Category Archives: Inspirations

New Decorative Gift Tape

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Our new decorative gift tape designs have landed at our sister brand Pearl and Earl‘s HQ and we have been playing with them all weekend.  The kids favourites are the BOYS AND GIRLS tapes.. which they have have fun making cards with.
Personally we think they make a great quick wrap idea teamed with our candy striped bags…  or to jazz up some simple brown paper wrapping…. we have 2 versions of our NO PEEKING tape – one is a simple big stamp (240mm long) and the other is a typographic montage which works really well as an alternative ribbon (whether its Christmas or any celebration)

Granny Square Cookies!

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Oh my gosh…  regular readers will know of my Granny Square addiction (hence design things like our popular Granny Square Cross Stitch Kit).. and whilst browsing the web yesterday I stumbled upon instructions for the most divine Granny Square cookies from Sugar and Meringue.

I am not the most patient cookie decorator – but I am so going to have a go at making these!  But may just find them too cute to eat.

BIG BANG 20% OFF PEARL AND EARL

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Our sister site Pearl and Earl has  a super early exclusive shopping discount of 20% off in our online store until tomorrow.

We have some wonderful bespoke art prints – as well as some great poems and personalised prints…  we also stock a huge range of eco chic paper decorations and our own coloured paper straws for your home decoration or celebration.

Hopefully we can inspire our crafty companions to come and have a peep…  Simply use code BIGBANGBOOM at the checkout, for the discount to be applied to your cart.
Happy Shopping
Love from The Pearl and Earl Posse x
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Crafty Geek Iphone Cross Stitch Cover

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I discovered this fabulously crafty geeky cross stitch Iphone cover from Leese design  based in Korea a couple of months ago..  genius I cried!.. and one paypal click  and quite a long airmail journey later and it arrived… !

The little case made from silicone does not disappoint and it comes beautifully packaged with a little needle, 3 threads and instructions and a few mini designs.

I am quite up for the retro Apple Sign using threads from my stash .. but I have also been playing around with a mini phone design.  Now I am off to continue my stitching marathons with a summer drink in the evening sun

Fruity Crochet Coasters

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I am on a little bit of a crochet tip at the moment (as you may well gather from the posts) – and I was delighted to find these little gems of coasters, crocheted from cotton yarn and sold  by MariMartin from Madrid on Etsy.

I have a similar pattern I made for some apple coasters – but it is the zesty lime of these that catches my fancy.  Yum

Festival Homage

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This weekend it was Glastonbury…  those who follow on twitter will have had my minute by minute posts of what was a truly nostalgic musical feast it was – before the fallow year next year.
The summer solstice start to the festival season was surely one of the greats?  With us all shaking our booty to the gold jacketed glory of Beyonce and her rock solid thighs on Sunday… Ceelo Greens mammouth shoulder pads, The Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay and Gwenyth, Mumford and Sons and even U2 finally doing a festival…  let alone the sideline shows of Morrisey, Kool and the Gang et al….
They even have a whole Craft Field these days…. and built a whole tower block out of polystyrene!
Craft blogger PERRI LEWIS has a full crafty low down from her adventures.
For me the festival always reminds me of my youth – when it meant that Uni exams were over, we rocked and then had 3 months off!  Now I feel lucky to get a mere 3 minutes off…  but hey.
Me and Mr H will keep on rocking …  and in homage I made up this YOU ROCK quick cross stitch mini pattern for Granny Knits .. and have reframed 2 of our best selling 100 secrets to life to hang in my office

No067 Get Wellies Muddy
No075 Rock at a Festival 

Think my blog may take on more of this 100 secrets feel to make sure I am living up to my own standards!