♡ I was born with blue eyes, then after a few weeks one got a speck of brown in it which slowly got bigger and since I have had one brown eye and one blue eye. It is called heterochromia.

♡ When I was a kid our tiny Chihuahua named Claude was swooped up (and presumably devoured) by a hawk!

♡ My favourite band is called Why?.

♡ In high school I was the singer in an all girl punk band called Goat Bastard - it was named prior to my joining and I think it is the worst name for a band EVER.

♡ People who really inspire me include Tim Minchin, Stephen Fry, Bob Brown, Clare Bowditch, Richard Dawkins, Justin Heazlewood and Pip Lincolne.

Speaking of whom, this meme comes from Pip's blog, here. Feel free to join in.

A month or two ago I participated in the Disposable Lens Project, wherein I was mailed a disposable camera, given a theme ("home") and I used up all of the film in about 24 hours and posted the camera back to Molly and Danni soon afterwards. The photos have since been developed and were put up on the Disposable Lens Project blog today. I was really worried about how they'd turn out, but I quite like the dark, blue haziness and the lack of focus. Here are a few of them;

















To see the rest of the pictures and read what I wrote about them, go here. As more cameras are received back they'll post more from other participants.

* Raynbeau was the name of the house I grew up in and was what I named the camera.

^ Martha Stewart has a cute tutorial on how to make 'Stamp Art'.


^ I have posted previously about Trevor Dickinson's 100 Newcastle Mailboxes project - he also has a 'Ten Lovely Letterboxes of Newcastle' T-Towel on his Etsy. While you're there, Trevor has recently released Part 2 of his letterboxes zine which, like its predecessor, is brilliant.


^ Foxglove Accessories make beautiful jewellery using vintage foreign stamps like the pretties above.


^ Upon A Fold sells craft cardboard stamp shaped postcards - I can definitely image decorating some of these pretties.


^ The Smithsonian National Postal Museum Flickr Set is full of lovely old black and white postal themed photos like the one above.


^ Posted is a "temporary exhibition space in a former post office in East London that will present a series of art exhibitions, performances, screenings and workshops celebrating the post and exploring and examining our postal history and heritage". Their current show is called 'Please Write' and Inca Starzinsky's beautiful par avion scarves (above) will be part of it.


^ DIY Maven has a great tutorial on how to turn junk mail into art.


^ Modcloth have some very cute postal themed purses at the moment - the Alpha Mail Tote, Through The Post Clutch and Keep You Posted Wallet.


^ Ardour Bookbinding has a beautiful collection of hand-folded envelopes made from full-colour enlargements of vintage correspondence for sale for $8 each. I think for that price I'd want to frame them - too pretty!


^ StampRugs.com leaves me pretty speechless. Aren't they beautiful?!

I made both of these downloadable stationery items a few months ago and have been meaning to post them for free download. You are very welcome to print these off and use them for personal use. The notecards work best printed 4 to an A4 sheet of thin cardboard - I cut them out and rounded the edges with a corner punch. I printed the decorative labels 6 to an A4 sheet of sticker paper and carefully cut around the edges.






Download links: (4 per page) 1 | 2 | 3.
Single Cards: 1 | 2 |3





Download: Single label | 6 labels per page

Hope you can make use of them! :)

Other downloadables can be found here.