turtlepapers: thank-you notes

personalized whimsy flat notecards (custom set of 20 with envelopes)


congratulations notecards (set of 6 with envelopes)

delicate and froufilly satisfying (yes, that is now a word) -- these are girly-notes done right. my sister has been looking for good thank-you notecards, and these even come custom-personalized with your new initial/old initial/preferred letter of choice. lovely! comes in a set of 20, or you can order larger quantities as well. if the listing has sold, you can send a note with your request. (see also the bundle of 6 assorted bird thank-yous, supercute.)

the congratulations set works great for those (like me) whose friends are either marrying or having babies (6 in the last 2 months!) in multiples. (for another great set, see the darling happy elephants).

seattle-based turtlepapers also makes gocco screenprints, adorable tees, and pretty, pretty cards. more at turtlepapers.etsy.com

happy holiday weekend, friends!

les petites emplettes

love love love these french linens from les petite emplettes. i posted about their picnic bags this spring and somehow missed these (just recently saw in cote sud magazine). they have the best styling images and i love looking at their inspiration page. (click on image to see them closer).

instant masterpiece

blow up your art with this inflatable museum-style picture frame. it puffs up to 11" x 16" with a clear pocket that holds an 8" x 10" picture. it even has tabs to hang either landscape or portrait. (i placed a picture in it that i took yesterday down on granville island for a project i'm working on).

nooks + instant coffee at bumbershoot

if you're going to seattle's bumbershoot this weekend, nooks looks like an interesting place to hang out. the henry art gallery and bumbershoot are presenting this satellite exhibit at the festival featuring toronto and vancouver-based artist collective instant coffee. they will engage audience members in event-based activiities from very intimate art talks, readings and performances, to dance parties, screenings, karaoke and other hands-on activities all within a sculptural installation based on breakfast nooks, designed as concentrated spaces for social interaction. here's the program.

bendable interior objects

swedish company, form us with love introduce BIO (bendable interior objects). after two years of hard work they just launched the line with concept help from art director, peter sellberg and photographer sesse lind who made a movie with music by swedish house artist, jesper dahlbäck.

www.b-i-o.se

cumbrian blue ceramics - paul scott

i came across the work of paul scott over the weekend at bc ceramics gallery. a resident of cumbria in rural england, he currently is a phd fellow at manchester institute for research and innovation in art and design, manchester metropolitan university, england. his work involves the digital manipulation of patterns, images and vignettes deriving from traditional blue and white ceramic wares, resulting in individual pieces that are exacting and critical. (more posts later today!)

For more information visit cumbrianblues.com.

pamelatang: modern quilts

modern silk quilt in bordeaux red with rust brown


quilted silk journal

with all respect to dear mrs. freda, these are not your gramma's quilts. an australian designer working out of singapore, pamelatang makes stunning handcrafted limited edition quilts (both full-size and nugget-size), runners, table linens, journals, cushions and fabric artwork. unusual color combinations and attention to detail -- slight variations in design, asymmetrical piecework -- achieve a succinct mission: to reinterpret the traditional patchwork quilt with a stripped-down, eastern simplicity.

not everyone will love the 'shininess' of dupioni silk -- it has a certain formal elegance i don't necessarily want to cozy up to (although this runner would look smashing over a crisp white duvet)...

sage green and lime silk bedrunner

...but i admit i aspire to the sort of "monastic elegance" (my friend jeanne's term) of a simple, lovely, zen-like respite rather than the vortex of jewelry-making chaos that is currently my bedroom. time to class it up, perhaps!

shipping from singapore seems fairly straightforward, and these would make sterling and original (even one-of-a-kind) gifts for that impossible-to-shop-for couple. or register for your very own (myregistry.com), instead of the same-old pottery barn choices. very well may be quilt nirvana: pamelatang.etsy.com

green glass

i'm out for most of the day today so i leave you with this beautiful green glass i found at sköna hem. have a great day!

twisty notes

fun and twisty cards from saturate design i just found over at luxe paperie today. they come as a set of boxed notes packaged with coordinating bright envelopes.

