Stylish Kids: Buttons By Lou Lou

Clever Louise from Buttons by Lou Lou specialises in Flair. Not the Jennifer-Anniston-on-Office-Space kind. We're talking stylish fabric-covered accessories for kids, adults, and everyone in-between.

Check it out - the Buttons by Lou Lou range includes buttons/badges/brooches, hair clips, hair bands, earrings, headbands, cufflinks, necklaces, rings, bookmarks and... buttons! The hair accessories are a no-brainer for sweet little girls, but check out how cool the badges look on the little boys' hat (above) and I will be buying a bunch of the fantastic cufflinks for Mr Bondville.

You can find Melbourne-based Buttons by Lou Lou in the Madeit (Australia) store online, at various markets and at stockists around Australia. Louise also has an excellent blog that is fun to read - go say Hi and see what you like.

Images: Buttons by Lou Lou

Hip Products: Hot Toffee jewellery

If you like your jewellery to remind you of lollies and sugary goodness, then check out this fun range from Brisbane jeweller and Bondville reader, Nicole from Hot Toffee. After living in Japan for six years, where she learned how to make Togei (pottery), Shodou (Japanese calligraphy), Ikebana (flower arranging) and kiln-fired glass accessories, Nicole returned to Australia and launched her first range.

Inspired by all things sweet, Japanese art and design and Australian beaches, Hot Toffee jewellery are mini pieces of wearable art. To tempt you even more, Nicole's pieces have enticing names like orange and lime drops, mint and strawberry sorbet, and burnt toffee apple. The current range includes earrings, pendants, hair pins, pocket mirrors, magnets, badges, cards and totally delicious cufflinks. (I'm a huge fan of cool cufflinks).

You can find Hot Toffee jewellery from Nicole directly, on Etsy, as well as stockists across Australia and markets around Brisbane. Find out more about Hot Toffee and upcoming markets on the blog Bits of Toffee.

Images: Hot Toffee