Shop Locally

For some time now we have been very lucky to sell our nests through the beautiful online store The Black Hen -@theblackhen - run by Julie and so I thought I would share some of her recent photos from her website and Instagram account of our nests from our last delivery. Here is her website too which has her shop, recipes and other lovely information in case you would like to look it up.

 

 

As Christmas nears, there are many posts on Instagram about supporting local businesses and small enterprises making handmade products. This is so important in a world so focussed on mass production and big business. Here's hoping we can all remember to buy locally and from people who you know are making products with love and care. My last post also mentioned how lucky we are to have a small range of our tags and cards at the beautiful little store in Sandy Bay - Birdie & Co @birdieandcokids - that specializes in stunning baby and children's ware and has a small bricks and mortar shop as well as an online one.  Two other lovely stores that have stocked some of our wares this year are Crazy Beautiful Life @crazybeautifullifehomewares and Vintage 42 @vintage42 - both in New South Wales. We are so very lucky to have the support of such wonderful businesses.

November tidings!

As we near the onset of December and the season of Christmas we are taking everything more slowly this year than in past years.

My daughter is heading overseas at the beginning of January to study French in an intensive language course in France and we are planning to meet her at the end of her month of study. Needless to say we are all excited but are slightly in 'panic' mode to get everything done on time and celebrate Christmas as we love to do.

We have been making some new festive gift tags for a beautiful little store in Hobart, Birdie & Co, with some being suitable for younger children and we have been sending sets of them out to some lovely customers as well. The little gold ink details make them sparkle!

Last year I made members of our family and friends a small reindeer made from twigs from our birch tree and this year we are experimenting with creating angels from driftwood and birch twigs. They are still in prototype stage at the moment but I am hoping to share a photo on the blog if we are happy with them. We are also enjoying creating simple little festive moments at home by twining battery operated tiny copper lights around our handmade grapevine wreath that hangs at our front door and filling bowls with tea light candles and greenery. Simplicity is the motto for this year.

We hope you enjoy the last few days of November and we will be in touch on this blog in the coming month for Christmas.

eggs and nests

We have been busy making more nests and eggs recently to send to two of our lovely suppliers, so we thought you might like to see some of the the new egg designs currently being made.  We have nestled the eggs into one of our nests and they seem to look quite at home there!

                                                      We mentioned in our last post that we hoped to be designing some nests with a Christmas feeling to them. We are still hoping this will happen but we are busily making nests that are on order at the moment. Do you think we could ask Christmas not to come too quickly this year!!