valentines day - etsy style...

Love is in the air this time of the year...well in the world of shops and blogs anyway!  Here are a few favourite picks from a recent search on Etsy.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/38741052/in-my-heart-of-hearts-8x8-fine-art

http://www.etsy.com/listing/60910792/valentine-card-winnie-the-pooh-quote

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62757193/red-heart-doilies

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62221647/cotton-muslin-favor-gift-bag-love?ga_search_query=love&ga_search_type=user_shop_ttt_id_5866151

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SkyeArt?page=2



http://www.etsy.com/listing/90944185/25-red-heart-paper-drinking-straws

xx

and off we go...

Well our first week of business for the year has been busy! Customer orders, stock orders, brainstorming about an exciting project that we have coming up, and catching up on some boring admin tasks like accounts and stocktake!

We both stripped our corkboards over the weekend, and have started revamping them in 2012 creativity and spirit.  You have to love a blank canvas and the opportunity to add colour, pictures and inspiration to match your current goals and focus.  And the beauty of a cord board is that you can change it as many times as you like!

Here are the start of ours...

And we stumbled upon these wise words from Emerson on the ever lovely Spoonful website, and felt compelled to share them with you!  We definitely need to print this off and stick it to our inspiration boards or the inside cover of our super fabulous Frankie diaries so we can read it every day!

Apologies that our products are a little low following the Christmas craziness but we promise we will be restocking both old and new very soon!  We'll be attending Life Instyle in Sydney again next month so we'll be sharing new ranges and designers as they land on our doorstep.

If you're looking for some inspiration or happy reading, make sure you get your hands on a copy of Spoonful Issue 6 - it is something special.

hope you all had a nice weekend x

happy 2012...

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and start to 2012.  It feels like we are a little late, but having taken an extended holiday since Christmas, we are only back to business today.  Yippee - it was lovely to have a nice, relaxing break and to think about the coming year for presse-papiers and this blog.

http://pinterest.com/pin/38210296808199200/

There's something about the beginning of a new year that ignites feelings of hope and imagination for all that lies ahead, and perhaps for all that may be possible. Although that might just be the effect of too much sun and wine over the festive period as well ;-). But in all honestly, we are envisioning lots of exciting things for us this year, including:

* a real focus on DIY and crafty talent
* a broadening of this blog to connect with other like-minded folk , and as always
* we want presse-papiers to represent and stock all the gorgeous paper product and supplies that we as thirty-something year old women and mums use in our daily lives! Simple, yet unique and beautiful paper and stationery products to pretty our homes, offices and lives.

So a few minor tweaks and changes to look forward to over the coming months.

x

a pinterest Merry Christmas..

A few of our favourite Christmas images from the world of Pinterest.

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623070/

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623071/

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623075/

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623074/

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623068/

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623069/

http://pinterest.com/pin/25332816623623066/

p.s we're so glad we found you this year Pinterest - we are sure the love affair will continue in 2012!
x

DIY Christmas Tree...

As we shared over on facebook yesterday, our dear friend Larissa created a fabulous DIY Christmas tree from a couple of magazines.  We fell in love with it straight away, and promised to attempt our own version. 

So here goes...forgive the dark pictures but it was a Saturday night project :-)

We made our tree from a Frankie magazine (we initially felt a little guilty for folding the beautiful pages of this magazine, but we later figured that the awesome people over at Frankie would forgive us!)

1. Fold down the page from the top right hand side towards the spine.

 2. Repeat the fold towards the spine again (your page will now be folded longer than the bottom edge of the magazine).

3. Fold up the bottom of the folded page.

4. Continue with the same process for each page of the magazine.

5. When you have finished, fold the front and back cover around to meet each other and staple together.  We only needed to use one Frankie magazine for our tree, but Larissa used two magazines to fill hers - it will depend on how many pages your magazine has as well as the thickness of the paper.

Attach a decoration to the top of the tree, and voila, your very own DIY Christmas tree!

We would love to see your own versions so please send them through to info@presse.co.nz and we will post them up on our facebook page.

Good luck! x

freebie xmas activities...

We love the DIY and free printable activities that emerge each Christmas season!  There are always lots of unique ideas that won't cost much at an often expensive time of the year...

Plus as school and kindy wraps up for 2011, these activities are perfect timing to help entertain your little ones as well. 

1. Make your own DIY christmas crackers.  Pop over to www.minieco.co.uk/crackers/ for easy peasy instructions.  Thanks Lil Magoolie for bringing these to our attention!

2. We used to love word searches when we were younger, and were really excited to find this fun, christmasy word search designed by the clever Li-Ann over at Ham&Pea Design and Paperie. 

3. Gorgeous free printable gift tags for Xmas, or fun stickers to play with all year long.  We love everything that comes out of the Studio of Love Mae!

4. This colouring competition ends on the 19th December, but the pretty picture will still be a great colouring-in idea for children long after Christmas Day.  Spotted over at the Countdown to Christmas at babybites.

And lastly, we can't go past a baking activity this Christmas season.  These star cookies from Donna Hay will be well appreciated by friends and family this year.

xx

our own Christmas wishlist...

It wouldn't be the festive season without our own Christmas wishlist!  After such a busy year, these little beauties would be a lovely way to wrap up 2011...

Charlotte: 

Liv:

hmmm, unless our husbands actually read this blog post (unlikely!), we may need to find another way to drop the hint! x