Garden Street Designs

I was trolling through my own favourites on Etsy, and noticed some distinct patterns emerging. Seems there are a few keyword searches I return to over and over (and over). Some things are even favourited multiple times, so I must be really serious about liking them. Here are some recently added items:

The Infant of Prague

I like him for so many reasons, even though I’m not a doll person, nor Catholic. He’s just so charming, yet somewhat sad. And he’s barefoot.

The Bremen Town Musicians

My favourite Grimm fairytale, about social outcasts and friendship and reinvention and road trips. I especially like *spoiler alert* that they never even get to Bremen.

Dogwood flowers

It must be a born-and-raised-in-beautiful-British-Columbia thing, this love for the flowering dogwood. I don’t even know what Nova Scotia’s provincial flower is. Shame on me.

Fibre bracelets

I like fibre jewelry a lot, but especially fibre bracelets and cuffs.

 

 

Landscape paintings

Nothing beats a pretty landscape. Especially an empty one, with lots of sky. And clouds.

Birds

I’m hardly alone in my enduring affection for all things avian. Apparently, I really like blue ones.

Birdhouses

For all the real birds out there, blue or otherwise, who need homes outside.

Birch bark

Probably because I didn’t grow up with white birch trees, they really stand out for me now that I call Nova Scotia home. That bark is the tops, right up there with arbutus.

Ikat

My favourite all-time print. I like it even more than gingham or toile, which is saying something. And I like it best in grey and yellow.

Geographic locations that hold personal meaning for me

Vancouver Island, Prague, Norway, Nova Scotia (specifically the Evangeline Trail); I have an abiding fondness for all of these places, and I regularly search them as keywords on Etsy.

(Click each item to get to its listing page on Etsy.)