For Art's Sake.

I've always been in love with art ever since I was a young girl. What's not to love? There are as many styles of art than what there are music genres, and always something for everyone. So I have been on the hunt for art pieces that would suit our home and our style. Always a hard thing to do with the massive range available these days! Saatchi Online is an online collection of art which you can buy (or even sell if you are an artist yourself!). Above are featured some of my favourite Pop Art pieces that I've discovered on there, with many other prints available.
Make sure you head over to find some beautiful pieces for you own home!

The Finders Keepers.

The first time I heard about The Finders Keepers markets, I got so extremely jealous of everyone that could attend them. A market filled full of beautiful handmade jewellery and clothes, inspiring art and an awesome variety of stationary. Now, two years on, I've attended my first market and loved it! Neil and I managed to head over there after work on Friday night and the place was buzzing! With live music filling the air and the smell of fast food, it created a wonderful atmosphere.

There are just too many places to list that I loved, but my highlights would have to be A Skulk of Foxes with their amazing iPhone/iPad cases, Lauren Carney's incredible art, Inky Co with their lovely stationary and Frankie with...well with all their Frankie goodness! All too lovely :)

Design Made Trade.

Colourful Rowena Martinich stand at Design Made Trade.

A couple of weekends ago, I couldn't resist but stop in at the annual Design Made Trade, a boutique event showcasing Australian and international design culture. With a huge variety of disciplines on display, (including graphic design, textile, furniture, jewellery design and more) I loved looking through all the bright, eye catching, and inspiring vendors on display.
It was such a pleasure to pop over at The Hungry Workshop stand while visiting, as I have been a fan of their work for a while now and admire their unique and quirky letterpress work. And not to mention, the wonderfully cleverness that is PrintTogether, a company that focuses on making printing more environmentally sustainable and economical by printing several customer's print jobs together. Definitely worth checking out if you are in need of some printing! I am definitely planning on using them in the future for projects.

Alice by Emily Winfield Martin.

These art prints by Emily Winfield Martin are absolutely gorgeous! This is her version of Alice in Wonderland through illustration and I think she did such a wonderful job. It goes without saying that I completely fell in love with the White Rabbit, of coarse, as anything to do with bunnies and rabbits I am sold out to.

You an order prints by themselves, or buy the handy pack of 12 postcards to get the complete Alice In Wonderland collection.

Chalkboard Artist.

Found via Freshly Blended.

How incredible is this? Dana Tanamachi is a graphic designer and custom chalk letterer that lives in Brooklyn, New York. I am amazed at the dedication in creating these pieces with chalk, what skill! What blew me away is when you watch her time-lapse videos, where you actually see the process in creating these pieces. So I have decided, our home WILL have a chalkboard wall. I definitely want to try my hand at this (eventhough I don't think I would have the patience or the steady hand to create such big, clear & precise pieces).

Hello Fox.

How absolutely stunning are these wooden art works? Found these little treasures over at the MirDinara etsy store, which makes me love little foxes even more! I am sure I can find a cosy little spot on my wall for such a sweet little piece, don't you think?

We had everything.

Now this is a real treat. These wonderful creations by Rob Ryan definitely made my day! I am such a fan of paper cut out illustrations, and when I saw that Rob incorporated his designs into plates, tiles, cushions, screenprints and art prints, I knew he was worth sharing. His website is a must visit, and I must say I am fond of the bright highlight colours and simple layout design is enough to keep me on there for hours.

Well I am off to see The Sound of Music production tonight, so will be enjoying an evening of sing along fun and sweet childhood memories :)

Before I die.

Found this a couple of weeks ago through I Art U's blog and this project totally touched me, I just had to share it with you all. Candy Chang is a public installation artist, designer and urban planner and this is one of the little projects where she turned the side of an abandoned house into an art instillation. What a way to get you to think and use art as a way to get a community involved. As you can see, this was quite a popular idea, and pretty soon the wall was filled.

It’s about turning a neglected space into a constructive one where we can learn the hopes and aspirations of the people around us.

Ah! Amazing! So, in saying that: Before I die I want to have my own exhibition, create life, change a life and be free to always be me. That actually took me quite a while to write, gets you thinking! Now it's your turn :)

Also, I have set up a Facebook page for my blog, so this is where you can get the latest updates - psssst for example a brand new-oh-so-exciting competition starting Thursday!

Introducing: Spirit Hearts

Introducing Spirit Hearts, Emma Fourie's first series! Wow, such a super proud friend at the moment, as I have watched this come together over the past few months and now it is all done :) Time to get your hands on these beauties, so head over to Emma's blog and start pre-ordering. They will be available in prints and postcard sets.

I am completely in love with the bunny of coarse (guess who makes an appearance in that print) and the owl is just stunning with all it's detail!

I Heart The Arctic.

Such sweetness, Jacqueline Bos is such a talented craft-maker (like in this post where I featured some of her little crafts) and illustrator and I am completely in love with this little zine she created which I found via Home Collection. I have finally started doodling more in my notebook and incorporated some of that in a recent newsletter design which I might share next week :) When I see artists like these, it just inspires me to draw more!

The Sketchbook Project.

Heard of The Sketchbook Project yet? I love the concept behind this project and cannot wait to see photos of the exhibition when it launches in March. Basically, you could sign up to the project and be sent the same Moleskin notebook as every other artist. All you are required to do is use the notebook in any way or form, keeping it's same dimensions, and send it back to be exhibited in The Sketchbook Project which will be traveling all across the States. This is an example of Mette Hornung Rankin's sketchbook which I absolutely adored.

Life in the Alphabet.

(Eibatova Karina via Home Collection)

Now these are incredible, Eibatova Karina collaborated with Das Monk to create these stunning tote bags from her illustrations. This is how she describes the project:

The idea of the project is to represent a letter in a natural form and appearance.
Like something alive has turned into a letter and stood still.

I love the organic shapes she creates with every day objects and think it's such a clever collaboration.

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