Etsy Shop Feature: Paper Stories

When I write someone a special letter or make them a beautiful birthday card, I always find it's really dissapointing when I can't find a cute envelope to match. This is where Paper Stories comes to the rescue.

Paper stories was founded by Nina Voordes from Holland. It specialises in adorable, beautifully coloured envelopes & notebooks.

These envelopes  make me want to write more letters. I hope little shops like this encourage more people to write, there's nothing like receiving a hand written letter from someone special.

Etsy Shop Feature: hellopetie

Hellopetie is based in Germany and run by Anika Hellriegel. Anika has a small selection of really cute and unique items on her shop, including paper clocks and adorable plates and mugs. I really recommend you take the time to look through her super happy shop!

Monster Dolls

When I stumbled across these amazing one of a kind doll monsters by Remjie Malham I just had to share!! Check out her shop here. 


She is a very talented doll maker, with such a great eye for colour and pattern. I'd love to take home one of these little monsters one day.

The Big Knit 2011

Smoothies are a good way of getting a few of your 5 a day, and in winter especially, it is important we take care of ourselves inside and out, in particular all the oldies out there.

It's a horrible thought that in times as developed as they are now, some elderly people cant afford to keep themselves warm on these cold winter nights due to ever increasing heating bills.

However, there is hope at the end of the tunnel, the people at Innocent Smoothie have been raising money every winter since 2003 for Age Concern, to help keep old people warm at winter by selling bottled smoothies with knitted hats.

Click here to read more info on this brilliant idea

I found out about this a few weeks ago and got my knitting needles out.

Here are my mini creations:

Unfortunately the deadline for submissions is Friday 14th October, So its too late to send any more, but, you will be able to buy the hatted smoothies from the 2nd November For 3 weeks in most Sainsburys stores, and from the 9th November at Boots.

Check out the Innocent Drinks facebook page to see some more wacky knits.

How to spoil someones wedding

The humorous paper artist Linus Hui shows how to spoil someone's wedding, dress for a cocktail party and avoid sour grapes with his wonderful creations here.