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Short and sweet today.

Much easier to be awesome when you have the day off work…thank you Easter for the bank holidays!

Print by LuciusArt

Prints of Brightness

As always, but today more so than normal. Maybe it’s because it’s February and a holiday is miles off, maybe it’s because I’ve been ill. Or just maybe it’s because I’m a magpie and like bright colours!

These prints would definitely brighten up your day.

Prints available from Edubarba on Etsy

Matthew Galvin sunburst print from Nelly Duff

Anthony Burrill for Nelly Duff

Good Times print by Seventytree

Print by Linocut Boy

London is a collage…a collage of London

Image from Elpex Exhibitions

Image from Louiz Kirkebjerg Nielsen’s blog

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Image from Print Room – where you can also buy her work.

I love these silkscreen prints, by Louiz Kirkjeberg Neilsen, inspired by snapshot collages of London. They put a really fresh perspective on London while also neatly summing it up – the city itself is a big collage, buildings from all eras and people from all over the globe. Would love one of these beauties up on my wall.

London town is sunny and lovely today – am off out on Pierre (my little french bike) to explore and to enjoy. Hope wherever you are that your weekend is a good one.

Paper Heart Pretty

Another London based beauty, how can you resist these?

Images from Paper Heart

I saw these when out and about in a shop on Redchurch Street, all prints (amongst many other beauties) from www.paper-heart.co.uk – check out the website for examples of the designer’s brilliant bespoke items and her blog.

I’d love a print like this of my bike, he’s called Pierre. If only I could make amazing prints rather than just admiring them. In the meantime I will do with one of the cool red bike and adopt that as my life motto whilst whistling down the streets of Camden.

Beautiful Babushka

I have a thing about Russian Babushka dolls at the moment, which is very unlike me as they’re quite ornate and folksy and I’m normally very much about clean lines, block colours & mid century design. Still it’s nice to deviate from your predefined style sometimes.

I’d like one, but I’m going to hold off until I visit Russia, added to the wishlist. That way I can persuade my husband that they’re a genuine reminder of a trip (that’s how I get trinkets into the house, his way would be to have none at all – he’s a minimialist of the extreme sort! Not entirely sure how he acquired a collector for a wife).

Think this urge was reignited by going to Trojka in Primrose Hill for dinner the other night, they have a whole wall of Russian dolls and it looks amazing!

Vintage dolls from Sovietvintage on Etsy

Babushka Carafe Set and Nesting Glasses both from Fred Flare

Russian Doll Print Scarf from Liberty

And finally…you can even eat them! Love these cake pops from the amazing Pop Bakery (a local business to me, which seems to be really going places as they are in Topshop Knightsbridge this week. Always nice to see a success story).

They have a blog here where they catalogue their designs, but this is definitely my favourite!

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