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Faux Pharmacy Vintage Packaging

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Boots Original Beauty Formula were established in the 1800′s from original recipes by Florence, Jesse Boot’s wife … but fast forward to 2009 where Boots rediscovered their distinct antique packaging to give back the Boots heritage to the Original Beauty Formulas. This faux vintage packaging won many design awards for its proud design company, but [...]


5 Tips for a Creative Business

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Following my previous post discovering Shipshape Studio, Emily has kindly written a guest post sharing her personal 5 top tips for a creative business that both Emily and partner Adam put into action when setting up Shipshape Studio. See below for her wise words!   5 Business Tips for Creatives. It’s tough to know where [...]


Inspiration in its purest form

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Lionheart and Oh Comely provide inspiration through writing, poetry, illustrations and curiosities. Oh and the pure joy of clutching a freshly printed publication. Oh Comely from here. Lionheart from here.


YOU DRAW: Chloe Cheese

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My University tutor once mentioned Chloe Cheese to me and recently the memory popped back into my head, so I thought I would check her out again. I can official confirm that I still think her work is gorgeous! She works with a range of print techniques, from Lithographs to monoprints with the bottom two [...]


MAKE & DO: Dancer peg dolls

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I couldn’t resist making these dance peg dolls, when i saw a tutorial for them over at the PomPomEmporium.com. They are the cutest thing ever with their flapper hair do and fluffy pom pom skirt. I got my pegs from Wilkinsons, they were incredibly cheap, the wool I already had so all I needed to [...]


BOOK: The Liberty Book Of Home Sewing

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I am no sewer, but I was with no doubt excited when I first heard of The Liberty Book Of Home Sewing. Liberty has got to be one of my favourite places of all time, in fact I can’t believe it was only last year when I made my debut visit, but since then I [...]


SheDraws Needs You

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INDEPENDENT HIGHSTREET I’m currently working on compiling a list of all those lovely bricks and mortar shops that are hidden away on our highstreet, the ones that specialize in independent designs and hand crafted goodies. I often see these gems dotted about the place when you suddenly stumble upon them, but sometimes I really fancy [...]


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