining Rabbits

amongst the clouds / bad things happen to good people

Last night I dreamt

This is Fifi Lapin in a cloudy mood walking through the rain. I know how she feels, the skies won't stop crying here either and I'm already missing the summer that hasn't even passed.

Drawings and prints available here.

Survival of the Fittest

I was so impressed with Google's header image and just as surprised by my knowing it was something to do with Charles Darwin. It turns out it was the 200th anniversary of his birth. Call me a geek (please) but I love biology and Darwin's theories just seem to make perfect logical sense to me. My admiration for this naturalist is shared with none other than the super talented stylist Sibella Court. More on her soon, I'll be heading to her wondedrful store on Saturday.

Work Hard & Be Nice To People

This is my first post and I'm a little bit nervous and a lot excited about joining the extraordinarily talented blogger community who share their search for inspiration.

This is a sparkling new year and I hope to work hard at finding the time to do the things I love - like writing, cooking and crafting. Welcome to you and welcome to me.

Image from Living etc / Limited edition print from Pedlars.