pop over to frecklewonder for some downloadable book labels i created, inspired by some of jenny’s fab vintage style. you know triangles are SOHOTRIGHTNOW! so grab yourself some labels and your books will officially be considered too cool for school.

babyology wrote lovely things about draw! pilgrim this week. care to see?

danielle of kitschy digitals unveils the work i’ve done for her site. one of the most fun collaborations i’ve ever done!

and don’t forget you can find draw! pilgrim and a big pile of awesome over at the poppytalk handmade market

hope you have a fabulicious weekend. see you monday, chickens!

due to my mid year blog break i missed out on sharing my love list with you for august, so guess what? this month i’m doing two love lists! but as a special edition i thought i’d narrow this list down to just my etsy loves. seeing as i’m always banging on about the vintage section, its only fair i share some fellow ‘handmade’ section sellers. i must admit that some of these i already own in some form, but they’re just too awesome i wanted to share them with you.

dandy the lion feltie: this cutie is just so cute i can’t bear it! my boy is getting too old for cute little felt lions, but aww its such a cute lil lion that nonesuchgarden has created.

russian galaxy t-shirt: now, this i know my son would definitely like! it’s like his perfect tee: he likes foreign language (a lot. really this kid is obsessed with counting in japanese), his favourite color is brown, he’s way into space right now and um… it has the cabury chocolate logo on it! check, check, and checkity check! santa claus has been informed.

psychedelic leo lion print: this is one store i’ve bought from! i snapped up a cancer the crab print from their series of astrological prints because both me and my guy are cancerians and well, we both love awesome 60s design. these are all seriously cool designs though and no star sign will be disappointed.

purple horse print another print i’ve bought and can’t recommend highly enough – mine is a technicolor horse, though i do love the purple one too. such fabulous design it even got a mention when i spoke to a psychic! no joke, she described my living room and mentioned a horse picture that resonated strongly. spooooky. but oh so chic.

porcelain stig lindberg leaf ring: i saw this.. and almost died. my boyfriend generally knows when i find something awesome on etsy because he hears me mutter “fuuuuuuuuu…..” and turns to see me slack jawed and bug eyed over whatever i’ve found. well this morning i discovered he really does listen to my gasps and swoons. a little box arrived and inside was a ring, just like this one. aww! best wednesday morning surprise present ever!

felt flower brooch: it was really hard to pick a favourite from this store. i love them all. such fine, and well executed work on such fabulous designs. also: floooooowers. i love them.

fabric button earrings: i know it seemed like everyone was making these for a while there, but i bought some earrings from this seller and i wear them all the time! mine have blue flowers on them, but i could easily see myself wearing these green cuties lots too! i just love that fabric.

custom order applique leather bag: this was definitely one of my ‘fuuuuuu…’ moments of finding something amazing. that bag is just spectacular! and its so exciting that something so fabulous is from here in melbourne. i actually found the seller (scotatto) on etsy after seeing her cute brooches and wallets etc aaaall around town in the coolest of shops. but, oh.. that bag! i may never recover from its awesomeness. who wants to come to a handbag fundraiser?

carly the crafty chick print: ah s. britt! his work never fails to make me smile. great colors, sweet nostalgic style, and craftastic craftacular carly is so cute! there’s a reason this guy is so prolific and in-demand and one look at that cutie-pie print gives you the answer.

hope you enjoyed! stay tuned for the september wishlist, coming soon!

when my boyfriend peter and i are together we must look pretty funny. he’s always in his black or olive green (maybe even brown) rockin’ guitar god gear and i’m in my technicolor 60s/70s mescalin-fuelled dream coats. under those crazy opposite looking things we’re very much the same, but you can imagine my surprise when our worlds collided this morning and he shared the work of sean yseult with me. i’ll let him fill you in on her background:

sean yseult

I first became aware of Sean Yseult in the early 90s. White Zombie were on the cover of a magazine called Guitar School (don’t look for it, it ain’t around no more) and even though their guitarist J Yuenger was pretty cool, Sean was even cooler. The hair, the clothes, the sticker-covered bass… all awesome. What made her super-cool to me though was that in addition to her driving bass style, she also had a background in visual design (the internets tell me she earned a degree in graphic design from Parsons The New School for Design and also studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts). As a musician I’ve always been pretty visually motivated (‘Dude, that guitar sound is pretty sweet but it needs more vermillion and an iridescent topcoat’) and and I tended to gravitate toward musicians with a history in the visual arts. By the way, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were all art school guys and they were all in The Yardbirds. Neat.

