draw! pilgrim: love list

time to see what’s on my wish list for this month. this is a very important edition, because my birthday is approaching and so hint dropping is at an all time high around this house right now. what to get the girl who has almost everything…?

oh my. its just spectacular – and so is the price tag – but it marries two of my favorite things together: 60′s counter culture design & fantasia. fantasia was the first film i ever saw (at the cinema or anywhere) and i’ve recently had the pleasure of introducing it to my own son. according to wikipedia the 1969 rerelease of fantasia was popular with the kids who’d come and watch it lying down in the front row with the aid of marijuana or LSD. to capitalize on this craze they even made this poster to woo those crazy stoners. can you imagine a film poster being designed to bring in, say, meth users? no wonder those hippies were anti establishment! damn the man and his amazing poster. anyway it worked, because that rerelease was the first time that fantasia had made a profit! poster available from artist direct.

next up is some slightly psychedelic footwear. i imagine this is what you’d wear if you were going to do some amazing kaleidoscopic bob fosse routine. none of that all-in black here, thanks mister fosse. it’s mauve for me! and before you ask, yes i do have outfits that these would go with. i have outfits of every color! i created the solution so this would never be a problem. available from modcloth.

an apple a day, they say. no one mentioned if it had to be cast iron or not. if i were to receive this, i promise you, i would prepare every meal in it. i like apples a lot. available from terrain where you’ll also find a cast iron green pepper!

i adore these paumes interiors books, they’re so jam packed with inspiration. i have a bunch of the kid’s room ones and don’t you agree that copenhagen interiors sounds right up my alley? i love them because they are a peek into real homes, full of loved possessions and hopefully happy stories. i can always find a little something to fire my creativity in a paumes book. available from lark (who now ship internationally!) do you remember my visit to lark?

i love vera, i inherited both my mum and my grandmother’s scarves and they both had a number of vera beauties that i now treasure. sadly my favorite has been pretty badly eaten away and i’m not sure i can mend it. i’ve kept my eye out for another of similar design, but haven’t found one yet. i can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book and pore over every single detail. grab your own copy of vera: the art and life of an icon.

so that’s my picks for this month, only time will tell what the birthday wish fair grants me. stay tuned!

love list: may 2010 wish list

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in the words of burt bacharach “i’m wishin’ and hopin’ and plannin’ and dreamin’” for all of this pretty stuff! here’s what’s on my wishlist this month:

let’s ease into this gently, no billion dollar rugs this month (i’m not sure that rug was a billion dollars, but i didn’t want to look!) isn’t this sewing kit from modcloth sweet? i would buy it for the tin alone (if i didn’t already have 16,000 or so spools of inherited cotton). i feel like it could have been made just for me. its so perfect, with its mod-ish flowers and cheery gingham base! makes me want to thriftily repair things and make charming patchworks and wear gunne sax style frocks. but that sounds mighty time- consuming so maybe i’ll just not.
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color it yerself you lazy slug! ooh with pleasure! this scandinavian inspired screen printed poster by summerville comes black and white and ready for your colorful interpretations. there are simply not enough occasions for coloring in adult life. too much form filling in, not enough coloring. i love the style of this poster. it is so my thing and it even looks a bit like my hand drawn style (you may not be surprised to learn i like drawing flowers. if you are surprised, hi i’m pilgrim an i’m a floral-a-holic). but back to this poster, wouldn’t it be a great present for a housewarming if you weren’t sure of their decor? they can color it to match whatever they like! genius.

more flowers (see i told you i liked them!) as seen on plasticland. i actually already have some measuring cups similar to this, but they’re (extremely awesome) love hearts, so alas there is no room in my life (or drawer) for flower-shaped scoops, but a girl can look, right?! ah… flower cooling racks. perfect for cooling a fresh batch of ‘lazy daisy’ chocolate cookies. i have no idea why they’re called lazy daisies, but they’re really yummy, quick and easy chocolate cookies. seriously, i was making them when i was seven years old. these are eeeeeeeasy cookies, people! leave a comment if you want the recipe.

