Update: we completed the card, see it here! If you have trouble viewing it, then try here :)
To celebrate the season, we're hosting a Christmas carol on Instagram, and it's going to be lovely.
To find our carol, going from December 1 – 12, just look for the hashtag #12daysoflovely. You will find Christmas ideas, special discounts and other treats. You will also find some new friends — scrolling through these gallery of images has been pretty ... mesmerizing!
Gardening, crafts, family life, sewing, reading (especially a good magazine), pretty clothes, colourful jewelry, beautiful tasty cakes and gorgeous stationery ... these are a few of our favourite things:
Victory Gardens
The three amazing women behind victory gardens are not only gardeners, but industrial designers, artists, environmental studies students and sustainable products developers — they inspire the urban farmer in us, with their encouraging posts (and gorgeous photos of vegetables and garden life).
http://instagram.com/vvictorygardens
Petit à petit and family
Celina is a children's wear designer and a working mom of two. We love her tutorials, her style, her kind voice and her clever sewing journal. She gives us wonderful snapshots of life with her children.
http://instagram.com/petitapetitblog
Leuie
A charming, carefully curated e-boutique for infants (they carry one of our favourite lines, April Showers) and we love the type in their logo, too :) Sarah, the lovely shop owner, has a knack for finding just the right thing and presenting it gracefully.
http://instagram.com/helloleuie
Finurlig
"Finurlig" is Danish for "whimsical" — we love the beautiful, tiny moments of family life captured by Inger Marie, a mother of two, writer and stylist in Copenhagen.
http://instagram.com/finurlignet
Coral + Cloud
Modern, simple mobiles and necklaces for women and children made from hand-painted wooden beads in truly lovely palettes by this self-described colour nut ...we each own a necklace and love them. (They are basically the perfect Christmas present, by the way.)
http://instagram.com/coralandcloud
Collage Collage
A space for everyone to get creative — chock full of ideas, encouragement, craft supplies and a really great library of children's books. One of our favourite places. Two members of staff, Claire Schagerl and Erin Guimond have even been in our own Windy art department.
http://instagram.com/collagecollage
Cococake Land
This modern, and very, very popular, cake + dessert blog is just one big valentine of buttercream happiness and sunshine. Lyndsay, the self-taught baker, writer, photographer and mama behind Cococake Land always amazes us.
http://instagram.com/cococakeland
Small Wonder
Small Wonder is a shop and a magazine. We went a little crazy in her newly-opened shop and could not stop buying things for ourselves and our kids. Effortlessly cool and imaginative — things we didn't know we needed until we saw them. You've been warned :)
http://instagram.com/smallwondermag
Sunja Link Clothing
Thoughtful, perfect pieces made with high quality Italian and Japanese fabric. Sunja also has a great eye for style and trends — we love peeking into her world to see what's what.
http://instagram.com/sunjalinkclothing
and her brick & mortar project work·shop http://instagram.com/work.shop?modal=true
Bree Galbraith (of Peaks & Harbours)
Bree is a designer, writer, mother and a student (working on a Masters of Design) — Bree's love of art + design, life and her children is inspiring, funny and infectious.
http://instagram.com/breegalbraith
Banquet Atelier & Workshop
If you're not yet familiar with Banquet, prepare to fall in love. Their prints & stationery are not only beautiful, they're smart and sometimes even funny. We are longtime fans.
http://instagram.com/banquetworkshop
Windy & friends (Robin & Judith)
We are still pretty new to instagram, but we're loving it ... and meeting new friends there every day.
http://instagram.com/windyandfriends