Happy New Year

Happy New Year! After a lovely Christmas and New Year in Northumberland and Sussex I'm just getting back into the swing of Storeyshop orders. The shop was open all over the festive period but I had a break from promoting and adding new items and things were nice and quiet. The card orders have been steadily rolling in since though which is fab and I'm enjoying making them even more after a nice relaxing break.

So, here's to 2009! I'm not a January person and don't usually like getting back into real life after Christmas but this year is hopefully going to be a good one and my resolution for the year is to be more motivated in the evenings and not watch rubbish tv! I have my new iPod dock and have managed to revive my ancient iPod which never kept it's charge so was retired to a drawer. So, from now on, it will be music when there's nothing on tv and Storeyshop making all the way. I have loads of ideas for new products and lots of Valentines cards ready to design and cut so look out for them over the next month.

Here are some of the first hand-cut card orders of the year..











Tomorrow will be making some Valentines card orders and making a start on the new Storeyshop website (my other New Years resolution!) I also need to eBay some of the clothes I don't wear to make way for some Christmas presents and a few lovely sale purchases!

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Merry Christmas!

Happy Christmas and New Year! Storeyshop will be staying open over the festive period but please be aware that custom orders and deliveries may be a wee bit slower.

There are some photos of Storeyshop and other handmade goodies on sale in the Christmas Pop Up Shop at Oblong Gallery in London here (click on 'Exhibitions' and use the next button top left to look through the Christmas shop images). The shop closes today but there are some great exhibitions coming up in the New Year too.

I was working in London last week at Company magazine which was great timing for my last minute Christmas shopping and catching up with friends down there. It was nice to be working away from home too so that I could properly 'come home' for Christmas! Have a lovely one everyone!

Storeyshop wedding invites

The latest Storeyshop wedding invite order is complete and has been posted off! I'm really pleased with them. The ribbon colour doesn't look as nice in the photos but it's a rich, dark aubergine...

Storeyshop at Oblong Gallery

Storeyshop hand-cut cards are available for a limited time in the Oblong Gallery's Christmas Pop Up Shop! Details and opening times are all on their website.

Well I am back up north after my busy weekend down south. It was fab to be back in Sussex and to see my family and friends again. Friday night was my friend Lisa's birthday beer and cider festival where she had the best 'pick your nose' paper cups ever!








Saturday was We Make Christmas in London so it was an early start. The fair was quieter than I was expecting considering the great, central location but it was still worth doing and fun to see other Etsy people. Monkeys and cards were the best sellers and I think a few more monkeys will be unwrapped on Christmas day now, including the cutest little girl who took a shine to the monkeys we had hung up in the foyer. She has a monkey on it's way to her if her Dad has managed to keep it a surprise!











Saturday evening was a lift back to Sussex (thanks Ma and Pa!) via M&S for quick dinners all round and then dressing up for Grace's 80's birthday party. I wore a shiny, puff-sleeved, shoulder-padded jacket courtesy of eBay and managed to look really awful not even just funny! It was great though. My friend Caz even wheeled out an original 'Jason & Kylie' t-shirt. Top marks!

Sunday was visiting my sister and brother in law's for lunch to catch up with them and my nieces and nephew. A viewing of 'Polar Express' with advance warnings of everything than was about to happen minute by minute and a few games of 'Pass The Bomb' later, we relaxed infront of 'Antique's Roadshow'.

Wedding invites today so I am currently printing, cutting and tieing (is that a word?) ribbons. After that it will be taking photos of new monkeys and adding them to Storeyshop.

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We Make Christmas lists

I am surrounded by lists! I am heading down south for We Make Christmas tomorrow and have to remember everything I will need for the fair as well as an eighties fancy dress outfit for my friend's birthday party and some local ales and a warm outfit for another friends birthday beer festival. I'm a list girl at the best of times and these ones are getting long!

I am still trying to stock up on Storeyshop goodies for the fair. I haven't been albe to make as much as I'd have liked but I have had a couple of very busy weeks with lots of Christmas sales and orders.

My arms are still aching from cutting 8 more personalised Christmas cards yesterday including some of the longest messages I have cut so far and these two...








Tonight is going to be spent making more monkeys and cutting some more cards as well as packing up todays sales ready for the post office in the morning. Then packing for the busiest weekend ever!

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Storeyshop Christmas Cards

Today I have mostly been making personalised Christmas cards. I have been embracing cats, nicknames and shamrocks in today's selection which have all just gone in the post. It has helped me feel a bit festive actually, I might even start wrapping some presents! To order your own custom Christmas card with the message and design of your choice, please visit Storeyshop.














I was just browsing the Gift Guides on Etsy actually and noticed on of my cards in the Personalised Gifts section. Woo hoo! Right, must get back to making more monkeys as I am still trying to stock up for We Make Christmas but they keep selling! The latest one to jet off to Philadelphia is Blue Spotty..




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We Make Featured Designer

Have a look at the We Make blog. Woo hoo, Storeyshop is featured designer at the moment! There are a few spelling mistakes but you can't have it all :)