A Vintage Home

In our new space, I'm gravitating towards clean and tidy.

We lived in a cramped space before with all our collections on display (vhs, cd, dvd, records, cassettes - yes, cassettes!). While I loved having everything on hand, I think it will be nice to have everything orderly for a change. Or at least as long as I can keep it that way. 

That being said, I still really like the above images - a rather collected little home - something about it feels put together, slightly cluttered but still right. And that's hand-carved ebony and ivory jewellery, reclaimed from an piano!

Found here.

Colour Pop! Kate Banazi

After three failed trips to three different stores and after sending my husband out on a special search, I finally have my new agenda to kick off my new year. I really can't live without one. It is my way of organizing all the ideas, thoughts, inspiration and junk in my head and I even manage to write down appointments too! I use the Moleskine Weekly Notebook. It's the format I like best, with the week on the left page and a blank notepage on the right. The left works for all the timed activities and the right page is my running to-do this. Maybe I have over thought this but I like my planner just the way I like it.

So now that I have my handy helper in hand, let's tackle this year!

I fell hard for these images from the Design Files interview with Kate Bazani. She's a British silkscreening/illustrator/collage artist based out of Sydney and I just think her work oozes RAD.

I enjoyed the article very much - she's as funny as she is creative - and I really like her use of colour, geometry and the unexpected!

The bottom images are her work (find her portfolio here) but the first few images are of her workspace.

I couldn't resist including all the ink images!