Let's Hear it For The Dads!

So, Father's Day is around the corner. I'm excited to announce that I'm (finally) getting back up to date with Storeyshop orders! It's been a really busy year so far and I kind of missed getting any cards made for Mother's Day (Ma Storeyshop got one obvs!) but I'm more on the ball now and have a little selection of hand cut Father's Day cards available. Most designs can be cut in your choice of colour, if you can wait a few days for me to scalpel them for you, and some are in stock so can be popped in the post straight away. Woo hoo!

New Storeyshop Cards!

I've been scribbling down ideas for new Storeyshop cards on every scrap of paper I can find for the last month or so while I have been busy cutting personalised orders. Well, I've now got around to designing some of my favourites, cutting them and taking some photos! They'll be appearing in Storeyshop over the next day or so...

Storeyshop Off Cuts!

Now, I have always been a bit of a (a complete) hoarder but I think I have taken things to the extreme. Guess what I have been collecting over the last few months? Yes, the little colourful trimmings from hand cutting my cards! They are in little glass jars around the office and look so nice. I'm not sure what I'm actually going to do with them but I don't think I can ever throw any in the recycling box again...

Look At Me!

Crikey, not blogged since Kate and Wills' big day. Storeyshop has been really busy hence the lack of blog posts in May so far (must sort that out) but I'm still happily cutting away! While editing some photos earlier, I noticed how many of my card photography sessions Seb Chinchillason sneaks in to! He's normally really camera shy - I don't think he likes the red light on the front of my camera - and runs away if I try and get a pic of him. As soon as I get some white boards set up to take some snaps of some recent card orders, though, he's there trying to steal the limelight! Thought he deserved some blog space...

























The best way to keep him out of shot is by bringing his food in to the studio for him. Bless his very long whiskers!

Congratulations Kate And Wills!

Happy Birthday Freya!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful niece, Freya. She is 13 today! I can't believe it has been 13 years since I heard my Dad on the phone to my sister when she called with the news of Freya's arrival in to the world. I was sitting on my bed, with my friend Natalie, when I heard that I'd become an aunty for the first time!

There was me thinking I was all grown up at 17 and now Freya is a teenager. I just found this photo (think it was the end of the roll of film hence the funny orange effect) of me sitting in my bedroom a few months later with little Freya. Check out my lovely decor in the background! Old ticket to see 'Blind Date' live, back stage passes for Symposium's concert in Brighton (anyone remember them?), ticket for 'Indie Day', postcards of Brad Pitt. They were the days!


I hand cut a personalised birthday card for Freya on a really sunny day last week when the shadows and reflections were so clear that I had to get my camera out and take some snaps!












As I was looking for a silver or gold pen to write on front of the black envelope for the card, I noticed the little cut out bits from the orange card so decided to stick them on the front of the envelope instead. How have I not thought of this before? So, if you order a card where the letters are cut out (most of my cards have the negative space cut out instead) feel free to ask for the cut out'ty bits too. You could stick them to the present wrapping or have them like confetti inside the card...

Happy Birthday Little Bro!

OK, he's not so little anymore but he is 27 today. Happy Birthday! I cut him a card yesterday while the sun was out. I'm liking grey at the moment so went for a grey and dark blue number. Oh, and I had to add a little pic of him in the old days (and so he doesn't kill me, the photo that was taken a few seconds before that one, of yours truly)!