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Pet Sounds wallpaper at Mini Moderns

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Pet Sounds

Mini Moderns' have pulled out many quirky wallpaper designs in the past and this Pet Sounds wallpaper is no different. 

Taken from their Folk Rock collection, the design interprets the phrase 'pet sounds' literally featuring lots of folk-styled instruments and animals. It's available in heather or a powder blue colours as well as the orange shade pictured and, in every colour, is certain to make a unique statement in your home. 

Want a slightly more conventional design? Take a look at the Alice design from the same range: a retro floral number. 

The paper costs £38 a roll. 

Buy it from Bouf.com

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Animal handprinted A6 notebooks by Nell Smith at Etsy

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Etsy is always a good source of things unique and indeed, with a retro twist – like these Animal handprinted A6 notebooks by Nell Smith.

'Hoot Owl' is above, but you can also opt for 'Hello Lion' or 'Miaow Cat', all with those retro-styled graphics and font, complete with smooth brown cardboard cover, grey spine and 30 white lined pages. A6, if you're wondering, is around 4 x 6 inches.

Available online, they sell for $7, which is just over £4.50. Alternatively, the designer has a studio on the first floor of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre.

Find out more at the Nell Smith Etsy website

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Emma Harding’s Charity Shop Orphans

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Readers of this site will no-doubt be acolytes to the gems that can be found in charity shops. But to get to the treasures, often you have to crawl through a lot of rubbish that looks unlikely ever to find a new home. That's where Emma Harding's Charity Shop Orphans come in. Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected ceramic animals. Apparently on realising these were overrunning her house, she began repainting and re-naming her finds, grouping them into new families. 

A selection of her pieces are now on sale through The Shop Floor Project. The pieces are often luridly coloured, the way they're decorated bearing no relation to the original ceramic, and certainly aren't to everyone's taste. However, they are an alternative way of thinking about and trying to create new pieces from otherwise abandoned products. Pieces vary in price but for a rough idea, 'Stella Marie Parmigiani' (the deer pictured above) costs £50. 

More information and the range can be seen online