Rainjar Blog http://www.rainjar.com/blog Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:37:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Swallows http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2009/08/23/swallows/ http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2009/08/23/swallows/#comments Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:37:17 +0000 Rowan http://www.rainjar.com/blog/?p=140 Some inspiration.


photo by Cappy0161.


by sripadsridhar.


by npantazis1.


by 1booker.

]]> http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2009/08/23/swallows/feed/ Outtakes and Re-boots http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2009/08/19/outtakes-and-re-boots/ http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2009/08/19/outtakes-and-re-boots/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:32:28 +0000 Rowan http://www.rainjar.com/blog/?p=137 It’s been slow getting Rainjar off the ground, for personal and for health reasons. Meanwhile I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the nature of this blog and what I want to do with it. I have a better idea now than I did a few months ago, though expect I’ll still be feeling my way forward for quite a while.

Some not-quite successful gocco prints.

A box a fuurin (wind bell) came in.

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Playing with my Shelf City houses, made by weedsandwildthings. (Her blog is here.)

I asked for a church to be included, and these other two little buildings based on the thatched-roof houses in Shirakawa-go, Japan.

Shirakawa photo by cameranew.

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Purchased from Almapottery, who has made a series of these fairy homes.

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Sketch

]]> http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2009/02/17/chrysanthemums-sketch/feed/ Inspiration at Year’s End http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2008/12/31/inspiration-at-years-end/ http://www.rainjar.com/blog/2008/12/31/inspiration-at-years-end/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:58:45 +0000 Rowan http://www.rainjar.com/blog/?p=10 I’m in the midst of a spring-cleaning. And today I suddenly realised how many pretty and inspiring things I’ve acquired this year. Here are some of my favourites.

Cards from Mocchi Mocchi. It was rather fun getting a hold of these. They are far and away my favourite art-thing from this year.

Winter/Talvi cards from Hanna Konola. I felt so lucky I was able to get some of these! I absolutely love her illustrations. And I keep waiting for her to update her Etsy shop.

Beautiful illustrated cards by drinkabutter on Etsy  that I got just a while ago. I love how luminous the colours look and am definitely going to buy more from him in the future. I seem to be rather drawn to bird imagery this year. I have one more bird print around somewhere, and a couple more are winging their way to me right now.

And the Fog Linen Work catalogue. I like flipping through this when I’m feeling a little tired.  A few more pictures over at my new Flickr account.

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A rubber stamp carved for me by Jo of Lovesprouts.

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