From ink to lamp

I love these illustrations! This book was better than I initially thought when I bought it!

Nina Lindgren

Swedish illustrator and artist Nina Lindgren must be in love with houses and buildings. It's a returning theme in her work.
Visit her blog for more insipration or see more of her beautiful work on her website.

Wanna kiss?

Vintage Scrabble game

World atlas

Big letters

I bought these letters online and thought they were wooden block print. Unfortunately they weren't, they're linocut. But anyhow, worth a post, I thought!

Encyclopedic singing-birds and poultry

Colourful Halma

Looks beautiful and colourful but I've never played it.

I ♥ Schleich

We all know the beautiful Schleich figurines! Our kids have loads of them. And I've been collecting the catalogues since 2001. Even before I had kids... I love the way they come up with a new theme each year and how they portray the figurines as actual living creatures. For the first time in all those years I collected them, Schleich changed the page set-up to landscape instead of portrait. Too bad...

oranges are the only fruit

Newest additions to my 'collection' of sunny fruit!

The polar bear and the penguin

These old illustrations were ripped out of an old children' book and sold to me as original vintage prints. They are are definately vintage but I felt a bit cheated. However, the illustrations and the typography are really lovely and the small story about the animals is cute. I framed them and put them up in my daughter's bedroom.

Mon premier alphabet

What a great book! Another thriftshop find. Wonderful illustrations with fantastic use of colour and white space.

The wonder game

Perhaps some of you know this game, I had never seen it before. My parents kept this in a drawer and gave it to me. Apparently my boyfriend gave it to them years ago after a trip to the UK. So beautiful and well kept!