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washi tape ideas

Hello everyone!! Thank you to those of you who were able to attend our pop-up market yesterday – we had a lovely, successful day.

Of course – with Su here yesterday I was inspired again to play with washi tape!! It’s so exciting to find more and more people getting infected by the washi bug. And the ideas that fly around are great. We sit oohing and aahing over new colours and designs, and create ever-changing combinations. Such fun!! So to share a little inspiration with you all, here are a few more ideas of ways that you can create beautiful stuff with washi tape.

all images: my own

I am also “curating” a board of great ideas over at pinterest. Have a peek!!!

The washi stock list in my shop is updated here – feast your eyes!! (My shop will be closed from the 1st-5th of May so get your orders in quickly!!)

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it’s market time!!

It’s me again!! Twice in one day……..

I am joining up with some of my favourite people next week to bring you a “Pop-up Market” at my home in Stellenbosch. We will have a wonderful array of goodies available for you all to buy – stationery from myself and Anja (Papertales), washi tape creations and gorgeous teacloths and bags from Su (Su Wolf), ceramics and ceramic jewellery from Dionne (clayhousedesigns), silver Jewellery from Debbie (ninetwofive) and Alicia (Pure), and fresh flowers from The Rose Room. And – tea, coffee and yummy goodies to eat!!

Bring your wallets and join us for a lovely day!!

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recovered, refreshed and re-organised

Hello friends!! Wow- it’s been 3 weeks since I last spoke to you all. Thank you for your kind words, support and well-wishes. I am back on the go, the shop is open, and life goes on!!

The last few weeks have been good for me. I took a mental and physical “break” and have been re-focussing. I re-organised parts of the house that have been in a state of chaos since I did the markets at the end of last year (yes – it’s taken me THAT long……), and I finally got around to sorting out and organising my workspace. Bags and bags of recycling and donations later and I am once again feeling good about my space! Do you also feel happier when your environment is organised, everything has a place, and most importantly it looks good and makes you happy to be there! I do. So – want to take a little tour around my office with me?

This is what I see while I sit at my computer. I have my desk in the middle of the room, which is not always the most practical, but it works for me. I can see the sunshine coming in the windows, and keep an eye on the front-gate (to spot the all-important courier!!). Sometimes It’s VERY messy, sometimes there are flowers – at the moment it is relatively tidy and I have a lovely delicate Orchid keeping me company. Sammy also joins me on the desk quite often – but wasn’t around when I took these pictures.

I have displayed all my favourite goodies on the shelves directly across from me – lovely white ceramics, the cute owls, precious books from some of my favourte, inspiring authors (recognise any?), a lovely SweetWilliam print, and a collection of favourite stationery and the hanging birds from papertales.

And then – my worktable! Above which I have now organised and displayed my (embarrassing) collection of lovely washi tape!! I tell myself that I do NOT need more, and must not be afraid to use it – there is more than enough!!!

On the other side of the room is another set of shelves and work space, where somehow the colours are softer…….funny how that happened. Notice my lovely knitting bag from lovely leah at sangthebird. And I love the wooden pegs and spools in the glass jars – reminiscent of a candy-store. The map boxes remind me of my dad who is map-mad!!!!

So – this is where I spend my days making lovely things and packing orders to send off to all of you lovely gals!! I am really fortunate to have this space.

So now it’s back to normal – sending out orders, creating lovely designs and blogging!!!! For those of you who live nearby I’ll be hosting a pop-up market  here at my house next week. I’ll post all the details here on the blog a little later today!!

Wishing you all a fabulous weekend!! Big hugs.

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Taking a break for a few weeks…..

Hello friends. I hope that you all had a lovely Easter. It wasn’t the best one in our home as I have had a few problems with my health in the past weeks that resulted in me having to go into hospital on Thursday. I’m OK now, but am going to be taking the next couple of weeks off as “sick leave” to give myself some time to heal and find my way again. Unfortunately this means that my shop will be closed, and I hope this is not an inconvenience for anyone. Sometimes in life, we just need to put ourselves first, and this is what I am doing.

This print (from Sweetwilliam) which I have on the wall in my office, basically sums up how I’m feeling right now…. I just need some time.

I may pop in to say hi during the next weeks, and my shop will re-open on Monday the 15th of April. Sending you all love.

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