eat your greens

Some great fabrics in fresh springy greens...yummy! From Tonic Living.

platypus cards

We really like green here at inBloom Studio, and that definitely includes green companies that are doing great things for the environment. I would like to introduce Platypus - a new not-for-profit company that sells cute animated e-cards and greetings, and donates the money toward carbon offsetting.


I collaborated on the Platypus logo design a few months ago, and I also helped design the look of their new website which just launched this week! The Platypus 'people', Brenda Morrow and Murray Foster {who plays bass for Canadian band Great Big Sea}, are extremely down-to-earth and have a genuine concern for the environment, hence the launch of their new venture. Please check out their website and their cute e-card animations and don't hesitate to make a donation to a great cause.

dream studio

I think I have found my dream studio, on the Pottery Barn website! I do have a weakness for anything green, but I am also loving the look of this crisp white furniture, the clean black and white artwork, and the faux bois rug. It looks like the Pottery Barn line of paint colour is available in Canada now, at Benjamin Moore {although here, this same wall colour is called 'Jalapeno Pepper'!}.

And the windows and all of that light...the perfect studio space for sure!

west elm

My sister and I checked out the new West Elm store in Liberty Village...wow! I have read about it a lot in design blogs, but I was very impressed. They have such beautiful stuff, and surprisingly it's quite affordable. I loved everything I saw there but would really like some of these honeycomb lights for our bedroom.

Our bedroom, sadly, has been neglected and is the last room in our house to be decorated. I'm thinking it's going to be green, but I'm on the lookout for some bedroom design inspiration. I wouldn't mind it at all if it looked like this, though {from West Elm}:

Or this:Or this!