Our Little Shop....

1. gumball deer - our shop, 2. handmade toadstools, 3. badges by pip - made yesterday, 4. fabric squares - our shop, 5. our shop - typewriters and notebooks, 6. some wallets i made - sewn by pip, 7. magic faraway tree wallets - by meet me at mike's, 8. mushroom stationery - our cute shop

I Love This....

Give it time to warm up....

xx Pip

Words and Pictures - Green

1. all the friends in the forest, for this chap, 2. Down the River Road- Vintage Children's Book, 3. creepy kid book cover, 4. May 9 patterns 016, 5. Untitled, 6. Nightsky, 7. Little Golden Book Illustrations, 8. one kitten1, 9. "nips af clips og gamle aviser" danish childrens book, 10. 'Eggs and bacon', 11. I walk and run..., 12. "Hi, Mr. Robin!", 13. "Hi, Mr. Robin!", 14. A chuckle is a little laugh, 15. Disney's "BAMBI", 16. A piglet is a little pig, 17. simple italian cookery, 18. Illustration from Otto Preussler's book "Die kleine Hexe" (1), 19. Endpapers - Vintage Children's Book, 20. Mundos mágicos, 21. Vintage Dutch children's book "Ronnie in het Berenhuisje" (cover), 22. little birds, 23. From a 1960's biology book, 24. salt girl & boy, 25. Vintage Book - Canaries in Colour (Blandford Colour Series) by George Lynch


Just Pictures today - for Words and Pictures - click over there to join in! I would REALLY love you to! I'll post some Words in the next couple of days too!

xx Pip

Five Daily : With Michigirl...

Cute Daniel and Chloe - The Michigirls!
Or is Daniel a Michiguy?! They could form a band....

I asked Chloe of Michigirl what her favourite five daily websites/blogs were.

Chloe said 'Top Fives, we love that game!'
She chose :-

• Bureau of Meteorology
• The Age
• Net-a-porter
• The Design Files
• Oh Joy!

Thank you Miss!

Cute Curios...

, originally uploaded by nesthair.

How lovely! These are from Nesthair's Flickr Photostream. I really like the puppy/rabbit on the left hand side (it's a puppy, right?) And the yellow stag is nice too! If you click the image you can see more of her photos! Thank you Nesthair!

xx Pip

Words and Pictures - Green

image via

I'm changing the rules on Words and Pictures a wee bit - I guess the focus has been mostly wordy previously - or at least that's been the general interpretation - but let's give credit to the Pictures part too, huh?!

This week (and yes, we've had a teeny flu-caused hiatus lately!) - let's encourage everyone to post Pictures if they don't have any Words. It can be your own image - or one from Flickr (thusly credited) or elsewhere. As long as it fits in with our longing-for-Spring in Australia green theme. Would you like to get green with us?! Words or Pictures or both... it's up to you! Show us something green!

I'm posting mine tonight - but you can do yours whenever you like - some time in the next week. Add your link below if you are playing so we can come and see or read your Green themed post!

More Words and Pictures in the column on the right hand side of this page (scroll down!)

Five Daily : With WhipUp's Kathreen

Kathreen from WhipUp



Five sites I visit daily :
(Apart from Twitter and Whipup and Etsy - which I visit a few times a day)

• Delicious Days is perhaps my favourite cooking site - and I check in there pretty often to see what is new - they don't update daily though, so I have a few cooking sites that I rotate through for inspiration such as Travelers Lunchbox and I also really like the Pioneer Woman's cooking section.
• For blog tips I go to Pro Blogger - invaluable blogging help for newbies and those who have been blogging for years.
• Hel Looks for fashion inspiration and a good laugh
• Purl Bee and
• Soulemama are my must have daily inspiration - one for craft the other for just living life.

Thanks Miss!