How to Improve Your Money Mindset and Make More Sales: A Practical Masterclass for Product Businesses

How to improve your money mindset and make more sales: A practical masterclass for product businesses. If you’ve been following along with the recent meditation and yoga posts, you’ll know I’ve been sharing more of the holistic tools from my former Collective Membership. These practices supported creative product businesses not just strategically, but emotionally and […]

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Profitable Products masterclass
Decorative feather trend mood board

Decorative feather trend – mood board

Decorative feather trend My first mood board had to be about feathers as I LOVE them! There is a feather in my logo and this motif is really important to my brand identity. The word Arnold comes from my Grampy who was a pigeon racer, and Bird comes from my Gran’s maiden name. I love […]

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Curating inspiring content for you

Welcome – let’s get inspired!

Let’s get inspired   Hi there! Welcome to the newly revamped Arnold & Bird blog – I’m so happy you’ve joined me!   After taking a blogging break I’m back and ready to serve up creative content to help inspire you in the world of design.   So what will you find over in this […]

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After surfing it’s always a pasty

So I went surfing in Morocco (more on that soon). One thing we learnt quickly is that surfing is a very physical activity and we would always welcome the ice cream man, sweet pastry selling man or lunch that was provided for us everyday. And when i say that I mean welcome it with open […]

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Drawing – pencil sketch of an eye

Pencil sketch of an eye This weekend I did a 20 minute pencil sketch of an eye. It’s been a while since I sketched so was really pleased with the outcome. It was fun to put pencil to paper – I have been wanting to do it for so long and although I didn’t have […]

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New Designers 2013

As I said a year ago, I love the New Designers show. I thought this year was particularly good and a few exhibitors really caught my eye. The first was Beth Lamont – I loved her ceramic hot air balloons. The delicate nature of them with the silver works really well and I love the […]

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It’s a boy!

Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the arrival of their baby boy at 16.24 today. It is lovely to see everyone really excited! Image source: Baby boy cardigan bowtie onesie by groovyapplique via Etsy

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Style – Mineralogy Design jewellery

These rough gemstone necklace and earrings are just gorgeous. I love the different minerals combined in the necklace with the vintage chain. The earrings are perfect for wearing something simple but just a bit more interesting. I love the combination of different surfaces as well – very on trend! Image sources: Grey agate freeform chrysoprase […]

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Style – wedding outfits

This weekend I finally finished getting my dresses for my two weddings this year. It took a while and I had many returns but I have two dresses and the accessories for the first one at least – which is good since my brother’s wedding is this Saturday – Ekk! So EXCITED! Image sources: Floral […]

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