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29/11/2025

Personalised Christmas Eve boxes are currently in my 20% off Black Friday sale! 🎄✨

Laser engraved with your little one’s name, ready to be filled with all sorts of Christmas goodies… perfect to create a magical festive tradition ❤️

04/03/2025

One minute we’re in the January trenches, and the next it’s Mother’s Day at the end of the month?! 🌸

Not to take away from today’s pancakes by any means 🥞, but a reminder to anyone else like me who these days always creep up on!!

These personalised laser engraved wooden drinks trays are now on my shop, perfect for the cuppa, biscuit/cake lovers ☕️

Can be customised with any name & words/phrase to make the perfect gift ✨

24/02/2025

Bit of a restock… 👀

Is there a business / stock equivalent of having eyes bigger than your belly? Asking for a friend 😅

23/02/2025

February newness ✨

Personalised wooden baby name blocks 🧸 I made these this weekend for our friend’s little one who is turning one in April, and they came out so well!! 1️⃣🥳

I was far too excited about how cute they look so we’ve spoiled the surprise for his parents (or just shared the excitement?!) & they are already available to order on my shop 🙈😂

Each block is laser engraved with a different letter to make any name/word, and make the best nursery shelf decor 🥰

23/12/2024

Officially finished for Christmas!!! 🎄📮✨

Absolutely blown away by everyone’s support this year. It was a scary decision to go full time but the last two months have been busier than I ever could have expected (don’t ask about my recent caffeine intake or average hours of sleep!). Thank you all so much & have a very Merry Christmas! ❤️

08/12/2024

Life lately ✨

1. The most (and only 🤣) aesthetic photo I have of my Christmas Eve Box wrapping station, before the chaos of selling over 150 boxes began!! 📮✨
2. Briefly left my making & packing hibernation for the lovely market last weekend!
3. Had to relocate to a festive shelf since my brain wasn’t braining & I accidentally only booked a half day stall space 🙈
4. More realistic footage of me on this day (/all the time at the moment) 😴🤣
5. Turned our living room into a cute distribution centre 📦
6. Filling the car on the daily… please help me convince Dave to let me get a pretty pink van 🚚💕
7. Had my first business / corporate order of stationery boxes and lost my tiny mind !!!! (Did I get a photo of them packed though? Nope! 🫣)
8. Invested in a second laser to keep up with all the demand!!! 🎉
9. Officially have 2 Etsy best sellers and am now in the top 3.5% of Etsy shops!!! 🏆

So so happy, grateful for all of you & proud of myself! But also, please take this post as permission to lie to me about how tied I look right now x

22/11/2024

Little miss no markets has become little miss one market!!! ✨ I will be at Festive market on 1st December at The Botanist in West Bridgford from 9.45am - 2pm!!🎄💫

Very excited to be joining this market! If anybody would like to pre-order anything custom/personalised for collection on 1st, please drop me a message! 🎅🏻🥰

11/11/2024

Officially got the bit postal bags out for the first time in 2024 !!! 💌📮💫

So naturally it called for me requesting a ‘first day of school’ style photo 🙈🤣

Thank you thank you thank you guys for all your orders and support 🥹 (can you imagine how many times I’ve shouted “another order!!” at Dave?! 🤣) I’ve had the best day today making orders and even managed to get some new products made!! New bits will hopefully be photographed and added to my shop this week 🎄✨

10/11/2024

Pun lovers, this one’s for you! 🙋🏼‍♀️ Side note: it surprises me every year that there’s no Christmas pudding emoji?!

Anyway, my favourite Christmas card design is now back on my Etsy shop! 🎄✨

Available as a single card or as a pack 💫

06/11/2024

‼️ Exciting / scary update!!! ‼️

Yesterday was my last day of my 9-5 and I have now officially gone full time with my small business in time for Christmas!! 🥹

This wasn’t necessarily in the ✨plan✨ (and is definitely a scary move!) however I unfortunately had to make the decision to leave a toxic workplace and prioritise my mental health 🧠

I am feeling very fortunate to have my small business that I’ve been growing alongside my career to focus on, and I’m so excited to be able to put more time into it (esp in time for the Christmas rush! 🎄), to be more active on social media and to create more products for you all!! 🌟

As always, thank you all for all your support. All likes/comments/shares and orders are honestly so noticed and appreciated 🥰

31/10/2024

Takeaway Decision Dice 🍕🥢🍟🎲

Struggle to decide what to order after a long week of work? Let fate decide with our wooden takeaway dice! Choose from our standard dice, choosing from: Chinese, Fish & Chips, Indian, Pizza or Thai. Or create a custom dice with laser engraved takeaway options of your choosing ✨

These make the perfect stocking filler or secret Santa gift! 💖

Order on or before 2nd November for 20% off Etsy 👀

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