Saucy spaghetti anyone? This naughty housewares collection begs a second serving.  

Woman-owned and operated housewares purveyor Dupenny was founded by a cheeky English lass named Emily Dupen-Hopkins. She creates glamour gardens (plus the occasional English one) and sex pots for walls in kitchens out of her studio by the sea: the arty design den of Brighton, UK specifically.

Emily’s elegant 1920’s inspired wallpaper, bone china ceramics and sexy aprons epitomize the vintage pin-up girl, while embracing the uncompromising femininity of modern-day burlesque performance. Granted, half naked housewives finding euphoria in mundane chores like ironing does harken back to a certain feminine mystique, Dupenny’s designs are less about making statements and more about cheekiness on demand and without apology. Dupenny relies on traditional printing methods and manufacturing techniques without mass producing. They also use sustainable materials and packaging and sell in UK-based and local shops, though they do have an online shop for custom shipping to international customers.

Hand screen-printed aprons are made with water-based inks on heavy-weight cotton.

Tea and crumpets with the “Victoria Fancy” throw pillow. 

The “Betsy Battenburg” tea towel on white Linen Union fabric, hand screen-printed using water-based inks.

You dirty dog! Phone-a-spanking art print on FSC certified paper.

Thelma sure knows her way around a Hoover. One heck of a greeting card printed on FSC certified paper in a biodegradable sleeve.

Dupenny was founded in 2009 by Emily Dupen-Hopkins and is based in Brighton, UK. The company’s art prints are environmentally friendly, printed in the UK using water-based inks.

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Octopus Love in Ocean Blue

I love t-shirts with interesting graphics, don’t you?

This organic cotton t-shirt made with water-based inks by Look For Fiddleheads is a new favorite. On the LFF site, there are so many great t-shirts it will make your head spin. Be very careful when you go there as you might just be inviting a new wardrobe addiction in. (Not kidding. She’s good.)

The designer, fine artist and former Certaintees founder, Lee Tracy, grew up in the Maine woods where she was taught to look for fiddle head ferns.

“We would pick the fiddle heads and cook them for dinner, with a touch of vinegar, or butter, and some salt,” says Tracy. “Fiddle heads are one of my favorite foods and searching for them is a great memory and current goal. ”

If you’d like to try your hand at winning Octopus Love, leave some love down below in the form of a comment and you’re registered. And while you’re here, get to know the lovely Lee better with this interview from EcoSalon’s early days. We’ve enjoyed watching the artist and activist’s eco journey and you will, too. (For contest rules, click here.)

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