tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30459017472946740432024-03-05T00:32:01.861-08:00StuffedNonsenseAmpersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.comBlogger172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-42929035748046482192014-01-17T04:33:00.004-08:002014-01-17T04:33:49.069-08:00The Times They Are A Changing...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hello everyone...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just a quick post to say that we will no longer be using this blog, if you want to keep up with us <a href="http://bytheyardcheltenham.co.uk/news/">then you can find us over here</a>: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whilst you're at it you should probably have a <a href="http://bytheyardcheltenham.co.uk/times-changing/">read of this post </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">See you on the flip side!</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-66931965709791560632013-08-30T02:45:00.000-07:002013-08-30T02:45:08.882-07:00By The Yard's Website.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's official...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The By The Yards (our wonderful little bricks and mortar shop) website went live today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's like we're grown ups or something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.bytheyardcheltenham.co.uk/">Take a peek if you like?</a></span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-30370884625480420672013-07-16T09:26:00.001-07:002013-07-16T09:26:17.736-07:00Tumbleweed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hello!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We are alive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We probably won't be on this page/blog all that much.<a href="http://www.bytheyardcheltenham.blogspot.co.uk/"> But we will be on this one a fair bit more.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There are also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bytheyardcheltenham">frequent facebook updates here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Adios Amigos!</span></div>
Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-87307778624416662182013-05-21T13:31:00.000-07:002013-05-21T13:31:05.843-07:00Shop Shop Shop Shop!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just stopping by real quick to show you some pictures of what's been going on at By The Yard...mainly a lot of rather boring but important prep work...like wall papering up lots of lining paper and poly filling up lots of holes...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These are the colors which we will use here and there on the furniture...my favorite one is coral colored type one...but only because its called Bongo Jazz.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the terribly exciting white color we've chosen for the walls...it's called Clouded Pearl 3.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Here's El (she's the other, quieter half of StuffedNonsense) writing on our door in chalk pen...she's sitting on steps because she's having a baby in July...we mentioned it on Instagram but I don't think we mentioned it here...so there you go...that's another epic piece of news for you.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And here's our flyer....El made it...she's clever.<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Right...that's all for now...we're putting lots and lots of facebook status up on </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bytheyardcheltenham" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">By The Yards Facebook page</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...soo if you're interested why not pop over there??</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-72078316760356365002013-05-03T09:49:00.002-07:002013-05-03T09:49:52.538-07:00Quite Possibly The Biggest News Ever...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We've not been here much at all have we?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're sorry...but we do have a rather incredible excuse for our extended absence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're opening a shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A real one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Made from bricks and mortar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With a door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And it's own entrance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're a little bit excited about it...Can you tell?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Excited and terrified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For those of you that don't know the full StuffedNonsense story, we used to have a small studio shop in Cheltenham which we closed a few years back because it wasn't quite right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We took a step back we licked our wounds, we learnt some pretty big life lessons and we got good at aspects of running a business that we weren't good at before, we took a deep breath and decided to try again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Which brings us back to here...the 3rd of May...the day we announced to the world that we were trying again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's going to be called By The Yard, it is on St James Street, Cheltenham.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It will be full to the brim with handmade hand designed items and will also host many exciting crafty workshops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're hoping to open mid June (fingers crossed).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soo...take our hands and join us for the next step on our journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-61189195474644317342013-03-19T13:19:00.000-07:002013-03-19T13:19:25.882-07:00It's Hard Sometimes...