vintage valentines

It's Valentines Day this Saturday. The day when your significant other is supposed to charm you with handwritten poetry, delight you with chocolates and shower you with love. Sigh. Well we would only hope, right? This Valentines Day I am having a dinner at my place with some girlfriends. Come to think of it, hope they don't suddenly have plans!

Regardless if you celebrate Valentines or not I thought I'd share a few of these adorable little Valentines cards from a Vintage Valentines book I have, by Golden Books. They have charming little illustrations on cards that you punch out and assemble. There are also sheets to cut and assemble envelopes. And most of the cards are flocked! Too cute.

Hope the pics are okay to view, as I took these this evening without much natural light.

If you would like to get your hands on a copy you can find it here, $13.05 NZ, incl. postage.

bird botanical prints

Some inspiration to end a long, boring Monday. Check out these pretty prints by artist Geninne Zlatlkis, made exclusively for Three Potato Four
(which by the way has a lot of other drool worthy stuff!)

Birds, flowers and postcards. I love it all.

around the world with mouk

I love, love, love illustrated children's books! I picked up this one, Around the World with Mouk by Marc Boutavant, in a nice little Napier bookshop called Beattie & Forbes (est. 1969!)

Mouk, a little bear travels the world meeting new friends and discovering new cultures. I fell in love with the charming illustrations which I could study for hours.

Here are just a few of the places Mouk visits....

Greece

China

Japan

New York

Also found two sheets of vinyl stickers at the back of the book!
Bonus!

october is...

...is orange and red and brown.

See the leaves all tumble down!
Rake them up into piles so high
You can jump in them, and flop, and lie.
Now the farmer harvests his hay.
The barn is filled, And every day is growing shorter.
We have to wait the whole long month for spooky Halloweén.
What are you going to be? A ghost? A witch?
Or a queen?

from Merry Months of The Year,
Patricia Scarry.

I'm not into Halloween myself but thought I'd share these cute illustrations from a Richard Scarry book!

Another cute thing... Pumpkin Owls! I saw this on a Martha Stewart podcast and thought this was a nifty idea. I am unsure of where you could get perfect pumpkins like these in NZ though! You can download the free podcast from the iTunes store.