Paula Mills Art

Hello friends! We have a whole lot of brand new work to share with you all. Due to the popular demand for kids decor and nursery prints we thought it high time Sweet William offered new artwork for the kiddies in your life. Kiddies art prints can be viewed  here . The new botanical range with prints of paintings of native Australians and other flowers can be viewed  here . Sweet William will be exhibiting at Markit at Federation Square on Sunday the 7th of May just in time to pick up some gifts for Mum. More information on this wonderful design event can be found  here . Warm regards Sweet William - Paula xxx

Sweet William has a brand new range of art prints now available online - here  . I have had lots of fun putting this range together - enjoying pattern, colour, texture and an inky illustrative style. If you live in Melbourne, pop in and see this new work at Markit on Sunday the 8th of May.

Christmas at my house in full colour - decorations from Poppies for Grace Poppies for Grace were exhibiting along with us at the Big Design Market last weekend. They did the most impressive stall with a beautiful tissue paper backdrop in rainbow colours - and I thought what a brilliant idea for our Christmas decorations this year! Here are the results, what do you think?

Clockwise:  Pale Mountain Journey print from $15; Camille Colouring in book $10; Wrapping Paper Pack $9; Sweet William mixed paper pack wonderful lucky dip $15; Miniature Camille in her match box home $16. Free shipping in Australia.  How is your Christmas shopping going? If you need a little help and you live in Australia you have until Monday the 15th of December to get your orders in.  Unfortunately it may be a little late for international orders but of course you may still do some online shopping! Good luck with it all.

I am so excited to be part of this collaboration with Mathew from Zaishu and The Big Design Market . For Zaishu's ten year anniversary they have partnered with Melbourne artists to make up limited edition artisan stools to be sold exclusively at the Big Design Market in December. The artists involved are: Bridget Bodenham, Beth Emily, Stefan Gevers, Emily Green, Rowena Martinich and myself - Paula Mills. Thrilled!

It has taken a while but at last we have been able to upload lots of new goodies, including these lovely tags and wrapping paper into our etsy store . We are so very pleased with our brand new stationery range which we have designed, produced and packaged all in our Melbourne studio. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

November is a big month for us at Sweet William as we gear up for lots of wonderful markets! We are super, duper excited to be part of the London Renegade Craft fair   for the very first time! Shelley will be showing our Sweet William wears on  November 9 + 10, 11am-6pm Old Truman Brewery  -  91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL  with over 100 other amazing stall holders (so wish I could be there..) Sweet William will also be at the Melbourne Design Market on Sunday November the 10th at Federation Square, in the car park. Here is a shot of my messy studio, which is were I will be spending a lot of time preparing! We love markets and love it when people pop over to say hello.

Our lovely paper packs - can be found in our  etsy store We have brand new wonderful Paper Packs all ready to go in our etsy store . Our love for vintage paper runs long and deep. Here at Sweet William we are endlessly rummaging through second hand book shops, markets, thrift shops, charity shops, garage sales - always on the search for beautiful old treasures that no one loves. Then we transform our finds into these exciting packages - filled to the brim with paper goodness, ready for you to make what ever you want with them - cards, scrapbooks, collage, artwork. We are passionate about these packs and love the idea of sharing our sometimes obsessive passion with other paper lovers. Each Sweet William mixed paper pack is an intriguing collection of vintage ephemera and papers, which will include at least 25 pieces of : lovely old children's book images, postage stamps, illustrations, old playing cards, postcards, fine papers, labels, vintage wall paper, paper ...

A dear friend of mine has recently started her own creative business called The Naturalist. She asked me to design the logo, which was an easy job for me, as I love her vision and could capture what she wanted very easily. The Naturalist is all about beautiful flowers, vintage finds and quirky little cabinet of curiosity gifts. You can have a look at the blog here , facebook page here  , brand new etsy shop here and pinterest boards here . The Naturalist is holding it's debut market on Sunday the 1st of September at the Greville Village market in Prahran, Melbourne. Be sure to pop along, Greville Street is always a great day out!

Sweet William is so excited to be part of the next Finders Keepers in Melbourne - always such a great event - pop it in your diaries now,  if you live in Melbourne, it is not to be missed!

We love our little Camille! She has been part of the Sweet William range for some time now but we never get sick of her. There have been a few colour changes along the way but otherwise her cuteness hasn't changed. She is 100% lovingly handmade. Here she is in her little matchbox home. Available in our etsy shop .

The first two prints are dedicated to my favourite band - I am a huge Mumford and Sons fan! I could listen to their music non stop for hours. I find their music very inspiring, the lyrics are deep and moving. I had the the privilege of seeing them perform live in Melbourne and I have been meaning to put together these prints for ages. Awake my soul is just a brilliant song and the other print is entitled Grace, which goes to the lyric: 'grace on her heart and flowers in her hair' ....beautiful. The other two prints are pieces of work that have been hanging around my studio for awhile now and so I am glad I have finally committed them to paper. These prints are for sale in our Etsy shop. Happy Friday to you all!

That's me, Paula, at my Sweet William stall in Melbourne These beautiful photographs were taken by the very talented Tigs Macallan . They are of the Sweet William stall set up at Finders Keepers in Melbourne. Setting up a stall can be just as much fun (and hard work) as creating the art work! I love it and I am so happy with these shots. You can view more shots over on my flickr stream  here .