tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83237153782098754692024-02-19T05:01:25.498+00:00DaisyleyThis Blog is about the fledgling business Daisyley and the home life of Jo Norman. I started making Daisyley boxes and bunting when I wanted to send more than just a card to friends and family when they celebrated a birthday or when they were ill. I love and am inspired by design that is simple and contemporary with a hint of "brown paper packages tied up with string".www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.comBlogger312125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-55190962308827552802013-05-10T08:00:00.000+01:002013-05-10T08:00:08.499+01:00A Birthday Treat and a Pretty Sight<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mum had a little birthday last week and it was decided that we (mum, me and two sisters) would go to Oxford to visit the <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/" target="_blank">Ashmolean Museum</a> and in particular to see the </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://annewheaton.co.uk/2013/03/14/a-cabinet-of-curiosities/" style="color: #444444; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank">John Tradescant’s collection</a><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">. We had a circuitous, but very pretty, journey there going past mum's old school and passing through some lovely countryside. Arriving just in time for lunch - we like to get our priorities right - we went straight up to the roof terrace of the Ashmolean for a light lunch.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">This turned out to be the highlight of my day. Sitting there waiting for our tea and who should walk in but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayson_Perry" target="_blank">Grayson Perry</a>. Not wanting to turn round and be obvious about it Sister #2 asks where he is and will she be able to recognise him? Sister #1 and I reply "You'll know which one he is as he's the only one with a Little Bo Peep hat on". </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">He looked amazing. Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and white patterned dress with petticoats underneath and blue sash, white ankle socks and white mary janes. He had a matching hat and dear little bag. No photo of him as I was just too embarrassed to take one properly but mum drew a sketch when she got home.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know that Ed would like the Control of the TV Controls the best but we may just give him some of these token and inexplicably forget to put that one in the packet!</span></div>
www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-58269712962685690402013-04-19T08:00:00.000+01:002013-04-19T08:00:05.880+01:00New Neighbours<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We don't often get new neighbours in my part of the village so I wanted to make a good first impression but the 79p pansies I bought from the local hardware store (limited shops on my post office run) wrapped in a thin blue plastic bag didn't quite look right.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Always sad to say goodbye to neighbours who you've known for a long time and there is always the dread that someone you don't like might move in but am happy to report that on first meeting new neighbour seems lovely. Now all I have to do is arrange a little soiree* {<i>what is it with me and smatterings of French today</i>} with the other neighbours.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">* D</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">on't worry I most definitely did not use the word soiree when I was talking to her I'm sure I said get together.</span></i>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-57391552340067140062013-04-15T08:00:00.000+01:002013-04-15T08:00:14.074+01:00Thank You<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As any reader of this blog will know my new products normally come from requests from those lovely notonthehighstreet customers. Well guess what .... here is another one!<br /><br />There is a bit of a trend for wedding couples dressed in all their wedding finery to hold a bunting saying THANK YOU and then they can use the photo for their thank you cards.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've done a number of them through my <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/wedding-signage-bunting" target="_blank">Wedding Signage Bunting</a> product (catchy product name NOT) and had numerous enquiries so I decided the time had come to give it its own dedicated product page.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So here we have it the <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/thank-you-bunting" target="_blank">THANK YOU</a> bunting. Not just for weddings of course but any time you want to say thanks in a small, medium or large way!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-59494001706380525802013-04-12T08:00:00.000+01:002013-04-13T09:02:04.026+01:00Birthday Treats<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was my birthday last week and as a treat I had a day off for a little jaunt to London. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had booked tickets for the <a href="http://noordinarypark.co.uk/events/" target="_blank">Park in Progress Tour</a> and for</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> some inexplicable reason I had booked a very early slot which meant we had to get up to London for 10am (silly me exorbitant rail fare and exorbitant train tickets ooops). I can only think that at the time I booked it was the only slot they had left. Anyway it's always good to start days out early isn't it?!?