After White Zombie split in up 1998, Yseult played bass in a variety of bands, including Famous Monsters, Rock City Morgue and even a stint with The Cramps. She now divides her time between New York City and New Orleans, and parcels her creative energy out between playing music and designing scarves for her company Yseult Designs. By the way, she’s also putting the finishing touches on a book, I’m In The Band, which will be out in early December through Soft Skull Press.

thanks, peter! pretty awesome lady, right? well, set your faces to “drool” when you see what she’s up to these days, creating gorgeous psychedelic scarves:

ah they’re too cool! its not often that you see good contemporary psychedelia and these really do it for me. there is enough of that awesome peter max/pucci inspiration to give them vintage cred, but also the hand-drawn style gives them a contemporary edge. click here for more designs and information.

are you new to draw! pilgrim? or maybe you just missed a few posts? step into the time machine and travel with me back to february to see a handful of fun things from er.. yestermonth:

i shared the vintage nonsense poetry book ‘alligator pie’

i took you back to my teenage days of bedroom mixtape making

i gave you a virtual tour of the gorgeous lark store

i shared a pattern for felt flower clips to cuteify your shoes, bag, hair, or anything else.

and i told you all about my grandma’s fabulous charm bracelet.

✽ golden delicious fabric ✽ ‘i like you’ patch fabric ✽ fruity tablecloth ✽

✽ plastic apple tray ✽ mid century tile trivet ✽ recipe folder ✽

✽ yellow linen tablecloth ✽ glass measuring jug ✽

an apple for teacher? i know its back-to-school time in north america, but if you ask me any time is a good time for apples!

helloooo september! i see you’ve brought the sun back with you, ever so briefly. well then how about i share some peeks into my week?

oh its been such a long and bitter winter here. especially bad since our heating stopped working and i’ve spent the last month virtually living on top of the tiny radiator! i took this photo on our vacation and looking at it thaws me just a little bit. here comes the sun…

sigh. i spent a dreamy afternoon relaxing in front of the fire and watching the sun move across the carpet. the house we stayed at had cut glass windows and at certain times it cast rainbows on the floor. i have a pretty spectacular pedicure at the moment (OPI’s coronation, with a few topcoats of napoleon’s las vegas lights – so its silver holographic topped with more holographic glitter. yep my toes are from the year 2525) and i took a picture of my toes in this rainbow but i thought i’d spare you all an ultra close shot of my toes.

while on vacation i took my guy to one of my favourite haunts from back in the day. this place remains virtually unchanged since it opened in the late 60′s and though the ambience and clientele may be questionable, its still charming and awesome in a very special way. are you diggin’ that mirror? i love the greatful dead-esque type – not to mention that little bacchanalian tableau in the blue section. goats and cider and babies?! they just don’t make ‘em like they used to!

another old-skool eatery we visited has this amazing ceiling. its like a huge inverted ice cube tray. i love thinking back to my mum telling me how she and her 60s art school cohorts would come here to drink fancy “cappucino” and eat that new fangled “spaghetti bolognaise”. australia in the 60s was a funny place! influxes of european immigrants shook it into a new multicultural age and it must have been so exciting. i feel i need to confess to sharing SIX scoops of gelato here. the ceiling made me do it! oh but it was the best.

isn’t this spectacular?! i just can’t get over  how perfect this camellia is. and there was just this one on the plant. it took all its plant power to make this one perfectly formed flower. thank you, plant. i know i’ve killed a lot of your kind, but i do appreciate you.

oh, and this! this, my friends, is what haigh’s toasted marshmallows look like. years ago my dad worked for haigh’s as their head chocolatier. he was something of a genius when it came to confectionary and he could temper chocolate like a wizard. i remember making these at home with him, so when i pass by haighs i treat myself to a packet. mmm the toasted coconut goes everywhere but who cares! before he died, my dad gave me his confectioners thermometer. its such a silly thing but it means so much to me. i need to get it out and make some nougat, toffees and boiled sweets for christmas this year, i think.

last of all, i’d like to introduce the newest member of my bedroom art wall family. i found this tray on etsy and it was too good to pass up. after all, love is all you need!

i hope you’ve had a good week and you’re enjoying the seasonal transitions wherever you are. got anything exciting planned for the weekend? i have some work to do and a movie to see and some friends to eat (with). see you monday, lovelies!

i’m so excited to be part of this month’s poppytalk handmade online market. i’m in such excellent company, you really should pop over and see what treasures are there to be had (hint: there’s lots of treasures to be had). here are a few of my favourites:

roddy & ginger - rawbone studio – a. favourite design

slow industries – sweetnature designs – dwell deep

moxie doll – matte stephens – magic markings art

and in other news draw! pilgrim has now opened up on big cartel. so head on over and have a look around! i’m looking forward to having special reader offers and sales in the coming future times ahead.