have you seen this wallpaper before? when i first saw it i actually went slack-jawed and speechless for a while. there i was tripping through the internet daisies then bam! hazz-aa-waaaaa-paaa waaal-paaa… i think my boyfriend was moments away from calling a doctor when i stopped drooling and regained my faculties and pointed out just how incredible this jonathan adler wallpaper is. the blue and green one needs to come and live in my bathroom. want! oh jonathan adler, your products make me happy. why am i cursed to only rent my dream home, its like i love the house but it just wants to stay friends and not let me wallpaper it. that analogy works, right?
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last of all is this slice of awesome: a 1973 ikea catalogue as seen on the retro! blog (yes i know its in swedish, but the swedes have all the good pictures of stuff). it hadn’t actually occurred to me that there might be ikea catalogues from the past. ikea in my mind is just very now and though i know it’s old, i just assumed it was much smaller and not-cataloged. but this discovery has lead to a dangerous new ebay saved search! oh for a time machine…
what about you? what are you pining for this month, and would you like to borrow my time machine to visit 1973 ikea?

love list: april 2010 wish list

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its looooove list day! yay! so, this is what’s in my current wish list:

images via swedish hasbeens

its finally turned cold here, so here we are halfway through autumn and finally its being autumnal! after living alternating between ballet flats and havianas for six months its time to bring in a good boot, and what better boot than a beautiful blue pair of swedish hasbeens! just look at that color, i want to swim in it. the only thing holding me back from diving in and purchasing a pair is a) i don’t have a boot warehouse to store my already excessive boot collection in, but more seriously b) the wooden sole worries me a bit. it sounds very hard and i’m not sure my precious little toes (and twice dislocated knee) could handle a wooden sole. but mmmm pretty blue boots. and for those of you in places where summer is coming: get a load of those ice-cream colored sandals. dreamy!

image via lovely package

next on le list: cider! or if you’re from england’s south west: “soy-derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” (thats the phonetic spelling, there). i’m not a beer drinker so if i can’t have a g&t, then cider is my drink. its so refreshing and there’s something vaguely wholesome and bucolic about a nice glass of cider (especially if its in a dimpled mug). but how hip is this cider’s packaging, designed by ilovedust? i’m pretty bad when it comes to judging books by covers, and buying things for the box they come in, but cider this cute has definitely got to taste better. which is your favorite packaging – sea cider, apple or pear? via lovely package

image via michelle mason

another specimen of cute from the UK are these tumblers and mugs by michelle mason. anytime i see pictures of london’s lollypop crossing lights i regress to being 5 and looking through picture books which told me trucks were ‘lorries’. the design on these mugs is very sweet and london never looked so colorful! don’t you think these would make morning coffee about 700% more cheerful? via retro to go

image via tufted

i certainly wish there were more rugs in my life, but as it is i feel like it would be too much (especially considering all the rugs i like are VERY patterned! but i would consider selling every patterned thing for this rug pictured above. i love the scalloped, scaley pattern, i love the colors, i love that its bright but sophisticated and i love that the company who makes it is called ‘tufted‘. tuft is a good word. via design*sponge

image via winter’s moon

so if i can’t have a stinkin’ big patterned rug then i’ll console myself with pretty pillows. honestly, sometimes i think if my boyfriend were to leave me, it’d be over the number of pillows on the couch. they out number him 8 to 1 and i think he’s threatened by them. but this sweet patterned cushion from winter’s moon would hold up a chair all by itself, don’t you think? a nice cosy corner for tea and reading, with this pillow would be a pretty nice place to be on this grey and rainy day.

so thats it for now, but tell me, what’s on your wish list at the moment?

love list: march 2010 wish list

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yay! i won the lottery! (not really, but eh… its wednesday, what else am i supposed to be thinking about?) so aside from doing a world tour, and donating a bunch of my many, many, many millions i’m going to buy some of these things from my wishlist with my spare change. and then i’m going to buy us all lunch, ok? so clear your schedule because i’ll be calling any moment…

first i would get some miller goodman playshapes because i think its important to buy great toys (because i have to play with them too!!). aren’t these nifty? i really love toys with versatility, because well.. they’re versatile. as you can see, my imagination needs all the stimulation it can get. yay blocks! image from lark, images and playshapes to buy from lark!

