Friday Freebies!! Lovely Botanical Prints To Decorate Your Home

At No Place Like HEIMA, we love to see botanical prints in homes. They have a vintage feeling to the yet work well in clean, modern rooms.
Here are a few adorable prints from the Poppy Talk website. Poppytalk scanned the images from library books and photoshopped them to be used by all, FOR FREE.

So, the least you could do is drop by her beautiful website and drop a line or two to her.

Here are the links to each print:
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Enjoy!

Beautiful Floral Fabric

 

     

Fall in love with these latest additions to the Art Gallery Fabric.

A Peak Inside a Bunch of Artists' Studios. What Kind of Artist Are You? Minimalist VS Mayhem

How would you classify yourself as an artist? What color are your walls? What are on your walls? How do you create your art work?

A studio tells a lot about an artist's work and personality and through these studio photos, we will see how diverse we actually all are in creating art.

What Kind of Artist Are You?

The cozy-nook blogger

The hard-core industrial designer daddy.

The Japanese-Nordic lover

The super modern graphic designer.

The OCD architect with built-in ceiling to floor cabinets and drawers.

VERSUS

The overly enthusiastic artist which no canvas can ever contain

The senior artist who knows well what he is doing but actually prefers reading and sketching outdoors. "Oh don't worry darling, I know exactly where it is."

The well known artist that gives a damn about how is space is SUPPOSED to look.

The urban artist who makes the most of his small space. 

"I swear I put it there, someone must have moved it. It was right there!"

The artists that incorporates exercising into his work. Has odd ropes and sticks hanging or laying around and has no trouble locating his art medias as all are bought in bulk and stacked in a corner on top of each other.

The fine art graduate who finds beauty in everyday things and believes a studio is just a traditional working studio.

So, what kind of studio do you have?

If you would like to have your studio pictures posted up in the next Artist Studio, please drop us a line at lucy.catherine.ashley at gmail dot com.

For more studio pictures, please visit No Place Like HEIMA on Pinterest. 

Beautiful Alphabet Flashcards for Kids

Could these be the most beautiful alphabet flashcards ever??

By Marcus Reed.

Amazing Fabric for Decorating a Girl's Room

Here at No Place Like HEIMA we love simple floral and geometric vector patterns just waiting to be made into great pieces to make a cozy home. We can just imagine the first pattern in a girls room, either as drapes or as an incredible bed cover watched with the Orla Kiely inspired pattern below.

These adorable patterns were created by Jeni Baker, author of the In Color Order blog for Geometric Bliss.

Dots and Droplets in Abstract art

Art by Hanna Konola

Details such as little lines, dots, drops or  simple scribbles add a meaning to an art piece. As the rain does, these little details create a sense of calmness in the  paintings.
Here are some hand picked paintings selected by No Place Like HEIMA.

 Art work by Jennifer Smith

 Art work by Ashley Goldberg

 Art work by Dear Catharina

 Art work by Ashley Goldberg

Art work by Aeropagita Prints

Art work by Little Baby Garvin

Images with hues of heaven

Don't you want to buy and taste every single one of these colourful lollies!

 And these too!

Are these mushrooms naturally colourful? A dab of water paint, perhaps?

 These little lunch boxes from anthopologie will make any kid look super chic.

This headband is sooo dreamy and easy to DIY too. I can already imagine my daughters running around the house wearing them on their heads.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to ride around on one of these bikes during spring time...

 Are mushrooms really this colourful?

Usually when you go shopping and come across items you that  like, you buy it almost instantly without considering whether or not these items will match the stuff that you already have. So before buying things, carefully consider what type of mood you want to set in the place where you will put them.
Collecting and organizing items according to their colour most certainly creates a mood and palette for your room. It can warm up a cold room and cool down a warm room.

These beads will look gorgeous against a white tiled bathroom wall.

Plants don't always have to be green. Pump up the mood with these pink stones.

Red against turquoise can never go wrong.

Cool down the room without having to use white.

Artist Interview. 5 minutes with La Flore et La Faune

I must confess that I have been a on a crazy blog hunt recently, gathering the blogs of illustrators and fashionistas that I love. And yesterday, magic happened! I found a lovely artist's blog, La Flore et La Faune and luckily, he was willing to share some of his art and passion with us all. Yeay!

I love simple pen sketched images. I love them even more when they have hints of colours in them. This is just what this Paris based illustrator is good at. He doesn't only draw out sketches, but he writes words of poetry (in French) against his work, adding a special touch and meaning to them.

Here's a short look in to his mind...

Excuse my english.

I'm from Paris and as you know french are not so good at foreign languages.

We're only good at food, wine and love. ;)

Describe how you ended up illustrating.
At first I wanted to be a film director or a novelist. And I took the habit of drawing my stories. And I realized it was a very cool way of inventing situations and characters. Less expensive and faster. More freedom. So I worked my style out.

Describe your illustrations.
Quirky.

I can walk hours under the sun to find my fav newspapers...

Which artists do you get inspired by?
First of all I LOVE drawings. More than painting. They fascinate me : the way Picasso draws a bird, or Giacometti a face, or Da Vinci a plant. It's a minimal kind of expression which is sometimes so powerful & so evocative. A simple line, a simple sketch can be fantastic. Actually I'm not inspired by precise artists, but by people I meet in real life : they give me inspiration. Their talk, their thoughts about life, death, love, sex, work, french fries, french kisses and the Universe. Their style, their haircut, their attitudes.

What media do you prefer to use to create your illustrations?
Less is more. I always use the same pen to draw : the Pilot Fineliner, and special painting pens for colors. I put them in a black leather pencil case.That's all.

What media do you usually avoid using? and why?
I avoid using graphics software because I don't know how to use them. I'm totally low-tech. And I'm very impatient. I take a lot of time to imagine my illustrations but when I'm drawing I'm focused. I like rock'n roll music when I draw.

If you could change anything in this world, what would it be, and why?
I'd give people more self confidence about their talents. I'm convinced if people could follow their true being, the world would be quite different. Less frustrations, less violence, less misunderstandings.

All of the images above are from the artist's blog, Flore et La Faune. Please visit and drop by his blog to see more of his amazing work and thoughts.