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My favourite lessons at school were always art & P.E. and well, that was it. Yes there were elements within other classes I didn’t mind but the classes I always looked forward to were just those 2. Four out of five days a week I would do additional sports afterwards, from athletics to netball & trampolining. The latter was the one that completely ruined my back for life when I decided half-way through a front drop that I wasn’t going to land right so I threw my arms out to stop myself and if you know your yoga moves I...

If you are a stationery addict like me, you will of course know of the giddiness-inducing joy & equal fear of starting the first page of new notebooks and journals. The handwriting has to be perfect; sometimes I’ve even started a new planner/notebook/journal with a pencil as I just don’t trust myself & the anxiety of having to ruin a page with a harsh line through the mistake you just made with your pen is too much. By page 3 it’s a little less neat, by page 10 it resembles your writing from when you were the actual age of...

We’ve now been in the new garden studio for a few months now and so I thought it’d be a good time to write a blog on the details, from who we used, to how long it took and how we decided on the interior of it. The blog will cover these main topics: 1. Who we used2. What size3. How long it took to build4. Planning the interior5. The best bits6. To conclude   1. WHO WE USED For this project we used Herts Garden Rooms, we got quotes from 4 different businesses but we also checked reviews for...

There are certain words that spring to most people’s minds when you ask them to describe the Art Deco movement, ‘sleek’, ‘glamorous’, ‘bold’, ‘elegant’. All of which we wanted to capture in the designs for each component. For each new theme, as mentioned in previous blogs, we have a bit of a product formula in terms of elements needed to turn it into a theme. The first design is always the tissue paper, as more often than not it features a number of illustrations that we then take pieces of to put into the other products; A5 paper, A6 notebook,...