Showing posts with label stationary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stationary. Show all posts

Friday, 29 May 2015

#BEDM Day 29: Passion Projects

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Ever since I was 19, I have always had a side project that I have worked on in my spare time. After I shut my vintage shop and jewellery shop 2 years ago (wow has it been that long?), I have had a gap in my life where they were. Even though my side projects are never really successful, I still enjoyed the fun of them.

Jewellery making and vintage were never things that I have loved all my life - I just kind of fell into them. Maybe that's why they never worked. However, one thing that I have always loved since I was a kid was stationary. Though I wasn't a fan of school I still looked forward to buying new school supplies every September. I have always been passionate about making things and remember clearly the days when my parents used to hide the kitchen scissors from me because I used to keep taking them to use for my projects!

So when I was deciding what new project I could do; stationary and Etsy shop jumped into my head. So say hello to Polkadot Party, my etsy stationary shop! It's not quite open yet but here's a couple of things I've been working on for it.

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Let me know what you think!

Monday, 11 May 2015

My week #2

So I don't really walk to work as I live in that annoying in between area where it only takes 15 minutes to drive but it would take over an hour to walk. And I'm not doing the London to Brighton trek this year as Topher has a hernia so I'm just going to casually skip this topic for an update of what I've been up to.

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*Shopping on in the Northern Quarter with my cousin *Shopping continues *Blog on Mosi * Drawing with cats around *Glitter flowers at my grandmas *Church yard car boot * Selling my stuff * My office

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*Voting *Pickles is startled *Work evening out with the epic cheesecake *Hobbycraft haul

How has your May gone so far?

Saturday, 13 December 2014

#StationaryLoversGiftSwap

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It's no secret that I love stationary. So when I saw the #StationaryLoversGiftSwap featured on Claire's blog, I had to sign up! And how lucky was I to get paired up with someone who has their own stationary business?

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Laura from Say it Handmade was my partner and she sent me this awesome parcel of goodies. 

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A card with a handwritten note. 

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Personalised notecards

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Sticky labels - ideal for telling Topher what to do!

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A notebook

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A list notebook.

I also received some bear stickers and a pen (just seen above). I love everything but my favourite definitely has to be the notebook. I had a great experience and I hope Laura loves her parcel as much as I loved mine! And thanks to Claire and Mab for organising the swap :)

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Christmas Gift Guide: Girls

Christmas is just around the corner! Excited much? For once, I actually have all my christmas shopping done early (thank you Black Friday online) and I didn't even have to get off the sofa. Score.

Anyway, enough with the smug face - I've decided to do 3 gift guides over the next three weeks to give you a few ideas for the people in your life who are tired of getting socks. The first one is for the ladies: