Poppytalk Handmade is launching ‘Here Comes the Sun’, a summer-themed market beginning this week through July 10. I’m so excited that I joined in too! i have my keep calm & carry on silkscreened poster, “spot color” graphics and my “sunday in the city” diptych photographs included in Jan’s Poppytalk Handmade. There’s a whole bevy of beautiful handcrafted goods in the summer market, so go check it out. Thanks so much for including me, Jan!

From Angie muldowney.

From Two sarahs.

From Mamasita.

From Matte Stephens.

From rejenerate.

From Sarah Ahern.

From Dripstick.

From Stephanie Levy.

From Vivienne Strauss.

From sfgirlbybay.

One of my favorite bloggers, Jan of Poppytalk is guest blogging over at design*sponge this week! Jan has a wonderful post up about Stephanie Vogler of The Cross, a beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia home furnishings shop. Pop over to design*sponge and check out Jan’s interview with Stephanie, with a fantastic sneak peek at her super stylish home, as well as Jan’s other great design*sponge guest posts this week.

*Photos by Kim Christie for Canadian House and Home.

Jan over at the wonderful Poppytalk Handmade is my go-to-girl when it comes to curating through the masses of products available online at Etsy, so I popped in this week to see what Poppytalk Handmade was gathering up in the way of holiday gift ideas. Here’s just a small sampling.

Wet felted scarfini – black with white dots by Karen Thurman.

Lovely print, individually signed and
numbered by artist Signorina Navarra.

There’s nothing better than red shoes, especially
through a Polaroid from Alicia Bock.

‘Doe A Deer’ print from artist Hadley Hutton.

Lovely ceramic plates from Jill Rosenwald.

Lawn chair limited edition giclee
print from Leah Giberson.

Cherry Blossom Album from Double Happiness Designs.

Handy crafty apron from Your Dirty Laundry.

Greetings from the North Pacific! I’m thrilled to be doing a post over here at sfgirlbybay, one of my favorite haunts. What I love about Victoria is her amazing talent to “put things together” and make them all work. Her Sunday in the City series (all the pictures grouped so well), the way she decorates her groovy apartment, I’m sure you all agree, she has a great eye for that and the reason you keep coming back for more. Well with that in mind, I thought I’d try to throw together (which I’ve found is very difficult to do) some affordable art pieces with the idea of buying buying them together as a group, so you could hang them on a wall and they would all work with each other. I’m a huge affordable art fan and with so many amazing artists to choose from online, I could spend the rest of my life very happily picking and choosing pieces for my home. So here’s some “groupings” I’ve put together of new work I’ve spotted online.

(above clockwise): In this place, handmade watercolor, Heather Smith Jones, Floating Lessons, (magenta & chocolate), Icebear, 5 a.m. Series 1, Pretty Little Thieves, Butter Buds, Sarah Ahearn.

(left to right): I’ll Follow the Sun, Cathy Nichols, Three to One, Leah Giberson.

(left to right): Teenage Tricks, Icebear, Poppy Pods, Sarah Ahearn, Joy, Shira Sela.

(clockwise from top left): Floating Lessons, (blue), Icebear, Bronte Beach, Moofus
(an eleven year-old from Sydney, Australia), As We Do, Leah Giberson.

*All photos courtesy of Letteria.