Cut flowers from Mum's garden. The best thing ever?
Blooms
The Folded Page
We recently spent an afternoon hanging out with the lovely Rosy from The Folded Page taking some photos of her beautiful books. If you need a really special present you should get in touch with her, for some custom initials or a special date. If you like what you see why not "like" her on Facebook too?
Engaged?
Hell's Mouth
A little gift...
1000 things for Tom to do in London for under £10
So here's a book recommendation/gift idea combined. You may have heard that one of our best friends, Tom, got onto his masters course in London. He moved down there a week ago, just before his birthday. We thought for his birthday we'd love to give him a load of cool experiences in his new city. So with Nai we hatched a plan to collect his friends recommendations and donations to send to him.
We bought this book (highly recommend it!), stuffed it full of little bits of paper, added a birthday candle and popped it in the post disguised as a boring academic tome.
Really looking forward to seeing what he gets up to and who joins him! You won't keep us away for long.
We bought this book (highly recommend it!), stuffed it full of little bits of paper, added a birthday candle and popped it in the post disguised as a boring academic tome.
Pink Gerbera
Hana's Birthday
This is a little gift I made for a friends birthday present- I enjoyed how the wrapping turned out, so I figured I'd share it. It was really simple: just sew two buttons onto a hankie, then stitch one stitch on each side and corner (going round in order), pull tight to enclose the gift, then wrap the thread off in a figure of eight around the buttons.
Happy Birthday Miss K. Hope the sun shines on your champagne!
Gifts
From the top: fimo cake flags (suitable for posting), jon's birthday box (with ingredients for salmon fishcakes, sparkling wine, some purchased beers and...), the birthday beer (brewed by Malc, labelled by Nom) and the sticky labels.
We named the beer in Jon's honour, Dudley is his middle name. He got the name from his Grandad who died before Jon was born and it turns out Grandad Dudley was into a spot of home brewing himself
wrapping
I'm enjoying wrapping anything and everything lately. Malc made me wait for both our Mothers' days to be over before I could post these presents, just incase one of our relatively technology-slow mums was super speedy reading the blog.
The pom pommed presents are for our Mums and the last gift is Mojito in a bag for Dunk's birthday (which is yet to be consumed).
Today is some one special's birthday, so we've been busy making some parcels. The first is this surprise ball. Below are some pictures of how we did it. Firstly, we collected up a lot of pretty bits and pieces: a variety of things to write on and with, little treats (sweets and treasures), ribbon, embroidery thread, tissue paper and a stick on bow to fix it all shut.
Next, we cut the tissue paper into ribbons by folding each sheet into a thin column and chopping it up (this ball only took two sheets of tissue paper). Then scribbled LOTS of messages of love in a variety of shapes and sizes, and scattered them through the contents we'd collected.
Then all that remained was to pick up the central gift of the ball and start wrapping the tissue paper, adding notes and things until they were all gone. Occasionally we wrapped the ball in something other than tissue paper, sometimes we threw in some glitter to make a happy mess on opening. The centre of our ball was pink, with the outer layers being white. When we got to the end I kept it shut with the stick on bow. Simple.
Wholemeal Love
