Greetings from little Britain

collaged papers

I recieved a lovely email this week. Children of 2 primary schools in York, Great Britain felt inspired by Bogis and my autumn play
and made some conker creatures on their own.
Their art tutor Lucy sent me some pics. Aren´t these too great?





Thank you kids, thank you Lucy! You made my day!

the Queen´s guard

did not find some quiet time for blogging this week. Somebody new kept me busy


woke up to this sky today

Design per Bambini, worte about herzensart. Thank you!

Kai Juenemanns photopgraphs interesting personalities

sweet things

love this retro pattern - organic fabric by Volksfaden


sweet, crafty things for Halloween or old traditional German Martinstag. There will be a lantern procession with children, walking by our house this Friday. I love to watch those little people with their self-made lanterns

get prepared for trick and treat with:

cute lollipop covers and garland from mypapercrane
great vintage poison lables (from jackcatcurio found via mypapercrane)
Bonbons and lollies (German site)
last minute treat cups
Cake Pops
last, but not least German Labbé blog is also sharing some cute ideas and crafty projects

Happy creating!

F R I D A Y

Another Friday .... wishing you a happy weekend!

Some Antidepressiva by Ruth Burri

thrift finds

yesterdays finds in the thrift store


thank you Rare Bird Finds for posting our viking melamine plates

working in mini

a size I´m not used to. These half-pints take as long to make as their big brothers, but I think they are darn cute. For luv and hug-able show -medium and mini in New York

from last weekend:


hope this project will go on: fictional bakery - Eugene and Louise

the whipup calendar 2010 is out

weekend pleasures and screenprinter wanted

2 new magazines at my table, both sharing my work.
Uppercase published in Canada (inspirational and beautiful) I love it and Nido (a new German magazine for young families).


Thank you for your help with the fabric patterns. For the first I´ve order some swatches of fabric pattern 2, 3 and a new one below.
I also think about having the fabrics printed by a German company I´ve talked to.



For a screenprint on fabric project I´m looking for a screenprinter, primarily located in Germany or Europe. Anybody here interested in a collaboration project?
If so I´d be happy to recieve your message [ info(at)herzensart(dot)com ]. Thank you!

regarding the fabric

hello friends, thank you very much for your voices!

Seems the first pattern finds more support than the second one.
I had favorited the second one, but I also agree that it is very bold and crowded.
Liz suggested a 3rd option, something more in between 1 and 2 and that´s what I tried to reach with pattern#3.


pattern #3


pattern #1


I like #3 better than #1, which seems to me now a bit too "ZEN", especially imagining the print in dimensions of one yard.
Hope not to overstrain you, but how about #3? Better than #1 or not?
Thanks you!


Different topic :) I´m no good in numbers and dates ;)



yesterday in the studio:

which one, what do you think?

I´d like to give Spoonflower a try and have some of my designs printed on fabric.

Can´t decide which pattern I like better. Needs some imagination to visualize this pic showing one yard of fabric, or 91,44 cm

I think both patterns would be nice for pillows or bags, etc.

Please help, what´s your favorite? Thank you!

once upon a time

once upon a time.... fearsome longships with dragon-heads and blood red sails were crossing the oceans. Glimpsing them coming to shore, you better took your heels...

this is a so called German "Fruehstuecksbrettchen", there seems no appropriate word to exist in the English language as it is obviously not popular outside Germany (?). Maybe "bread board" fits best. If you know a better word for it, I´d be happy to know :)

Now available in my shop

another "what I wore today" drawing