Saturday, February 26, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Grand Hearts SOLD OUT; pre-order available


Umbrella Prints Grand Hearts in Kimono Red lampshade,
smaller Hearts on upholstered chair

Umbrella Prints Grand Hearts in Storm Boy Blue upholstered chair 2009


Grand Hearts in Kimono Red by Umbrella Prints
upholstered by Flourish and Blume
photo taken at Evoke 
                                            
featured on Design Sponge today!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Little Artists Handmade


Carly has been writing her own book and whilst I have been privy to its contents for an ion I am very excited to see it all printed up and published all pretty-like. Carly is an amazing gal and the projects within this book are simply gorgeous for parents and children. The photos were all taken in Nest Studio and many projects are made with Umbrella Prints fabric of course. More sneaky peaks soon!

Friday, February 11, 2011

eye and mind candy this week



I like the look of this book very much; by Christine Schmidt from Yellow Owl Workshop.

 GAD 
Beautiful furniture and styling from GAD and our naughty addition below!



Marcus Walters


Versace Spring 2010 colours like silver, grey, opaque peach, turquoise, acidic lemon, bright green and pale pink yum via Style

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Umbrella Prints Trimmings competition #2!


One of our favourite products over at Umbrella Prints is the Trimmings packets... We spend lots of time picking and packing and ironing these little packs and they give us a lot of joy.  But what is most intriguing is what ya'll do with these Trimmings?
In 2010 we held a Trimmings competition and it was so much fun that we thought we would do it again.... we met so many of our lovely customers and it was a treat to see what they were making... so much creativity!
So here's how it works
2. Join our Flickr group
3. Upload a pic of your packet to Flickr with it's special Trimmings Competition paper label
4. Then upload photos to Flickr of all the beautiful things you were able to make from one packet. Remember to tag them umbrellaprints, trimmings2011.
The person who make's the most beautiful objects from one packet of Trimmings will be sent this most awesome parcel of goodies :
1 metre of Umbrella Prints fabric (your choice!)
A generous remnants pack of our new range of fabrics (coming soon)
A pair of our beautiful Teardrops & Petals earrings
An Umbrella Prints gift card set
AND a mystery gift.... ???
Around $250 worth of booty.
Ok so the other fun part of the competition is .... We will choose 10 finalists and YOU will get to choose the winner. Here are the dates.
February 10 Competition starts now!
May 1 Competition closes
May 6 We post the 10 finalists and you start voting (this will be right here at Rain & Shine)
May 10 Voting is closed and we tally up your votes to announce the winner.
Have fun!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

selvedge



 For fabric lovers there is an interesting post and discussion over with BadSkirt about selvedges; here are some pics of ours.

salvedge selvedge



Post and discussion over at BadSkirt

today





some sort of weird matchy matchy day

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

24 hours

 new business cards for Umbrella Prints

 glued to the computer hoping things will be ok for everyone in Nth. Queensland

 glorious new publication for the upcoming Adelaide Fringe- Garden of Unearthly Delights


 Australian textile designers in Inside Out magazine including Umbrella Prints 

 Carly puts together some new remnant pack loveliness

 I styled a new window for Nest Studio
24 hours not much sleep zzz art classes start tonight!