This week’s sponsor giveaway comes from Gingiber, a shop run by Stacie Bloomfield who specializes in indie and nursery art. Over in her shop, you’ll find prints that are made especially for mother and child – prints like this set that she’s giving away, called Ditto on the love!

ONE lucky Pikaland reader will stand a chance to win this pair of prints! Just leave a comment on this post and we’ll email the winner after the 5th October!

UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks so much for participating. The winner of this giveaway is upstatelisa, as generated by random.org.

I think these portraits by Heather Buchanan of Heatherfuture is mighty fun! Apart from cute illustrated characters, she also sells original paintings like the last one, titled Martha which has a lot more character. Don’t believe me? Here’s part of her description:

Martha could have spent her entire youth roller skating. She’s a little too old for it now, but will occasionally wear a pair of white knee socks with two navy stripes at the top under her work clothes. This is the same pair of socks she wore the day she met a dashing young man on the path by the river.

I love stories like these!

OMG. I DIED when I saw one of these furry things by Mexican illustrator Luis Silva on the front page of Society6 the other day. Don’t you just want to hug one?