12 August 2010

Featured Etsy Artist of the Day: Skinny Laminx

Hello!

Today's featured Etsy Artist is Skinny Laminx!


Heather is an illustrator, writer and designer, living in Cape Town. Everything in her shop is designed by her, and made right there in Cape Town, South Africa, with the skilled assistance of a couple of craftspeople nearby.

You can find in her shop tea towels, aprons, cushions... all in beautiful design fabrics!!! And yes, you can buy the fabrics too!!! (OMG, it's even more tempting!!! I'm sooo weak when it comes to fabric!)

Just look!!




I love this tea towel: "I wish we had Ikea"!! So funny!

Visit her:

5 August 2010

Featured Etsy Artist of the Day: Mymo

Hello!

Today featured Artist is... Mymo!


I discovered Mymo as one of her plush made the Front Page of Etsy! (like the Holy Grail for me!! :)
I loved her plush with delicate colours, soft fabric and funny and delicate design.
Mymo also designs and makes dog coats, blankets...



So here is the link to:

Well done!

30 July 2010

New Necklace in the shop and more...

Hello!!!

I have added three more jewels in my shop.
 I hope you'll like them!
Also, I'm planning to take more photos of my jewels on a model this week-end, so that you can see how they look "for real"! Finger crossed that the weather will be nice enough to get a decent luminosity!!

29 July 2010

An awesome proposal

New Earrings in the shop!

Hi!!

I have been quite creative lately and added 2 pairs of earrings in my shop.

Please come and have a look!

Featured Etsy Artist of the Day: Prince Design UK

Hi!

Today, I'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Prince. She is a UK ceramists who creates handmade ceramic bowls, art, tableware and home accessories, fired to stoneware. And she ships worldwide! She has also a new porcelain ranges in stock.



Her work is affordable, starting with little prices ($12), and so nicely designed and made! Ceramics requires a lot of work so that's why handmade product can be more expensive than industrial ceramics. But would you find such beautiful pieces in the supermarket? Also, Elizabeth makes custom order. Just contact her in her Etsy Shop.

I love her bowls! And birds!!
You can follow Elizabeth Prince with:

28 July 2010

Water colour Artists

Hello !

Today I'd like to share with you more photography. As I told you before, I spent some time on holiday in Italy last May, in a beautiful region called "Cinque Terre". These are actually 5 villages founded by fishermen a while ago, which you can only access by train, boat or by foot. No road, basically!

I had there a beautiful weather, a great light, just the best light conditions for photos!

I spent one day in Portovenere which is a city a bit further East from the Cinque Terre. A very nice city with a fortress built with grey stones. They were lots of tourists, all taking the same pictures (and I'm one of them! ). But then I saw this group of Japanese artists who stayed in this position for few hours, painting this building in watercolour. Their work was really looking nice and neat. I liked this idea of taking less "souvenir" picture, and just focus on having one nice, personal. This requires talent yes, but mostly work.

I don't say that I'll start painting, no, I'm really not good at it! But I'll keep my "old fashion" roll cameras. It's a great exercise, not to think that "random" will eventually give you one nice picture in middle of hundreds of pictures, but spend time and focus to one single shot. Put everything in place, build your picture and then press the button. And discover weeks later that your work did actually produce what you were expecting!