The Christmas season is fast approaching!

We love Christmas and all that it is associated with - family, spending time with friends, the joy of gift giving and making special memories. We also know that it can sometimes be a stressful and somewhat complicated time, so we have tried to simplify things and make sure we have the time to concentrate on some of the more important aspects of Christmas.

This season we have intentionally created only a small number of new products as our family has had numerous health issues that have impacted our time and capacity to produce all our usual goodies. We have a new range of lovely simple hand stamped gift tags which feature gold eyelets as part of the luggage tag style and we have also updated our lovely 'heart stones'. For a couple of years we have made our 'tiny tags' which are perfect when you don't need to write a great deal or when you just need to add a little festive designer touch to a wrapped parcel. Recently we have been making some more of our signature nests and have been thrilled to send one across the country to Western Australia. Locally you can find them at the lovely store in Cygnet - 'Cuckoo Etc' and at 'Wild Island Tasmania' just up from Salamanca Place in Hobart. 

We will be making another post closer to Christmas but we hope that everyone has a calm, productive and joyous lead up to this very special time of the year.

xx

Winter

We often find that because winter in the southern hemisphere is in the middle of the year, it is a good time to be still, read, cosy up by the fire and generate new ideas. In Tasmania, we have been lucky, thus far, to have had some gloriously sunny, crisp days as well as a dusting of snow on the mountain. 

Recently we were fortunate to bring one of our large nests into a beautiful local store 'Wild Island Tasmania'. This store celebrates all things Tasmanian and has a nature and conservation focus in the artisan goods it stocks as well as their exhibition programme so we are feeling very lucky to have our nests there.

This nest measures approximately 28cm wide and is called 'Autumn Crown' as it has lovely bronze and orange tones as well as a central stone with a golden heart hand painted on it.

We have also been making some smaller nests ready for Spring and this Winter we are also trying to design some new Christmas products. It is hard to believe that before we know it the Christmas season will be upon us! 

Heading into Easter!

We are in the final days of a very beautiful Summer in Tasmania and we are excited that Easter is just around the corner. It is definitely one of my favourite times of the year because it means the Southern Hemisphere is in the full swing of Autumn. In Tasmania we are blessed with wonderful Autumn colours and gentle warm days as we brace ourselves for the winter months. Easter is usually one of our busiest times of year as we make our popular vintage book paper covered eggs and smaller nests for various stockists and for our own bigcartel store. This year, however, we will only be making a small supply of our nests and eggs due to my troublesome neck and back issues that have been plaguing me for the last few months. 

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Our apologies to those who have been waiting for new stock to arrive in our online store for Easter but you will be able to find a small number of our handmade eggs and nests and stamped stones at the lovely store in Cygnet, Tasmania - Cuckoo Etc. Keeping my fingers crossed that my back and neck start to behave so we can get back to some serious making again soon!

We hope you are all well and traversing this unstable time in the world with care and safety. xx