Fridays seem to come around so quickly... it's time to share another thing that I love.
Vintage tablecloths: the colours, designs and textures. Love, love, love them! My vintage-hunting pal Jude often nabs tablecloths for me when she's out scouting around and I also collect them from markets, garage sales and ebay. The photos only show a small sample of my collection. (I couldn't decide which photo I liked better, so I've added them both)
Happy Friday!
At the markets on the weekend I picked up a little collection of food and drink related graphics from the '50s and '60s. The graphic simplicity of the illustrations and the colour palettes used in that era never cease to inspire me. Below are some photos taken in the It's A Small World ride at Disneyland - the murals have the same design sensibility.
If you're into vintage graphic design there's a great blog (one of my many daily reads) called grain edit - check it out. 
These posters are via grain edit and are a part of Tony Hillman's collection of British Airways publicity material.
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I was spoilt to receive this stunning ceramic vessel for my birthday from my lovely friend Donna. It's about 10.5cm tall and is the most beautiful shape, reminiscent of an old bottle. It has "XOXOX." written on it in tiny type and is the work of Vermont based artist Beth Muella. Here is her website, although it's disappointing there aren't any photos of her beautiful work on the site. Actually, maybe it's a good thing... so I'm not tempted to place an order! I really love this, and I love having friends with such impeccable taste!
Red Thread portraits have been featured in the current issue of Shop 4 Kids. You can check out all my portraits on The Red Thread website.
I know that I said my new website featuring all my new work would up and running by now... I am working on it, so hopefully it's not too far off. In the meantime I thought I'd give you another sneak peek. These are a couple of my Vintage Heart Boxes. The Hearts are hand cut from vintage children's storybooks, with a few contemporary specialty papers thrown in, and are finished off with some text from the book. The text under the Vintage Heart Box on the right says: "When Spring comes we can hardly wait to get outside and rollerskate. Mark some lines along the walk with pebbles or a piece of chalk." If you click on the image you should be able to see an enlarged version.
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