The Name is Purple, Cadbury Purple

Well tango tangerine may be the "colour" for 2012 but brides seem to be favouring purple and my new Cadbury Purple to be exact.

However, hen party planners favour Princess Pink.

The question is, are these two selling the best because these are the ones the customer loves the best or is it because I've put them as the main image? Ahhhh if only I knew ..... ?

You were only supposed to blow the ....

Back in September I told you about this fantastic Letterpress course I went on. What I couldn't show you was the poster I made because it was a Christmas present. Well here it is ...

Sorry about the bad photo - it is very tricky taking photos of framed things.

As is obvious one of our favourite family films is The Italian Job, I only add this because I have been surprised how many people don't know where this saying comes from and would hate any reader to think I'm just plain rude!

If you are interested in seeing other letterpress work then have a look at the Flickr photostream where you will also my poster going through the various stages. 

Channel your inner tango ... tangerine is back

Well who would have thought I'd be ahead of the fashions? According to myPANTONE the colour of 2012 is Tangerine Tango. In this blog post Orange back in January 2011 I expressed my love of orange so does this mean I am way ahead of the trends or does it mean I'm painfully out of fashion because I liked it in 2011 as opposed to 2012?

New Year Revamp

One of my new year resolutions was to review my nothinthehighstreet shopfront. I've not exactly completed this but I've made a start. It was all getting a bit messy so now my wedding bunting has changed to Just Married Bunting and includes this rather nice purple or "cadbury purple" as described by the customer who ordered it.

I get lots of requests to make bespoke bunting so have now {rather obviously} added Bespoke Personalised Large Card Bunting which is only a tiny bit more expensive than my Personalised Bunting but you get exactly what you want.

So I'm going to tackle the rest of the shopfront this week .... and tidy my workspace .... unless of course something more interesting comes up.

I spent about two hours chatting to the vicar on Friday morning instead of working, I'm so easily distracted. Decided it must be quite nice to be a vicar because he was "working" whilst chatting but then again you do have to work on Sundays and you do have to be lovely and kind ALL the time so perhaps not.

Feel the lurve ...

So you've packed away the Christmas things, so obviously it is time to think about the next celebration! Only five and half weeks to Valentine's Day ....

Valentine's Day Bunting

Personalised Valentine's Day Gift Box

Bunting and boxes available through notonthehighstreet.

A New Family Hobby?

We went Geocaching and we just may have found a new family hobby. It's such a simple but great idea and I really enjoyed the excitement of it but then again as my mother (yet again) pointed out to me I am very easily pleased.

I realise we are very late to catch on to this activity but for those of you as unfamiliar about Geocaching as we were until Boxing Day it is "a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location."

It is a great way to encourage the boys to go for a walk and they are keen to go and "do another one". Not only did we get to find some "treasure" but we also visited a beautiful church, abbey ruins, watermill and very well hidden World War II pill box.We are already planning our next Geocaching adventure. 

New Year Resolutions

Last year my resolutions were a bit vague - I think I managed about three. So this year I will be more specific.

• Tidy up my workspace and become more organised.
• Do an online branding course.
• Sort out my noths shop and make it more cohesive.
• Take up belly dancing.
• Approach local shop about selling Daisyley product (v scary).

Oh and I suppose I should add a few family ones too.

• Don't shout so much - try counting to ten.
• Don't get annoyed with the boys when I cook something and they won't try it.
• Don't get annoyed when Ed goes out on a Friday night just when we are about to have tea.

I give the three above about three days ... max.

I really enjoyed 2011.

Setting up Daisyley has been time consuming but I feel I've learnt so much and I'm excited about making it grow in 2012. I've got lots of ideas and I can't wait to get back to work.

Going on a family holiday for the first time in years was a major highlight and we all loved it, if only we could do it every year.

I can not wait to see what 2012 has to offer .... 

Sadly a lot of our friends had a less than happy year and 2011 was difficult for so many, so I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2012.