field notes

love these field notes booklets i just saw on the crap detector. wish i was an msu student.

cool blog of the week

crap detector was launched in the fall of 2006 to act as a teaching tool, information center and discussion area for kate bingaman's graphic design classes and aiga student group at mississippi state university. she also runs obsessiveconsumption.com where she once took photos of all her purchases for 28 months. she is currently drawing something she buys everyday. here's her etsy shop where one can buy her obssesive consumption zines. speaking of nice hand lettering!

haldane martin

i love this link i found via great green gods, (one of the blogs that were listed in the giveaway yesterday). its the zulu mama cafe chair by haldane martin, "an exploration of an indigenous zulu basket weaving technique adapted for recycled plastic. the baskets express the archetypal feminine activity of gathering, an appropriate gesture for cafe seating. the weaving work contributes to the economic empowerment of rural women". i also like their riempie series inspired by early cape dutch furniture (below).

lunchbox time

hostess cupcake lunchbox from fred flare

lemonlovespaper: happy homemakers!

happy homemaking helps ACEO*


vintage cookware mini journal

what is it about registering that brings out the "happy homemaker" in otherwise non-domestic sorts? my sister steadfastly refused all entreaties to yuppify her registry, which consists primarily of towels and power tools at sears.com. sadly, the realization dawned that while i'd never thought of myself as molly cooktop, suddenly she *NEEDED* an artisan stand kitchenaid mixer, and an oxo goodgrips pizza cutter, and a 12-cup coffeemaker (for when i visit, since she doesn't drink coffee for the love) and a ridiculous list of things to outfit the kitchen. not just bridesmaidzilla but the registry nazi. at least she cooks!

happily have returned to my pre-wedding anti-registry state, so the top ACEO* card isn't practical, but it made me laugh. something about that acid green color with the happy homemakers -- combine it with a happy vintage cookware mini journal and you've got yourself a cheeky gift.

or, even better for the bride-to-be:

blueprint mini journal

when planning, i found myself overwhelmed by scraps of paper with vital bits of info, by the dozen, and they all wanted to be in my purse at the same time. here's a pocket-sized mobile info center for all those notes to self. your blueprint for success, if you will.

no more bad puns. fun paper goods at lemonlovespaper.etsy.com, or check out megan's other store, lemonade.etsy.com, for more lovelies!

*Art Cards, Editions, and Originals -- essentially artist trading cards :)

summer sale at modish!

jena just emailed me about a sale she's having at her adorable online shop, modishoppe. it's a 3 day, 15% off sale starting today! customers have to use the code "goodbyesum07" at checkout. it's word of mouth and not being advertised on the site itself, so cool to have the inside scoop! lots of goodies to be had!

modishoppe.com

papergoods found

note set by cricicis




drinking girls letterpress coasters by papered together


small notebook with pocket by remake



red berry branch notebook by annacote



6 assorted thank you cards by turtle papers

wolfie & the sneak - sponsorship giveaway!

i'm thrilled to be able to offer poppy readers along with one of my favorite artists, wolfie & the sneak this beautiful print, towering barnacles as a sponsorship giveaway and poppyytalk's very first ever giveaway! red orange barnacles tower above a steely gray rock somewhere in the bottom of the sea. from a run of ten, this print is on archival paper with photo quality inks, printed on a canon s9000.

renee garner, the artist has sent this image of how it will be shipped, framed in a shadow box. estimated value of this giveaway is $30!

here's how it'll work. renee suggested we ask the readers to leave a comment here on a favorite blog, or a favorite crafter/designer (this should lead to some interesting places to visit)! the giveaway is effective from this post till friday, august 31st at 9pm. i will then print out the commenters names and draw from a hat. the winner will be announced over the weekend! if you don't have a blog and wish to participate, feel welcome to by leaving your name (full name will be required to avoid duplication). one entry per person. when the winner is published, you will have to contact me via email (poppytalkblog@yahoo.ca) for contact information. thanks renee and happy commenting!

