Friday Finds: 6 Of The Best Whimsical Tea Related Items You Will Adore

Today is the 358th Anniversary of Tea in England. Personally I'm a coffee drinker but my mom loves tea and my brother is some kind of tea connoisseur so I thought this was the perfect post to honor their love of tea.

 

I went around and found the cutest tea related things to share with you today! 

 

 

 

 Plusheez

Happy squishy tea bag plush! Adorable for home decor, perhaps a couch pillow of a tea loving friend or family member. Such happy kawaii faces!

 

Little Dear

Adorable felt pattern for making your own felt tea, coffee or hot chocolate. It could be a pin cushion or a desk decoration or a play food for your child's mini play kitchen. Look at that charming little lemon slice and dollop of whipped cream!

 

 Hollyslay

Whimsical child's hand painted tea set. This delightful set would make for hours of imaginary play. I'm in love with the fun bright colors and that it can be personalized too. Every boy and girl should have a tea set. I actually learned table manners by playing with mine as a child. My brother served tea to his trucks, action figures and plush toys.

Crafty Cornish Maids

This is a Hedgehog tea cosy!!!! Such a darling idea and great for keeping your tea pot hot. Great idea and cosies come in all shapes and sizes and characters. Makes me want to get a tea pot and a cosy just because it's so darn precious! The cuteness factor is about 100 here. Now I wish I drank tea!

A2D Creations 

 Cute song lyric tea towels, I thought they were so funny! In the US we have dish towels which are absorbent printed towels. I'm sure the use is basically the same but tea towels are just more fun and seem to be more pieces of art. My Australian cousin sent me a tea towel for xmas and it's too beautiful to use, I'm going to frame it and hang it on the wall.

 Alison Appleton Studio

Wow a rubber ducky tea infuser! Such a darling little thing! My experience with tea infusers is that weird clampy spoon with holes in it or the metal acorn looking thing. Tea bags are huge here in the US so you don't see many tea infusers unless you are a connoisseur of fine teas or maybe a Hipster. This cutie floats around in your cup steeping your tea and looking like it's in a tub, so stinking cute!

Here's a bonus Free Tea related find.

 Sew Kidding 

 Sew Kidding's link will take you to her FREE printable tea themed Wall Art and note cards. She's a favorite of mine and her printables are so fabulously cute!

I hope you enjoyed this post. I'll be doing these once a month now since I have so many other amazing felt things to share with you! 

Friday Finds: 6 Great Earth Day Crafts For Kids

Happy Earth Day!

For today finds I pulled together a series of 6 Earth Day crafts for kids from around the web. I also added my own craft, cause it's my blog and I can do stuff like that, lol. But seriously check out these other great crafts. I would have loved to do them as a child. Enjoy!

Plastic Bottle Bird Feeder 

Plantable Paper Earth

Easy Coffee Filter Daffodils

Make Earth Day Crayons

Newspaper Mache Globes  

Printable Plant Markers

 

Friday Finds: Adult Coloring Pages

Coloring pages for adults are all the rage right now. A lot of people see it as a stress reducing activity and well coloring is just plain fun in my book.

I was an only child for many years so coloring was an activity my mom had me do to keep me busy and I really enjoyed it. As a child I'd take my favorite coloring book, go over to my friend's houses and we'd have 4 to 6 kids all hanging out and coloring together.Obviously this was before video games, lol!

Keeping those fun times it mind, I pulled together some coloring pages that I thought were super fun. Most could be done as an activity with your child, which makes it an even more attractive pastime. 

 Mrs. Peggotty Arts

Wonderland is a favorite theme of mine and this is one I'd love to color. The fun thing about Wonderland is all the colors are weird and mixed up and there is no right or wrong.

 Robin Elizabeth Art

Mermaids are always so cool and fun to draw and color. This one isn't overly intricate and can be done in one sitting.

 Frolicsome Fawn

Fairy tales are my my all time favorites and I adore this Gingerbread House. Don't you just imagine an old witch peeking out the window waiting to catch Hansel and Gretel nibbling on her house? Click on this pic or go to this shop to see all the great little details in this drawing.

 Candy Hippie

Mandalas make such a unique coloring page. I love this shops mandalas, they aren't overly intricate like most mandalas are. I personally find too much detail to be anxiety producing, but that's just me. This feels like just the right amount of detail.

Different Strokes Art

This is an lovely page that can be colored and then given as a gift. The details are so sweet and it's not an overwhelming project.

Beckadoodles

While this is probably for children a Star Wars fan of any age would enjoy coloring this. This shop has a lot of great sci-fi coloring pages.

I also found you some FREE coloring pages too.