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We got there in good time and listened to Boris (on video sadly not real life) giving us a safety talk whilst we put on our high-vis jackets, which is always exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now I'm sounding a bit negative but I did enjoy it because it was one of the things we didn't get to do when we went to the Olympics and so I'm glad I've been up but I wouldn't rave about it. As for the Park in Progress tour well that was a bit of misrepresentation really because we didn't get to see much of the park. My advice is don't bother with the tour and just wait until they have actually finished doing whatever it is they are doing and it's not a building site any more.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As it was my birthday we then got to go shopping (whoppee). So off we went to Oxford Circus and a little visit to <a href="http://www.liberty.co.uk/?gclid=CJnnoojQvrYCFQ7KtAodRW4Ajg" target="_blank">Liberty</a>. Ahhhhh bliss. From the moment you walk in the door it is just amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As a child I was taken to Liberty a lot {<i>thank you Mum x}</i> and I was really pleased that both the boys "got" Liberty and realised that this wasn't like your normal average store. They stood in awe looking upwards, ran their hands over the wooden frog on the staircase and wished they could buy a leather pig. Nostalgic for me, oh yes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Obviously the things Liberty sells are beautiful but so is the styling and everywhere you looked there was something unexpected and delightful.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two Liberty bags later we finally left with smiles on our faces and a comment from youngest asking if he could have one of the Liberty bags .... never has a mother been so proud of her son.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Quick lunch stop at Wagamamas, I needed to make sure the boys were sustained for the next bit, and then off to <a href="http://www.anthropologie.eu/?cm_mmc=Google_London-_-S-UK_Brand-_-Anthropologie_KW_Exact-_-anthropologie_Exact&cm_guid=1-_-100000000000000016555-_-24020408605&gclid=COPBhZLSvrYCFbLMtAodkk8AFg" target="_blank">Anthropologie</a>. I'm not sure how many years and how many trips to London have passed since I became aware of this shop but I had never managed to get there so it really was a birthday treat.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another sensory delight full of amazing styling and gorgeous, gorgeous things to buy displayed so that you want everything. I succumbed to a floppy hat and a wooden postcard that is winging its way to Australia and so another bag with string handles to add to my collection.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Perfect day out and home to husband cooking dinner and something pink and fizzy cooling in the fridge. Yup definitely perfect.</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-72929822396646438572013-04-10T08:00:00.000+01:002013-04-10T08:40:07.278+01:00Signwriting<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A little bit of a longer gap in blogging than I had anticipated but I've just had too much to do and not enough time to do it :-(</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let me start again by showing you the labours of a great day out I had a few weeks ago at a signwriting course with one of my sisters and mum. Mum had found the course and two of her daughters didn't need much persuading to go with her. The course was held at <a href="http://www.assingtonmill.com/" target="_blank">Assington Mill</a> an amazing venue with <a href="http://www.waynetanswell-signwriter.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wayne Tanswell</a> - Traditional Signwriter as tutor. Wayne had a very relaxed easy-going teaching style which meant that we didn't feel too intimidated by what we were about to try and complete, which was to end the day with our own hand painted sign.<br /><br />We started off by just practicing the strokes needed which was actually very therapeutic and I could quite happily have done this all day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then we got to do </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">our chosen word or words</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for real</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> on a piece of wood for. As our house sign has bullet holes in it .... yes bullet holes. Oh alright I'll tell you why. The reason it has bullet holes is because my dear husband and one of our dear friends one night decided to set up tin cans on our gate and then preceded to kneel at our kitchen window shooting the tin cans off the gate with the air rifle. They are not very good shots and the gate and sign got peppered making it look like we have been subject to numerous drive by shootings. So back to the sign here is the chalked out lettering.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now although I put a lot of paint on the board the reason it looks so good and so perfect is sadly not because I am a natural at signwriting but because maybe Wayne came and touched it up just a little bit!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had a great day out, delicious lunch and came home with a sign and a better understanding and insight into how difficult, but not actually that scary, traditional signwriting is. </span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-8747931042648577512013-02-15T14:15:00.000+00:002013-02-15T14:15:37.510+00:00Onesie and an Apology<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is really a post for my god-daughter Abi. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Abi, do you remember that onesie I bought you that you loved so much that you could hardly bear to take off at Christmas? You know the one that your youngest English cousins greeted with disdain? The one that they teased you about? The one they said was the most awful thing they had ever seen and why on earth did you wear it?