Voici quelques beaux bloggers (I think that’s right)

Bonjour bonjour ! J’ai composé ce poteau entier dans le babelfish – ainsi mon Français peut être peu un bizarre. J’avais regardé beaucoup de blogs français récemment – tant de jolies choses et de femmes douées. It’ ; genre de s de disparition gentille à un monde d’imagination complet pendant un moment où vous autrefois vous can’ ; t même a lu ce qu’être la réalité pourrait. Joignez-ainsi moi dans certaines de mes trouvailles françaises récentes.

Hello hello! I have composed this entire post in babel fish – so my French may be a little bizarre. I have been gazing at a lot of french blogs lately – so many pretty things and talented women. It’s kind of nice disappearing into a complete fantasy world for a while where sometimes you can’t even read what the reality might be. So join me in some of my recent French finds.

Les Zigouis – which also has a sound track of rolling french songs, so crank up the volume and immerse yourself.

Like a Butterfly in Your House – which hasn’t been updated since last October but look at that beautiful quilt!

L’e dans l’a

Lili Scratchy

Happy Doll & Happy to See You

Gini Helie

Lilie Mélo

Particules

Do you have any French favourites?

Cloudy today

This little illustration is something I have done for the latest Cloudy Collection – Volume II, Edition I. The theme was “Who Are the People in Your Neighbourhood” and I chose a mother and daughter who I see walking around the streets all the time. I think they were the first people I noticed when we first moved into the area 5 years ago. I have never actually seen them look so cheerful – in fact sometimes they make me feel down-right sad because they look as though they are carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. I decided to give them a break and illustrate a moment in a possible good day.

The letterpress collection comes in a limited edition of 100 and it’s only USD $35 for all 7 prints in the set.

Apart from mine, there is art by Bob Flynn, Dustin Harbin, David Huyck, Scott MacDonald, Laura Park, and Dave Taylor.

I was so blown away to be asked to contribute – I have loved the Cloudy Collection ever since I fell for Vera Brosgol’s little knitting girl in a blanket-cubby in Vol. I, Edition II. The quality of the prints is beautiful… yay! Thank you David.

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Speaking of art and buying it – Andrew from Mumblier is trying to raise money to buy himself an iPad when they finally come to Australia. He’s selling original iPad themed art as a fund raiser. You can order an existing piece, or custom order a drawing or comic strip. I bought one for Phil, sight unseen, to hang above his desk as he bangs away at his own iPhone development and it really is the best little thing. Andrew’s sense of humour, line work and colouring is delightful. Give the guy a hand!

Melbourne craziness

We took the kids into the city on Saturday morning – we wandered the laneways and crossed through Federation Square… for us it was a little like this cheesey musical number (via @twitofalili), but all I can say is that sometimes it pays to have a super grumpy, tired pre-schooler who forces you to abandon your adventure earlier than expected and come home for some r & r. An hour later the city looked like this:

We were there to see Van and Isobel’s work “You Were in my Dream” in Experimenta Utopia Now – apparently there was some flood damage after we left – but if it’s up and going again, it’s very worth getting to before it closes this weekend.

Moomin Mail

Yesterday two parcels arrived from Etsy sellers in Finland.
I finally found a copy of Tove Jansson’s  The Dangerous Journey for a very reasonable price  - in Swedish, yes – but clearly I am turning into an obsessive collector because it doesn’t seem to bother me.

Fabric from Tillukka (via My Paper Crane) and the book plus the beautiful stamps on the package are from Hapsitukka.