Sunday, February 28, 2010

Welcome back!


Welcome back!

Almost exactly a year ago today my work friend left work, and then nine months after that, moved back to her hometown a very very long long way away. However, tomorrow - she comes back! This is clearly excellent news, and I'm super happy to have her back, so happy in fact, that I had to make a card to celebrate!
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

A Roaring Twenty-Third...


A Roaring Twenty-Third...


Happy Birthday to my sister, Jo!
Above is the card I made for her which was inspired by her twenties themed party coming up this weekend. We've just got back from a really rather delicious vegetarian/vegan meal at Blah Blah Blah to celebrate her old age. It's a great little place - even Sir Paul McCartney would agree with me!

So yes, once more, for luck - a very big Happy Birthday to Jo :o)
x.

Monday, February 15, 2010

love.love.love


love.love.love


So, Happy Happy Valentines Day for yesterday! I hope that everyone has had a lovely one. Paul and I had a very nice day indeed. It started with a rushed breakfast half-in-half-out of bed followed by a mad dash to make our train in to town. Oh, and presents and cards of course! Above is the card I made for him, and below is the pair of felt hearts I made at The Make Lounge's Valentines Craft Evening (he keeps the one with my name on, and I keep the one with his name on), and a pair of TocToc hearts. More on gifts later...



So yes, we made our train with about 30 seconds to spare, and headed in to town, walked to Westminster and boarded one of the city cruisers to Greenwich. It was absolutely bloomin' freezing, and I now realise that boating is not the wisest choice for a February Sunday afternoon, but nonetheless it was rather a nice way to travel through London.



We go off the boat at Greenwich, and made our way to the Dome, and had a rather scrummy lunch at the S&M Cafe.


After a bit of a wander around, we made our way back home... with a quick stop off for a heart shaped donut! Filled with strawberries and cream of course! Yum!


It was a very lovely (if a little cold), day - well more of a weekend really; I do have a habit of dragging these things out... if I can make my birthday last a week, then Valentines Day deserves a weekend at the very least!) I suppose I am just a very lucky girl to have a boyfriend who has learnt to deal with my over-excitement, and need to plan everything 4 weeks in advance...! Speaking of being a very lucky girl and having the acest of all boyfriends, this is what he got me:


A beautiful antique 1934 AM/FM radio that I had spied a few weeks ago in a charity shop window. Not only does it look great, it sounds great too - yup thats right, it's in full working order, even the tiny little lights in the dial work! It feels so strange and almost wrong hearing the likes of Zane Lowe playing The Ruby Suns and Stornoway... I feel like I should be saving it's delicate old speakers for some Debussy or Holst perhaps! It's not quite DAB, but it seems to be coping just fine! Now, if only it had a USB port...!

mmmm! thank you very much to my lovely lovely Paul :o)
love.love.love.
x.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

More Purses!


More purses!


Yup, that's right. MORE purses! It's become a slight addiction, but I am very much making the most of The Make Lounge's teaching!


A very thoughtful friend asked for me to make one for his lovely girlfriend for Valentine's Day, and I just couldn't resist picking up some extra supplies while I was at it, so ended up making another batch of 3.


It's a really great pattern - not too complicated or time consuming, and they somehow end up looking rather professional! Heres to a lifetime of making many many more metal snap frame purses!
x.

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Happy Bloomin' Birthday


Happy Bloomin' Birthday


Yesterday was my best bud Bloomie's birthday. This is the girl that i have to physically remove from the accessories section of every shop we go in to, the girl who makes me promise not to let her buy another hairband, pair of sunglasses, hat... etc. Her accessories collection is pretty impressive, and ever expanding with new purchases from her most favourtie website! To celebrate her birthday were heading out to Luck Voice tonight for a good old sing song!

Happy Birthday Bloomie!
x.

Monday, February 01, 2010

TocToc time


TocToc time


TocToc has been steadily ticking over the last few months and we've had plenty to be getting on with. It's great to be challenged with such diversity - we've had requests for birthday cards, leaving cards, anniversary cards, thank you cards, even some wedding stationery and gift tags!


This wedding TocToc was commissioned for Carrie and David who are to be wed this saturday in Wales. Unfortunately the store had run out of crimson bookbinding cloth tape, (it sold out in 3 hours apparently!) so we've gone with blue for this one, which has kind of worked out pretty great as it ties in with the "something old, something new..." rhyme.




The big TocToc news, of course, is that Ben has now moved across the pond, and is living in Montreal. This makes business a little unconventional at times, but thanks to the likes of skype, digital cameras, email and the internet in general, we're doing pretty well at keeping it all running smoothly. He's even managed to source an etching place over there, so from here on out: TocToc is GLOBAL! As always, please get in touch if you'd like to order a personalised TocToc for absolutely any occasion via any of the mediums below:

Email: mytoctoc@googlemail.com
Website: mytoctoc.com
Etsy: International
Folksy: UK

x.