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It should be a big idyllic dream shouldn't it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This whole running your own business and working for your self malarkey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I mean if you write it down on paper it sounds like the bees knees:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1. You work your own hours, hours that you set</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. You spend your time designing items you want to see for sale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3. You dream your dreams and make steps towards creating them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's not an exhaustive list but i think that those three points form the foundations (for me anyway). Except I've been finding it a little difficult of late...and it seems that those three little points up there spend the majority of their time morphing into these three (not so little to me) points...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1. You sit in your work room for hours procrastinating about everything...or you go for a coffee that takes up three hours of your day...or you come up with any excuse to not be at home alone sewing stock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. You spend hours of your time doubting the designs you have made...wondering whats the point in making 5cm sized plush toy, that they are rubbish anyway, no matter how long your stare at them. You think about it soo much that your head buzzes and feels like it is going to explode.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3. You take steps that you are terrified will lead you to fall, steps that will fail and leave you with nothing apart from a train wreck of broken hopes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'll admit it...it sounds like im being dramatic, and that i should suck it up and get on with it, That everyone feels like this, and that it is the way that you deal with these pesky things that will lead you to triumph, but its hard when your at home sat at your work table with just a lap top and ten half finished wooden spoons (that's right...wooden spoons.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Stuffednonsense is facing some insanely big changes at the moment...all of them have the potential to be truly incredible...all of them are terrifying, and in due course you will be told about them but not right now, now is the time for a pathetic 'i feel sorry for myself' post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I suppose we're just going to have to hold on tight and go with it...like when your on a roller coaster and its half way up the super big dip and the tracks are doing that 'clack clack clack' sound that they do that makes you sooo terrified, and you realise that your stuck on the ride until the end, and that to get to the end you have to do the scary bits with all the loop the loops and massive dips and huge stomach churning drops; and then you figure out that you might as well roll with it seeing as your stuck on it and you let go of the hand rail and put your hands up in the air and try your hardest to enjoy it...even though your bloody terrified.</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-42605857237225500672013-03-14T10:37:00.002-07:002013-03-14T10:37:10.705-07:00Crafty Fox!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We're going to be at this ridiculously wonderful craft fair on Sunday the 24th of March...you should all go to it and purchase wonders from the <a href="http://craftyfoxmarket.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page_23.html">incredible range of stall holders</a> that will be there. We promise you won't be disappointed</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">.</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-16498200642711283652013-02-19T11:42:00.002-08:002013-02-19T11:42:10.600-08:00Brighton Times Ahead.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We're going to be at this wonderful event on both days (2nd and 3rd of March) how exciting! We've had our beady eyes on this one for a while and finally took the plunge and applied...and got accepted! Lets hope its a tip top event full of people hungry to buy hand made wonders.</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-23909492706698896982013-02-03T06:45:00.001-08:002013-02-03T06:45:17.246-08:00Dans Le Etsy Shop.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're thinking that frequent and brief blog posts are the way forward, so with that in mind, just stopping by to point out some new bits in the sale section of our <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StuffedNonsenseUK?ref=si_shop">Etsy Shop</a>, there's also loads of new stock up there too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also...we have a cheeky request...we're really close to hitting five hundred followers on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StuffedNonsense">our facebook page.</a>..would any of you mind awfully heading over and giving us a like??...and perhaps telling your buddies to? (link above) Once we get to big five double o we're going to have a rather epic giveaway.</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-60646982395688623912013-01-31T09:00:00.001-08:002013-01-31T09:00:46.289-08:00A Roaring Success<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The first Craft Night In happened last night.... OH BOY!</div>
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It went wonderfully! It was sooo busy we ran out of seats. The event had such a lovely buzz to it. Bring on the next one!</div>
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<br />Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-74518284124061347892013-01-28T07:58:00.004-08:002013-01-28T07:58:37.888-08:00January Update!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hello Internet friends. Just a quick drop in to let you all know (hold onto something...this might come as a shock) that we've just done a small update on the etsy shop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We've tried to take better pictures this time around (its something we ALWAYS struggle with), We think they look lots better!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/121910047/valentine-human-bean">We're not huge fans of Valentines Day but thought we'd try, so we've made some Valentine themed Human Beans... They are themed in the sense that they are pink and all things to do with Valentines Day are pink (see! not Valentines fans.)