Owls from Dover Publications

Hello Lovely Coloring Pages

Art Is Fun

I hope you enjoyed my finds today and start coloring soon!

Friday Finds: Mug Sweaters With A Twist

O.k we've all seen coffee mug cozies: knitted ones, crocheted ones, and ones made from felt. But I found a new take on the simple cozie that is humorous and adorable. It's also so well designed that The Modern Met.com did an article on the etsy shop Mug Sweater that designed these kawaii lovelies.

 How cute is this!!!! It would sure make my morning super happy!

The little arms with mittens can be posed, creating amusing little moment in your day.

This version comes with a little baby kangaroo cut out in a pouch. What a great idea for a baby shower gift or family announcement.

I adore owls so this one is my all time favorite!. Little owls nesting on the front!!!

 This shop's photos are so well done too. I love the sense of whimsy and fun the photos convey about this product. They just make you want to yell "Take My Money!"

 These mug sweaters have a practical side too, besides just making you smile, they can be put on a mug in your office or studio to hold pens and other office supplies. I can totally see one completely at home on my worktable.

 This shop also offers the pattern so you can knit it yourself! I'm now really wishing I knew how to knit.

If you enjoy adorable cuteness as much as I do, please go check this shop out. Mug Sweater

Friday Finds: For The Love Of Harry Potter

I was sitting here in my studio, looking out into the hall at the bookcase that holds all my favorite books, including the Harry Potter ones, and remembering that the Harry Potter books were the first books my son and I really bonded together with. I found the very first book in a little paper order thing they send home from school where you could buy books and thought this looks good. We read it together (with his sister) and kept on reading more and more (this was before HP was big here in the States). 

Then the movies started coming out and my son preferred to see the movie instead of reading the books, which made me kind of sad, but he was still into to Harry, so we shared the love through the movies. I hope one day he'll share that love with his own son.

So I thought today's finds should be Potter related since that's what's on my mind.

  Anders Attic

Absolutely my most favorite quote from the book. It still makes me tear up, especially after Alan Rickman's death.

Silly Lunastorta 

Amazing character bookmarks. I'm so in love with these!

Lullaby For Fox

Adorable little Mandrake inspired pin. No shrieking is going on while you are wearing this, just super adorable sweetness.

 

Eye Charts

One of my favorite Dumbledore quotes on a great colorful print.

 Super Textile

This is one of the best Harry Potter dolls I've seen in the handmade world.

 Dreamscape Ink

Well this mug pretty much says it all. I will ALWAYS love Harry Potter!

I hope you enjoyed these picks as much as I enjoyed finding them!

Winter Wonderland

So 49 of the 50 States in the United States received snow the other day. Kind of amazing considering how large the US is. So I decided to embrace the weather and have some Winter White favorite items to share with you.

 Amigurumi Baby Seal

Bridal Earrings

Winter Wonderland Print

Winter Snow Tree Pendant

Winter Art Print

White Dahlia Flower Brooch

Snowy White Paper Wreath

Listen to the Falling Snow Bookplates

White Owl Fleece Winter Hat

I'd totally wear this!

I hope you enjoyed my picks!

Sassy's Friday Feature - Chickengirl Designs

I have a very fun and talented twitter and blog friend who is an amazing illustrator. Her name is Jannie Ho and she is Chickengirl Designs. If I was an illustrator I'd be Jannie. She has such a fun, colorful, whimsical style that I just adore and is perfect for the children's market but amusing enough for adults too.
Jannie is a children's illustrator (something I dreamed of once but well that's another story) and is well published in Scholastic, Highlights and Nickelodeon Magazines.

She also has illustrated several books for children. (I'm a sucker for kid's books. Love the illustrations and have a whole library of them just for me.) Jannie's books can be found on Amazon and in bookstores.

She also does commercial work such as gift card design for Target. Also partyware, textile design and more.

How adorably cute is this?!

I love her animals as people illustrations best as they remind me of my childhood love of Richard Scarry's great books.

For the stampers out there Chickengirl Designs has a line of Digi stamps available through http://www.iheartpapers.com

Chickengirl also has a line of ecards available at Pingg with some delightful illustrations. Look an owl...sweet!

Chickengirl Designs also has an etsy shop that did sell great prints and note cards but at this time doesn't have any items for sale. But here's the link in case she does add some, cause I know you'll want them!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/chickengirldesign

More ways to contact Jannie and see more of her awesome illustrations.

http://www.chickengirldesign.com

http://www.facebook.com/jannie.ho

http://twitter.com/jannieho

http://www.chickengirldesign.blogspot.com/

I hope you enjoyed seeing Jannie's illustrations as much as I always do!