Wild Wagon - new NZ stationery design brand!

Two from the Wild Wagon greeting card range

I made a GIF! Wild Wagon's new collection of wrapping paper

I've had my beady eye on Wild Wagon for a while, since spying Cristina Viscu's illustrated (hand painted) art prints over at endemicworld a couple of months back. The plan was always for Wild Wagon to be a stationery design brand, so Cristina has just launched a range of greeting cards and - my fave - wrapping paper in watercolour, marbled and illustrated styles. Also coming verrrry soon are Wild Wagon journals (I have my name down for two already. *clears throat* My name is Alana and I'm a blankjournalholic. It's been three days since my last blank journal purchase.)

Cards and wrapping paper available at the Wild Wagon online store and from The Bread and Butter Letter)

Young NZ designer Jessie Wong and her butter-soft bag brand, Yu Mei

Need.

Photography by Maxwell Cole

Excited about this new brand by young NZ designer Jessie Wong. Yu Mei (pronounced 'you may') is Jessie's middle name, it means young and beautiful - the ideal name for her brand of handmade, buttery-soft clutches and handbags. They're the perfect marriage of purpose and prettiness, and designed with simplicity in mind. (P.S my penpals: there's lots more styles at the Yu Mei shop, I just picked a few). Originally from Wellington, Jessie studied fashion in Dunedin and fell in love with the city, and the collaborative nature of creatives there, so she's staying. One to watch, for sure.

Yu Mei   online store   /  Facebook   /   Instagram

Fancy SPACES

Annnnnd now I want a leather apron.

The studio of the Coco+Kelley blog. Lucky!

(Arched windows are on my workspace bucket list)

Camilla Broman's home is super cute.

Digging the chest-of-drawers-in-the-dining space idea.

Australian interior architect Fiona Lynch is one woman I really look up to. She has amazing taste (you can't buy taste), sets trends rather than follows them, and is a hugely hard worker. (If you like this kitchen and the two bathrooms below, you should definitely check out her website)

This is Fiona Lynch's super power - her bathrooms. I think she's the world's BEST at bathrooms. 

See what I mean?

Love this open-plan community hall vibe, especially the big poo-brown double sink. Desperately want one of these vintage 'primary school sink circa 1982' twin sinks in my bathroom.

Anyone who has the style confidence to do this to their floors and walls is someone I wanna meet and have a bagel with.

Masculine but still fresh. This colour palette would be cool for a bachelor or husband and husband. 

You know, one day we're going to look back and say: "remember when we loved circular mirrors?" For now I'll stay unashamedly obsessed. #Sorrynotsorry.

This is so lovely (except for the clock. Not a fan of the clock, guys).

Black antique-style tapware for the win.

They've given this 1990's farmhouse table a nice little makeover, aye? 

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August Inside Out makes knees weak

Photography Krista Keltanen/Living Inside

Photography Krista Keltanen/Living Inside

Photography by Peter Bennetts

Styling by Claire Delmar, Photography by Felix Forest

Get this allllllll over your eyes right now. It's the August issue of Inside Out and jeepers they know how to pick 'em! 

The theme this month is Living with White, so if white interiors are your jam like they're mine, you should most def pick up this issue (it's out now). And don't think it's all stark minimalism - the homes in this issue show how to do white right, pairing their #0000 palettes with accent colours, or textures, or dramatic dark tones. One of my favourite issues of the year so far.

Behind the Scenes at Swift + Click's studio (for Pop Factory's new collection)...

The Swift & Click (and On My Hand) studio - One Fourty Five

Enough looking around... time to get started!

Capturing the full Summer range on The Wardrobe (Kids' size) by Company and Things

Knocking this modelling thing out'a the park

Bridget gets the next outfit ready

 recommended daily dose of adorableness

Uncle Chris gets the next little slugger ready for his moment

Supah cute Hello Toes socks (which go down to size 'teeny') available through Pop Factory 

Bringing you a little behind the scenes look-see at Swift & Click's recent studio shoot for NZ kids' design brand Pop Factory. Love seeing young and hungry design-led NZ brands doing their thing.
On set was Pop Factory founders and bro-and-sis design team Bridget Lee and Chris Hope, with a play-gang of cute models for the day - Bridget's sons Harper and Henry, plus their buddies Frankie, Isla and Riley. With Bridget styling and Rachel shooting, Swift & Click's Jared captured us some captures of the action.

They were photographing Pop Factory's Summer '15 range, Heroes and Legends. Due to drop in August, the range is inspired by an iconic 90's baseball movie that Bridget and Chris grew up loving. There's a sporty vibe that Pop Factory hope will encourage little legends to get out and climb trees, hop fences, make friends and make a little trouble this summer. 

And here's a little tease of the final collection images...

Tootsies! Henry wears the City of Fun singlet and PF Hands boardies

Frankie says relax (sorry) in the Jailbreak tee and tracks

Riley in the Slinger tee and PF track shorts. (Graphics all designed by Chris Hope - kudos!)

The full range - get it from Pop Factory any day now...

All photography by Swift & Click for Pop Factory and Fancy