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well Abi it's funny how quickly opinions can change. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago Oscar got his final skiing packing list and on it was the requirement for a onesie. They didn't have to have one but Oscar said he ought to and funnily enough Archie asked if he could have one too - how strange when they were so scornful?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So Abi let me share some photos with you. In this photo for some reason Archie is wearing a red curly wig and my spotty boots, I wonder if this is to distract from the green dinosaur suit he is wearing. You will also notice he's not too keen on having his photo taken and is in fact running away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which is funny because he wears it all the time so it is quite easy to photograph him although he has deleted some of the photos off my camera in a bid to stop me showing them to you. But as he wears it all the time, even on the trampoline, it was quite easy to get photographic evidence for you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He doesn't just like it he absolutely loves it and is even going to wear it for a school assembly after half term. So how is that for a complete turnaround? I think they should both write or skype you a full apology because they think they are comfy and warm and snuggly and you were right and they were wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oscar has a monkey one ... with a tail ... ! He had some friends over the other night and the three of them all sat watching television with their onesies on (even I found this odd I must admit).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So on behalf of my sons Abi please take this as confirmation that you were right and if you would like to smuggly raise your eyebrows whilst murmuring "silly boy cousins" please feel free to do so. x</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-87265336506556618162013-02-14T08:00:00.000+00:002013-02-14T09:34:17.987+00:00No Parties Day????<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The prize for the one that made me laugh the most was a husband who gave his wife a token that was for housework .... to which he added underneath "to the required standard". Wise man, very wise man indeed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A lot of the tokens have been far too rude to mention here and I've printed some off with eyes half closed thinking they should be sent in a plain brown envelope. My most stupid misread was one that I thought said No Parties and I wondered why anyone would give a token for No Parties. Mmmmmm try changing the R for an N and it will all become apparent. Bit draughty in February though don't you think? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After sending out romantic order after romantic order do you think I will get anything from my beloved today? Nah doubt it, we don't go in for that sort of thing much.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Going out on Valentine's Day always feels a bit too forced for my liking, in much the same way as I always think that there is too much pressure to have a good time on New Years Eve</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. One of the best Valentine's Day nights we've had was a few years ago when a group of about twelve of us went out together. We were placed slap bang in the middle of the restaurant with couples all around us. Perhaps it was our raucous behaviour drowning out their sweet nothings but I swear they were all looking at us enviously wishing they had come with a group of friends too. Much more fun and we had a great night. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No Couple PaRties is just about right I reckon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did get a Valentine's Day present, hush my mouth for not having faith that there is romance in our house. And it's on the right side of tasteful ....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is that time of year when I like to get shocked by the notonthehighstreet customers and their choice of tokens. This year my <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/personalised-love-tokens" target="_blank">Love Tokens</a> seem to have a bit of Fifty Shades of Grey influence (more bondage) but I'm glad to see that 'having use of the controls' and the less risqué 'massage' are still very popular.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year I've yet to have a truly shocking set of tokens, in fact so far there have probably been more "ahhhs" than "oooo my goodness" when I first look at the messages. Saying that I have still felt the need to make sure that these orders are done strictly during school hours though to prevent any awkward "what does that mean Mum?" conversations .... yes some of them are pretty graphic and quite rightly </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of an adult nature </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">as they are Love Tokens. <i>Perhaps I should rename them Luuuurve Tokens?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another addition for Valentine's Day is my <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/heart-bunting" target="_blank">Heart Bunting</a> - I hope you like its simple design. Can't imagine why I haven't done this before really as it goes so well with my <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/wedding-banner" target="_blank">Just Married</a> and <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/engagement-bunting" target="_blank">Just Engaged</a> bunting.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And it was lovely snow, light fluffy and very white. It didn't seem to go horribly grey as it does sometimes but just remained beautiful and as it lasted so long I sort of got used to it. Waking up at the weekend to see it had all disappeared overnight was a bit weird.</span><br />