</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">To celebrate the fact that we seemed to have done something proactive on Etsy we're offering 30% off all orders for the next week, just use the coupon code januarydiscount1.<br />Hopefully there will me more of the favorites listed tomorrow...the studio is getting taken over by Weirdy Beardys!<br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-79337411975113572942013-01-13T08:18:00.003-08:002013-01-13T08:18:27.071-08:00Craft Night In<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">After yet another conversation that started with 'wouldn't it be amazing if this existed' we decided to get up off of our crafty bums and make a day dream of ours come to life. may we present to you...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;">On the second and last Wednesday of every month, starting form the 30th of January, Stuffednonsense in association with Cafe Moochoo (High Street, Cheltenham) will open in the evening 6-9pm for you to bring along whatever project your working on, drink coffee, eat cake and talk crafty arty things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's<a href="https://www.facebook.com/CraftNightInAtCafeMoochoo"> a facebook page </a>and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/476047665785067/">event here</a> if your interested...fingers crossed some people will b</span>e!</div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-52189063189510905072013-01-02T06:38:00.002-08:002013-01-02T06:38:43.032-08:00Happy New Year.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">September came and went,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">& December came and went...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2012 was a new kind of crazy. It was sometimes fantastic and sometimes horrible, but we're here on the other side, ready to dip our toes into the creative adventures that 2013 will bring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We're going to try to sort this blogging business out but we imagine that in reality we will fall a little short of regular posts...but we will try.</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-81086909818548475742012-09-23T07:19:00.002-07:002012-09-23T07:19:32.238-07:00Comings and Goings...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just stopping buy to let you know how it is in the StuffedNonsense studio.Everything is ticking along well...fabulously well in fact. We're gearing up for, what looks to be, our busiest Christmas yet. We've got 5, possibly 7 new stockists, a stall at this years Crafty Fox Christmas Market, a stall at the Christmas MadeProject Fair, as well as our Etsy shop. Sooo, we're pretty busy. We're trying to be super organised and get the Etsy shop full to the brim by the end of this month...so that we can, in theory, concentrate on making stock for the new stockists and craft fairs. It does mean that we wont be able to pop by here so often...although we're popping pictures up regularly on Instagram so you can keep up with us there...our name is StuffedNonsense if you want to follow us...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hope your all fine and dandy</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-92167443998002773032012-08-29T08:14:00.001-07:002012-08-29T08:14:29.246-07:00testing testing 1,2,3<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">hello dear followers,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">just popping by to attempt a blog post via a swanky new phone. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Also,we're now on Instagram our name is StuffedNonsense.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We'll be back soon!</span></div>
Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-32116565426771327012012-08-23T12:22:00.000-07:002012-08-23T12:22:08.875-07:00A Down In The Dumps List.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here is a list of thing that i should be doing...</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Working on a press release so we can approach new sellers for the festive season.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Taking a deep breath and turning the Grizzly Geoff inside out so i can re-sew the hole i just poked into it with my chop stick.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cutting out Weirdy Beardy pieces for a new trade order from this lovely shop.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hoovering up the millions and millions of tiny little white dog hairs that have been deposited on our carpets and sofa thanks to the temporary resident that is known as percy.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ringing the tax people up to confirm that a problem which has gone on for sooo long is finally sorted.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Making my two best friends birthday presents.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cleaning the bathroom.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Working on a new design which has been floating around for a while.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wonder around feeling sorry for myself.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Worry about a little dog with an upset stomach.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mope around and do nothing constructive with my day.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Day dream about being a professional and quitting the day job (rather than a grade a procrastinator and day dreamer.)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sniff lots due to sneaky cold.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Worry lots about an appointment to have a tooth taken out.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Taken lots of deep breaths and looks around the studio and thought 'Right Bex...pull yourself out of it'...and then done nothing about it.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Changed position at least a million times due to sore knees and hips.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Worry that i'm turning into a boring person who moans and groans all of the time.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Worry about a dear friends who have been given a rough deal of late.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So i figured if i wrote it all out here i might actually do something about it...maybe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What about you guys? what do you do when the dreaded creative lull hits, because i i've been in this for over a month now and i'm worried my friends are going to give up on me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Answers on a postcard please...or you can just pop them down there in the comment box...It's up to you.</span></div>
