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Noshii

These brooches by Noshii are so gorgeous. Made out of bamboo and hand-embroidered with floss in great color combinations, they're unique and festive, perfect for anytime of year.

New at Cursive Design

What's that line, necessity is the mother of invention? Or something? Well Sarah of Cursive Design, who is always inventive, chopped off her bangs recently and decided she needed a pretty little headband to accent her new do. Et voila! New, totally adorable headbands are now in the shop!

Also new in the shop, a stunning line of jewelry that made me say "wowwww" when I first laid eyes on it. This must've been born out of the necessity to look damn good! 

So much more to see over in the Cursive shop.

Wolfie & the Sneak 2010 Calendar

While I've got my lovely guest contributors on the brain, I must let you know that Renee (who writes the Petals & Pedals column here) has a new 2010 calendar available over in her Wolfie & the Sneak shop and I must say, it's the prettiest one yet! 

These are just a few of my favorite months- you can see all of them in her flickr set here.

Somehow she found the time to draw all the designs while she was preggers, setting up a nursery, having a baby and on a month long maternity leave (oh yeah, sounds easy to me! NOT.) and the calendar is now complete and ready to ship. It was printed in a limited edition run of 100, and they sell out every year so get yours while the gettin's good from their etsy or bigcartel shop.

Eco-Friendly Find: Cat Davison

Liz, our regular Eco-Friendly Finds contributor is off traveling for the next three weeks (lucky duck!) so I'll be taking the reins for awhile. And happily, a great eco-friendly find landed itself right in my inbox the other day- these great brooches by London based designer, Cat Davison:

They're interesting and so fun and made entirely from vintage vinyl records. 100% recycled cute!

I love how she uses the record label and color as part of the design in some of them. Very cool! See more sustainable goodies over in Cat's shop.

Sponsor Spotlight: Orglamix

Orglamix is home to an amazing collection of handmade mineral makeup, from foundations to blush to the most colorful and sparkly eye-shadows you've ever seen. It's natural, chemical free and inexpensive too! Thanks for supporting Modish, Cheri! {SHOP}

Thief & Bandit

I try to not feature goods that I've already seen written about on other blogs, but I have to make an exception for Thief & Bandit. Even though these stunning goods have been making the blog rounds lately, I think the attention is well deserved and I want to make sure Modish readers are in the know:

Thief & Bandit is a new line by artist Amie, out of Richmond VA, of hand screen-printed tees and handmade accessories. The designs are graphic, the colors are bold and the aesthetic is both urban and nature inspired. Love love love it. All the designs are limited- I can't wait to see what else she comes up with!

Handmade Spaces: Dear Kiki

Not everyone is lucky enough to have an entire room dedicated to their creative space. I have an office all to myself now, but years ago my jewelry business started on the coffee table in the middle of our living room, and my current photo-shoot area for my vintage clothing business is in the entryway of our house (it has the best light!) When you have don't have a room to spare, you have to make the best space with what you've got. And that's exactly why I was drawn to this bedroom/art studio of Dear Kiki, a great San Francisco based artist.

Isn't that desk right in the window great? You could definitely get some creative work done there! See what goodness Kiki cooks up here over in her shop, Dear Kiki.

What about you- does your creative workspace share duties with another room? Is it in a corner of your kitchen? In the nursery? On the coffee table? How do you make it work in a small area?

See more Handmade Spaces to get ideas for your own over in the Modish flickr pool!

Happy Weekend!

This piece by Clemens Habicht reminds me of fall, which could also be easily named squirrel scampering season. Everytime I head outdoors I see a squirrel scurrying along the fence, jumping through trees, chasing a squirrely friend or burying a yummy nutty find in the dirt to save for later. They're all over the place and so fun to watch, and don't they make the craziest noises?

I hope you find time to head outdoors this weekend to watch the squirrels, the birds, the rain, the leaves changing...I'll probably be spending most of mine indoors trying to get more work on the shop done (you can see a sneak peek of the shop here) so I need to live vicariously through you!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and I'll see you back here Monday! 

<3 jena

Sponsor Spotlight: Sojourn Curiosities

Take a peek at Sojourn Curiosities for mixed media and wire jewelry that takes lost things and turns them into found treasures. Thanks for supporting Modish, Sarah! {SHOP}

Cecile Belmont

This clothing collection by German designer Cecile Belmont is putting me in a very happy place. It's not only the fact that the clothes are hip and unique, urban and artistic... it's the whole vibe, the expression behind them, the energy that radiates off the photos. They make me want to don one of her dresses and scamper off across a bridge somewhere in Belgium on my way to the market, to pick up yummy things for a picnic in the park. What do these clothes make you think of? 

See more designs on Cecile's site and shop your heart out in her dawanda shop.