More nests and egg making!

 

As Easter nears, our home studio is a buzz with nest making materials and old book papers as far as you can see! We are so pleased to be sending these little nests and book paper covered eggs to the lovely store in Cygnet, Tasmania - Cuckoo etc, in time for Easter. We've packed our 20 eggs of different sizes and papers carefully into a box ready for delivery and there are a few eggs available on our own bigcartel shop too. This time of year in Tasmania is a favourite of ours as the days are mild and the autumn light is beautifully gentle. And, of course, it is also a time when families have a small holiday and come together to celebrate Easter. We hope you are all looking forward to this lovely time of year and although we make easter eggs that are not made of chocolate, I can assure you we will also be indulging in some chocolate ones too!!

 

A New Year Ahead!

We hope that the festive season has been a healthy and happy one and that everyone is feeling relatively relaxed and in holiday mode now! The 'Two in a Teacup' studio is on our annual break and we are very thankful to all the lovely customers who ordered through our online shop and to those businesses who stocked some of our products in their stores. We have been so lucky to have continued support from our Tasmanian stockists: The Black Hen online store, Cuckoo-etc in Cygnet, Habeo in Battery Point, as well as our new stockist, Mr Wolf in Devonport. On the mainland we have some new stores who now stock some of our products including Town and Country Gallery in Yarragon, Victoria and Hearth Co. in Palm Beach, Sydney. We can't thank you all enough for supporting small, bespoke and handmade producers like us. 

We hope very much that 2023 brings you a very happy, healthy and creative new year. 

Gearing up for Christmas!

We are in the process of adding some of our popular products to our Two in a Teacup Big Cartel Shop site to be ready for those people who like to be organised early for the Christmas season.

There will be new stamped stones with images that are perfect for Christmas and we have just added a gorgeous large reindeer on a pale stone to the shop. We are also working on a series of shells including a seahorse for those having a beach holiday and who love all things beachy. Our special 'Heart Stones' are also a beautiful treasure to give as a gift to people you love and so we have been choosing lovely stones to paint with golden hearts ready to upload onto the shop. 

We are also busily creating our much loved vintage paper baubles and also introducing a new one that is diamond shaped. We have a large order to fill for the lovely shop Cuckoo Etc, in Cygnet, who are always happy to post anywhere in Australia and there will also be a select but limited range on our shop to purchase too. 

More 'Strings of Hearts' garlands are being made too for both Cuckoo Etc and our online store and we will be making text and music Swallow' garlands as well.

The divine Black Hen online store will also have some of our specially created festive nests later in the year and these will add a unique Christmas touch to your home or to grace the Christmas table.  

Lastly, we have produced a new range of gift tags for the lovely homewares store 'Habeo' in Battery Point and these will also be available to purchase from our online shop.

It never ceases to amaze us how quickly we race along to the Christmas season! We will keep you posted with updates both on this blog and also on Instagram. We have been a little quiet on Insta this year, but will be posting a tad more regularly leading up to Christmas.

Until then, stay safe and well.

Spring is almost here!

Our home city of Hobart, in the south of Tasmania, has been experiencing some wild weather over the last few days with rain and strong winds battering our garden. But nature is so resilient and there is evidence that Spring is just around the corner. As we walk our small cavoodle around the neighbourhood we are excited to see that there are bulbs popping up everywhere, blossom trees are flowering, dormant bushes are starting to burst into leaf and the sun is setting later each day.  Along with the changes in the garden the birds are all starting to build their nests - there is quite a frenzy of activity!

So we are taking inspiration from the birds and have begun creating a new series of simple nests with a heart stone nestled inside. We are also painting more of our individual heart stones for the shop. These stones come in various sizes and shades but all feel lovely in the palm of your hand and are beautiful to use in many ways around the home or as a keepsake for someone you love. 

We hope you are all well and looking forward to the coming change of seasons.

Easter Making

 

Over the last few weeks we have been busy making our eggs for two lovely local stores that are new stockists for Two in a Teacup. We have been creating our eggs for a number of years but each year we work on new variations using our vintage book papers and stamped images. 

Along with the eggs, we have also had some orders through our online store for our stamped stones with images from our series of rabbit and bunny stamps. We love the thought that these will be part of their  Easter treasures for families this year. 

We have also made many vintage paper garlands from swallow and heart strings to our music paper circle garlands and these are so lovely to hang or drape in the home. We have created a series of Easter Memory Strings which combine a collection of rabbit and bird images, text, twigs, feathers and a range of vintage papers all collaged and attached to a linen string. These are keepsakes that are made to last from year to year. 

So after a busy making period, we hope everyone has an Easter filled with lovely memories shared with family and friends.

Changing Seasons

Today is the last day of our Southern Hemisphere summer in Tasmania. It has been a beautiful three months of quite settled, glorious days on the most part and now we look forward to the colours of autumn. It always amazes me how quickly we can feel the change of season in the air - leaves just starting to colour, the sun less intense, the days shortening and the light through our windows starting its journey deep into the house as the sun starts to become lower on the horizon. We have started our annual collection of pinecones and kindling which always makes me feel like a squirrel getting ready for winter! 

As I write this post, my heart aches to think what the people of Ukraine must be going through on the other side of the world. On Kara Rosenlund's IG account today @kararosenlund she posted an amazing photograph taken on August 23, 1989 which showed 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania peacefully holding hands to form a human chain. The chain spanned 600km across 3 countries and helped save the Baltic States. Such an amazing show of unity and strength of the people - if only there was something we could do to show Ukranians that most of the world stand with them. 

Hoping for peace in the world and that you are all well as we navigate the next change of seasons.

Festive Wishes

At this uncertain time in the world, where many are facing the continued difficulties of Covid-19, we just want to say that we hope you are able to find a small moment to breathe and hug someone close to you.

We wish everyone a safe and healthy Christmas.