We will be at the House & Garden “Spirit of Christmas” fair at Olympia for a whole week in early November, along with 600 other stallholders, and we’re confidently expecting to have our Christmas shopping more or less done for us due to the delicious variety of this huge and bustling fair. Over the years we’ve found all sorts of interesting businesses and brands there, and the food hall is particularly memorable. We’re looking forward to returning on this 25th anniversary year.  Come and see in real life all sorts of our things — Mugs! Boxes! Crackers! our new Quilts!— usually only available online, and some that we are making exclusively for this event. Tickets are on sale now and are quite a bit cheaper when booked in advance.

Every year we have an end-of-year sort out of the attic and the warehouse, rummaging through heaps, bundles and boxes of experiments, disasters, slightly dinged-up trays and boxes, damaged patterned paper, mislabelled notebooks, discontinued printing blocks, redundant lampshades and things we gave up on long ago, sometimes for reasons we can no longer understand. It’s a glorious jumble that must be banished from our workspace so that new things can take shape there. None of it can be sold in the ordinary way as every item is different (heartfelt apologies to those who cannot attend in person — for this reason we just aren’t able to run this event online) but it all has potential and we very much do not want it to end up in a skip.