6 Ways to Maximise Christmas Sales This Festive Season

Here are 6 ways to maximise Christmas sales this festive season and what to do now to prepare for the highest sales period. Get ready and learn how to prepare for peak sales! 6 ways to maximise Christmas sales Are you ready to maximise Christmas sales now? Book a Retail Strategy Session Need help with […]

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Make it happen Choose to shine inspirational stationery notebook by Arnold & Bird

Art Brut – Emily Kane

Art Brut can normally divide my friends with many falling into the ‘I don’t like them’ group. However I always have to disagree. They are simply brilliant live – so much fun and energy. Eddie Argos is hilarious and so good at what he does. The songs come to life so much more and you […]

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New Designers 2012

I went to New Designers part one last week for work. I love New Designers and it will always hold a special place in my heart as I exhibited there when I completed my surface pattern degree in 2006. So six years on I return every year to see the new graduates work. I am […]

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Mood board – merci

Merci, Danke sehr, Gracias, Thank you. You have to be thankful for life and I am right now. Here is a selection of thanks in French. I love the car number plate however the merci text on the photo postcards is so nice, simple but effective. Sources: 1. Merci plaques from Jules Vernacular 2. Merci car number […]

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Dan Black – I Love Life

I have to admit to not knowing much about Dan Black apart from this song – really will check out his other stuff now.. I have this song as when I went to the Camden Crawl in 2009 you received a free CD download and this was one of the songs on the album. I […]

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Design – Niki Pilkington

I went to Pick Me Up fair again this year, three years running so far. One illustrators work really caught my eye and that was Niki Pilkington. I loved her style of drawing, the subjects she choose and the combination of pencil and collage. Her bio at Pick Me Up fair described her work as […]

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Band of Skulls – Light of the morning

This song is great and will always make me want to dance. I love the singing intro accompanied by the drums and also the break where it goes into the end of the song – brilliant! I have seen them twice and both times have been great. Although I can’t rate Alexandra Palace as highly […]

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Family – The old pigeon lofts

   As previously mentioned my grampy was a pigeon racer. My grandparents home was one of my favourute places to go when I was younger. As a child I will always remember our parents driving to their house, turning off the main road where we would pull up to the little stone cottages. Me and my brother […]

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Mood board – pallets

Ahh pallets, you find them on the street abandoned and just look at all of the different uses there are for them! I think they work particularly well in the garden and make great planters. I don’t currently have any in my garden but I do have a wheelbarrow with herbs growing in it and […]

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May WI meeting – Fine Cell Work

Jacqui from Fine Cell Work was the speaker at our WI meeting on the 8 May. Fine Cell Work is a social enterprise and charity that works in prisons by teaching prisoners how to do one of the following of appliqué, patchwork, quilting or needlework. Fine Cell Work was set up by Lady Anne Tree […]

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The Lake Poets – Windowsill

I came across The Lake Poets via the Ents24 website as one of the artists picks. At the time you could download some of their songs for free and I liked them so much I have just bought their new CD City By The Sea. Windowsill instantly struck me and I love the melody and […]

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