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<br />www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-31813240316473758182013-01-11T08:00:00.000+00:002013-01-11T08:00:06.623+00:00Oooo La La Bonne Année<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A little bit late I know but Happy New Year anyway. </span><div>
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www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-82190039178054921642012-12-27T08:00:00.000+00:002012-12-27T08:00:14.554+00:00No New Clothes Challenge - The End<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I've done it, I've actually gone a whole year without buying any new clothes. It wasn't difficult it was quite liberating and it has probably changed my habits for ever. Looking at cheap new clothes now seems a bit obscene and realising that I've far too many clothes anyway is a bit embarrassing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the past year the times when I've felt I "needed" to buy something has been for smart nights out but I've come to realise that going shopping is actually the lazy option. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mainly I buy something new because it is easier than looking in my wardrobe. The other day when we were off a black tie event I was convinced I didn't have anything ..... ummmm yes I did. After going through my wardrobe I managed to find at least three things that would do and ended up finding a dress belonging to my mum that I wore and was absolutely perfect for the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">occasion</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I suppose I have missed that lovely buzz of buying something new and sometimes you buy something that you wear and wear and wear but more often than not you don't realise it at the time. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little did I know the day I was made redundant and couldn't face going home just yet so went shopping and bought my blue silk dress from Planet in the sale that it would become my "default fall back I don't know what to wear attire". I love that dress and I've worn it so many times that it was worth every penny. But those purchases are few and far between. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The only person who seems to have noticed my lack of new clothes (and maybe been a bit scornful) is my friend Sarah who quite honestly admits she has a bit of a problem with shopping and couldn't go a <strike>month</strike> <strike>week</strike> day without buying something new. Maybe her scorn was justified though as the last time I saw her I was wearing a dress of hers that I seem to have borrowed and never quite given back to her ... oooops. She really notices what people wear and will tell me when the last time she saw me wear something and will remember when I bought it! But let's be honest she is unusual. Last week I went to a party and thought I couldn't wear this dress because I'd worn it with the same people not long ago, then I tried to remember what they were wearing .... no couldn't recall .... so decided that they wouldn't remember either and, if they did, they would be far too polite to say anything. I was right. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Which brings me onto another thought. Why do we buy new clothes? Is it to get that buying buzz, to impress others, to be fashionable or to not look scruffy? I think that I can cover all these things by just buying a couple of new things each year. I'm going to try not to be mesmerised by the price of clothes and perhaps spend a little bit more and go for quality rather than quantity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have I mentioned before that I have the best customers ever? Well I don't care I shall mention it again. Look what arrived in the post for me from my favourite customer .... yes beautiful, delicious, decadent chocolates.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A Christmas present from the lovely Charlotte of Carlotta's Chocolates. Go "like" her on on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/charlotte.eatoughcarlottaschocolates" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page and have a look at her new <a href="http://www.number6ofyourfiveaday.com/" target="_blank">website</a> and marvel at the combination of enticing chocolate and amazing photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Carlotta's Chocolates look beautiful, taste even better and really are the most delicious thing ever. I can not recommend them highly enough and now it's easy to get them delivered straight to your door - just order some and I promise you will thank me when you do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Charlotte makes these marvels in her chocolate kitchen in rural Angus, Scotland. To be honest I wasn't that sure where Brechin, Angus was (my mum, Scottish relations and sister who lived for a while in Aberdeenshire would be ashamed of me I know) but I do now because I looked on a map! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love the joys of the internet with me down way down south and Charlotte way up north that we have formed a friendship through her love of bunting and my love of chocolate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy Christmas everyone and please help yourself to a virtual Carlotta's Chocolate from the box above .... </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they will have to be virtual in more ways than one as the box now looks like this. They were really really really yummy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I've been just a little bit busy! Actually I don't think I've ever worked as hard as I have done for the last couple of months. Working seven days a week from 7am to 1am has not been unusual and I've loved it .... mostly. