Bon...so the first good news is that the Rob Ryan Four Seasons plates will arrive in our warehouse on Monday (just bear with us because we have a HUGE number of back orders).

1. Attach the blade to the scalpel very, very carefully. Then wrap masking tape carefully around the blade, exposing just the tip - this will enable you to cut out the fiddly little bits without cutting your fingers.

2. Whether you're making a necklace-label for a bottle or an ornament, you first have to measure how long the necklace needs to be. Take the piece of string and measure the neck of your bottle/ornament to calculate the length. Then loop the measured string on to your paper in the oval shape of a necklace and draw around it to make the template.

3. Draw the pendant on to the necklace - Rob made a bell shape. Then make the necklace thicker by drawing a chain-line effect.

4. Next, begin cutting the necklace out with the scalpel, starting with the small fiddly bits (ie the centre of the paper chain).

5. Write your "label" on the pendant - whatever you write, draw the letters in thick capitals so that they can be cut out to leave a silhouette effect. (Ryan opted for "Life's too long", but feel free to make it more upbeat.) Now carefully cut the letters out.

6. And voila! Ryan made a bright pink necklace for a kitsch cat figurine. But, of course, it can be anything you want.

★★★★

Bon...la premiere bonne nouvelle c'est que les assiettes 4 saisons de Rob Ryan arrivent a notre entrepot Lundi (mais soyez patient parce que nous avons une tonne de pre-commandes a envoyer). La deuxieme bonne nouvelle est que nous allons aussi recevoir les mugs Rob Ryan et les fanions Rob Ryan. La troisieme bonne nouvelle (soyons fous, c'est binetot Noel!), nous avons aussi ajoute ce su-per-be vase en ceramique de Rob Ryan et ce sac en coton de canvas (et la vous n'avez plus d'excuses pour utiliser des sacs plastiques et ne pas utiliser un des ces petits sacs canons!). La quatrieme bonne nouvelle (....vous pouvez m'envoyer des cadeaux aux bureaux de B&F pour me remercier) est que vous allez maintenant apprendre a tailler et decouper un petit collier comme Rob Ryan les accroche dans son studio autour de ses lampes de travail pour decorer votre sapin ou accrocher autour de vos cadeaux, une bouteille de vins, des bonnes choses a manger

Via The Guardian

Yesterday, the weather in London was like this. So, while my mum was sewing a school apron for Mila, I got Mila's rubber stamps out to keep her busy and to make some cool cards...Resultat des cacahouetes (can't translate...would mean something like 'total of peanuts'...see I told you... can't translate)
Mila's time spent on making cards: 20 min
Moi's time spent on making cards: 2 hours (I wasn't slow, I got hooked!)

And even smaller ones....with lots of love because we never give enough love and beaucoup de merci because it's nice and polite
I know the 'I' in MERCI is an exclamation mark but we lost the 'I'

On our little shop, we already have a beautiful, stylish card like this and if you order any of these, you will probably want to receive something else other than my dodgy handmade card but I think with these Japanese masking tapes from Papermash, they will be nice little touches to go with any of these. It will be only for a few people anyway because I wont have time to do a lot of them and clearly my child doesn't want to be part of any child labour scheme.

...well, lost in blogland that it. I went from one beautiful blog to another and ended up chez Labo'M* where I discovered Hipstamatic, an I-phone app that brings back the look and feel of Lomo and Polaroid...If you love photography like me and have an i-phone, you will love this app. On the contrary, if you haven't an i-phone (sorry Lau), you will probably be just really annoyed with me :-(
*Emy makes beau-ti-ful paper garlands by the way...

(C) Photos: Labo'M, handmade little cloud: Lovely vintage

Je me suis perdue sur la toile en France...Je suis allee d'un joli blog a un autre et je suis arrivee chez Labo'M* ou j'ai decouvert Hipstamatic, l'application i-phone qui permet de prendre des photos comme les appareils Lomo et Polaroid...et si vous aimez la photo comme moi et avez un i-phone, vous allez l'adorer. Par contre, si vous n'en avez pas (desole Lau), vous allez probablement just etre tres enervee apres moi, desole :-(
* Emy fait de su-per- bes guirlandes en papier d'ailleurs...

Last night, I was looking through our warehouse and I noticed that we had a few of our roller blinds set aside because some of the poles got bent and damaged in transit and I thought it was a shame we couldn't do anything with them because the fabric was so nice...
We had a few requests from customers in the past who asked if we could sell the fabric per meter and unfortunately we couldn't because we got the blinds especially made and suddenly it hit me!
Of course, we could sell the fabric!
So we have now taken the fabric from the blind off the pole and are making these large fabric samples available for sale so you can make tablecloths, bags, outdoor cushions, curtains, smaller blinds, matching accessories if you own some of our blinds already....the possibilities are endless.

You could even make a new bedhead out of them! I'm currently increasing the height of our bedhead at home using grey linen but the Birds fabrics above would work very well in a kids bedroom so once I'm done with my little DIY project, I will show you how to make a new headboard for little money and revamp a new bed rather than spending £200 in a new one...