belki love

this beautiful gem of a store has been a long time supporter of poppies and we are ever so grateful. Tanya's eye for detail, her merchandising skills and the charming collection of things has always drawn us there. We are so thrilled that she chose poppies for grace to be in the window for mother's day. We popped down this morning for a little look-see and took a few snaps. Windows are tricky things, sorry for the reflections! The display is wonderful!!!! thank you Tanya. If you've not been to belki and live in melbourne the address is 631 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North.

new things in store

today there is new cards, stickers and sticky notes up on our website. yay.
today I had my 12 week ultrasound and saw the little one wiggling about, what beauty.
today charlie and I are both wearing yellow tops.
today we ate lunch outside.
today we had cake and custard.

x

another poppies show

since this show involved us getting on a plane (I have a massive fear of flying, not to mention pretty wooden tables don't fit) our stand design was a little less 'ta da' than I would have liked. hours of cutting out little paper butterflies to cover some of the white walls went down a treat. now we are working their prettiness into our next range.
we had such fun with the fine ladies of High Tea and of course Karen and Amber of Me and Amber, Elise Carrels, and the quirky, ever so lovely Nick of Two Ruffians
my most embarrassing moment: gushing over the buyers from Anthropologie, to the point I actually hugged the catalogue, dear me, when will I learn.
xx

remember me

I can't believe the last time i wrote was november. I'm sneaking in a post before it becomes march.
market day came and went, as did the sydney trade show. our hands have been busily working on new cards, stickers and sticky notes. these will be online soon. promise. here is a little pic of the welcome card.
a few people have asked if we have been affected by the terrible bush fires. i think we all have. we have seen so much to have hope in though, so much rich humanity. we continue to pray for rain.

market day update

we have almost everything ready for the market now, which is rather organised for poppies. I feel silly and like a commercial for saying what i am about to say, but here goes..... market day will mean a one day poppies sale: cards $5, tags $2.50, boxed cards $25, small writing sets $20, desk sets $35... come one come all and snap up a little christmas gift or two. owww do forgive me.

real living

is it just me or does each issue get better and better. I adore it, a cup of tea, short bread bikkies, feet up and mag in hand. the november issue has the most perfect recipe 'warm roasted vegetable salad with couscous'. So good I've been making it every week, I like adding green olives and slices of chili salami to mine. Anyway this Christmas issue has a few poppies things featured. One being our lolly bags. Clair- such a talent stylist and beautiful woman has used some of our camellia sweets and isobel treats with red letters and christmas pegs. way to turn a simple bag into a work of art. She is amazing. sooooooooo incase there is any confusion we don't have Christmas themed lolly bags exactly!
Another feature is some home made envelopes, I'm certainly not the first to use children's book illustrations for envelope making, but I am still thrilled they made it into the pages. It is such a simple way to get crafting, so go on, run down to your local opp shop and see what you can find. The envelopes look oh so good on a gift wrapped in brown paper. If you can't bear to rip the pages out (like me) scan the image in and print out a copy.
xx alana
ps. isobel turned 3 yesterday. happy birthday dear sweet isobel. and yes, you are right you can go to ballet class now.

melbourne design market

is that market we all love. It is on again next Sunday (30th) here are the details. We are bundling all our things in boxes and setting up shop for the day, so if you are in melbourne pop by! We are now in the process of sewing up our little birdies to keep us company. yay for market day.