Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you found the time to overeat and watch Oktoberfest meets Santa Clause style parades. I don't know how I feel about the latter yet - I'll get back to you.

Sally

It's time for a lesson in eye rolling from Sally Draper. I'll be taking notes.

Spring Wishlist

A few things I am taking inspiration from fashion and beauty wise this Spring:

1. Nina by Nina Ricci perfume
2. Marc by Marc Jacobs Sam Check Dress  
3. Dolce Vita Jentry Boot
4. Marc by Marc Jacobs 'Save the Birds' Resin Pendant Necklace
5. Yoox Envelope Bag
6. Stila Convertible Color in Gerbera

Zou Bisou Bisou

Happy Mad Men day! I'm very excited for the events, clothing, hair and makeup of this season (in no particular order).

But really this will be the highlight.

Perfect system I am fallin'

Just in case you weren't looking forward to the warm weather enough already!

Daylight

 

Inspired by Bella Heathcote and Eddie Redmayne's editorial from Vanity Fair's Hollywood Portfolio.

Hope you had a nice Sunday and have been enjoying the extra daylight! I spent today catching up on work, eating pizza, and going on an extra walk.  

'13

Hoping that any New Years celebrations were fun, and that the New Year is just as swell!

Bardot

Holiday (and year round) hair and style inspiration from Bridget Bardot. She always seemed to get it right!

Illustration by me, photos from everywhere (sorry!)

Lights

Hope you're all having a lovely holiday season!

I say I'm comin' home

A recent illustration (and favourite style inspiration rolled into one), and a song. Hope your week is off to a good start! 

Orla Kiely NYC

I was really lucky over the last while, as I had the chance to create some illustrations for Orla Kiely's NYC boutique. They feature pieces from the brand's S/S 12 collection -which, as with their other collections, is filled with clothing that I'd be quite happy to own! Lots of perfect colours and signature patterns that were exciting to work with, which is right up there for me.

Anyhow, the finished and mounted pieces are on display and some for sale at the store, located at 5 Mercer Street in New York. The first picture is from Orla Kiely's instagram, showing the pieces on display for the first time during the South Soho stoop sale, which the store participated in the other night. I wish that I could make it over there, but just having my work in the store is really nice. 

Enjoy the weekend!

Paper Heart

"She despises the whole world; yet she lives only in imagination"

1: Fairy-land by Edgar Allan Poe. 2,3,4: The Snow Queen. 5,6: Beauty and The Beast

Edmund Dulac's fairytale and story illustrations are just so lovely. He used the greatest wintery colours! Come December I'm always thinking of images like these, in particular his work from "The Snow Queen." I think I've posted his work a few times before, but I thought I'd add to the collection one more time.
Images from here.

Spellbound

photos from Ellen Von Unwerth, Grimm's Fairy Tales and Buffy
One of my old favorite Halloween costumes and fairy tales(I love my red cape!), with some songs that are reminiscent of the day.

Postcards we're mailing of sky blue skies and oceans

Here is a commission that I just finished this past week. It's my second project surrounding a sort of "pirate" theme, but I had fun working on some different techniques and interpreting it slightly differently than I did a couple of years ago. I'd been wanting to do something with the "fishing lure" idea for a while too!
I hope that you're all having a nice weekend and start to the week!

Morning

Images from Barbara Cole, Edmund Dulac, Degas, Lina Scheynius, Lula, Sarah Moon, Rossetti, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Antoinette, Skins, William Turner
I've been having lots of early mornings lately. I'm still adjusting to it, but its nice to be up at that time when things are very still, you know?
This is my breakfast (and sometimes lunch...) for the week, so far. It kind of reminds me of that crumble I made a while ago. It tastes good with maple syrup or honey in place of brown sugar, too!