If you've followed my personal blog at all you probably know that I'm a thrifter and lover of vintage things.
Kindra is Here is a blog full of vintage ephemera goodness. I about had a stroke the first time I saw it. Kendra is a designer and teacher as well as a curator of this beautiful collection.
I could hang out in her blog archives for days...
Thanks for sharing, Kendra.
My friend, Cori Kindred, recently reopened her vintage shop, Mushroom & Moss.
Cori has an extensive vintage collection and will be adding items over the next few weeks.
(You can view photos I shot of her studio over here )
I own a few and really love the spice bottles and am thinking I need to grab one of her vintage books, too.
Chelsea is an artist whose work is always ridiculously beautiful and slightly funny to me. Her blog is eye candy and I am so excited to see her newest venture, plainMADE RETAIL. The goods available are beautiful and I love how they push the art v. craft scene a bit.
Shanna is one of my very favorite bloggers.
Her kind heart radiates in all that she does and I can't help but smile when I see her work.
Her collaboration with Betsy, hello handmade paperie, continually blows me away.
Last year I ordered their gorgeous calendar as well as their super sweet custom valentines.
I am aching to get their laureled tea towel for this next year.
All of these illustrations are by a favorite illustrator of mine, Eric Ravilious.
This site has some interesting bits of his work, too.
If only I could get my hands on this amazing book...
Happy Sunday!
...I'd have a vintage hutch full of beautiful ceramics from gleena shop.
Gleena creates beautiful pieces with vintage aesthetics, classic details and a sort of quiet fragility. I think I may have to put some of her creations on my Christmas wish list...
She writes a fun blog as well. I spent way too much time the other day, digging around in her blog archives and finding great images and links.
Thanks for all the beauty, Gleena!
image sources from the top: the first and second image found in this flickr set
the third image found at the Library of Congress Archives
the fourth image was found in this flickr set
I absolutely adore these strange print by Currier & Ives.
If you have some spare time, you should check out these little documentaries on this website. They are pretty interesting and I like that they animated some of the prints!
I would love to plan a whole photo shoot inspired by their prints....now wouldn't that be rad?
I'm not gonna lie, I LOVED disney when I was a kid. My favorites were Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Cinderella. I was reminded by a post over at Inchmark last week that these films have something in common-they were all conceived by the uber talented Mary Blair.
Blair's style is one I grew up with and adored and probably laid the groundwork for many of my aesthetic preferences to this day.
These photos are from this great flickr set, if you have a minute I highly recommend browsing through it.
Blair also illustrated a favorite book of mine named I Can Fly.
Amy's got some wonderful new illustrations up in her shop, Vanilla Bug.
She's also got a great sale going on-and all prices are in Australian dollars so they were even more affordable than I thought!
I'm seriously thinking about that diver-he's only $16.50 USD with free shipping. James would love him.
Well, while I think about it-you should check out her shop, her cute personal blog as well as her totally amazing on a daily basis blog, all the mountains.