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Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-5211839085889387532012-08-19T09:23:00.002-07:002012-08-19T09:23:27.703-07:00Bargain Beans!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just stopping by to let you guys know that I've just finished listing a shed load of Human Beans at super reduced prices. They're normally £7 but they're going for £2.50 over at our <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/StuffedNonsenseUK?ref=si_shop">etsy</a> shop! Grab 'em quick! once they're gone, they're gone.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/107242225/super-small-human-bean-plush-sale">Some rather cheap ladies...and I don't mean that in a hussy kind of way.</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/107242579/super-small-human-bean-plush-sale">Some rather dapper gents.</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> The chat is not flowing too well at the moment, so my apologies for the lack of communication around these parts, normal service should eventually resume!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In honor of little mention in Mollie Makes we've added on a coupon code for 25% off at our etsy shop! It's active from now and will run for 2 weeks! Sooo, head on over and grab yourself something nice!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or perhaps one of the<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/106043319/vintage-fabric-rocking-horse-plush"> Grizzly Geoffs of Mollie Makes fame..</a>..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or even one of our new <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/106043319/vintage-fabric-rocking-horse-plush">Vintage Fabric Plush....</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The choice is yours but either way you get 25% off with the code MOLLIEMAKES</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also here's a snap of my new studio companion, he's called Percy and he's keeping me company for the next month (he's Arthurs mum's Jack Russell Puppy)</span></div>
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<br />Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-74610641630066863812012-08-03T14:10:00.000-07:002012-08-03T14:10:00.941-07:00A Little Mention In The Massive Mollie Makes<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The eagled eyed Facebook people among you may have seen our rather excited status this morning...but just in case anyone missed it, there is a little quote from us all about the joys of selling in a temporium like <a href="http://www.stuffed-nonsense.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/emerging.html">Paper Scissors Stone</a> (the shop we were selling in in Bristol).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There's also a rather neat picture of our Grizzly Geoffs! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So a big thank you to Bryony (the brains behind Paper Scissors Stone) and the Mollie Makes crew for getting in touch. It really is quite lovely to see our creatures in the pages of such a top notch publication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's spurred us on to pull our creative finger out and get on with this running of a business we supposedly do. Which means that fingers crossed there will be some new work and more posts coming this way soon. Watch this space... hopefully there will be something going on here...eventually!</span></div>Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-21962281730320649302012-07-16T10:52:00.002-07:002012-07-16T10:52:58.290-07:00Happy Spoon People.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Sometimes you see an object and you know instantly what you want to do with it...which was the case when I saw these sweet little wooden spoons at <a href="http://www.utilitygreatbritain.co.uk/">Utility in Brighton</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I saw them and instantly imagined a happy face on them...so I did a bit of internet searching and came across a tool called a 'pyrography pen'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> The rest, as they say, is history...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A stubbly one.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A 1920's moustached one.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A wavy haired one.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One with funny shaped 'blushes' on her face.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One with filled in hair.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've hand painted the ends of them so they look a more finished.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The state of the work table whilst they are in production.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Each one is double sided, so you get a lady and a man on each spoon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">What do you think?...I'm worried its another case of me wondering off into my head and making something which no one else will ever get or understand? Do you prefer them with the filled in hair? or a mixture of both?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Thanks for your help!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">xxx</span></div>Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-81718222159663742172012-07-08T13:36:00.000-07:002012-07-08T13:36:27.137-07:00Nesting...