by missV | Dec 4, 2012 | Life
Crikey! It’s December already! Where does the time go? The temperature has already dropped to below zero and we got our first frosting of the season – there’s no turning back now! We’re ready to cozy up with a cuppa and put on our wooly socks… aaah, so good! Now that we’re comfortable, it’s time for our November round up. Ready for the best bits? Us too!
A peek at our Wordless Wednesday photo posts you’ll notice there are less Starbucks cups in here as we’re making a stand and not drinking there till they start paying their taxes. That’s sad for everyone, but it’s their own fault! Seems they’re starting to re-assess the way they run their business too. Good to see that people voting with their feet can still be so powerful!
We’ve run three fab diy projects this month by showing you how to turn your wine glass into a table lantern – we think this tutorial is going to come in seriously handy with the nights closing in! We also revived an old Salt Dough recipe to show you how to make some cute mittens on a string bunting for your tree 🙂 Last but not least, we shared a tutorial on how to use gold leaf to upcycle some trinkets into beautiful table decorations or kitsch n quirky ornaments for your home – this is a great way to bling up your christmas gifts! Gotta love it 😀
This month has been hugely fantastic for us and our wee business too! We got featured in Vogue Bambini Magazine , included in Etsy & Stylist Magazine’s online Christmas Gift Guide and Blog And Buy Sale’s brilliant wish list for a start! We also created our first ever window display with our giant geek glasses, which was a massive amount of fun! We brought out our new wooden brooches and were proud supporters of Movember and raised money by selling our moustaches for the cause. Phew! What a busy month!
We also experimented with our new stall layout, shared what we were thankful for on Thanksgiving, shared a giveaway for the month and had our biggest ever sale for Black Friday. How great is that? We were also delighted to have a lovely blog post about our products and packaging written up on A Blackbirds Epiphany Amazing, right?
We hope you are enjoying our blog and had a fab November too 🙂
Cant wait to hanging out with you through December!
Vivid
xox
by missV | Oct 31, 2012 | Life
What a fantastic Autumn! Crunchy leaves and pumpkin pie all round 😀 I have to admit that saying goodbye to summer is always tricky, but with Halloween and cozy socks to be indulged in through October, it’s been quite the welcomed treat!
So, incase you missed out on anything during this glorious month, here is our October Round Up!
A snapshot of our lovely
wordless wednesday photos. October was full of fog and I made my first ever pumpkin pie. It is sublime! We’re big fans of instagram, its super addictive!
I answered your questions on my
vintage glasses, shared a sweet autumn get up as well as some super stylish Halloween outfits for
Style Me Friday. Do you think you’re a ghost or a vampire? Either way you’ll look killer in one of these ensembles!
After our little break to Paris last month we had the chance to share with you our
favorite places to visit in the city, including a peek into our
Disneyland adventure and some amazing pictures and trinkets collected from our favorite
flea markets there. We’d love to go back to all of them!
This month we shared four extra special Halloween tutorials, including how to make an awesome felt
sugar skull brooch, a
hollow book diy for your store your secret stash in, our favorite recipe for delicious
cinder toffee and we even created a set of free printable Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein
candy boxes for the ultimate trick or treaters visiting you on fright night! It’s been spooktacular 😀
This month has brought some more great achievements that we are super proud of 🙂
On top of that we somehow had time to hold a stall at the arts market in Edinburgh and have launched few
new products in our etsy store. Productive or what!
As a special Halloween ‘trick or treat’ to thank you lovely readers for all your support, we’re offering you an exclusive 20% off in our etsy shop till MIDNIGHT tonight! Click this link to find the code and get in there quick 😀 Every order will also be given one of our awesome scratch cards, giving you either a free print, keepsake card or pencil with your next order, or even another 10% or 15% off your next order too! We love surprises 😀
Last but not least, we would like to give kudos to the following bloggers. As you know, our diy posts are quite popular on our blog. We love nothing more than to see how others have taken on our little tutorials and made them their own! This month we’d like to thank
Knitting Paradise,
Laid Off Mom,
Curious Cat and
2till3 for sharing the love! Good work ladies 😀
We’d love to hear from everyone who has tried one of our projects so please get in touch and send us a picture so we can give you some love 🙂 It’s so fab to see your wonderful creations, it makes us super happy!
Thanks to everyone for all their support and we hope you’re enjoying our blog 🙂
Don’t forget to make use of our etsy code before it expires tonight, it may be the last one we do before Christmas! If that’s not frightening, I’m not sure what is 😉
Happy Halloween boils and gouhls!
Vivid
xox
by missV | Oct 2, 2012 | Life
Can you believe that September has already passed us? We can feel that crisp winter chill in the air and are getting ready to stock up on wooly jumpers and hot chocolate for October. We had such an amazing month with so much inspiration and things to make us smile 🙂 Here is our little round up of all our best bits incase you missed them…
A few of our favorite images from this months
Wordless Wednesday photo posts, including the worlds greatest bar of chocolate and my favorite legs necklace!
This month we made a geek-tastic space invader pinata full of our favorite retro sweets (- an ideal addition to any upcoming halloween parties!) We shared our little chalk paint tutorial and our take on our favorite ratatouille recipe, which is going to be a staple in our winter diets!
Kim, the wonderful maker of the awesome Grumble Cave Monsters came over to inspire us with her amazing new creatures, we fell in love with these adult tree houses and we are participating in the 6 month giveaway of our favorite online shop Ginger Pickle!
