When the Brooklyn Flea had it’s opening weekend, I noticed that a lot of vendors had done special items for the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens 2009 Sakura Cherry Blossom Festival. There were cherry blossom tee shirts and pink cupcakes and things like that. Jane, from Foxy & Winston, made a Cherry Blossom print, and I admired it while I shopped her booth (and chatted with her Mum, who is the loveliest lady ever). I didn’t buy it, but I thought her Sakura print would be a good addition to Baby Art week, so when I went home I looked for it in her Etsy shop. It wasn’t there, so I asked about it the following week (and if you’re wondering now if I go to the Brooklyn Flea every Sunday, the answer is, “yeah, pretty much.” I know this makes me teh lame. You don’t have to send me with emails telling me so, certain people.)

She said it wasn’t up on Etsy yet but if I gave her my email address she would send me photos of it. I handed her my “Hey Brooklyn” business card and (because I am networky! and a savvy business lady!) and was all “Oh, by the way, I think you’d make an awesome guest for my podcast!” and she was all, “Oh! I’d love to be on your podcast!” and now I have an interview scheduled with her next week. So awesome. Anyway, this is the print. I think that it, too, would make a very pretty addition to a little girl’s nursery.

There are matching note cards, too!

Limited edition print, $15

I have a saying I mumble to myself in the most trying of times, “Ever onward. Ever upward.” I think I got it from church when I was little, but I’m not sure. It’s been an integral part of the fabric of my thought process for so long, I’ve forgotten.

Also, I have a “thing” for hot air balloons.

I kind of had to buy this.

Available at SeeSaw Designs, $10

I saw this poster a few months ago and have had it bookmarked in my “one day I will buy this” folder, and then I forgot about it. It’s available in a variety of sizes, and the one I’d really like is $84. Then, driving through Park Slope (a fancier part of Brooklyn than where I live) I spotted it through the first floor window of a cozy looking brownstone apartment, and I swooned! It was so cute and cheerful on a large scale, hanging on the wall there, and now I really, really, really want it.

buy it for me here.

This new print from Leslie Dallion’s Pankcake Meow makes me happy.

$12, buy it here