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beci orpin was someone i discovered through the cutting edge patterns book. this talented australian designer had somehow gone under my radar until now. besides her great patterns for textile prints beci also produces illustrations, art prints, stationery, and runs a fashion label called princess tina. click here to visit beci's website.
exciting news today of a brand new book that is going to be an absolute must-have for all designers and pattern fans. 'cutting edge patterns and textures' is by estel vilaseca and is published by rockport. this fabulous nook features 250 patterns by 83 different designers. the style of this book is great with the patterns covering the entire page, the only text gives the designers name and website, and mini bios on each artist can be found at the back of the book. some of those featured include atelier lzc, alice stevenson, lara cameron, jill bliss, and ivana helsinki. this is to name but a few as there are tons more fantastic designers in the book. it will be released in april but is available now for pre-order from the print & pattern amazon store - click here for usa, and here for uk. trust me you cannot do without this book.
the book also comes with a cd featuring all the designs in the book as jpegs which you can use for desktop wallpapers, plus 50 copyright designs, also jpegs, to play with.
kelly hyatt has been something of a hero of mine since he founded beaumonde several years ago. after selling beaumonde (although he still has designs with them) kelly launched lagom, lagom being the swedish word for the feeling of 'just right'. the first collection released was hanna werning's opoponax which i featured here. four more ranges have now been added, at the top are two from the hygge collection, and beautiful deer images from the collaboration with french designers ibride. below from the boda collection, and tradgard. also available are 100% silk cushions. click here to visit the website, and look out for lagom cards in a shop near you soon.
the book also comes with a cd featuring all the designs in the book as jpegs which you can use for desktop wallpapers, plus 50 copyright designs, also jpegs, to play with.
kelly hyatt has been something of a hero of mine since he founded beaumonde several years ago. after selling beaumonde (although he still has designs with them) kelly launched lagom, lagom being the swedish word for the feeling of 'just right'. the first collection released was hanna werning's opoponax which i featured here. four more ranges have now been added, at the top are two from the hygge collection, and beautiful deer images from the collaboration with french designers ibride. below from the boda collection, and tradgard. also available are 100% silk cushions. click here to visit the website, and look out for lagom cards in a shop near you soon.
i spotted this book from right over the other side of the store in borders recently. the image just shouted out at me as something i would like. on closer inspection it turned out to be by petra borner, who is quite well known in blogland. saw it again weeks later in paperback and this time it was in a different colour. petra is well known for her illustration especially her work with cacharel.
its been quite a week over on design*sponge, ive blogged about the importance of vintage ( with beautiful fire king above (drool) , and tried to convince people that scrapbooking is cool with bam pop below.
ive looked at decorative fonts (below by jeff canham)
and although i find it so hard to reveal things about myself i finally came out of the closet and revealed my little home (below) see here for the full tour. then showed the next day how it was made.
thanks grace for inviting me to guest over at design*sponge. it was pretty hectic dealing with work and bloging in two places. apologies if you've sent me an email this week and had no reply - i will be catching up over the weekend, promise.
continuing on from yesterdays store snaps - here a few more today. all these were taken in accessorize. especially love the badges above. 
other things that caught my eye whilst out this weekend included above umbrella print in laura ashley, and below two fashion prints from peacocks.
below new stationery range spotted in wh smith.
above oilcloth bag print from the white stuff.