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The things I've not loved is that the house is a tip, all table manners have completely disappeared, I mislaid my patience weeks ago and my friends are all wondering if I will ever talk/see them again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1. Some customers are lovely beyond belief and others are so annoying you'd like to tell them that you'd rather not fulfil their order and could they just go away. Wish people would realise that the nicer you are the more others will go out of their way to help you and the ruder you are the less you get ... simple.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2. People who can't read descriptions or fill in boxes or write the correct details are really annoying.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3. Dirt/mess/clutter in your house can be overlooked. I found walking around with eyes half closed is fine and as long as no-one apart from your family comes round it's OK.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4. A husband that can cook is a wonderful thing .... now if he can just get his timing sorted out so that we eat before 9 he would be amazing ♥</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5. I could not have fulfilled my orders without the help of my husband, mother and children who have helped me when I really thought there was no way I could get everything done.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6. Asking for help is easier than I thought when you know you have absolutely no choice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7. Royal Mail can't be relied upon to get first class mail to the intended recipient within 1-2 days at Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8. Having a few evenings out in the diary is essential. Book nights out but keep all days clear and do not commit to anything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9. Not going to watch rugby on a Sunday is not OK and I've missed that more than anything else. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">10. Next year I should completely finish Christmas shopping in October. I have done all my Christmas shopping online this year with notonthehighstreet and John Lewis and although I had done a lot of it I still had a few people left - this is not a good idea and added to stress.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So now I can relax and reintegrate back into the family. I am beyond excited about a certain family flying in from Australia on Saturday and I can finally start to look forward to it. I CAN NOT WAIT FOR SATURDAY :-)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is going to feel a bit weird not rushing, not mentally trying to work out how many extra orders I can do before the school run. I will miss seeing the lovely accounting totals each week but when I get that first lovely no alarm clock lie in (scheduled for Christmas Eve) even that will be fine as I drift off back to sleep instead of forcing myself to get up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been great but exhausting, tiring, stressful and exhilarating and if I don't see another Personalised Initial Tag until the New Year I will be quite happy. I'm already thinking how I could improve it for next year ..... roll on 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We now have a teenager in the house as Oscar turned the big one three today. Scary stuff but happy to report he hasn't turned overnight into monosyllabic Kevin The Teenager .... phew.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shhhhh don't tell him this but he's actually not that bad to have around the place. Okay so he doesn't always tidy his room and he has some very annoying habits like drinking milk straight from the bottle, physically restraining his brother, randomly walking around naked, not putting dirty clothes in the wash, using me as a taxi service and putting the phone down in mid conversation but on the whole he's actually quite lovely. I love his enthusiasm for his passions of scooters and rugby. I love his knack of convincing me I really do want eight of his friends over for a sleepover. I love his attempts to remember to be nice to me "Would you like a cup of tea?". I love his continued belief that I care about his scooter or its parts. I love how he tells me in great detail about the exciting day he had at the skate park. I love how he always seems to be the one in the wrong place when a job needs doing but does it anyway. I love how he always does his homework (maybe not exactly with huge effort every time but he does do it.) I love his bashful half smile if anyone praises him. I love that he makes me laugh ... often. Happy Birthday Oscar and welcome to your teens.</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-49996816048166977892012-11-12T08:00:00.000+00:002012-11-12T08:00:07.605+00:00Busy as a Christmas Elf<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week has been very busy, wonderful to see the orders pinging through but it has sometimes felt a little overwhelming. On Wednesday afternoon I had a bit of a confidence crisis thinking I couldn't keep up especially as I was due to go out for dinner with my Book Club and really wanted to go but felt I should stay at home and get on top of things. Luckily my lovely husband said he could help me the next day and so off I went safe in the knowledge that I had an extra pair of hands the next day. Of course, having a night out away from Daisyley was exactly what I needed and the next day I was rejuvenated and didn't need his help after all. There's a lesson there!