A few darling outfits from our
Style Me Friday fashion posts. So many pretty dresses, such little time!
Yup, september has been quite some month! I got a year older (and a year more fabulous!), we reached our first 100 sales on etsy.com and we took our first ever trip together to Paris. What a great way to celebrate a birthday!
We hope your month has been just as spectacular as ours 😀
Happy October everyone…
xox
by missV | Sep 4, 2012 | Life
Happy September everyone!
August just flew by, right? The sun was out and the whole of Great Britain was a buzz with the London Olympics… It’s been epic! Incase you missed anything on our blog, you can catch up with this month’s round up. Ready? Ok!
Our wordless wednesday posts are still going strong 😀 This month has had great weather, meaning our little
photos are sunny bright and beautiful. It’s been brilliant to have a break from the rain and enjoy plenty of ice cream and fro-yo. Autumn leaves will bring Chai tea lattes so not all will be lost when the sun takes his holiday!
We’ve been making things to get organised and to get accessorised for our music festival weekend this month and shared a wicked
lady neck tie diy, showed you how to make a
magnetic notice board with house hold objects, up-cycled some old sunnies into a pair of
glitter sunglasses and even
customised canvas shoes. We are really getting into our diys and hope you are too! If you have any requests we’d love to hear them 😀
We are now selling our prints online with GingerPickle.co.uk and got the opportunity to hang out with the owner and awesome jewellery maker Jade. If you’re wanting to find out how to get your designs stocked online, this interview is a must! We are also giving away one of our I Love You A Latte cards for Ginger Pickles birthday – make sure to enter the competition here 😀
We’ve been really inspired by our trip to Leeds Music Festival – being massive fans of The Cure and The Foo Fighters there is no surprise I was jumping for joy when we got to see them play! We also posted some of our favorite images of Marilyn Monroe to mark her anniversary. That is one beautiful woman! Finally, we spent a lot of time hanging out at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and taking in lots of shows. We love the festival season in Edinburgh, it’s so busteling and there is plenty of stuff on to do for free 😀
Finally, this month we have had some incredible things happen. We got featured by Blog & Buy Sale as one of their Top 10 Back To School Essentials. With Tatty Devine and Lazy Oaf making the cut too, we are really honoured! We also had our second Mollie Makes blog feature; our lovely little pom pom tutorial got loads of kudos from them 😀 And our biggest achievement to date happened; our product got published! A massive thank you to BIBA Magazine, a French publication who loved our geek pencils so much they printed them. I am still blowen away by it! What an honour!!
We can’t wait to see what September brings 😀
Hope you had a fab month too…
by missV | Aug 6, 2012 | Life
*BOOM*
Can you believe August has already crashed in? That means one thing…. A round up of what we got up to in July of course! Incase you missed any of the good bits (or ruddy brilliant ones should I say!), here is a snippet at what went down at Vivid HQ…
Lots of pretty
photos this month with afternoon tea, days in the sun and cocktails in a suitcase! We love to use our camera phones to snap all the things that make us smile. In Scotland we’ve had a really rainy year so these moments need to be documented as proof 😉
We’re really excited about the
fabricate exhibition in Edinburgh this month and got the opportunity to share the event on the blog before it opened. Full of some absolutely stunning design from upcoming Scottish makers, we rate this show highly as a must see if you’re in town for the Fringe!
It’s open ’till the 31st of August at Studio One, so make sure you pencil it in 😀
We have had the most fun yet with all our new tutorials! They will update your home and save you a fortune at the same time… not to mention all the fun you will have from learning something new! Check out how to make your own home screen printing kit, a cute little terrarium to bring the outdoors in and update your sofa with an awesome moon cushion using photo transfer paper. We also shared a diy that will update your dining room and pass the time on long journeys with our placemat travel games project and show you how to make peanut butter and an awesome jar to go with it. Last but not least, a quick jewelry diy to show you how to make your own collar clips / cardigan clips from clip on earrings and a bracelet. A lot of great stuff, right?!
This month we fell in love with the galaxy trend and rocked a sultry and sexy vamp look for our outfit post
Style me friday… Dressing up is one of my favorite pass times so making these fashion posts are a lot of fun!
We were really excited to have been featured sellers on
Uncovet’s website, an online store dedicated to sharing some of the best new and upcoming designers products. On top of that we even made
etsy’s usa homepage with our pencils too – we are so proud to have made it on the front page in the uk and america now 😀 We also did brilliantly at the 2 (!!) markets we traded at this month and we even had time to make plenty of brilliant new products. Crikey! No wonder the time has flown by so fast! We are delighted to have passed someone in the street wearing one of our products too – it’s so great to see our things being loved and worn with such pride! It really makes all the hard work and effort seem so, so worth it!
Finally, before we go, we’d really like to thank everyone who has shared our
Mini Fork Pom Pom diy post this month too. This little fellow has been popping up everywhere and it has been amazing 😀 If you’ve shared any of our tutorials on your blog or tumbler etc, please let us know and send us a url – we’d love to be able to thank everyone for all the support they have been giving us!
So, a massive thank you and shout out to:
PHEW!
We hope we haven’t missed anyone out – please let us know if we have and we would love to add you in too. Hooray! Thanks everyone!
Thanks to all our lovely readers too – we hope you’ve enjoyed our July round up and have a lot of fun with all our new projects 😀 Here’s to more brilliant things to come in August!!
Enjoy!
Vivid
xox