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hello lovelies. I've spent the whole day partaking in what is commonly called 'nesting' (or at least it's commonly called that on the internet...I think i'd be more inclined to call it working bloody hard, painting lots of things, hammering lots of things, a pit of sawing (swiftly followed by a bit of bleeding) and a lot of lifting and arranging.)But let me tell you it, it was well worth the effort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Me and the beardy made a promise to ourselves that we would start using the whole of the house which we are so lucky to live in (considering it's just the two of us, we have soo much space, and the best landlords in the world); and seeing as we have dear friends due to visit in August we thought the conservatory would be a good place to start. It used to be where my old workroom was but now it has been morphed into the oh so grand 'Reading Room' (which is pretty funny because it makes us sound like some super posh people who have a breakfast room, a sun house, a ball room and many other rooms...which is not the case, believe me) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">To kick start the proceedings I decided to spruce up some old shelves which were in a sorry state.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here they are, poor old things!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We decided to paint them the same shade of teal as the walls in the 'reading room'</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I painted a previously beige wall in the conservatory grey. Then I backed the jazzy shelves with some rather lovely paper from M.A.D.E, and then i hung my collection of jugs above the shelves.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I arranged by assorted <strike>crap/tat</strike> pretty china on the shelves. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I felt rather smug with myself because i think it looks pretty tip top. What about you?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I sorted and sifted through piles and piles of our stuff and put into one big pile named 'to go to the bootfair' Then I put stacks and stacks of books onto the shelves and arranged various odds and sods in front of said books.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I collapsed into a pile onto the lovely leather chair you can see in the picture above, and wrote this blog post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">What do you think?...I'm rather chuffed with it myself but then I like to wear socks with sandals or tights, so I don't really rate my judgement on 'what looks good'. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There's a little piece of me which thinks that the fourth picture down wouldn't look out of place on design sponge...but </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">that's</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> a bit big headed of me I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Anyway...time for some tea and biscuits. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">xxx</span></div>
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</div>Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-25601939135074780652012-06-28T13:44:00.001-07:002012-06-28T13:44:10.248-07:00Emerging...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">From the uninspiring cave we've been lying in for the last month. We got properly stuck in the rather un-productive droll of everyday life. It kind of felt that everything we was making was just O.K....that nothing was amazing. If that makes sense. We didn't even feel to positive about this little place here, and found ourselves wondering if there was any point doing it...'does any one read it?' 'do people read it and think...what a load of old rubbish'...the usual things. I wouldn't say we're feeling 100% but we're almost on the road to recovery...so here we are...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Some of you may know that we're currently taking part in the super dooper </span><a href="http://madeinbristol.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Paper, Scissors, Stone in Bristol</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">. Its a 'temporium' jam packed with incredible hand made and hand designed items. All the people are either based in, or local to Bristol. It's going really well for us, a steady stream of sales every week. Each seller has to do a shift a week, StuffedNonsense's one is Thursday, It's great fun to head down there on the train, have an hour strolling around the shops and cafes, and then work in a shop which is soo packed full of like minded people! I often work with </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Pigeonillustration" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Pigeon</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martha-Ford-Illustration/251551558214484" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Martha Ford</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...what a lovely talented pair of ladies to spend my Thursday afternoon with! If your local maybe you could pop in and have a browse...and if your a local creative peep why not apply for volume three??</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This gent brought a Mini Weirdy Beardy.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">There are lots more pictures of the shop over on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/madeinbristol">facebook page.</a><br />That's all for now.<br />I'll hopefully be back soon.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-29892686370106418632012-05-31T00:09:00.000-07:002012-05-31T00:09:14.589-07:00An Ode To...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(that are filling up our etsy favorites...I just can't help myself, they're all so lovely and I'd hate to forget about one...seriously you <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/StuffedNonsenseUK/favorites?ref=si_fav">should go and look at our favorites</a>, there are soo many there)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I love these, the listing/description is superb and makes me smile when ever I read it. I think the choice of colors are perfect (i'll take the second on the left taa very much) and the thin chain is perfect. They are made by ulala, find the<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ulala"> etsy shop here </a>and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/93619493/atomium-necklace">the listing here</a>. (If my <a href="http://www.frankie.com.au/">Frankie </a>reading memory serves me well her bags were in one of the most recent issues.