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As always there are orders that come through that I would love to know the story behind. I'm convinced that the two tags from the same customer to different men was one to the husband and one to the lover. I was intrigued by the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Auntie who was very liberal with her love and kisses to one child but not so with the other children. Does she love one more than the others why did only one get Lots of love AND kisses? Maybe the other children are just irritatingly awful? I do hope that they're not all in the same place for Christmas day though as it could scar them for life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And there are the lovely tags that are from Father Christmas or Santa ... you see I really am like a little elf working for Father Christmas!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Things I've also learnt this week - I'm actually quite organised when I put my mind to it; not everyone can count; not everyone can read simple instructions; not everyone follows simple instructions; not everyone can spell; some people have very odd ideas of grammar. It's always a tricky thing deciding whether you should double-check or change spellings/grammar. This week a customer was happy I asked whether it should really be Godmother Mike and I changed a your to you're {<i>hope they didn't notice but I just couldn't send it out with the wrong your</i>}.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All in all a fantastic week, far outreaching my wildest expectations of sales, and my family have been amazing given that I've not lifted a finger to help with any household chores and I've had meals and hot drinks made for me all week .... thank you. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">♥</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-39292350563960952302012-11-05T08:00:00.000+00:002012-11-05T08:00:07.954+00:00Father Christmas Please Stop Here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now then, have you been very good? No naughtiness all year? Then someone might just buy one of these for you to hang on your door come Christmas time. My <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/father-christmas-please-stop-here-sign" target="_blank">Father Christmas Please Stop Here</a> sign is already proving to be a hit with notonthehighstreet customers and although I thought everyone would want it in festive red or green it seems that I will be doing every colour available before the Christmas season is over {<i>although I've not done an orange one ... yet</i>}.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I haven't decided whether my children will be having one of these hung outside their doors yet, still plenty of time to threaten that Father Christmas won't be coming unless they start behaving.</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-33831576270959075042012-10-31T08:00:00.000+00:002012-10-31T08:50:10.378+00:00BOO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy Halloween everyone. Have to admit that this is not my favourite event of the year (too American for my taste) but I quite like seeing everyone dressed up in scary costumes. I find the whole banging of doors to get sweets a bit weird and I'm so glad I don't live in a street where there are trick or treaters and glad my boys are no longer of an age where I feel they are missing out if I don't take them ... thankfully. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I remember the year we were in Australia for Halloween going trick or treating with their cousins and how shocked I was that the boys quickly cottoned on to how easy it was to get sweets from strangers ... umm it really is weird.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wonder what the equivalent of Bah Humbug is for Halloween perhaps Boo Cauldron will do!<br /></span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-34637666578369831492012-10-29T08:00:00.000+00:002012-10-29T08:00:10.003+00:00No New Clothes Challenge - Month 9<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You would imagine that at this stage of the year, coming to the end of the challenge I might be starting to fantasise about going clothes shopping ... but I'm not. I still tentatively open clothes catalogues that come through the post with eyes half scrunched up hoping nothing catches my eye but thankfully nothing has this month. Another advantage of this whole not buying new clothes thing means I've become tidier because I quickly flick through the catalogues, breathe a sigh of relief that I don't yearn for anything and they go straight in the recycling. Before they'd probably sit around in piles for a couple of weeks whilst I made up my mind if I was going to buy anything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I do have one slight problem in that my two pairs of jeans (worn pretty much every day for the past year) are showing signs of wear and tear but nothing that can't be mended to last another couple of months.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I suppose I am already mentally writing a very small list of things I might buy come the day I end the challenge (jeans, new longline jumper, going out trousers) but I'm pretty confident that there isn't going to be some huge splurge in fact a huge splurge feels more and more obscene and unnecessary as the year goes on. Gosh, I think this challenge has changed me ... !</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-39089321411478686612012-10-22T08:00:00.000+01:002012-10-22T08:00:10.795+01:00Vintage Style Hire's "Bit of A Do"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Thursday I was delighted to be invited to Vintage Style Hire's </span><a href="http://www.thestockmandiaries.co.uk/uncategorized/youre-invited.