littletree loves...the lumineers

Hello lovely blog peeps! Today is my birthday so this is just a quick post before I'm off out and about! Now I have never done a music post before but my good friend Sara introduced me to this band a few weeks ago and I am totally smitten! If you haven't heard of The Lumineers then I urge you to give them a listen, especially if you like stuff by Mumford and Sons, they have that folky, stamp your feet, clap your hands vibe...so get up and jigging to my favourite track 'Ho Hey' x

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spot the chicken and the worlds tiniest egg!

Hello everyone! Thank you for all of your lovely comments on Friday, my spa day was amazing! I hope you all had a good weekend to? I'll tell you who did...the choocks! With the sunshine finally shining the chickens have been having a glorious time rooting around the garden for insects and general running about...they look so funny when they run! We have this large planted area of the garden so often if you look up and they seem to have disappeared this is where they usually are...most of the time you only see a bottom or the rustle of a bush like in the picture above!
 

Left: This is Abigail pretending to be a shrub...the red comb gives her away a bit! Right: Aggy and Annie sitting still for once...I love their little fluffy bottoms, I think they look like little victorian ladies in their bustles and bloomers!

With all of the cavorting around the garden there has been less laying than usual, but we did find one egg nestled among the shrubbery...look how TINY it is! It only measured 3cm high and the yolk was smaller than a fingernail!
And yes I did eat it...

Hope you have a good week friends, I may be around a bit less as it's my birthday week, so I have a few plans but don't worry I will still be posting! x

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pinterest pick of the week...

Stretch Greeting Cards by Steven Lenton - No3 - From my Prints, Pattern and more... board

How cute is this little fella? And look below..there's a whole series of them! These cards by Steven Lenton have really made me chuckle, if only I had found them sooner I would have gotten a 2 and a 7 for my friends birthday next week! Who says they're just for kids?

I'm off on a spa day today (ooh... I hear you say) which is an early birthday present from a friend, I have never been to one before so I'm very excited! Hope you all have relaxing weekends and I will see you Monday!x

Stretch Greeting Cards by Steven Lenton

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colour inspiration...'worn out hues'

image HERE

How lovely is this image? I found it over on the wonderful sfgirlbybay blog last week and loved the soft vintage colours of the picture so much I had to make colour palette from it...x

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littletree discovers...good ideas magazine

I actually bought this magazine whilst at the airport on my way to Spain last month, it's just taken me this long to photograph it to share with you! The magazine, called Good Ideas, is made by the same people that do Good Housekeeping so it does in fact have some very good ideas within it's pages!

I was drawn to it because of the beautifully styled images inside...dreamy interiors, amazing looking food, shopping, travel, life, beauty etc...all the usual stuff just laid out in simple, clean sections that were a joy to browse through! And if your a digital reader it has been specially designed to be easy to read on a tablet too! Pretty nifty huh?

I'm loving the neon orange paint in the top pic here, such a lovely room...

Great ideas for mix and match holiday packing...

And last but certainly not least, some gorgeous food! This is just a few of the beautiful food pages...

I hope you have enjoyed this little sneak peek, if you do see this magazine around I urge you to pick up a copy!
Don't worry it's a quarterly magazine so you still have time to purchase the summer edition before
the autumn one is out the end of August.x

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littletree loves...positive inking

I LOVE this site! I found it last week through Rhiannas blog Rhi-Creations and just loved the idea behind it...run by illustrator Alyssa Nassner, Positive Inking is a place for designers to submit positive messages and inspiring words...great idea! And guess what? I submitted my 'Big things...' print last week and it was accepted! So hop on over here to check it out plus all the other great words of wisdom...here are a few of my faves so far...x

Marisa Seguin

Anika Starmer

Anika Starmer

Why do cat's love a paper bag or box? So funny to watch them...

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littletree discovers...another cute caravan!

Hello lovely blog peeps, I hope you had a nice weekend...today I have some super pretty pics of the cutest little caravan / vintage shop on wheels! This beauty belongs to blogger Beth over at Parsimonia and is called Holly...hasn't Beth done a wonderful job of turning the inside of this caravan into vintage heaven?! I am loving the chevron seat with all of the cushions and crochet blankets, I could curl up there quite happily with a book...and just look at all those goodies...learn more about Holly and her travels HERE. Hope you all have a good week and big thanks to Beth for letting me use her pictures! x

All pictures taken by Beth from the Parsimonia Blog

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pinterest pick of the week...

find this pin HERE on my random stuff board...

Well it seems Friday has rolled around yet again! Where are the weeks going? And where is the summer for that matter? I know us Brits are always moaning about the weather but seriously it seems summer has just been forgotten about this year! I'm mainly annoyed because I haven't been able to wear any of my new summer clothes...still in my cosy hoodie and thick socks...*sigh*

Never mind...this amazing piece of graffiti, or street art as I prefer to call it, has made me smile. I love the way street artists turn everyday mundane things into something beautiful. I would love if this happened in our local Tesco car park! Have a lovely (hopefully sunny?) weekend xxx

PS - Ooh I also found out that Louise, my giveaway winner, had never won a giveaway before and it was her birthday this week too, so it's extra nice for her to win!

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best of the web feature...

Just a quick message to say thanks to Pocket Change for including my blog in their Best of the Web feature today! There are plenty of other amazing looking blogs to check out too so stop on over here...x

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e-course update...end of module 2!

Can you believe that module 2 is almost finished!? I know I missed the first week and a half but these 5 weeks have just flown by...so you might have noticed a few changes around here (again? I here you say!) but this is all to do with the 'branding' part of the module and I mainly wanted to re-do (again!) my website.

I felt it didn't reflect me or my style, was a bit boring and plain...so I have now added colour and hopefully a bit of fun with these cute new buttons! And so if the website changes the blog has to change and the Etsy shop so it all matches and works as a 'brand'...complicated stuff this...

 

Now for the fun stuff! These below were my three favourite projects from the past module...this first one was a brief for stationary and after initially posting the first pic on Flickr everone loved the black and white so it stayed that way with a fab injection of lime green! I have decided to call the range 'Limonochrome'...very clever I thought?

Next we had a brief for a geometric pattern range that would be suitable for swimwear yet A/W colours...not so easy...some of these I think would work but others I'm not so sure...either way I love the collection!

And last is my favourite of all...a collection based around upcoming trends for S/S 13 the Fifties! Infact I have entered the bottom right one into the recent Spoonflower competition (pop by here to vote...please x)

If you want to see any of these patterns in their larger sizes all you have to do it click here to take you to my Flickr photostream...

I hope you have enjoyed this (rather large) round-up post...I cannot wait until Module 3! x

All Images in this post are Copyright Littletree Designs.

Please do not reproduce/re-blog. Thank you x

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