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Aw, Bonbi Forest was one of the first stores to stock FinestImaginary items (over a year ago now! wow!). Earlier this month Bonbi’s owner, Lee May, announced that the Emporium as we know it would be closing it’s doors at the end of August. It’s all for a good reason, though, the Bonbi Forest brand is doing so well that there’s just not enough hours in the day for Lee May to dedicate to the Emporium whilst spending time on her own work. I wish Bonbi Forest the best of luck, and I’ll be sad to see the emporium go!

Head over to Bonbi Forest now to take advantage of a 15% discount offer, there are tonnes of fabulous items from some great artists and designers on there!

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Did you enter the giveaway yet? It’s not too taxing :) Go enter.

How was your week? Mine was so-so, between dodging the rain and wrestling kittens off the curtains, it was pretty run of the mill. I did start reading the Harry Potter series again, though, which is always uplifting. So, I missed a weekly good stuff last week for some random reason, here’s a combined list of last week’s and this week’s stuff :D

• Great use of a t-shirt for the new Resident Evil: darkside chronicles. Win.
• Article about web fonts, or lack of, at the i love typography blog.

• Lovely embroidery by Justin Morin.

• I’ve featured Helen Musselwhite’s work in my weekly good stuff, last week there was a great interview with her on the Creative review blog. A really nice read!

• Best blog find of the week… Awful library books. You’ll be reading the posts for days!

• Amazing CSS goodies, love this one and the mug the most.
• LouLou loves you (purveyor of pretty panties) competition on mademoiselle robot’s blog.

• The amazingly lovely work of Courtney Brims. Pretty girls with animals, fairy tales and woodland scenes. It’s all I’m about lately! See more at her website. pretty.
• We saw Moon last weekend, you should really check it out. And did you know the director is David Bowie’s son? He goes by his regular old name nowadays, though.

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I came across the modern vintage illustrations by Tom Whalen today, and have pretty much fallen in love. He recreates classic film posters, super hero characters and cult characters in his block colour style with strong lines and a bright vintage look. I’m totally going to email this guy and see if I can get some prints. Amazing.

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Good morning & hello, apparently today is the happiest day of the year, happyhaps! It’s ridiculously sunny outside (apart from that ominous cloud… boo) and I woke up with a kitten foot in my face, so I’m totally buzzy :D:D

These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The ‘…happily ever after’ is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.

• We’ll kick the week off with this delicious set of photos from Dina Goldstein. The images represent real life depictions of fairytale princesses when their happily-ever-after hit a fail. Lovely, dark imagery… although I would have preferred un-disneyfied costumes for this set, but princess costumes are hard to come by I guess! More here

• I’ve been looking for new art for the house, this was featured on a blog somewhere yesterday and I bookmarked it straight off. Lovely! Infact, a lot of the stuff in this store is super cute, http://www.bodieandfou.com/

• I will turn you all into trekkies, I will! I will!!!

• Kudos to HBO/digital kitchen and their advertising campaign for Trueblood, featured on the CR blog. This campaign sees HBO join forces with other companies to create a great viral ad series.

• Hello floating kitten, I love you xoxo

• I needed a new bag for work, mainly because I want to start walking down. At the moment I have a shoulder bag with my laptop and other bits in, and then an extra bag full of notebooks, sun lotion, pencils etc. Not very good for walking with due to shoulder killage. Anyway, I found this jansport bag on amazon yesterday and it even has a laptop section! So I snapped it right up :)

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I’ve been added a few new favourites to my etsy hearts this week so I thought I’d do a bit of a round-up of the things I really love on there at the moment :) Don’t forget, you can visit finestimaginary’s etsy store here!

Lady fish plate by lukaluka who have some awesome painted crockery in their store.

Orange deer trivet by peppersprouts

Faux deer head by Iheartsammi

Bicycle letter press and everything else in the store by letterpress

Adorable birdhouses by birdhouseaccents

Birthday bird plushie by SugarElf

Double dutch bunny print by twotrickpony

Unibrow and smile rabbits by belokrinitski