Farm-inspired lettering

A great collection of handpainted fonts, stencilled lettering, posters and farming equipment from the Guernsey Tomato industry. Seen at the Folk and Costume Museum.

Vintage homewares

My final post from Alexandra Nurseries (see other posts here and here) shows a few images from the shop/cafe which was just amazing! Vintage kitchen and garden products are beautifully merchandised alongside the odd ceramic jug, old puzzle and card games, gardening and nature books, tins, wooden toys, single china tea cups....and everything is for sale. The homemade cakes also look magical under huge decorative glass domes, alongside pitchers of water in cast-iron trays.

Garden fonts

Some more pics from Alexandra Nurseries - focusing on interesting fonts and typefaces I saw. Painted, drawn, chalk-written, block-printed, etched and scribbled on wood, card, slate, blackboard, metal and paper. Not forgetting the playing-card toilet sign!

See my first post here.

House envy

 I think I let out a little gasp when I walked into Sally and Peter Nencini's front room (as part of the Dulwich Artists' Open House event). What an amazing space! Vintage wooden toys, early Galt puzzles and picture card games with iconic packaging, botanical drawings, maps, ethnic textiles, ceramics and ornate mirrors....every wall, shelf and table covered with collections of objects both small and huge scales, for fantastic colour and print inspiration.

Thank you to Sally for letting me go a little snap happy in the room (wish I'd been able to look around the rest of her house!) and see some of her gorgeous knitted and embroidered products in my earlier post here.

Cute packaging

A bit late with this post (although it could almost be for Valentines!) but I love the customised Cath Kidston wrapping on these presents from my friend to Lily and baby J.

Magic Worlds

A little trip east to the Museum of Childhood for the Magic Worlds exhibition. Not quite as mystical and 'enchanted forest' as I had hoped for (although I'm sure it is to a 4 year old!), but some really lovely games packaging, intricate illustrations and retro toys and puppets.