Samantha Stas: Owl Tea and Egg Cosies

I know it's extremely hot in some parts of the world but we all still drink tea and like our eggs warm. Right?  My today's find are these adorable owl tea and egg cosies handmade by Samantha Stas. She found the love for textile when she was just a little girl and now have been working in the industry over 10 years. Her work is often inspired by children's books and all things nostalgic. Her adorable owl cosies are handmade using reclaimed wool and vintage fabric, and can be used all year around.

How to Make Clothing Buttons from Shrink Plastic

 

I recently discovered this wonderful blog "Scissor Paper Wok" of Kimanh where she shares all her wonderful creative projects. I am particularly impressed with the "How to Make Clothing Buttons from Shrink Plastic" tutorial which explains how you can make buttons with easy to follow step by step instructions using your own design or you can use the pre-designed template, available to download here for free!

Kimanh also made the owl template exclusively for My Owl Barn readers. Isn't she great! The template has three different sizes of design for owl buttons, perfect to decorate a sweater, a little girl's dress or to embellish any jewelry piece. The possibilities are endless!

Download the owl button template by clicking here.

Thanks, Kimanh!

Zosienka & Rosie

Zosienka & Rosie Illustration is a London based design studio that creates beautiful handcrafted paper goods, textiles and ceramics. Their each product is adorned with lovely illustrations often of mischievous characters such as those "tea owls" causing the tea set tumble or the sweet owl in the tea cup. 

These adorable owl tea towels will make drying dishes fun, and if you are like me then they'll hang from the kitchen wall (I won't be able to bring myself to use them) and keep you company while you fix the dinner.

Near Sighted Owl

Rachele is an artist based out of Oregon and the owner of Near Sighted Owl. She recently released these adorable animals prints based on the project - "Daily Animal Doodles". Each print measures 4x6 which is a great size to add to your existing print collection or send as a postcard! The cost is only $5 a print, so choose one or two (or more) from 30 sweet animals such as handsome cheetah, glasses wearing owl etc.

"Whoot" by Trustworth Studios

This striking wallpaper titled "whoot" is by Trustworth Studios, originally designed by C.F.A. Voysey also known as William Morris. The wallpaper features "mystical and playful pattern of owls and owlets with foliage and nest" in gorgeous blue and green color palette. It was also featured on the TV show Extreme Makeover. Following are a couple of photos from the show.

Available as a single 6-yard roll approximately 30 square feet. For more details or to view more designs click here.