Well everyone the countdown is really on for Christmas now! Orders have really been flying through the shop and we have our last market of the year! You can find us this Saturday at Britomart’s Moad Christmas Market open from 10-2:30. Then on Sunday I’m super excited for the Day on the Green concert at the positively beautiful Villa Maria Estate Winery featuring The Black Seeds and Fly Me Pretties! Do you have some fun weekend plans – we’d love to hear them!

Now onto the good stuff – this week’s roundup is a gift guide for the cooks in your life!

1. Beautiful mini wood bowls by Wind & Willow Home.
2. A lovely handmade apron by Beth at Chirp will surely do the trick, located locally here in Auckland.
3. OneCanoeTwo make the most beautiful and vibrant letter-pressed stationery including these recipe cards.
4. For the baker – this colourful cookbook is perfect!
5. Have lots of shopping to do – no problem! This notepad will help keep you and your home organised.
6. Time to make those baked goods shine with this handcrafted cake stand.
7. There’s nothing like a tidy kitchen, keep your cooking utensils looking fab.

Sure do hope this roundup help bring some inspiration for those cooks and bakers in your life!  See you all next week!

Being the holiday season and the New Year quickly approaching - dreams, goals and resolutions are on the mind!  One of my big dreams is to have our own Toodles Noodles HQ!  At the moment this lovely company is run out of me and my partners apartment. We have dedicated one bedroom to a lovely office with a desk handcrafted by my Mr!  But as stock levels are increasing and orders are flying through – it has us dreaming of the big leagues – and with that a big office!

Our dream office would consist of lots of natural light, a huge cutting table with storage underneath, stunning shelving to hold and display our stock, lots of natural wood, a relaxing soft seating area, and the icing on the cake – it would be located in a small barn on our property! (and yes, I’ve started playing lotto for this big dream…)

Here is a selection of stunning studios... come dream a little dream with me!  Have a studio of your own, we’d love to see pictures! x

Happy Friday everyone!  What a week, is it just me or did Tuesday feel like Thursday! We’ve been busy this week getting all the stock ready for this Saturday’s Auckland Art and Craft Fair. We’ll be at the Aotea Centre from 11-4 with a table full of your gift wrapping needs and some lovely gifts too! If you’re busy this weekend, we have our last market of the season the following Saturday at the MOAD located in Britomart. Both lineups look amazing full of very talented New Zealand designers!

This week, I’ve decided to put together a wee gift guide for the men in your life.  I hope I’ve found a good mixture for all those men out there in your lives!

Have a great weekend everyone and hope to put some faces to names this Saturday! x

1. How perfect is this beer caddy for Summer?
2. This stunning bag works well for your mans work trips or those romantic weekends away…
3. Using natural ingredients, Ursa Major’s formulations artfully blend nature’s most effective and luxurious ingredients to provide rich textures, robust aromas and unbeatable performance.
4. Have a man who’s environmental conscious? This bike will do the job!
5. And to match the bike rider – a stylish Herschel bag.
6. Every stylish man needs a stylish phone cover!
7. And lastly how delicious does this wool Lumberjack jacket look – yum!

Have you purchased your gifts yet this season? If so we’d love to hear what you’re getting! Ok folks, have a great weekend and chat again next week! x

As you may have noticed from some of our designs, ok a lot of our designs, we may have a bit of a soft spot for animals.  So for this week’s round up, I decided to showcase some of my favourite animal stationery finds.

1. This cute set of 8 animal cards are letterpress printed on white FSC certified card stock – includes: bear, bird, duck, elephant, giraffe, kangaroo, moose, & rhinoceros) designed beautifully by enormouschampion
2. Decorative as well as functional, wool felt animals are stuffed and weighted to stand up to a library of books. Available in both elephant and giraffe.
3. Hippos are my favourite animal – how adorable are these little guys? They work perfectly as bookends, doorstops, or decorative pieces.
4. Receive lots of mail and find it hard to keep organised? This adorable Dachshund is here to keep your desk clean and tidy.
5. Each letter of this four colour screen printed poster by sass&peril is accompanied by a colorful illustration to help your little one learn their ABCs in a fun way
6. I’ve been eyeing this piece for quite a few months now. I love how he holds your iPhone, sketchbook and pens while looking adorable and inspirational for the big day ahead!

I hope this fun collection of animal stationery has brought a smile to your face this Friday and you have a lovely weekend!

x

Oh my goodness!  Where has this week gone – preparing this week’s weekly roundup I just couldn’t believe Friday has come again so quickly!  It feels like we were just down in Wellington meeting some very lovely people at Craft2.o and the Wellington City Market.  I hope you all have had a fantastic week filled with sunshine!  Mine’s been busy with filling orders, creating our new notepad (sneak peek here!) design and printing our first wedding invitation request!

Now without further ado here’s this weeks roundup:

1. Now I’m not one to condone drinking but the packaging of Death’s Door Spirits by Grip Design Inc would look quite splendid on a home bar.
2. Alyssa Nassner is an illustrator based in Minneapolis, who uses beautiful colours and strokes in her work. This illustration is part of her “life advice” series.
3. These pillows are made with metalic paint, handprinted and on hemp pillow covers – perfect! Found on {me}longings studio Etsy‘s store along with more beautiful products.
4. This cute tank comes in multiple styles and colours – what a great gift idea by designer MNKR.
5. These little cuties are handmade in the USA…am I the only one wishing they came in adult size?
6. As a big fan of coffee and of design this product is a winner in my eyes! Designed by Boheem in Sydney for One Tree Coffee Co, a boutique Espresso Bar in Newcastle NSW who sell their freshly made ice coffee on their premises.
7. Last but not least a sweet treat!

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend wherever you are! And just think we’re just about 6 weeks away from the holiday season kicking off – wowie!

x

Spring is in the air, the weather is warmer, the days are longer, and the birds are chirpier!

It also is the perfect time to start planting for the summer to come. As we only have a wee deck with little direct sun (read lots of succulents, ferns, grasses planted) I can only dream of my perfect veggie / fruit garden.  Here are some great ideas of others fantastic gardens.

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