next up, something cute for my house: did you know jonathan adler now does melamine plates? cos he totally does! mmm pretty fishy adler goodness. and none of that fear of breakage. three cheers for melamine! image and plates to buy from jonathan adler.

last winter i got myself a cute raincoat (and it came in handy in california!) but i’ve jet to find a cute umbrella. but oooh these beauties will brighten your rainy days and keep your hairset nice and dry. who can argue with cheery yellow and polka dots? no one, that’s who! images and brollys from dorothy perkins

and of course i’ll be needing a bag to carry my wads of cash around in, and what better bag than one that evokes an endless summer holiday of glamor and carefree tanning on yachts and galavanting around the côte d’azur and monte carlo and the greek isles and there’s an austrian count and ever so many romantic misunderstandings. image and bag from bonjour mon coussin.

glamourous nails will definitely be required aboard the count’s yacht, and what cooler nail varnish than strangebeautiful’s volume one varnish collection?

“VOLUME 1

Josef Albers Color Theory, A Mid Century Modern Knoll Fabric, Oscar Wilde, the exuberant paint colors used to decorate the walls of the Federalist period, a color of an Andy Warhol painting at the Dia Museum, the color Puce which I remember mixing when oil painting as a child, a green – winged teal, the dark inky blue of a never ending deep lake at night and the fear of swimming in it, and of course the red Valentine typewriter.”

image and nail varnish available from luckyscent

first thing – this design of shoe is called ‘ice-cream’. yum. second thing – melissa’s are the most comfy jelly shoes you’ll ever find. they’re so cute, but you think they’ll be all blister making and sweaty and gross. none of that here. i own four different styles and they’re all really great. but i don’t own any ‘ice creams’ and i shan’t rest until i do! images and melissa shoes from here

what i’m coveting

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I was a bit worried about what to post next, but thanks to Pip at Meet Me At Mikes i was presented with the perfect topic for today, and i think its a great way to show you some of the things I’m into! I was lucky enough to get a ton of fab birthday presents a few weeks back, so my list of ‘wants’ isn’t huge right now, but there are a few elusive things that remain in my wish list. So let’s take a look at what I’m coveting shall we?

♥ Starting with the book ‘Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design’. This only just came out but i can’t wait to have a flick through. Check it out at Amazon! It looks packed with amazing work from some super talented people and there is also a great collection of previews over at Print & Pattern. The blurb states:

“Inspired by twentieth century American legends such as Saul Bass…Charley Harper and … Alexander Girard, these burgeoning designers are creating new and striking imagery using palettes of earthy and pastel shades, reduced strokes, patterns and shapes with a strong folkloristic element.”

♥ Next, Stroboscopica albums! Oh my gosh, i do love some strange music. While rummaging through the racks at a great little music shop in Adelaide, i turned up a copy of Phase 6 Super Stereo: Introducing the Alternative Italian B-Movie Soundtrack and as soon as i listened to it once i was hooked. i needed more of these crazy, euro, organ freak-outs! After googling the label Phase 6 was released on i found there was indeed more organ freak-out to be heard. They’re discontinued, but they’re out there, and for $99+ they won’t be coming to my house anytime soon unfortunately.

♥ Yves Saint Laurent Biarritz heart sandals are one of those things that, I’m not sure I’d really wear a pair, but oh how their existence makes my heart smile. In the parallel universe in which i own and wear them, I’m tanned, lithe and spend my days sunning myself on a yacht.. cruising around mykonos.. also, i look great in a kaftan. Like i said, parallel universe. Another reason i like them is they’re like the summer equivalent of the Vivienne Westwood Lady Dragon Melissas. So you can wear your heart on your toes year-’round!

♥ Lastly, Alain Gree bento boxes. They’re really just too cute for words, aren’t they? I want to keep all kinds of tiny cakes and treasures in them and color co-ordinate my shoes with them.

So thats all for now, but never fear, i find new stuff to covet all the time!

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