Paula Mills Art

Hello lovelies! We are having a 25% Off Sale over at hardtofind.com.au . Snap up any Sweet William prints and cards at brilliant prices! Free shipping within Australia too!

Sweet William will be at Finders Keepers  Market on Friday and Saturday at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton, Melbourne. We haven't done a market for a little while and we have lots of lovely new products to show everyone, so if you are in Melbourne come and say hello. Here is a sneak peek of some of the new work...

We can now offer all Sweet William Prints in three sizes - A5, A4 and A3. Here is a shot of the three sizes framed - they would fit  5x7, 8x10 and 11x16 inch frames. All our prints are available from our etsy shop here .

Sweet William is in the process of setting up for our next big market season! It is a very busy time from now up until Christmas. We will be at the following markets: Finders Keepers - 4th/5th October-  Melbourne Renegade Craft Fair - 9/10th November - London Markit@Fedsqaure - 24th November - Melbourne Magnolia Square - 28-30 November - Melbourne Big Design Market - 6-8 December - Melbourne And there may be more - there is one in Ireland too (need Shelley to add her dates). We start each new market season with a brand new stall set up, which is great fun to work on. At the moment I am being very taken by the colour scheme of gold with pastels. I am loving a bit of shimmery gold set against a flat pastel colour. I have been collecting images in Pinterest and will start putting it all together soon. Here are some images from my ideas Pinterest board (all links to images in Pinterest ). Enjoy!

We are very excited about   City Mob  (based in South Africa) for featuring Sweet William and offering a wide range of our prints as A2 size posters at a brilliant price! Wahoo, largest size we have ever had our images printed - hurry, on sale for 10 days only! My sister and I are from South Africa originally and so it was always our wish to be able to sell our work in our homeland. This was made possible by my sister in law who lives in CapeTown, who owns a small creative business called Fronella Design Delights   and who now distributes our range in South Africa. We are also very excited about the fact that a percentage of all these sales go to a South African children's charity called True North -   Little Too Much . Very happy with all of that!

We are super duper excited about our A3 size posters ! These are of original pen and ink drawing done by myself, Paula Mills. The A3 posters are printed on a high quality, recycled, matt paper using vegetable based inks. The actual artwork measures 420mm x 297mm.(16.5x11.7 inches) and fits perfectly into the Ikea Ribba 40x50 cm frame plus mount (as pictured in first shot). There are six designs to choose from in the poster range .  We do a bigger print run on the posters therefore we are able to offer them at a brilliant price! YAY!

Miniature Milo the sailor boy, available here Shelley and I only have girls, I have three, Shelley has two. This makes it tricky for us to come up with cute Sweet William products for boys but I think you will agree this one ticks all cuteness factors! Meet little Milo the Sailor boy . Now available in our etsy shop. Milo is a tiny little pocket doll.  He lives in a matchbox ship with his pet cockatoo. He dreams about all his wonderful adventures on the high seas, visiting foreign lands and making new friends. He is hand stitched on to felt, slightly stuffed and sits neatly in his little matchbox home.  MIlo is friends with miniature Camille.  The matchbox measures approximately 2 inches. There is a drawing of a ship on the front and an illustration of a wave on the back. All illustrations done by me, Paula Mills.

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 .

Vintage paper coasters Putting  packages  together - messy but fun! Vintage Australian Tram tickets A finished packaged Paper Pack 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 paper treasures. 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 tags, m...

Sweet William is very fortunate to be published by LaLaLand in Australia. What that means is that they they do all the hard work, they produce and distribute a range of my work along with other Australian illustrators. I will often walk into a gorgeous little gift shop and unexpectedly see my cards or posters produced by Lalaland on the shelves and it makes me smile every time! They will also do exciting things like produce extra large posters for window displays and themes through out the year. Here are some images of what Lalaland have been doing with Sweet William artwork.

We are so excited to offer this brand new product!  These wonderful postcards, featuring Sweet William illustrations, are printed on real birch wood. Each card measures 105mmx147mm, has rounded corners and a space on the back for your own message. The cards, with their amazing birch wood texture, make special little artworks in their own right. We have 6 wooden postcard designs to choose from with a special price if you purchase all 6 together.   We offer free shipping with in Australia. Enjoy! The postcards are up for sale in our etsy shop here .

As well as creating new work for  Sweet William I do a fair bit of freelance illustration. Here are some commissions and editorial jobs I have been working on recently. My full portfolio of work can be viewed through my web site  - www.paulamillsillustration.com  and on flickr ...hmmm, while I do enjoy the challenge of an illustration brief, I really want to work on some new illustrations for Sweet William...I just need to find some more time, hopefully I will find it soon.