Spy me in Card & Caboodle

At the Life InStyle Feb trade fair, I was lucky enough to meet the lovely Debra O'Donnell some of the team from Card & Caboodle in person. And now I'm thrilled to say that a selection of my cards are selling both through their Melbourne store and online! How lovely!

It's also so nice to be selling through and supporting Australian-owned small businesses like Card & Caboodle. Family owned and operated, Card & Caboodle opened it’s original store in November 1989 in Little Collins Street, Melbourne.

Sisters Judy Katz & Debra O’Donnell discovered their passion for paper products whilst working in a small wholesale greeting card company.  Now, after over 20 years in retail, they still work with their parents, daughters and a fabulous & inspiring team to run Card & Caboodle’s four stores.

In an age where shopping and retail is becoming increasingly impersonal (has anyone else had a run-in with those nasty self-service machines?), one on one interaction and personal service are at the heart of the Card & Caboodle philosophy. Plus, their shops offer a beautiful range of gift-cards and wrapping papers, many of which are designed by local and developing artists.

So when you're in the area, pop in to one of the stores, say hello and buy a beautiful card! You can find all the location details and more on the Card & Caboodle website.

Have a very happy Monday! x

All images used with permission.

Some exciting news!

Soooo.... after a day of traipsing around Salvos stores, IKEA and Bunnings (much to the amusement of all the tough tradies - but really, is it so unusual to see girls buying hardware and paint?), myself and my lovely friend Kitty are all set to start creating a beautiful art studio!

Hurray!!!

We'll be renting out this enormous wooden-floored, high-ceilinged, upstairs of an old church hall.

In my mind, it will eventually become a white-painted hive of creative flurry. Something like the picture above...

So we have a very big weekend of cleaning, painting and patching up wall-holes ahead of us. But it's so very very exciting, and I'll be sure to put up some progress photos so you can see the current peach and bile-green dilapidation morph into a beautiful space of serenity!

And, the second piece of exciting news is that small artworks are in progress (for serious). I've found the perfect frames, received some samples of exquisite lasercut replicas of my papercuts, and will be set to roll out the artworks by the end of May! Eeek! So I'll keep you posted.

Much love and have a happy weekend! x

The beautiful attic picture about is via automatism.

Mother's Day 2012

 

Mother's Day is fast approaching! Check out the Collections page to find the Mother's Day collection!

Stockists: please note that the cut-off date for placing an order in time for Mother's Day sales is April 20th.

x

Leaves are falling - but stockists are piling up!

Dang - I had a good flurry of blogging at the end of Feb, and then regressed back to my usual silence in the blog world. Sorry peeps.

It's been busy times here - all the orders have been dispatched and there have even been some re-orders already (thank you and hurray!)! I am pretty sick of folding cards - not going to lie - but not enough to stop the tingles of pride I feel when I see my cards popping up in facebook photos or blogs of all the wonderful stores who stock them! It's sort of like a fun internet game of I-spy.

I've done a quick stockist update - and my extreme apologies if you're a stockist and not up there yet... there are still a few more to add!

Annnnnd, in other news - how abrupt has this season change been? Although, being an enormous-scarf kind of woman, I'm actually feeling pretty happy that it's finally Autumn! Just please don't turn into an icicle (or a "zipcical" as one the the 3-year-olds I babysit would say).

Thanks and a shout out to my all-time illustration hero Shirley Hughes for the above picture (which I found on the internet in a whimsical moment). It's perfection.