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If you go down to the woods today…

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:00:50 +0000

you’ll see lots of teddy bears wearing sweet party hats under a pretty bunting banner! If I have anything to say about it anyway!

More new party decorations are popping up in my etsy and folksy shops. The Teddy Bear Tea Party (or Picnic, you choose) invitations have been going strong for a while, so I am slowly developing the matching range of decorations. So far we have hats and bunting banners and soon paper balls, place cards and pinwheels will be coming along too…

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And don’t forget to check out the new spooky decorations that are also popping up…

Boo! It’s almost Halloween

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:31:20 +0000

Halloween isn’t the most celebrated event in the UK, but it’s probably my favourite holiday thanks to many childhood years spent in the US. It had the same feeling as bonfire night – the magic of staying up late, glowing candles, decorations and activities unique to that day, meeting up with friends and family – with the added joy of dressing up. In the US, Halloween costumes can be anything, you don’t have to be a skeleton or a witch, a ghost or a zombie. You can of course be any of those things but the variety is unlimited. I once dressed up as a shower. I remember our teachers dressing up, bus drivers, shop clerks. It was like everyone was at the same fancy dress party. And of course there were lots of sweets…

Since moving back to the UK, I still keep loading up on bowls of sweets and carving pumpkins. Not sure if we’ve ever had a trick or treater but it makes me happy! My son, who was almost born on Halloween, had a spooky first birthday costume party (and from that came the growing range of spooky invitations and decorations). In honour of this great day, I’ve got a treat (no trick) for everyone ordering 2 or more packs of my printed personalised invitations. 5 free spooky cupcake toppers so you can make your little ones, or yourselves, a little Halloween treat.

throw a prehistoric bash

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:11:28 +0000

I’ve been working on selling children’s party decorations for a while, I had sold a couple of digital packs of print your own versions, but recently I’ve had people asking for made ones. Hooray, nothing is more fun than cutting and sticking all night long! So here’s the first collection, the full dinosaur bash suite:

Keeping Cy Twombly’s spirit alive

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:33:56 +0000

Ok maybe not Cy Twombly quite yet, but he’s got the spirit! Today was a rainy rainy day so we got out the paints for the first time properly. George does lots of flyby painting at children’s centres, but this was the first time he sat down and had a proper dedicated painting session. And I was thrilled that he loved it. He actually sat and painted for at least an hour. The only thing that’s ever got that kind of dedicated attention so far (other than books) is lego. And he even asked to do more tomorrow. So bring on the rain!

masterpieces!

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And of course, there’s always time for…

Dino-mite! Starting to come together

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:37:12 +0000

There are so many things I’d like to develop and offer in my Etsy/Folksy shop that I often have difficulty focusing and have ended up feeling like it’s all spread a bit thin. It’s normally through customer requests that I start developing things a bit more logically. I’ve recently had some requests for printed decorations that I don’t currently carry. It’s given me the push to move away from just offering pdf versions of things to keeping part of the fun (cutting and pasting, yeay!) for me. So first up is the Dinosaur suite of stationery and decorations:

There are cupcake toppers too, but they still need to be photographed. Next up pinwheels, bunting banners and party blowers. Then on to all the other party suites and hopefully still time to get Christmas going.

SUMMER SALE

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:19:21 +0000

I’m having a late summer sale on personalised invitations, thank you cards and announcements. Click the image and take a look.

wow, where have I been!

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:02:38 +0000

Hmmm the last time I wrote anything here seems to pretty much correspond with my son’s first steps. Coincidence or just a new kind of tired? Not sure, but it’s time I got back on track. I’m going to pick up where I left off with UK Inspiration and Mini Inspiration and see where that takes me. It’s been far too long to go without seeing all the beautiful things people are making.

As well as running around after a (very fast) toddler, I’ve also been busy with graphic design projects, bit of traveling (love San Diego), and adding designs to my stationery range. I’m still focusing on personalised invitations and working on matching thank you cards and decorations. Here are few of the latest. All summer, garden inspired funnily enough:

new birthday invitations

admin — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:55:25 +0000

I’ve finally listed a couple of new children’s birthday party invitations: a spooky theme and a teddy bear tea party. The spooky one was designed for my son’s first birthday party and the other for his friend’s but they’re both now on Folksy.

spooky birthday invitation

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teddy bear tea party

losing the facebook popularity contest

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:04:52 +0000

A few people have suggested that I create a facebook page for little bulldog design. I’ve finally done it, but it feels a bit like the first day at school. Nobody ‘likes’ me! Nobody actually even knows I’m there! Actually it’s not true that nobody likes me, they have very kindly made it so you can like yourself. So I like me and I guess at the end of the day that’s all that matters…

new photos

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:36:27 +0000

I’ve finally got my new product photos up on Folksy just need to do shots for the new wedding and children’s party invitations once the samples are finished.