I am loving these lace-patterned, screenprinted cards from cutiepie company … the colours are so fresh & so exactly like their names - they would make great ‘thank-you’ notes to send or receive in the midst of a grey and snowy January!

photos: cutiepie company

The holidays seem pretty far off still … but it’s not too early to get thinking about holiday cards!

New in the shop, available individually or in packs of 8.

Look at these beautiful notebooks by Studio Violet (a joint venture of Camilla Engman and Elisabeth Dunker) …

(photo: Studio Violet … see also their blog for more work)

I love this colour palette so much, it reminds me of my all-time favourite King Penguin book cover:

… so I had to get them. And a postcard set too.

I painted some thrifted spice racks to use as displays for my cards at a craft show … here’s before (and oh yes, my deck needs painting too):

And after (please excuse the blurriness):

More craft show table pictures here, here, and here.

I wrote earlier about the art of the note Gocco swap at cloth.paper.string … here is what I ended up making:

My intention was to make something in which it was very evident that a human hand was involved … I’ve gotten in such a habit of ‘cleaning up’ my drawings in Illustrator, and I’m not sure it’s a good one. So this is rows and rows of loops, handwritten with my Gocco pen (first experiment with that - up to now I’ve been photocopying my drawings and then burning my screens from the copies). So there you have it! I am really happy with them and I hope my swap-mates are too. Their sets have been trickling in (and what great sets they’ve been) and I hope to post a ‘group photo’ when they’ve all arrived. (More photos on Flickr.)