I saw these invitations on Snippet & Ink and knew I'd seen those little illustrations somewhere before. They're from the endpapers of the beloved (by me anyway, and apparently at least a few other people) Junior Deluxe Editions children's books! John and I have actually talked about how these would make such great tattoos (John likes the caveman one especially).

Those great illustrations plus the lovely-as-always Betsy Dunlap calligraphy is just perfect. They used more of the illustrations as table numbers too!

This is actually a photograph of an antique store in Sweden called Bebop, but I think all those wall-mounted lamps clustered together like that would be so great in someone's real-deal house. Of course, you'd have a giant tangle of cords to deal with and probably issues with blown fuses (and horrendous energy inefficiency), but minor electrocution is a small price to pay for good design, right?

[photo by Elisabeth Dunker for the Design*Sponge guest blog.]

Pompom and tassel jewelry by Aleishall Girard Maxon (who is the granddaughter of Alexander Girard).

[via Bird and Banner.]

Finnish artist/photographer Saku Soukka.

What is it about Finnish art and illustration?? I feel like every time I find someone new and wonderful they're always from Finland!


[via all the mountains.]

Stylist Frank Visser.

[via Mieke Willems.]