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Bit of a Do</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in Kate's new barn. From the outside the barn looks like any other "industrial" style barn with a very business like door but a</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">s soon as you stepped in the door you could easily forget you were even in a barn (apart from the slight chill) and we</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> were greeted by this gorgeous pushbike with WELCOME bunting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was a wonderful evening and so lovely to see Kate's new barn full of all her unique props. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We even got a goodie bag when we left. Thank you Kate and best of luck in your new space and I hope you get to share your vision with lots of lucky customers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've just had my busiest week ever with notonthehightstreet all due to one innocent looking little <a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/christmas/crafty-finishing-touches?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=11.10.12_christmas_theme1&amp;utm_campaign=11.10.12_christma" target="_blank">email</a> going out on Thursday. Since then I haven't done any childcare, cooking or socialising! It has been an interesting few days and has made me realise that although it is lovely to see the £££s rolling in I honestly couldn't cope with this all the time. I often look at other people's businesses (always a bad idea to try and compare yourself with others) and think I should expand and grow the business a bit but then when I do have an increased workload I realise that the level it is at the moment is just right. Am loving this little blip but will be glad when things are back to normal and I can schedule in some hoovering .... now who thought I would ever say that?</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-32230817768483534672012-10-08T08:00:00.000+01:002012-10-08T08:00:12.984+01:00Cake Bunting aka fiddly little bits of paper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Occasionally Lucie from <a href="http://www.wonderland-bakery.co.uk/" target="_blank">Wonderland Bakery</a> asks me to make some cake bunting. I'm always happy to do this for her and as I got these two ready this week I thought maybe I could sell it. However it doesn't take long for me to remember why I don't sell cake bunting because after fiddling around with teeny tiny bits of paper I realise that cake bunting is not for me. Far too time consuming - lovely to do occasionally but I'll leave it to those who love miniature things.</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-10119159703114307222012-10-01T08:00:00.000+01:002012-10-01T08:00:15.764+01:00Here Comes The Bride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A customer recently asked for a HERE♥COMES♥THE♥BRIDE in my </span><a href="http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/daisyley/product/wedding-signage-bunting" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">wedding signage bunting</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. It looked so good I thought I'd take a photo of it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Since uploading this photo to the product page I now get a request for this bunting a few times a week and a product that hardly made any sales is now doing rather well. <br /><br />I know full well that my photography lets some of my products down and this was a case in point, the reason I didn't sell much was because the photography was rubbish and customers didn't know what they could use it for. I also know full well that without good photos you don't sell your product ... if only I had a professional photographer onhand at all times. I will just have to work my way through my listings improving improving improving. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I still have so much to learn about the visual nature of selling a product and the need to <i>show</i> customers what they might like.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm also spending a lot of my spare (!) time updating the seo on my products. This is a tedious, difficult and time consuming job but I must get it done. I've told the boys that every time I nag them about their homework they must say seo to me, which they are doing and now I know how easy it is to ignore someone telling you to do something you know you should be doing.</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-51179885959015573552012-09-26T08:00:00.001+01:002012-09-26T19:15:26.024+01:00No New Clothes Challenge - Month 8<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm so ashamed I nearly blew the whole No New Clothes Challenge for a long sleeved <a href="http://shop.uniqlo.com/uk/goods/074928" target="_blank">Orla Kiely</a> top</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I even went as far as ordering it, trying it on and wondering how I could hide this purchase. I came to my senses though and sent it back, which was a bit silly as it cost me the postage but no one likes a cheater and I'm just about the worst liar in the world so would never have kept up the pretence.<br /><br />My conscious is clear and I probably wouldn't have worn it anyway as it looked much nicer on the hanger than it did on me!</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323715378209875469.post-67773389954514601462012-09-26T08:00:00.000+01:002012-09-26T08:00:19.765+01:00Masculine Bunting<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was asked this week for masculine bunting and spent a little while trying to decide what pattern, what colour, what font other might be considered masculine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The customer went for the middle one as it tied in with football team colours! My personal favourite is the R but then that is probably just because it's a new design and therefore my new favourite.</span>www.daisyley.co.ukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14431930399997399952noreply@blogger.com0