october in england

I recently spent some time in beautiful Cheshire visiting family. The colour of the leaves and the warmth of the light were just divine - more pictures next week! Have a lovely weekend.

Photo: Heidi Adnum

vintage motel signs

This Flickr group is dedicated to photographs of old motel signs. They're charming, don't you think? Like Rainbow Motel by altfelix11

And Red Apple Motel by agilitynut

sibling rivalrie

US-based sisters Alice, Cindy and Winnie Au are Sibling Rivalrie. The girls bring us (amongst other lovely things) the most superb dog portraits. Let's meet Phoebe..

Mary...

And Harry...

Photos: Sibling Rivalrie

catalog living

Thanks to Ellie at Home Shopping Spy for the tip to check out the hilarious blog Catalog Living. There, we can follow the lives of Elaine and Gary, the people who really live in the catalogues we read. 

Screenshot: Catalog Living

wildlife photographer of the year 2010 exhibition

The winners of the NHM's Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 Competition have been announced. The Frozen Moment by Fergus Gill is the winner of the Young Wildlife Photographer of Year - wow! Visit the brilliant exhibition from today until 11 March 2011. 

Photo: Fergus Gill at NHM

framing LPs

This fabulous idea comes from my gorgeous client, Piola, who is an Art Historian (and almost eight months pregnant!). Piola has collected some of her favourite, colourful LPs and framed them together to decorate her daughter's room. Piola buys the frames from Tiger for around £4 each - such a great price! - and I'm sure you'll agree the effect is brilliant. Thanks, Piola!

Photo: Heidi Adnum

sunday nights

I love this photo essay from UK-based photographer Peter Kindersley. In 'London for Loners: Sunday Nights' Peter photographed London on wintery Sunday nights. Petticoat Lane is my favourite; it's so moody and the colours are sublime.

Photo: Peter Kindersley

designers guild

Over the weekend one of my lovely clients told me about the Designers Guild, a well-known (except to me) European company who specialise in beautiful, quality home furnishings. Co-founder, Tricia Guild also has a range of books for sale on style and colour. Whether you're in the market for any of that or not, their product styling and photographs are superb and full of inspiration. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos: Designers Guild

rosemary remembrance cake

I can't get enough of herby cakes (and the rosemary on the window sill doesn't get used often enough), which is why I tried Nigella's Rosemary Remembrance Cake. I love it's buttery-yellow colour and the crunchy sugar top. Thanks (again), Nigella!

Photos: Heidi Adnum

levi's photo workshop

Lucky New Yorkers interested in photography can visit a free, temporary professional photo studio courtesy of Levi's, Tuesday to Sunday from now until 18 December. The Levi's Photo Workshop is open to all and you can even rent and try a vintage camera. Fun!

Photo: Levi's. Via: Chase Jarvis

autumn leaves

Autumn is such a good-looking time of year, isn't it? If I stopped to stare at or photograph all the beautiful leaves, I'd never get anything done! One of these Autumn Leaves is now warming up my Etsy shop.

Photos: Heidi Adnum

julieanne kost

US-based photographer Julieanne Kost's Guest Blog for Scott Kelby a couple of weeks ago is one of my favourite posts so far. Julieanne says she's always been afraid to fly and one of her coping strategies has been to take photographs of the view from her window seat. This led to some fabulous images and her book 'Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking':

She also mentions another project or, rather, a game where she took photographs from a moving vehicle without looking through the viewfinder. I love the results:

Photos: Julieanne Kost

new life

I just love Heather aka Skinny LaMinx's idea for mugs with broken handles: glorious pencil holders! It makes me think how sweet they'd look as little vases.

Photo: Heather Moore

uk silly sale

The UK Silly Sale begins on Etsy tonight from 7pm and will run for 24 hours. Hooray! I'm delighted to offer free worldwide shipping for all prints and/or bunting purchased from my Etsy shop during the sale, Hello Darling! Vintage and FifiFlyaway are also on sale, so be sure to take a look! I've added a few new prints, some of London:

New York:

And some of Istanbul (that you've already seen). There's also Kenya for Charity, Portraits of Food, and, not forgetting, I ♥ Cake...

 

Photos: Heidi Adnum

i love my electric appliance

Have you seen this great group on Flickr? It's dedicated to showing happy people in vintage advertisements. These three ladies do look very happy...

Someday.. YOU WILL WANT an Electric Refrigerator from LizaDiamond.

No "pot-watching"! from glen.h (if you're nostalgic for that lovely pink pyrex dish, find it here)

"Book-Shelf" Freezer from Shelf Life Taste Test 

walls of istanbul

I've got a real thing for walls (and doors and locks). If you'd like to see, here are some more photographs of Istanbul, this time it's walls. The man in front of this beautiful old wall was selling cards:

The owners of this shop were inside playing cards. It was across the road from the sweet shop:

I loved the gossip triangle these four men created when they all hung their heads out the window at lunchtime to chat:

Photos: Heidi Adnum

red leaves

Red leaves are so beautiful, all warm and spicy. This is a photograph from spring but the colours look more autumnal, don't you think?

Photo: Heidi Adnum

closing time

Closing Time: A Nation of Shopkeepers is a collection of photographs of British shopkeepers by UK-based photographer Nick Dawe. Like New York and so many other places, single shops in Britain are dying out. Nick's photos help to tell part of their story. Loui's Caff, Britton Ferry, South Wales:

H.E. Harrington, Hardware and Ironmongers, Broadstairs, Kent:

Bosun's Cafe, Worthing, West Sussex: 

This one actually reminds me of me as I started working as a shopkeeper in my family's fruit and vegetable business when I was twelve but years before that had been helping mum serve customers who would come to our previous shop (in the backyard). 

Photos: Nick Dawe. Check out Nick's 'Roadside Britain' photographs, too.

restless general store

Restless General Store is a UK-based Etsy shop owned by artist Olivia Jeffries. Olivia takes gorgeous photographs of the lovely things she sells in the shop - vintage decor, clothing and ephemera - and I couldn't resist snapping up these delights a few days ago...

This bundle of vintage cotton fabrics (including a divine blue-and-white peony pattern by Sanderson):

And this pretty rose serving tray:

I also wanted these wildflower cards but someone beat me to it! 

Photos: Heidi Adnum