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Ta! Thank you every one. It's the time of the year to give thanks. We have many things to be grateful and thankful for. Most importantly thank YOU.
Here we go! Our one day sale of the year. 30% off the entire store ends 5pm GMT 25/11/2016.
Enter code "TA" at checkout.
P.S. Sorry, although we do not have a serving of pecan / pumpkin pie... but we have sweetie pie! Always a YES to cranberry sauce, custard cream and many yummy things. All things to be thankful of.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
23rd November is National Espresso Day! Woohoo! As coffee fiends, think the body clock kinda fine tunes to national coffee days... this morning an extra coffee boost please!
So let's turbo charge our day with a double shot of espresso, for double happiness. Coffee Twinning eh? ☕️☕️👯♂️👯🙂🙃 Double Espresso = Coffee twins... yay! New formula.
Whether you spell Espresso with a "S" or with a "X" Expresso, may we wish you an awesome caffeinated day and happily full of beans!
Espresso pencils - part of Coffee Buzz Buzz pencil set
Small is beautiful. Perfectly matched small objects with its perfectly matching pantone colour shade. Yay! Discover all things tiny from @TinyPmsMatch Instagram account by designer Inka Matthew. Particularly love the name of the object for colour match to Pantone 2036, "Chick Magnet"- tickled pink!
Bonjour Paris! Together with Shop At The Museum we have created 3 brilliant set of pencils for their Paris pop up at Le Bon Marché.
The pencils are all in French including our favourite things about France - pâtisserie, joie de vivre and the Paris Métro.
1. Joie De Vivre Pencil Set
The joie de vivre pencil set have many of the french daily life we love. This includes:
Bruncher
Bouquiner
Paresser
Danser
Chiner
Embrasser
2. Pâtisserie Pencil Set
The pâtisserie pencil set have all our favourite French pastries. This includes:
Tarte aux fraises
Paris-Brest
Mont-Blanc
Madeleine
Macaron
Eclair
In the process of designing these pencils and shooting the below photo, we gobbled many macarons from our all time favourite Pierre Hermé. They always have the most innovative and cool flavours of macarons - jasmine tea, mandarin and olive oil, chocolate and earl grey tea are divine.
3. Paris Métro Pencil Set
Our favourite Métro stations in Paris. The thing about Paris Métro stations, every Métro station has a different decor or different theme. We love cruising along the Métro lines, as some stations are just like visiting a museum, a piece of art in its own right.
Like our London Underground Pencil Set, the Paris Métro pencils the colour of the lines and their interchange foiled onto HB pencils.
Odeon
Saint-germain des Près
Opera
Bastille
Invalides
Louvre-Rivoli
These are all Limited Edition designs, and could only be purchased directly from Shop At The Museum at Le Bon Marche between now and Christmas. A great souvenir and gift from Paris!
As the famous saying goes from the movie Sabrina by Audrey Hepburn - Paris is always a good idea!
Chocoholic dreams. Best treat for elevenses, in fact all day, from photographer Rachel Been.
Hear, hear to Tony The Tiger, these vintage Japanese Kellogg's cereal boxes packaging - "They're Gr-r-reat!" from Kellogg's Japan.
Becca + Lewis : The truly Awesome duo behind The Clever Badger
It's our honor to have the cutest catch up with our stockist and collaborator : The Clever Badger an online gifts and greeting cards company supporting independent designers. You will never run out of fun, goof, laughter and warmness with this adorable couple : Becca and Lewis , the duo behind the brand and the brains behind the pencils which we collaborated with for The Clever Badger Boxes including "I NEED COFFEE", "FUDGE OFF" and "I HATE MONDAYS".
Beyond the giggles, we explored a long admirable trait that we loved about The Clever Badger - running a business together as a couple. And then of course ... fun ... carpool karaoke ... sarnies ... upcoming trends... so read on.
Becca : We had the concept of a design gift shop first and the name came second. We spent many afternoons trying to concoct the perfect name, I remembered Lewis thinking of a really good suggestion ( for the life of me, I can't remember what this was ) and so I rubbed his chin and called him a clever badger ! Cringey pet names are a big thing in this household I'm afraid.
Becca : Our top 3 tips are :
Becca : Fish finger sandwiches with mayo have to be my favourite!
Lewis : Roast beef & onion baguette!
Becca + Lewis : We do believe the pin and patch trend will carry on going. It really seems as if it's here to stay for 2017. Another big trend is the hygge way of living, any accessories or lifestyle gifts the encompass the relaxing nature of the Danish living style will be key for Christmas.
Lewis : Dolly Parton (any song) or Majestic by Wax Fang
Becca : Anything Abba related or KISS! I think we might have the weirdest taste in music ever…
Becca : Rainbows! I’m a colour magpie
Lewis : Fries !
Lewis : I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul
Becca : Not today Satan! (You can tell who the intellectual is) haha ...
Thank you to Becca and Lewis , for all your time for the interview. It's been such a pleasure and nothing but fun. Thank you for the pictures too. We love them !
#Dontmissout on all the curated colorful goodness from this adorable duo by following their store and social media updates :
Best piece of wisdom : "Always remember to have fun together" + have Cake !
With the Queen's 90th birthday this weekend and the picnic season in the loom. Sandwiches are much called for. It will be one of the street party foods served during the street party at the Mall at the Patron's Lunch. Many neighborhoods across the UK will also be celebrating with their own street party or having a picnic. We had a peek at Marks and Spencer's website on what will be served at the Patron's lunch to 10,000 people celebrating along with the Queen - all we can say it is definitely nothing short of YUM and will be an absolute fun outdoor affair. Rain clouds... please make way for the sun. ☀️
We love picnics. One of the best past times we enjoy. With the sandwich featured in most picnics, afternoon teas and parties, let's dress them up and make them fun.
This tutorial is perfect for any sandwich shapes and sizes. Whether the sandwiches are finger sandwiches, baguettes, wraps, rolls, baps, triangular sandwiches etc., these wrappers will be applicable. Yay! ( We hope Nigella, Delia and Mary Berry - the domestic goddesses which totally inspire us will approve of this. )
Ingredients :
Method :
1. Download the template and print it. Each sheet contains 3 strips in 3 different colors. If you are making a mixture of sandwiches, we have made 3 in this tutorial including Cucumber Sandwich, Coronation Chicken Sandwich and Egg and Cress Sandwich, it's a good way to differentiate the sandwiches by color coding them via three different color strips.
2. Depends on the size of your sandwiches, roughly each paper stripe is good for 2 small sandwiches for example finger sandwiches or baguette, or 1 large sandwich.
3. Trim strips from template with scissors. If you have crimping scissors, it will be fun to give the strips a border. Scallop edge scissors are used in the example.
4. Take a ready filled sandwich and using one strip to wrap around, measure to size roughly how much paper strip you'd need. Measure and cut to size enough strips to cover the sandwiches you had prepared.
5. Wrap paper strips around the sandwiches. Securely with cellotape, sticker, washi tape or even twine or a piece of string.
So here it is - all done! Bring out the bunting, or picnic mats, or some nice China, feast and have fun with your friends and family whether it's an outdoor picnic, afternoon tea, or home parties.
P.S. Using a mixture of different breads for example multigrain for one type of sandwich or rye on another. Same goes for filling the sandwiches in different bread shapes will be fun too.
We are curious to know what's your favorite sandwich fillings. Feel free to tag your sandwiches #iamacrafts to be featured. Bon appétit ! 😋