alison tauber

www.etsy.com

We just love Alison Tauber’s lovely screenprinted tops. In organic cotton, they all look so soft and pretty. Done by hand in her Brooklyn studio.

Just beautiful.

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Yellow Owl Workshop

www.yellowowlworkshop.com

Found via Angry Chicken, Yellow Owl has some really neat stamp sets, as well as cards, journals, prints and paintings.

Just think of all the fun you could have stamping away with this little set. They’d be great with fabric stamping ink would they not indeed!

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hop skip jump

hopskipjump.bigcartel.com

Some of our favourite toys will be available tomorrow at Hop Skip Jump’s new shop. The update is happening Thursday November 19th at 10.30am (that’s Adelaide/Australian Central Daylight Savings time).

You’ll have to be jolly quick though. Or check Fiona’s blog for a list of other stockists.

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spunky sprout

www.spunkysprout.com

Wow, were we happy when Yvonne from yvestown sent us this link. An absolute treasure trove of good design for children.

We can definitely vouch for the fact the Svan Bouncer truly IS the next best thing to being in your arms – our daughter absolutely lived in hers. And aren’t these BPA-free bottles just the cutest things EVER. Into the shopping basket they go.

Our favourite thing at Spunky Sprout had to be the Nest Bassinet. Isn’t it just fabulous? Such a brilliant and lovely shop.

Go on, take a peek!

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beauty expert

www.beautyexpert.co.uk

A recent discovery – whilst trawling the net for something from Aesop I’d spied at my sister in-law’s I stumbled across BeautyExpert.co.uk. She had a luxurious citrus hand cream in my favourite of all favourite types of packaging – a metal tube. Damn do I love tubes of yummy things to make me smell and feel nice.

Beauty Expert has in stock the rather lush looking Aesop Geranium Leaf Body Balm with citrus extracts – and while I was there, deciding what I would buy I also found I rather liked the look of Ren’s Damask Rose Body Cream.

If you want to get 10% off until November 16th just use the voucher code “enov110″. And while you’re at their site make sure you check out their special offers page.

How utterly delicious.

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Cath Kidston – new website

www.cathkidston.co.uk

Cath Kidston fans will be pleased to visit the lovely new-look website at www.cathkidston.co.uk.

Very pretty and very Cath, all the favourites are of course still there, fabric by the metre; kids clothes and accessories; stationery; outdoor for wellies, umbrellas and pet beds; bags, wallets and keyrings in all our favourite vintage prints; and our favourite – home furnishings and wallpaper.

We just wish they’d hurry up and put some stuff in the clearance section!

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Black Lark Gallery

www.blacklarkgallery.bigcartel.com

Discovered via Hop Skip Jump, what a lovely shop this little find is. Black Lark Gallery’s online shop is currently playing home to all the lovely hand made dolls taking part in their Creature Feature exhibition.

Makers include Le Train Fantome, Udder, Lucy Jane Batchelor, Donna Wilson, Ella Pedersen, Sandra Monat, Abigail Brown, BlaBla and Fiona Dalton. They also have an any-year calendar by Donna Wilson – genius!

Be sure to visit Black Lark’s blog too – to see the brilliant way they’re displaying the creatures at their gallery.

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Yvestown

www.yvestown.com/shop

Shinzi Katoh stationery and Je de Paume books

Yvonne has such great taste in stuff, especially lovely things from Japan. So much so that she’s very kindly stocking some of her favourite Japanese books and stationery in Europe for us, and even selling in pounds. So we can avoid all kind of nasty inbound postal taxes by buying direct from her. Yay!

Also excellent for everyone everywhere, because you don’t have to buy six books at a time to make the postage worth it, and you can order easily, in English. Yay again! I love the memo pads and the 2009 calendars, as well as the new London Gardens book which I am going to have to buy myself for Christmas.