Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we know how important it is to pick out a thoughtful card and gift for that special someone. Or in some cases how adding that extra special something and wrapping your gift just the way you pictured it.

We’ve put together a gift guide to help inspire you for February 14. Here’s a selection of some items for that big day all available for purchase from our shop!

1. Full of Hearts, Gift Wrap Kit  – $21.00 NZD
2. Love you Long Time, Gift Tags – $6.75 NZD
3. Puppy Love, Gift Card – $6.00 NZD
4. Stay Awesome, Notepad - $12.00 NZD
5. Full of Hearts, Cupcake Toppers – $12.00 NZD
6. Perpetual Calendar – $28.00 NZD
7. You are my Superhero, Note Cards – $13.50 NZD
8. Love you Sunshine, Print - $25.00 NZD
9. Full of Hearts, Favour Bags – $10.00 NZD

This week we’re helping those who have less this holiday season!

25% of all sales this week will go to the Red Cross. Help us spread some holiday cheer this year! This applies to any item purchased through our store – so please help spread the love and spread the word! x

The holidays are quickly approaching…which means the New Year is near!  Here is a range of our stationery to help keep you organised and calm in 2013. Help keep your New Years resolutions with our lovely range of calendars, note pads, and cards.

These items make lovely gifts as well – remember this is the last week to order to ensure everything arrives in time for Santa!

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

Love the design?
You can buy the matching wrapping paper and gift tags in our store!  Perfect for wrapping presents this holiday season! x

Desktop Wallpaper Download sizes:

December Calendar (Widescreen 16:10) 1920×1200
Kiwiana December (Widescreen 16:10) 1920×1200

December Calendar (Fullscreen 4:3) 1600×1200
Kiwiana December (Fullscreen 4:3) 1600×1200

iPhone Download sizes:

Animals like to Party (iPhone 4) 640×960
Kiwiana December (iPhone 4) 640×960

Animals like to Party (iPhone 5) 640×1136
Kiwiana December (iPhone 5) 640×1136

To simplify things I’ve only made two sizes for each design but they should work on most screens – just use either the “centre” setting or “fit to screen” if it doesn’t look quite right.

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!

Happy Tuesday everyone, I hope everyone has had a really lovely weekend. I had a nice relaxing weekend catching my breath and catching up with lots of very lovely ladies before the Christmas madness strikes. I’d love to hear what you got up to this very lovely sunny weekend, I hope it’s something wonderful and very relaxing!

This week, I present you with a fantastic stationery treat: Besotted Brand. Based out of Los Angeles, these folks know the true meaning of traditional letter writing and joy receiving a parcel in the post brings.

Their shop is positively lovely full of stamps, packaging ideas and absolute wonderment.

Enjoy! 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

Here are the easy steps to create your own bunting! It makes a great accessory for the holiday season, birthday parties or maybe even your own market stall!

1. Find what you’re going to write on (I used Newsprint – found at most art stores)
2. Pick a typeface you like for your word.
3. Make sure you print at a size that will work well for the end piece of your paper (and to print all letters needed!)
4. Find a bright window to use as a light box and start tracing!
5. Measure the center of the page and then draw with pencil two diagonal lines to the bottom corners
6. With a sharp box cutter and metal ruler, follow the pencil line.
7. Adhere your new beautiful flags to ribbon of choice! (I used hemp twine and stuck them on with washi tape)

Enjoy! x

Well who can believe that November is already here and there are only two more months in 2012?!  Where did the year go? I hope you all have had a lovely, sunny week – it’s sure been a busy one here at Toodles Noodles HQ getting ready for Craft2.0 and The City Market in Wellington this weekend and filling orders along the way.

Not to mention, have you seen the reveal of our amazing styled photo shoot in collaboration with the extremely talented All the Frills, Made from Scratch and Coralee from Coralee & Alex? We’ll do our own post soon but in the mean time scoot on over to MFS to see her lovely posts!

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and if you’re in the Wellington area, we do hope that you pop in to either market and say hello! x

1. These beautiful wedding invitations are designed across the pond in Sydney by Rebecca McGrath and are ready for you to just print – how perfect is that!

2. Anyone else feel like this poster was designed for them? This beautiful piece of work was done by the Design Studio.

3. Originally painted with watercolour on canvas all the way from Portugal by ARMINHO – stunning.

4. As a little girl, my after school treat with my sister and mom was a glass of steamed milk and madeleines. This beautifully photographed image by Erin Nish brings back lots of happy memories.

5. As a San Francisco native my heart holds a special place for art from the Bay Area.  Heath Ceramics has breathtaking work that I make sure to swoon over every time I go home.

6. Feminine beer illustration and a reusable bag, love the combo Oh, Little Rabbit!

Have a fantastic weekend everyone! x