What a beautiful summer New Zealand has been experiencing these past few weeks! I don’t think I’ve had this kind of heat and clear blue skies in years – and am loving it!

One of the great things about living in Auckland compared to Wellington is that people love to wear colour – it reminds me of when I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. You go from an all black wardrobe to an assortment of brights and patterns - something this designer loves! One can’t help but feel vibrant and happy when surrounded by brights!

A lot of new things have been buzzing in the studio this past week!  We released our latest addition to the shop: baking decorations! Here you can find cake and cupcake toppers in all our designs. And don’t forget, just like with any of our work – have something in mind but don’t see it online – let us know and we can custom make it!

We’re also working furisouly away getting ready for the New Zealand Gift and Homeware Fair - our first trade show! Not to mention working on two new products to be released soon and a few markets coming up as well!  All to be released in detail soon..!

Now enough talking and onto link sharing:

1.  Vibrant streamers and pom poms light up this barn in a heart felt Main wedding.
2. Loving the typography treatment on this poster by Luke Williams.
3. Gluten free has never looked so good – beautiful packaging by Nancy Hope.
4. In love with this hand painted flower garland cake topper – what attention to detail!
5. We found this shop earlier this week on Etsy and fell in LOVE – everything is just amazing!
6. Rhubarb Ice Cream with Oatmeal Shortbread, don’t mind if we do.
7. J.Crew has come out with a new line of boat shoes – I’ll take one in every colour and pattern please.

I hope you all have a great weekend and stay tuned for more announcements and February’s wallpapers! x

Happy Friday everyone! Looks like 2013 is off to a booming start for so many people – including us here at TN!  Just last week we found out that we might be able to move into a new bigger, sunnier home and just this Wednesday we found out we’re moving this Sunday!  Nothing like a short deadline to get things going!

With that in mind I have put together this fresh, new feeling weekly roundup!  I hope you find it as peaceful as I have and have a fantastic weekend!

1. Nothing says comfort like Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Stuffed with Homemade Caramel – oh yum!
2. Loving the fresh olive branches on the table settings at this wedding beautiful wedding.
3. Who would mind doing cleaning when your dustpan is smiling back up at ya!?
4. Absolutely love these beautifully designed bottles by Amy Hardy featured in Southern Weddings Magazine.
5. This week I discovered a new beautiful blog named Age Old Tree – beautiful!
6. These colourful spoons will brighten up any morning…

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and can’t wait to show you images of our new home! x

This week’s gift guide is for the jewelry lovers out there!  This gorgeous shop offers a little of everything: rings, necklaces,  silver and gold combinations.

Rand Papele Jewelry is made by Eben Papele and Judith Rand in a little town north of New York City called High Falls.  Each piece is made by hand by the couple, soldered, and textured – one piece at a time. To view their entire collection visit their store – I promise you’ll fall in love with their collection.

Until next time – enjoy! 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

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

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope you all had a lovely short week with Summer finally giving us a sneak peek.  Hopefully the nice weather continues for the weekend – we’ll be over at the We Can Create markets on Saturday from 12-5 if you want to pop by and say hello!

1. This amazing logo is home to Spruce Collective - started up by five like-minded girls who share a love for vintage treasures and are inspired by all things creative.  I could spend hours looking at their site….

2. Father Rabbit just opened their store in Auckland. Everything on their website is to die for, including these stunning bath towels.

3. How sweet is this canvas pouch by Paloma’s Nest found on Etsy based in Austin, Texas.

4. This beautiful coffee packaging  is from Coffee Balzac’s Roasters, a company based in Ontario  Canada – if the love of caffeine doesn’t get you going in the morning looking at this stunning illustration might help get those creative juices going!

5. These finger licking looking donuts are by a Spanish blog named “La receta de felicidad” which translates to the recipe of happiness.  With beautiful recipes, food styling snaps and website design this one is an overall winner!

6. Don’t these measuring cups by West Elm just sing Julia Child?

Hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s roundup – have a great weekend everyone! x

Happy Tuesday everyone, how was your weekend? Mine was wonderfully relaxing, going down to Wanaka for a mini holiday, enjoying the beautiful views and also working on making Toodles Noodles ribbon bundles next to a roaring fire – the perfect combo!

With the holiday season quickly approaching I thought this would be a great time to introduce some great gift finds to the blog – this week we have The Little White Box, by Renee Coombe, located in Ardmore, New Zealand.

Their philosophy revolves around the little things that provide comfort and character that help make a house your home, and we hope that their handmade wares find a place in your heart.

With each piece being handmade and hand painted you will never find two items exactly the same which makes these beautiful ceramic items a lovely gift this holiday season.  I’ve personally been eyeing up the tea pot for my new home and purchased the lovely doves for my sister-in-law – aren’t they to die for?!

Their items make great cooking, baking, entertaining, housewarming gifts this holiday season – and are of course New Zealand made!  I do hope you love Renee’s work as much as I do, and if you have any suggestions for the next holiday gift post, do let us know! x

Well what a beautiful sunny week it’s been!  It may be with the sun shinning, the lovely care package I received from my mom, the fact that I FINALLY got to do my nails last night for the first time in weeks, or just the overall lovely feeling in the air that has resulted with this week’s particularly pink girly weekly roundup!

1. Gorgeous cakes are from the very talented Swedish Linda from Call me Cupcake (we seem to find a lot of talent from that part of the world lately!)

2. How inviting and relaxing does that bed look? Love the details on the duvet…

3. These amazing postcards by Present and Correct are filled with confetti – who wouldn’t love to receive something like that in the post?!

4. This handsome fella is wearing the perfect accessory for any wee one this wedding season, clever makings by The Wedding Chicks.

5. Let’s just say I don’t think anyone would be upset to receive these beauties as a gift… *wink wink*

6. Stitch Design Co. is a lovely stationery company in the us with a fantastic eye for detail

7. And because it’s almost the weekend and I’m craving sweets like crazy this week – another cake!

Have a fantastic weekend everyone! x