The ultimate guide to engaging content for product businesses. Creating content as a product business can feel overwhelming. Especially when you’re juggling making, packing, marketing, customer service and everything else. But engaging content doesn’t mean posting constantly or reinventing the wheel. Engaging content does one simple thing well: That feeling might be inspiration, recognition, joy, […]
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I was in Dublin just over a year ago with three friends, one being Jemma who I always went to see live music with when she lived in London. While we were there we were looking at a local newspaper over breakfast and saw that The Decemberists were playing that night in Dublin. We didn’t […]
Read MoreZeloot’s work caught my eye at the Pick Me Up Fair earlier this year, mainly because they were focused on gig posters for The Deceberists. I saw The Decemberists a year ago but I will talk more about that tomorrow as part of my soundtrack for tomorrow. Zeloot is a Dutch illustrator that likes to […]
Read MoreJack White’s band with the singer from The Kills, Alison Mosshart, what is not to like? I have seen them once around three years ago and they were amazing. Allison is crazily good on stage. Too many good songs to choose from so I have chosen a current favourite Gasoline from their second album. The […]
Read MoreAnother game I used to play when I was younger was a dominoes style game that was made up with pictures instead, for when we were younger! As you can see it was a very colourful game and I loved the chunkiness of the cards as well. The pansies, cherries and beach balls were my […]
Read MorePatty and Bella created our workshop for our June WI meeting. They showed us how to create a real flower corsage. It was in patriotic colours of red, white and blue as it was just after the Jubilee. This meant it included a red rose, a blue thistle and a white chrysanthemum. It was great to […]
Read MoreArt 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 […]
Read MoreI 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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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 […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreI 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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