and we thought we had lots of stuff

I stumbled upon a magazine that I wouldn't normally buy, but for some reason I decided to flick through Romantic Homes and this picture alone made me buy the magazine. I love this image and all it's vintage goodness. So I thought that I would share it here. The home belongs to Adrienne and Ron Caldwell and my favourite quote in the accompanying story re: some of her favourite finds.... came from hunting through her uncle's basement in a 250 year old barn in Pennsylvania. "He was using a prized cookie jar to drain oil from his car".

more prints than you can poke a stick at

We've been framing up a storm, thanks to the new arrival of these great screen prints from the keep calm folks out of the UK. A slight diversion from our exhibition organisation, but we're slowly getting there. As we're expanding our shop and a bit of re-arranging will be going on, we will be closed from Thursday 18 September until our grand (well pretty darn good) unveiling on Wednesday 24 September. Oh and regarding the above prints, they are all priced at $225 each, framed. Please contact us if you fancy one.

would you buy a used car from this guy?

If you answered yes then head on over here. Sad but true, we're selling our 1950 chev on ebay. She's a beauty and needs lots of lovin' and restoration and we unfortunately don't have the space or time.

real living

We have a couple of items from our shop featured in this months real living magazine. As seen in the above magazine pages a duck egg blue keep calm screenprint custom framed by us and the yellow standard planet lamp. Also featured inside is some fabrics by one miss aunty cookie woo hoo.
We've had a few enquiries about the keep calm prints, so I'll write my little spiel here. The ones we sell are from the UK. Unfortunately the duck egg blue is currently sold out and we're waiting on a new print run, which should arrive by the end of the month. Currently we have red and as of next week, there will be yellow and a grey / velvety colour. We can custom frame to your liking, but we try to have one or two on the walls already framed and ready to go. Nick and I do the framing ourselves using quality timber frames and that's reflected in the price. I have no doubt that you can do it cheaper by heading to ikea etc, but we choose not to. Oh and we sell them unframed too and can post. Please contact us for details.

a little elephant eye candy

oh blog how I neglect thee

dear blog, it's been 1 week since my last posting. I've been busy and haven't had any good photos or stories to tell. I'll try and be more regular, well maybe....



So this will hopefully be of interest, especially to our Melbourne friends.
We are having a wee exhibition beginning september 24 of old toys and games etc. It is part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival and these are our invites fresh from the printers. Please let me know if you'd like to come and (if you're in melbourne) I can send you an invite or two. Please leave a comment or email with your postal details. And sorry to overseas folk I'm not that generous in the postage department. I'll no doubt be reminding you all of this in the coming weeks on this here blog. And maybe a sneaky preview.

oh etsy how I neglect thee

our wee etsy shop has been a little barren of late. I hadn't checked and all of a sudden some things were out of date and poof (as in a puff of magic smoke) they had disappeared. So to make amends I have uploaded this collection of three cards made by me.
They're a digital collage / print sewn onto cards, packaged with an envelope and in a cello bag. The graph paper used in the background came from my Grandad's shed. He once worked at a stationary shop and me being the hoarder that takes after him, I now have a pile of old exercise books, out of date calendars etc. Oh well Grandad at least someone is now using them. One diary is from the year I was born. 1972. Jeepers we hold on to ridiculous stuff.