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Weekly Roundup 12 December

Happy Friday everyone! Who can believe that Christmas is only 2 weeks away - this year has really just flown by! Things are slowly winding down for us but before we go on a nice little break we do have 3 more markets for those last minute shoppers: This Weekend Saturday: Gordonton Market,  8:30am - 1:00pm, Gordonton Highway Next Weekend Saturday: Tauranga Christmas in the Park, 2:00 - 9:30pm, Blake Park Sunday: Rototuna Market, 10:00am - 2:00pm, 85 Barrington Drive As some of you may be aware we are an ongoing contributor to the NZ Design Assembly, a great resource for Graphic Designers. This week we put together this ultimate gift guide for those hard to shop for designers (yes, I know we are hard to shop for :) ). Hope you enjoy! planter // door mat // temporary tattoo // butcher chart print // tote bag // shirt // young print // socks // notepad //killing it print // ear buds // headphones // lightning cable // beach sounds // laptop case // gaming poster // ipad stand // Kanex GoBuddy // Caffeine poster // body scrub // Pantone tumbler // candle // chemex // shirt // keepcup //coffee pot // first aid poster

Decor8 feature

I am super honoured and excited to announce that our latest tote bag has been a personal request by Holly Becker from Decor8. Since listing our products on Great.ly (a new website that links small designers like myself and blogs around the world) it has really opened up some amazing opportunities. Great.ly and Holly have teamed up to create Holly's back to school must haves. All products have been tried and tested by Holly herself and are available on, you guest it, Great.ly.

1. 13" Macbook case in black white stripe Japanese canvas by Hanelca/Aya Kawaura
2. Gold Foil lip print by Becky Lord
3. Gold anchor note cards by Taylor Henderson.
4. Swiss dot patterned gold foil pencils by Splendid Supply Co.
5. Stay Awesome tote bag custom made for decor8 readers by Toodles Noodles.

This new tote design is available now through our retailers in New Zealand and on our Great.ly store. It will be available on our other online stores next month. (all images are credit to Holly Becker)

Weekly Roundup 25 July

A big happy Friday to everyone! Even though it's quite frosty outside things in the studio have been are looking hot! New calendars for 2015 have come back from the printers, custom display stands have been making us giddy with excitement and new designs are popping up every day! We had a fantastic Saturday last weekend at the Tamahere Market - thank you to everyone who braved to cold and came along. It was a fantastic market and hope to do it again soon! There won't be a weekly roundup next week as we'll be off exploring Melbourne! We are beyond the moon excited to visit this amazing city for the first time - eat amazing food, drink lots of coffee, and checking out some spectacular artists at the Life in Style show! Hope you all have been having a great week!

1. Wish Chair by Citta Design
2. Melibu Floor Rug by Freedom
3. Ashwood Trivet by Country Road
4. Impression Bowls by Freedom
5. Ambient Pendant Lamp by Citta Design
6. Matte Black juicer by Country Road
7. Glassware by Country Road
8. X Cushions by Pony Rider from MintSix

Free July desktop and iphone wallpapers

Why hello there July! We are officially over halfway through the year - yippee! Winter can get the spirits down with its cold weather, blustering winds, and frosty rain. But we're here to remind you not to let the weather get you down and keep up the good work! Enjoy! 2560 x 1440 / 1680 x 1050 / 1440 x 900 / 1280 x 800/ iphone The formal bits: All photos, desktop wallpaper art, and designers are copyright. The use of this wallpaper is free and strictly for personal use. Sharing of these images on Pinterest, Facebook, or any social media is welcome, as long as you source and link back to Toodles Noodles.  If you’d like to blog about this post, feel free to, as long you credit and link back to this post and/or Toodles Noodles. Thanks so much for reading this boring but necessary bit!

Free June desktop and iPhone wallpapers

We're sorry to have been a bit absent from the blog, we are still on holiday in California visiting family. For the time being please enjoy our latest inspirational desktop wallpaper! We have quite a few fun and exciting things up our sleeves for when we get back which we can't wait to share... One tidbit of information we will spill is that we have lots more great sayings on the way! Enjoy! 2560 x 1440 / 1680 x 1050 / 1440 x 900 / 1280 x 800/ iphone The formal bits: All photos, desktop wallpaper art, and designers are copyright. The use of this wallpaper is free and strictly for personal use. Sharing of these images on Pinterest, Facebook, or any social media is welcome, as long as you source and link back to Toodles Noodles.  If you’d like to blog about this post, feel free to, as long you credit and link back to this post and/or Toodles Noodles. Thanks so much for reading this boring but necessary bit!

