The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

A sweet and inspirational pocket planner illustrated by American artist Jessica Hische.

The Art Deco-inspired interior planner pages include full-page typographical illustrations by Hische of quotations by Emily Dickinson (”Forever is Composed of Nows”), Emily Bronte (”I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me”), John Gardner, Anthony D’Angelo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others. The spine reminds you to “write every day”, and the back cover encourages  you to make it happen! But them here.

Love the speckled patterns on these poetic watercolours by French illustrator Flora Douville…

We are moving home in January and for years i’ve been thinking about my art wall, but because we have always rented and never really been allowed to have art up, I haven’t collected as much as I would have liked.

These two walls from Dwell Studio catalogue really have me swooning – I love each of the artworks on them – from the simple and emotive black and white print in the first setting to the luscious ochre toned groupings of impressionist works in the second. I’m on the lookout for affordable art right and unfortunately the artwork in these sets aren’t part of the Dwell Studio collection so any similar suggestions would be most welcome!

I re-discovered my love of New York based illustrator Shanna Murray’s work the other day. In the last few years, Shanna has very cleverly transformed her chalkboard style illustrations of wild flowers and laurels into poetic wall decals (and stationary) . I’m not a huge fan of decals as I rarely find any that aren’t gimmicky, but Shanna’s lyrical decals have a real sense of timelessness.

There are very few things on this blog that although I love, I rarely buy, but I am moving into my first bought home this year and these little talismans of well wishes are coming with to welcome us into our new home!

P.S Talented Shanna also posts a down-loadable desktop Calendar [usually a collaboration with a photographer]  each month featuring a beautiful illustration. My computer is currently adorned in November which is breathtaking…

I think I have found the perfect Christmas gift… Great Food is a collection of 20 charming tomes from Penguin charting the  “the sharpest, funniest, most delicious writing about food from the past 400 years,” The books offer a mouth-watering selection of food writing fare from which to choose, with authors ranging from the classic – Victorian ‘domestic goddess’ Isabella Beeton and that wonderfully intelligent food writer Elizabeth David – to the less familiar – eighteenth century innkeeper William Verrall, Pellegrino Artusi.

The delicious looking covers were designed by Penguin’s senior cover designer Coralie Bickford-Smith each one drawing on a decorative ceramic style of dish relevant to the period of the writing concerned. For further insight check out Pen’s Great Food Club, a food blog by a Penguin employee cooking their way through the 20 books. A humorous  and charming account the blog has hints of the Julie and Julia about it with success stories as well as disasters documented in the attempt to translate 18th century recipes to the modern day table!