Wednesday 28 April 2010

Our New Home!

We've moved our blog today from TypePad to Blogspot.com
Welcome to our brand new home!
Cottage
xox

Monday 26 April 2010

Sweet Tweet!

We can't wait to visit the The Curve at London's Barbican this month and check out the latest installation by the French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot!
Barbican 2010
Forty little zebra finches are the musicians in residence in a large walk through aviary where electric guitars and cymbols replace perches and feeders.
The aviary will be at the Barbican until 23rd May.  For more information visit their website here.


Barbie Girl!

We absolutely LOVE these Lady Gaga inspired Barbie dolls designed by
Lu Wei Kang from Beijing!
Hair Bow from the Paparrazi Video
Kermit Jacket at the 2009 VMA's
Bad Romance Video
Papparazi
Royal Variety Perfomance
Hello Kitty

To see the full collection check out his Flickr here!
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Keep Calm and Carry On?

Get excited
Designed by Matt Jones

Painting by Numbers!

Painting by numbers
J'adore this paint-by-numbers mural by Scott and Cheryl White.
It was inspired by a vintage eBay purchase and took 8 months to complete... Beauuutiful!
For the full makeover story check out the fabulous design*sponge

Shake Your Tail Feather!



We love you Frostie

xxx

The Bee's Knees!

Our 'Honey Honey' necklace has received some fabulous press recently with features in the Sunday Times Style Magazine and Celebs on Sunday!
Sunday times style mag 28.02.10
Celebs on sunday 14 march full 
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Bumblebees are beautiful!
For more info on bees in the UK check out the Bumblebee Conservation Trust here 
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Spring-a-ling!

There's a little bit of sunshine in our studio today...
SPRING DAFFODILS
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Trailer Trash

Spring is in the air.. sort of.. and we're dreaming of cute little holidays!
Vintage Vacations looks perfect, the sweetest 1950's and 1960's trailers, a beach shack, seaside bungalows and a cottage that's to die for. 
We are SO there...
Vintage vacations collage

Who's coming?

I ♥ Tea!

So beautiful...
Bird tea
La Poesie du Thé by Natalia Ponomareva
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You are Cute!

The Aranzi Aronzo books are awesome!
I'm so excited to start making some cute little felt friends. I think I'll start with the frog and tadpoles!  The instructions and patterns look super easy and everything is illustrated beautifully... A-dorable!
The cute book

You can check out their website here!
x x x

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Which way to Wonderland?

Welcome to our brand new blog!
We see it as an online Elsie Belle mood board, full of all the things that inspire us!
First up, we're sooo excited about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, we've always been fans of anything to do with Alice and the books are a huge inspiration...
Alice 4
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