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm a plain loose jersey top kind of girl (when i'm not working...when i'm working i'm generally found in a ridiculously bright vintage dress of some sort...it helps me through the dull days!...and helps with my sense of humor) and i <strike>think </strike> know that this lovely would look perfect with every daytime top I own...FACT. Made by thingslikediamonds, find the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/thingslikediamonds?ref=seller_info">etsy shop here</a>, and the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/95492795/necklace-white-natural-wood-cube">listing here</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm certain that this beaut would look the bees knees on a night out, not too fancy but the metallic tones will jazz up any plain top, it comes from BlueBirdLab, find <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueBirdLab?ref=seller_info">the etsy shop</a> here, and the <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/100477068/wooden-boho-necklace-brown-blue-gold">listing here</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I love the colors and simple pattern on this beaut...and the gold chain... in fact i love the whole thing (you see?....this is my problem...and hence why our favorite page is FULL of everything) It's made by depeapa, find <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/depeapa">the etsy shop </a>here and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/94705201/hexagon-n2-geometric-ceramic-necklace">the listing here</a>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Another geometric lovely, I don't know what is about these hexagons but I like them a lot. The colors and mix-matched sizes of this one are perfect for me...and lots of other people i'm sure. It's made by frausieben, find<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/frausieben"> the etsy shop </a>here and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/98153187/woody-diamond-lemon">the listing here.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Its my birthday tomorrow (I asked the bearded one to get me something from my etsy favorites as a birthday gift...fingers crossed he's got me one of the lovely necklaces pictured above or one of the many more in our favorites!)<br />Take Care<br />xxx</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Ampersand Commoditieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12057841932749161202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3045901747294674043.post-86924577427671117822012-05-28T14:08:00.003-07:002012-05-28T14:08:37.505-07:00Pictorial Review...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We're super busy sewing up lots and lots of stock for <a href="http://madeinbristol.blogspot.co.uk/">Paper.Scissors.Stone.</a> and also trying to organize <a href="http://www.curiosemporium.blogspot.co.uk/">Curio's Emporium.</a></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A tasty treat at my favorite Cafe in Cheltenham...if your local and you haven't been to <a href="http://www.cafemoochoo.com/">Cafe Moochoo</a>...may i politely ask what your doing with your time and request that you head on over there toot suite (its on the high street)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I GREW THESE!...with the bearded ones help, they are Anemones. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I ALSO GREW THESE!...they are Sparaxis.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">AND THESE!....they are called Stocks (but lots of you probably all ready knew that.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">These are new to StuffedNonsense 'Vintage Fabric Lavender Do-Dads' aka Lavender Bags but we thought the above sounded better. Made from super bright vintage fabric and lace and jam packed full of French lavender. they shall be making there debut this Saturday at Curio's Emporium first pop up pub fair at The Swan in Cheltenham 12-6</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The chat still isn't flowing, so here's some more pictures of the last week or so.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This part of the studio wall is dedicated to my new collection...which is titles 'metal things to hang on the wall next to my light switch'</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A close up of Basil's face...which i think is quite lovely.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Newly thrifted vintage fabric...i'm thinking i'll make a limited run of plush from it...especially the horse....but not the clown...he's creepy.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my computer desk chair...which used to be in a hairdressers...until they threw it out and I picked it up off the street.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I brought some new sandals and i like them a lot. Today I wore them with socks...which I have heard is a big no no...nevertheless I did it.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">An 8.30 shot of the sewing desk...I was busy sewing up a full series of Weirdy Beardy's...which i delivered today.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here are said Weirdy Beardy's...with their brains hanging out because I hadn't sewn them up when I took the picture.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have decided to cover the two tone floor boards in the studio with lots of different rugs, so i was quite pleased to score this animal hyde rug (i think it was some sort of long haired creature...perhaps a goat) in the charity shop. Normally fur is a big no no to me (i once handed back a lady her fur coat when i worked in a cloak room because I couldn't bare to touch it) but I'm fairly sure this is a by-product, meaning the animal wasn't killed purely for its fur. My apologies if me purchasing the rug offends anyone.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Our ever increasing collection of pictures above our bed. The far right and far left pictures were given to us by a dear friend and I love them. He recently went to the hadron collider for an interesting project.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">StuffedNonsense will be making baby mobile's soon, here's the first mock up..I like it a lot.</span></td></tr>
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