lei li la loo

Today, I turn Thirty-five!  WOW.  Ha?
It's a rather grey and gloomy sort of birthday day.
Typical for early June (and the beginning of Winter).

We're planning to brave the miserable cold front

and take a little trip into town, though. Yay!

I thought I'd write about this lovely maker's blog today,

my very first Etsy discovery and my birthday gift to you... 

The white rabbit, or rather... very cute and colourful bunny...

that I followed into the wonderland of Etsy.

You can visit the LeiLiLaLoo shop here.

A beautiful place to find inspiration

and glimpse an artist and mother at work.

If you're feeling grey, visiting this blog

is just like dancing in a rainbow ♥

Chris Silas Neal

I really love the beautiful simplicity of these works

by commercial illustrator and artist Chris Silas Neal.

find more work here ↓ at

The Studio of CHRIS SILAS NEAL

Here come the clowns... Part Two

Ari  'the sad little clown'

The school concert was really wonderful! Everyone did a great job.

Ari was practising his sad clown face and routine for weeks! 

I made ruffles, bow-ties and hats for the boys. They looked super cute 

but it was so very hot that night, that we had a hard time keeping them on. Ari, however, was so pleased with his costume and face-paint that I had a hard time getting them off and he ended up sleeping with the paint still on.

I think we may be looking into theatre classes in the New Year :)

MORE wonderful images from Messy Fish Dot Com
...this time fabulous card collections.

Love this shop.

Messy Fish Dot Com

I'm getting all inspired to revamp Ari's room and

these would look simply marvellous on his walls.

Super Cute prints from Messy Fish Dot Com...

Yet another brilliant Etsian shop. 

Speaking of brilliant shops and the super cute, 

Deborah of Kickcan and Conkers has just opened

her own fabulous online store over at Big Cartel! 

It's jam packed full of all sorts of wonderful finds

Take a look here

L'Affiche Moderne

How wonderful are these prints?  LOVE THEM!

They're from L'Affiche Moderne

Visit Kickan & Conkers and enter the giveaway

and you might just win one.  We're sure hoping to!

Competion closes Wednesday 14 Dec 6pm (CET)

Ari has a print of La Lune by Joan Miro hanging in his bedroom ↓ 

The concept of Automatic Drawing 

fascinated me when I was at Art School

and Miro's work seems so childlike.

We often lie on Ari's bed and talk about this picture

How wonderful would these prints look together?

If we don't win the giveaway, I may have to think

about purchasing one for his bedroom wall.

Ari's room has built in robes from floor to ceiling and 

I've been thinking about painting them in these colours ↑ 

The doors have thin strips of panelling dividing them, 

so I was thinking about leaving it white and painting each 

door a different colour to create a sort of Mondrian effect,

but with our own wonderful gelati coloured palette.

↑ Egal Shelves found here

His room's all white but filled with colourful bits and bobs

...I think it would make the space fun and quirky!

If you like this, check out the great modernist interior I posted on

Welcome to the Dollhaus

C is for Collage

I am in love with these wonderful prints by Sir Peter Blake...

...if you're feeling wealthy, 

the complete set is available here

...for £25,000,

alternatively, you can purchase
a copy of the book from Amazon

...for around £10. 

I think it would make a wonderful Christmas gift,
it's definitely been on my wish list for a while. x

Candy Land

I love candy colours!

swiden found via this wonderful blog

Do you love candy too? 

Take a peek at this treasury I put together the other day...

dejavulongbeac... $995.00	lemonadestore $85.00	djwubs $54.00
TheBrokenPlate $50.00	ashleyg $58.00	helendardik $25.00
luola $37.00	sushipot $18.00	SallyNencini $45.00
misakomimoko $80.00	JessQuinnSmall... $39.00	avrilloreti $25.00
OldeTymeNotion... $34.00	nylonsky $5.00

I just found this wonderful tool. It was developed by Red Row Studio.

It allows you to easily add treasuries to your blog or page. Take a look.