Melbourne Design Market

Today a lovely friend of mine, my little 5 month old and I went to our first Design Market held at Federation Square in Melbourne. It was a lovely sunny day, and with bub in back pack we explored the car park venue. Its always an inspiring thing to be surrounded by design... and great design at that! I will spend some time over the next few weeks looking at the participants but here are a couple of old favourites that always deliver the goods. (Oh and we had a yummy lunch down one of Melbourne's laneways.... I love our city!!)

Great Dane Furniture were there.... with delcious homewares and a little furniture.



Also, another Melbourne star, Nest, were also there with a range of baby ware, jewelry and other fabulous products.
This is Albi the elephant. Too cute.




Specklefarm have expanded from what atarted out as a place for beautiful ribbons, into one that has buttons, gift tags, wrapping papers, notecards and more. All in the sweet dot and stripe patterns....

Etsy shop I'm loving : Olive

My love affair with etsy never ends. I am always finding wonderful shops to wander through... the latest is a lovely shop called olive These pillows are especially gorgeous. there are so many ugly cushions out there in the world of retail homewares it's such a relief to find a cute store like this one. Nothing beats a unique, handmade piece for your home. I am still trying to decorate my home in the way that I want, and hopefully I will get one of these little lovelies... x

screen printed cushion

This little cushion was hand screen printed from one of my original designs. Looks nice against the Marimekko fabric along the fireplace.