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Finally I am showing off my Nathalie Lete ceramic dogs!!!  I love them to bits and never thought living in Australia that I would be able to get my mitts on them, but this wonderful store called Kleins Perfumery in Brunswick Street has them!  Not to mention many other very hard to find Nathalie Lete items.  So now they are Mine (add maniacal laugh).

How cute is it that they come with their own little ceramic bones, and how odd that the blue one is a girl and has nipples……

Here is the full view of my lounge room mantel, its nigh on perfect I think once you add the Fawn Gehweiler glass painting and a dome

and people say “possessions” don’t make you happy?  Its working for me!  Wait till I show you the plates, bedspread, melamine breakfast set, and the little pill boxes.  If only I could get the lovely couch from Anthropologie.

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I think this just might be my favourite brand at the moment Nesessaire (look here to find shops that ship internationally).  Such a beautiful blend of the old and the new and all that gorgeous delicate detailing, lace, pintucking, embroidery, there is so much I love I never know where to stop.

Details:

Doesn’t this look just like something the Bloomsbury set would have worn?

I so wanted this mad polka dot number

and this 1920’s sailor looking one

The embroidery on these is divine

I did cave in and buy this one and the lace is just as fine and beautiful as it looks, the velvet bows on the sleeves are such a cute touch as well

I loved the necklaces that came out at the same time

And these odd little sash things that came out, such high romance

Well, I guess I had better stop, take a long browse at their website, its full of much more loveliness, I often find my prints are inspired by these clothes, just to finish off though, I think this may be the perfect bag for my JamFancy brand!

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Once again Paul got some very odd things for Valentines.

He was very chuffed with his little mascot bandit chef

and got a good laugh out of his “Farty Boy Hero” as well

I liked Farty so much I made a print of him too, I think it is the awkward, embarrassed post fart stance that makes him lovable even if he is smelly

My gift is still waiting to come into stock, its from the brand Mother, I hope it does come back in, I fell in love with the back of this dress, it seemed rather Jane Austen to me

Hope you all had fine Valentines Days!

Thought I would share one of my favourite Japanese brands Muchacha

I think they may have started out as a brand for kids clothes, but now, wonderfully, they do kiddy size and adult!  I have about three of their dresses now and a wonderful big doll as well.

Look at all the cute for this season.

This one above is a brooch, Im a bit tempted to get her……

Pop over to their website for so much more!  I could barely choose which things were cutest, I didnt even get into the hats*L*

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Christina

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Just finished off this bunch of girl Hero’s as a slightly late entry to the Japanese Luvable Huggable for this year

There is Grumpy Girl Hero

Sensible Girl Hero

and Reading Girl Hero, who might be a little sister or something

I made little tags for them as well in case the Japanese people were wondering what they were all about

I hope they find nice new homes in Japan, and I think I may have to make a few more.  I tried a new way of attaching the neck so they are nice and non-floppy and I think an “Eating Girl Hero” and a “Gothic Girl Hero” are on the cards as well.  I even think I may do a little boy, “Windy/Farty Boy Hero”?

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Ive put some new work in the Etsy store, hope you like some of it

I think my favourites are two new Girl Hero’s, Grumpy and the original Sensible Girl Hero, ready with her pencil

and this little drummer girl

Thanks for looking.

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Thought I would share some of my favourite D-Bros products, they seem to be spreading out a bit from Japan, but as usual a quick rakuten search will help you to find them as well.  The products are always so clever and beautiful, I have these butterflies on my wall.

I have this one too, but Ive never quite known what I want to do with it, I seem to be keeping it for “something special”

Their cards are gorgeous, its a sort of paper doll and the card acts as the scenery

You have probably seen these fruit shaped memo pads around, but I love the way they come packaged as actual fruit

Im not really sure what these are, but they look like biscuits and that is enough for me

These are card story boxes

Optical illusion glasses

and these very sweet bookmarks

Just looking at all these clever pretty things makes me feel better.

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Its a bit crazy as its so hot in Melbourne today, but Im just mad for all those fair Isle, folklore, nordic looking, knits that seem to be all over the Northern Hemisphere fashion world

Ive nabbed this dress from Colkinikha for myself, I dread trying it on this week in such heat though*L*

I really wanted this dress from Syrup , but couldnt find any way of getting my hands on it

and how cool are these?  Fair Isle converse

but you dont have to stop at a dress and shoes, you can be kitted out head to toe in knickers….

leggings and sort of over the sock, socks (all from Ragsista I think)

arm covers and slippers too

It really is much too hot to be looking at knits, but I will be a happy girl come Winter!

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Paul made a huge amount of chocolates this year as Christmas presents, they are much more complicated to do than I ever knew, so much work, but they really were very good, tasty and pretty as well.

We looked everywhere for white boxes with plastic windows, but had to settle on this for the packaging in the end

There are two different types here, the filled and the ones that are dipped and then you put a transfer on the top.  It all starts with melting, then tempering the chocolate, this forms a particular kind of crystal in the chocolate so that when it hardens it will be nice and shiney with a crisp bite to it.

Tempering involves a lot of shoving about of the chocolate with spatulas, it looks quite fun

For the moulded chocolates you then fill up the moulds and tap them out, should have seen all the chocolate all over the place!  Then after a day they are ready for filling, these were caramel.  He did raspberry ganache, passionfruit ganache and an orange cointreau as well

Somehow we missed out pictures of the dipping ones, they are solidish centres that you fill a square of plastic with, let them set, cut them into squares and dip.  The fillings were lovely, based on a hazelnut praline, all crispy caramel with delicious hazelnuts, we still have a tub of it that I keep dipping into.  The transfers are amazing, you press on a little square of pattern after you have the dipped chocolate, then next day peel them off and voila!

I completely missed out on getting my share of these too as I was  home on Christmas day babysitting our cat as he had just had surgery on his ear.  Paul was in such a panic to get all the food in the car that morning not a spare was left!

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Well, Christmas is pretty much over and if you are lucky and generous relatives gave you cash for Christmas, your thoughts may be turning to……shoes, naturally!

Here are some of my current favourites:

Mina Perhonen, I saw these in Japan, but they were way out of my price range, Im never certain about Western boots, but these had butterflies

More Mina I think

these are from Poti, very cute and extremely well priced

Jeffry Campbell

Gold shoes from Cledran

These adorable boots from Cocue, that I am struggling not to buy

and these strappy but Im hoping infinitely practical and comfy shoes from Birkenstock as seen at Clevernettle that I did cave in over and buy

and just in case any of these seem a bit tempting to you, they can usually be found by doing a search at Rakuten, which wonderfully allows for us international shoppers to get access to Japanese goodies.