This is a print by one my favourite Etsy artists, Jen Renninger. She always has something wise to share. Like ‘everything is going to be ok‘ and this – Be Creative: An ‘everyday reminder’ to serve as a little nudge to get you to look at each and every small thing as a world of possibilities. We can never tell what small seemingly insignificant moment will inspire something profound in us. Inspiration is everywhere. (and especially at Jen’s! )

Never before has the market for faux flowers been so updated and qualitative. Many times, they actually look better than the real thing…Needless to say, when time flies they do .)

Personally, I really look forward to visit Abigail Aherns Flower shop (above, some pics from the online shop) These faux flowers are not just any, they look factually blooming marvelous:) Flowers are really key in home decorating.

Details below :)

1. Pink Sugar by Patricia Stuever @RiciS
2. We Live in Brooklyn (from a series of hand drawn type posters featuring some classic and some obscure song lyrics) by Claudia Pearson @claudiagpearson
3. When I Put Your Coat Collar Up (from the Missed Connections project) by Sophie Blackall @SophieBlackall
4. Swoon by Jen Renninger @pleasebestill
5. Young Barack Obama by Oliver Lake @lakeillustration
6. liksom andra by Annika Bäckström @Annika Bäckström blogfolio
7. Everything is going to be ok by Jen Renninger @pleasebestill
8. Red Fox (an eccentric gardener) by Ryan and Lucy Berkley @berkleyillustration

| upper pic via 1 st option, bottom pic via Megan Charland @ Pinterest |

Signed photo print by talented Rio de Janeiro-based photographer Natalia Valle.

by Swedish photographer Andreas Lind. Urban plants sprawling through the concrete jungle of the big city. You can’t stop the explosive process of spring, but you can’t preserve it either. Unless you hang it on your wall.

| Distressed Folk Art Painting and Resolutions Subway Art (click for tutorials) by Lil Blue Boo |

| Cutout Mirror and Pom Pom Flowers (click for tutorials) by Poopscape |

| yarn pasted on balloon-lamp by Pickles |

| the painted globe by Abbey Hendrickson/Aesthetic Outburst |

By John W. Golden.

While Henen is still looking for a house in London and gearing up for her blog-comeback, I continue to deliver design news and fancy tidbits from Sweden. Annika Bäckström, born in 1988 in the country’s northern parts, in cozy Burträsk more specifically, has a fascination for ink, love, and paper airplanes. She makes lovely illustrations. (they can be purchased through her blog.)

This illustration massa folk really hit the spot in our overriding, overwhelming, threat of swine flu. This is how we feel – and will remember to have felt – when we read the newspapers as of late November 2009.

| Fröken Bäckström Blogfolio |

You thought the meaning and prominent role of CIA was limited to national security and intelligence? Well, not in the interior design world. The illustration agency CIA was launched in 1983 in Covent Garden, London. It started in small-scale, but has since then grown into one of the most successful and critically respected agencies in the UK. They represent some of the biggest names in the industry as well as a healthy stable of emerging talent from all over the world – and roots are still raw creativity and originality of thought. Here’s two prints I particulary fancy:

To the left Chris Gilvan-Cartwright’s Chips the Strongman and right: Andrew Foster’s Dodo.

I promise. Jen Renninger promise! I keep a bunch of interior design blogs in my Google Reader and late last night, Design & Inredningsbloggen refered my tired mind to the Please Be Still – Etsy Shop. And wooOOOOt, was I awake! :) I needed less than 10 seconds to realize that this alluring illustration is _made_ for the wall above our new sofa! Click click, and soon it’s in my possession – lovely art work and the best slogan ever in our living room…There’s a lot of beauty in this etsy-shop, and keep in mind,

..everything is going to be ok.