Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

Worried that your mantle will let you down this Christmas? That you won’t have enough cards on it to adequately reflect how popular and cool you really are? Well, Domestikate have got you covered. You can subscribe to their Christmas card list and receive a photo card every December for the next six years. They’ll be your ‘kooky, new, insta-friends’.

domestikate.etsy.com

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1. Happy ho-ho-holidays to you
2. Ten days
3. One for the boys

Omigoodness. I don’t know where to start. I’ve been loving the blog A Beautiful Mess by Elsie Flannigan, choc-a-bloc full of vintage and creative crafty goodness and fashion. That alone would be enough, but then Elsie and her chum Rachel and sister Emma have just opened Red Velvet, a seller of vintage and pretty things and sweet shoppe combined. I want to go visit, but am sadly rather far from Missouri. Not to worry, there is a Red Velvet online shop, oh yay. Emma and Elsie pictured above thanks to Float Away Studios.

redvelvetart.com

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1. My girl Gwendoline
2. Hey presto, Blendo
3. Take notice

Can I join?
By the way, nice work Trademark™.

lunchleague.com

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3. For pledges with parties

It was my birthday last week and I was spoilt rotten with wonderfulness – time spent with lovely people and gifts of lovely things. In addition to cake in the shape of cheese (my, how I love cheese) and a giant yellow balloon in the shape of duck, I was graced with goodies from three wise men – Jonathan Adler, Charley Harper and Mark Ryden. And here’s a gift I can share with you all, they’re the best kind. Gorgeous Miss Ash, designer friend and founder of the Cotton Club (read more here and here) sent me this lovely little film written and directed by Angela + Ithyle to go gaga over.

angelaandithyle.com

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Now that the weather is warming up and we’re heading into prime Pimm’s season, it is time to get your swizzle sticks out. The mesdames are very excited to see a resurgence in midcentury Blendo glass. First made by the West Virginia Speciality Glass Company, it can now be nabbed for nearly nix. Not for long though, best get in while the going’s good.

Here’s some we found on Etsy…
1. punchbowl and glasses from Hydrangea Row
2. cocktail shaker from Vintage Home Recycled
3. highballs from Swanky Lady Vintage
4. bowl set from Plaid Pony Vintage
5. tumblers from Ione’s Attic
6. pitcher and glasses from Betty’s Kitschen
7. chip and dip set from Ugly Santa
8. highballs from Blue Bernice Vintage
9. salad bowl and cruets from Rust Belt Threads

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At Mitchell & Dent we torture ourselves via e-mail. Not ours, but via the mailing lists of people who sell lovely things we can’t possibly make our own. Like David Met Nicole‘s. Today they sent us an e-mail and in amongst their glorious vintage homewares was this English haberdashery drawer unit. Sadly, it is out of our budget and made more so by being in Sydney. But look how pretty it is. Wouldn’t it be perfect for our studio? See? Pure pretty perfect torture. Sadists.

davidmetnicole.com

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From the moment I first spotted the Christmas tree above, I have loved the work of Jane Schouten, a Dutch designer who has the sharpest eye ever for vintage trinkets and treasures. She creates artworks and items for the home by cutting, pasting, painting, drawing, sewing and re-purposing found objects and collectables. I pop in to see her blog All the Luck in the World whenever I have a spare moment, which can be terribly dangerous because I also end up scooting all over the www looking at the things she finds wonderful. And then today, she announced that she has a brand new Etsy shop. Oh dearie me, I’m doomed.

blog.alltheluckintheworld.nl
alltheluckintheworld.etsy.com

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Harry Rogers illustrated these screen-printed posters for the Australian airline Qantas in the 1950′s and they are ridiculously wonderful. Even more wonderful is that they are now available again, this time as limited edition giclee prints. I want the Singapore tiger, no – the Australian kangaroo, noooo – the Canadian moose, noooooo – the Pacific Islands sea turtle.

airwaysart.com

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1. Spring has sprung
2. Rotate-o-vision
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Yes. You can get letterpress wedding invitations in Perth, thanks for asking. And Mitchell & Dent‘s lovely old 1905 Chandler and Price platen press, affectionately dubbed ‘Herbert’, especially likes to print the Cameo wedding stationery suite. He thinks the elegant typefaces, fancy flourishes and ornaments, and sweet little customisable cameos are most befitting the vintage printing technique of letterpress. If you do too, why not visit the website, request the catalogue or order a sample?

mitchellanddent.com.au

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If you’re looking for old-school mid-century glamour but can’t afford to run away to get married at The Parker, why not opt for a little Palm Springs style in your own home town? Honeycomb is the perfect wedding stationery suite for couples who wish to channel their inner Audrey and Cary and can be found on the Mitchell & Dent website, in our newest catalogue or in a sample pack available in our little online shop.

mitchellanddent.com.au

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