The Just-In-Case Gift.

If you are still searching for small-but-perfect gifts, look no further than

boygirlparty on Etsy.

This gorgeous shop features items drawn and hand-painted by artist Susie Ghahremani. Susie has been a "proud indie artist" since 2001 and was the winner of a
2010 poll for Best DIY Designer. 
See here for more about Susie, her work and blog.

2012 planner

pocket mirror

recipe cards

magnet 

Check out Susie's Etsy Shop 

for these and hundreds more great gift ideas. These are affordable enough to have one or two extra gifts wrapped in your home/handbag/desk for that AWKWARD moment when you are given a gift by someone you hadn't planned to buy for!

What do you mean that doesn't happen to you? It's just me??

Stephanie.x

The New Owl.

#Sigh #

Did I mention that foxes are the new owl? 

Although I have also heard mention that peacocks are muscling in.
I am just loving this Etsy shop by Stacie Bloomfield - too, too cute :-)

Gingiber

Also loving these ceramics by Alyson Fox. 
Ha! How could I not put these two in the same post :-))

Alyson Fox at Ink Dish

Stephanie.x

The Lily of the Valley.

Last week I joined Stephanie for a cup of coffee at her house.

She has always had faux Lily of the Valley on her dining table.

However, she had finally treated me to the scent of some real ones, as they are in season.

Oh my! What a sweet, clean and pure smell - like what you would want your bed linen or washroom to smell like.

I've been obsessed since I poked my nose into one!

Here are some of my Etsy favourites that are inspired by Lily of the Valley:



 A cream floral french clip from Etsy shop Gardens of Whimsy.



A hand painted set of two wine glasses from Etsy shop Deanna Bakale.

Lily of the Valley Goats Milk Soap from Etsy shop Country Soaps by Marlen.

Lily of the Valley Still Life 'Signs of Spring' from Etsy shop Peylu.

And last of all, a nice poem for you:

Gentle fairies, hush your singing;
Can you hear my white bells ringing,
Ringing as from far away?
Who can tell me what they say?
Little snowy bells out-springing
From the stem and softly ringing—
Tell they of a country where
Everything is good and fair?
Lovely, lovely things for L?
Lilac, Lavender as well;
And, more sweet than rhyming tells,
Lily-of-the-Valley’s bells.

by Cicely Mary Barker

Take care little ones.