The adorable tea sub will add some fun to your favourite brew. From Monkey Business {via Kim}
Have a chuckle with snout cups by Jorine {via bkids}
Adorable clip holder {and what a great colour!} from Kate’s Paperie {via blue moss}
Build and store with the lego-inspired Hangman shelf from Pur Norsk {via lmnop}
Too nice to use [...]

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“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.” ~ J.D. Salinger in an interview with The New York Times in 1974

RIP J.D. Salinger
Started the new year with a 365 [...]

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{image for February calendar ~ the month of love}

Well the kids are back at school, and February is right around the corner. So here is the 74 Lime Lane February calendar ~ can you believe it, before the end of January even! That organisation resolution is kicking in somewhere.
It comes in two sizes – A4 [...]

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In our fair land down under, as I have previously mentioned, it’s back to school time. This week and next week, parents all over the country breathe a sigh of relief, tinged with a little disappointment, that the summer holidays are over and the littlies, and big ‘uns have headed back to school.
This year my [...]

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Isn’t it great to be back? School’s back, routines are back, creative space is back.
The 74 Lime Lane household is dragging its way back into routine, both blog and family alike. No.1 returns to school today, #2 starts “big school” tomorrow. There has been a frantic rush of shopping new school shoes and lunchboxes and [...]

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Here in Australia the children are heading back to school for the start of the school year. So it’s shopping time for new school supplies. There’s nothing like a stack of fresh exercise books and bundles of freshly sharpened pencils to kick off the new year.

Vintage-style exercise books by O-check from Notemaker.

Penguin book inspired pencils [...]

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Well it’s Australia Day here down under, the day we celebrate the founding of our land girt by sea, so it seemed fitting to have an Australian seller today for lime light.
So using Etsy’s Shop Local feature, I came across the shop of Little Miss Mary Moo ~ adorable purses and bags. Check it out [...]

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I got a rather surprising email on the weekend from Poppytalk. Someone nominated me in their handmade artist blog award for The Poppies. First up, wow. Second of all, have you seen the competition!
So thank you to whoever nominated me, and so far I’ve popped over so thank you to the three people who have [...]

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So this is the start of a new feature at 74 Lime Lane. Each week I’ll feature a favourite or new-to-me blog. {And this is a great one to kick it off seeings it is also an address for its address like mine!}
So today I want to introduce you to Piper from one sydney road. [...]

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So if you look around you may notice a few small changes here at 74 Lime Lane. Hopefully we have worked out all the kinks and I apologise if you popped by and things were a little hinky today.
But we are done playing for the moment. We’ve moved somethings around, changed the header, and added [...]

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