A Touch Of Spring

Let spring in the door with these gorgeous pictures
by photographer Janne Peters.

(via Graphic Exchange)

Random Inspiration

Starlight Spotlight!

I only discovered From Betsy With Love this week,
what a beautiful blog! There I was delighted
to see Richard Gray amazing illustrations.

Concrete & Honey posted about Gulnur Ozdaglar
inventive jewellery, made from recycled water bottles.
Visit Tertium Non Data, to see more.

I posted about Heather Knight beautiful porcelain pieces
yesterday, on her blog she posted about Leigh Suggs
delicate cut paper art, magnificent!

The Sartorialist is becoming a regular on Starlight Spotlight.
See the shoes? They are purple, I simply couldn't
help myself ...

They're Not Pets, Susan!

"A tiny street art project.
Little hand painted people left in London to
fend for themselves."
If you live in London, or are there for a visit,
keep an eye out for these little characters!
See more miniature installations at
Little People.

Edit: Here's a link to the official website:
Slinkachu.

The Dublin Flea vibrant market is on again this Sunday 26th of April
at the Co-Op Market, off Cork Street.

On Saturday 25th of April, and running 'til May the
1st, Fashion Breakthrough will open a Pop-Up Boutique
on the ground floor of Film Base, Temple Bar.
(Mon. to Fri. 9.30am to 5.30pm).

Dublin first ever vintage fair will take place at the
Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
on Sunday the 26th of April
from 11am to 6pm.

This week is also Ethical Fashion Week,
Fashion Evolution is taking place in Dublin from the
26th of April 'til May the 2nd.
In celebration Perk Up! Vintage and Revamp are giving a
20% discount at The Loft, all week-end!

Heath Nash ,via .v ,via Lolita

Happy Week-End!

Elements Of Nature

Coral Bowl & Clam Shell Bowl
By
Heather Knight

Sea urchins, leaves, clam shells,
Element Clay Studio sculptural pieces
intrigue me for their tactile,
textured feel.

picture by Michael Traister

A small selection of her work is available at her Dawanda shop,
which is where I discovered her beautiful creations,
a more extensive collection can be found on Etsy and also on Supermarket.


Heather's blog

Yesterday

Walking The Dog
Phoenix Park
Dublin
20.April.2009

Paul Holland

More illustration goodness from

Illustration Web.
We like Paul Holland, don't we?

It's Beautiful Out There!

Sword Of Orion
The Universe In Colour

Picture by pyza

Happy Easter Everyone!

Starlight Spotlight!

More than a day late, but here I am with
Starlight Spotlight, a sort-of weekly round up of the starred items
in my google reader:
How joyful! Jennifer Mercede canvases are a burst of colour,
I love me one of these for my wall!

A great find by Decor8 ,via Kelly Rae.

.
Prepare to say goodbye to a few hours of your life
if you click on SuperBomba photo stream on flick'r,
along the same lines of Look At Me,
this is a fascinating collection of found photographs,
everything is here, holiday snapshots, sleeping grandads
and a peculiar amount of people with bears,
both stuffed and alive.
Thank you Krisatomic!

Beautiful outfit post by Littlethoughts:

The next entry isn't from my Google
Reader but I had to post about it anyway!
I love this song from fabulously talented Valerie Francis,
and I love the video too.
Kanye West agrees with me, 'cause we're
like that yo!

Album artwork by M&E

Valerie Francis - Punches from Eoghan Kidney on Vimeo.

Happy Listening
&
Happy Easter Sunday!

Petra Dufkova

Petra Dufkova's illustrations are everything
I like, sketchy, inky, messy but delicate
... what's not to like, I ask!

Bejeweled

"Whether simple or ornate, symbolic or functional, the impulse to adorn one's self
is universal and part of being human."
Steve McCurry

Band i Amir
Afghanistan
2002

Timbuktu
Mali
1985

Los Angeles
USA
1991

Ladakh

India
1996

Tagong
Tibet
1999

Yesterday

Farmleigh
Phoenix Park
Dublin
04 April 2008

Inspired by:

March Desktop Inspiration.

Magnolia Tree

Farmleigh
Phoenix Park - Dublin
04.April.2009

Starlight Spotlight!

Fab, fab, fab springtime photo shoot by A Field Journal.

In my "grown up house" I will have a room like
this ... outside, inside ...
Via This Is Glamorous

Offshoot fantastic photo shoot inspired by printing
colours, cyan, magenta, yellow and black ... loved it!

Pictures by Kirtsy O'Keeffe.

The Portmanteau posted about a not so unlikely
style icon, Dot Cotton rocking the granny style!

I loved these images from Vintage Vienna.

And finally for all you vintage lovers in Dublin,
I Blog Fashion gave us the heads up on the
Dirty Fabulous open day sale
taking place this Sunday 5th of April
at 97, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2
12 till 6.

HAPPY WEEK-END!

It's Official!

My eyes are about to fall out! Again I got lost in internet land,
this time I took a trip into the past after clicking on the extensive archives at the
Jalou Gallery website, there you can find past numbers of L'Officiel
De La Mode starting from the 1920's till the present time.

Not only that, there's also archives for Jalouse,
L'Officiel Homme and other magazines,
as well as international editions of L'Officiel De La Mode,
all available free of charge for you to peruse.

This is a fantastic resource and one, I'm sure, I will be dipping
in over and over again.

I only wish Vogue would do the same with their
archives, as far as I know only the magazine covers are on line,
I would be more than happy to stand corrected on this one by the way!