Weekly Roundup 16 May

Happy Friday everyone! Things around here have been chaotic while we prepare for our trip to the US! We're off to California this Sunday for three whole weeks! While away we will be visiting family, spending a day at Disneyland, checking out amazing local shops and catching some sun rays! While we are away we will keep our shops open but will be sending out items a little less frequently. If you're interested in seeing some of our products in person of course you can always pop into one of our stockists or we have some markets coming up. Including the Auckland Art & Craft Fair on 28 June. This week for our roundup we found some super sweet items which are all handmade! We hope you like them as much as we do. Enjoy!

1. Linen dress from Aolo in China.
2. Cross body bag by Muni in Lithuania.
3. Cream and sugar bowl set by Julia Paul Pottery, USA.
4. Pillow cover handmade in Portugal.
5. C'est la vie (such is life) handmade poster by Aspiring Bear in London.
6. Cross desk lamp by Ninoshea Design, California.
7. U R my doll kids t-shirt from New York.
8. Tooth Fairy teepee pillow by Apple White in Arizona.

Hand lettering tutorial from Ladyfingers Letterpress

There is no denying that receiving a letter in the post these days is exciting. Now imagine if that letter arrived with amazing hand lettering adorning the front...breathtaking! If you're a bit of a typography geek and want to become an expert on creating such beautiful lettering head on over to the Oh So Beautiful Paper blog to get the scoop. Your mail will never be the same again!

For the love of stationery

This week I wrote a wee article for the Design Assembly on the topic of stationery. As designers and artists two things that are quite close to our hearts are coffee and good stationery. Being in the stationery industry myself, I am a big advocate for high quality, well designed, functional products. Personally, I cannot live without A5 notepads (I have multiple lists going on at once), my Moleskine notebook, and my favourite Pilot pen! Click here to read the whole store and see the top picks of three local New Zealand artists and what products they can’t live without.

Design is yay turns one

Our good friends over at Design is Yay is 1. YAY! The amazing talent behind Wita Puspita Design (Design is YAY)is Wita Puspita, owner and graphic designer. She has been designing corporate ID, branding and marketing collateral as a freelance graphic designer since 2009 after graduating from RMIT University in Melbourne with a Bachelor in Design (Communication Design). As a token of her appreciation, she's decided to host a special birthday giveaway. This giveaway is sponsored by some of her favourite designers/shops around the world - including us! One Lucky winner will receive: 1x 2014 Calendar by Toodles Noodles (NZ) 1x Haha Velveteen Fabric Cushion Cover  by Lorna Love (NZ) 1x Greeting Card from An April Idea (AU) 1x Letterpress Greeting Card featuring artwork by Juliette Dudley (AU) 1x $25 Voucher from Peachy Box (NZ) 4x Paper Fridge Magnet from Paper Jet Design (South Africa) 1x Red Party in a Box Set by Pepita De Chocolate (Portugal) And Two lucky runner-ups will receive a greeting cards pack featuring designs by Juliette Dudley,An April Idea, Paper Jet and Wita Puspita Design. To enter go here! x

Emily McDowell

Emily McDowell is an illustrator, hand-letterer, designer, and writer who lives in Los Angeles. Her story on how she started her own stationery line is extremely inspirational for anyone out there with a 'dream'. After spending nearly a decade working as an advertising art director, writer and creative director, Emily decided to quit her full-time agency job at the beginning of 2011. At the time, she didn't know what exactly she wanted to do, but she knew she needed to try to figure it out. She started with going back to what she most loved to do as a kid - drawing - specifically, lettering — and writing stories.

She started posting her images on her personal Facebook page and after receiving requests from people to purchase them so she thought of opening an Etsy shop. The shop grew, she made a website, and started doing commissioned illustration work in between freelance advertising jobs. She always wanted to have a card line, but had talked herself out of it until January 2013, when she decided to do an experiment. She had 100 copies of one Valentine card she’d written, she put it in her Etsy shop, not knowing what would happen, figuring she’d sell a few. Etsy put it on their Facebook page, and it went viral. Emily shipped over 1,600 individual copies of that card to customers in 8 days. From this experience she decided to create her own stationery line and in May of 2013 she launched a line of 45 cards at the National Stationery Show.

To see more of Emily's work and learn more about her story and work precess make sure to check out her website: www.emilymcdowell.com