Lula Love

We love Lula Magazine, it's right up there with Frankie & Peppermint. Unfortunately it can be a little hard to get hold of sometimes, but thanks to their new website you can now get a fix when a physical copy can't be found. Have a look at the sweet films on the website. We love the Miranda July one "Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles" You'll love it too, and her dress! X

Wonderwall

We have a new mural!! Our outside wall was looking very lack luster after some meanie tore down our paste up :( But some very clever locals have filled it up once again with magical goodness. We've got monsters vomiting rainbows, cute doggish creatures & a pretty girl on a bike. We LOVE it! Thanks ever so much to BMD, DRYPNZ & Ragdoll. X

(Not so) Dirty Mongrels...

UPDATE
Fourfontaine have contacted us & wish to rectify the situation by pulling the top & have offered to pay us for units made. They said they outsource most of their designs which unfortunately can result in situations like this. They didn't know this design was ripped off until now. My goal with this post was just for people to know, & it worked! Kudos Fourfontaine & thanks to all our supporters, it really means a lot :)

On Friday night while having dinner with a friend who is also a designer, we were discussing copyright and how there seems to be many fashion houses etc with very similar designs. The next day I was looking at the Fourfontaine website I discovered they've ripped us off! I am still in a state of shock, this plagiarism makes me feel absolutely sick to my stomach. Seriously, can't they get their own ideas? & did they really think no one would notice in a country as small as ours? The worst part of it is, it makes me like our logo less, it has tainted it for me :(

The Fourfontaine top-

Our business card-
Our shop windows-
Our website-
A repeat I designed for the blog background a while back-

You can read more on plagiarism at-
Book by it's cover
You thought we wouldn't notice

SALE TIME!

Starts this Wednesday, See you there! X

It's back!

Peppermint magazine issue three is in the shop & once again it doesn't fail to deliver lots of delicious and delightful eco friendly fashion & crafty tips. This issue features interviews with Lisa Gorman & Rhiannon from the super sweet blog Leibermarlene Vintage. We love Peppermint!

I love your shop

Part of my job description as a shop owner is to "research" other shops, this involves frequently visiting shops (what do they call that...? Oh yeah- shopping) & also researching shops internationally. I came across the Everyday Life Objects pop up shop in Milan through the Selby not long ago...


Love the DIY aesthetic, looks like a great place to hang out & discuss art for an afternoon. X

wonderful wieners

I just came across the most delightful illustrations from San Francisco based Lab Partners (whose work you may recognise from the shop, we had some beautiful prints a while back).
We here at Swonderful are dog fanciers, so these sausage dog prints definitely tickle our fancy!

We recently revamped our wall outside as sadly our lady of the green wall was in a state of disrepair. So Penny & I spent hours painting a large scale version of a painting a did for the shop last year & pasted it up last week in time for our soirée, what do you think?


As you can see there's a couple of sweet pups on there too! Buster the Boston Terrier & Wesley the Daschund. Our new store mascots!

In other news, the same painting was also the basis for the design of our new website! Yup, a real website! Our online shop is not quite up and running but it will be very soon, so keep checking back. X