wolfie & the sneak website

i'm loving escutcheons

vintage embroidered sports patches




faux coat of arms patch from bornlippy


print of society emblems



antique swiss shield from threefrenchhens

affordable art - birds

midnight owl, linen, paint and cotton by christinas


option-g cole gerst owl, limited edition silkscreen, by colegerst




memorial concert poster for elliot smith by colegerst



pajaristico 3, gocco on wallpaper, by ditazol

satsuma + kirin & co collaboration

a new collaboration with lara cameron of kirin & co. (melborne, australia) and lynn russel from satsuma press (portland, oregon) have produced these beautiful letterpressed cards. their first three designs just posted up on etsy. limited edition stationery sets. available at satsuma etsy shop and kirin & co etsy shop.

how to turn a shelf into a china cabinet

this is such a great tutorial on the sunset magazine's blog, home by sunset. how to turn a shelf into a china cabinet by sunset senior designer, monica ewing. click here to read more.

MADE celebrates 1st year

(kraft softwall by molo)

congratulations to MADE design in toronto who celebrate their first birthday this september with three days of in-store events to be held on september 6th, 7th and 8th, 2007. 6th september - MADE presents - a VEST guide to smuggling; 7th september - new product launch and private reception; 8th september - all day open house at made.

VEST collective is a group of six young designers with a shared appreciation of contemporary design and craft. they bring an interdisciplinary appraoch to their making of objects and gather for collaborative idea development and to exhibit. the vest members are erin neal, jessica lertvilai, jonathan sabine, katy chan (tote below), mathew birtch and sally mccubbin.

(felt tote by katy chan)

MADE will also be launching new designs available in their showroom from friday, september 7th.

(images left to right: cushions by bev hisey, thruster light by propellor)

from her studio on dundas west, textile designer bev hisey adds hand tufted floor cushions to her selection of woollen, die cut and embroidered cushions available at MADE.

propellor design from vancouver bring their gallioano and thruster pendant lighting east. both lights thoughtfully made and connected with recycled aluminum ceiling cap and electrical cord. the galiano light is reclaimed douglas fir with an arbutus twig light pull from fallen trees in stanley park.

(images left to right: kraft paper softwall by molo and utiliTILE by thout)

molo introduces their kraft paper wall. the kraft paper wall lends a warm, earthly ambience to it's function as space divider, available in natural kraft or dyed black with charcoal bamboo ink.

studio thout's utiliTILE arrives from their successful premiere this year at both toronto's interior design show and the ny international contemporaory furniture fair.

MADE will also introduce a mirror console table to their hybrid series of tables and stools constructed from milk crates, as well as a hand-flocked, limited edition, series of mirrors entitled, "cojoined".

MADE website or email info@madedesign.ca.
867 dundas street, west, toronto, on, m6j 1v6

bark edged side tables

loving these bark edged side tables by toronto-based furniture designer and builder, deanne lehtinen through made design. since graduating from sheridan college, deanne has worked on private residential, commercial commissions and speculative pieces.

toybreaker (tielab): silkscreened ties

matching silkscreened groomsmen neckties

detroit-based tielab, aka toybreaker, not only prints rockstar neckwear for bands on tour, they offer a bulk wedding discount on multiples of their fierce hand-screenprinted ties -- poppies as above, or check out the revolvers, clipper ships, and mechanical prints. for weddings with 10 or more, you can purchase wholesale; a wide range of colors and styles available (give them 3 weeks lead time and they'll match your color). their motto: "be prepared for big dates, court dates, and dates with destiny." more glorious tie love at toybreaker.etsy.com

sale at om home

oorbee from om home emailed to let poppy readers know they're having a sale to make room for some new inventory. pillows usually going for $60 are priced down to $35 and from $80 to $50!

check it out! omhome.etsy.com

choco-dots

new fatboy point by dwell in chocolate dots. great bean bag which could be used as a table, chair, footrest . . . (available at design public). they are also making these oversized bean pillows (below).

fun decorating ideas

i saw this interior set via laissezfaire blog of dutch bag designer, esther veereschild's home. such fun ideas to decorate the home. i especially love her son's room (below) with the moutain background that if you look close enough, even has a working gondola.