Vanilla Bug

Vanilla bug

How adorable are these finger puppets? They’re three French hens screenprinted onto calico fabric (with wonderful little touches like rosy cheeks and a necklace touched up by hand!) The trio fits handsomely into their own pouch, and were all handmade made by Amy Borrell, a freelance designer + illustrator based in Australia –- check out more handmade items in her Vanillabug Etsy shop.

Sponsor giveaway: Sweet Harvey

Sweet Harvey giveaway

Sweet Harvey Letterpress is a small design studio specializing in original illustration, letterpress printing & graphic design, helmed by artist Brandi Powell.

Brandi is sponsoring ONE Hope letterpress print from her latest collection to one lucky Pikaland reader. Just leave a comment below by 9th February to be in the running!

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From this year onwards, giveaways on Pikaland will mainly be from our active sponsors; and those that are will be labeled as such. We hope you had a fun time entering our fun giveaways in the last quarter of 2009 — it was our way of thanking our audience and our fellow community members here at Pikaland. A total of 36 giveaways were held, with lovely items worth over USD$1,350 sent to winners all over the world! If you’d like to be a sponsor on Pikaland, please read here for more information!

UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks so much for participating. The winner of this giveaway is Wendi!

Jordan Grace Owens

Jordan Grace

Jordan Grace

Jordan Grace Owens is an artist and designer who likes to work with her hands — cutting, sewing, painting, and the general making of things. Her Etsy shop – “Hollandsworth”:http://www.etsy.com/shop/hollandsworth is named after the family name of her great-grandmother; a crafter who made lovely quilts and gave them as birthday gifts to Jordan. I love the items she has in her shop, especially the bearded men pins!

Keep up with her on flickr and her blog (where you can also see a recent press clipping about her — she has fabulous hair!)