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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.

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

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.

A rubber stamp carved for me by Jo of Lovesprouts.