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I’ve finally got my new product photos up on Folksy just need to do shots for the new wedding and children’s party invitations once the samples are finished.

I’m starting a new weekly post: mini inspiration. Just a very quick visual look at someone or something I find inspiring. Who better to start with than my favourite textile designer Lucienne Day:

This week’s Folksy Friday is dedicated to the Kitty Kat as we’ve decided, although we are probably a tad delusional, that these are our baby’s first words. It is true that he makes the same noises that sound very vaguely like ‘kitty kat’ everytime he sees one of our cats. I’ll have to show him [...]

When picking products for my Folksy Friday posts, I’ve been finding myself being a bit particular about photography. This is slightly hypocritical as I really doubt I would choose my own product photos:

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First I thought about just desaturating the background:

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This helps a bit, but to be up to the standard of most other sellers I [...]

I’m not the most patient person so it’s been quite hard telling myself that building up a business from scratch is not going to happen overnight. The biggest problem being that when I set up as a freelance graphic designer, it did literally happen overnight. There were a few dry spots, but for the most [...]

So the theme of this week’s Folksy Friday is ‘Festival’ in honour of Ben & Jerry’s Sundae on the Common which is happening this weekend on Clapham Common. We’re going tomorrow for the first time with child.  This is more of a family-friendly festival, or used to be, so the theme is more bunting (I [...]

n. – The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
Yes I need some of this. This is what’s missing, it’s so obvious when I look at the collections of designers who have it. Here’s who’s inspiring me to be more coherent:
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Charlotte Macey Textiles:
Beautiful linen homewares with [...]

I’m hoping to keep up with this every week. This is my second one so that’s a roll for me. This week’s theme is ‘hungry’ because I’m hungry:g

Hungry Bear Plate from James Ward
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Chocolate Cake Coin Purse from Dinky Daisy
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Alice in Wonderland ‘Eat Me’ Cake Toppers by Crafty Pagan Designs
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Apple and Pear Card [...]

I officially back from maternity leave to my freelance business, little bulldog design, a couple of months ago, but you wouldn’t really know it as not much in the way of work has come in. I blamed it on the recession for a little while, but it quickly became apparent that my clients had either [...]

This is my first go at Folksy Friday and in honour of the beautiful day we had today I’ve chosen a few sunshine-themed handmade items:

Click on the photos to view their other lovely items. Here’s to more sunshine.