Personalized Jewellery / Product Backing Cards for Etsy or Ebay

These very affordable yet beautiful in quality and design personalized product backing cards... are perfect for the at home crafter or work at home Mum doing small hand made products.

You could easily punch a hole in the top to turn them into tags... punch small holes in the centre to hold earrings, brooches, hair clips.... or put them in clear bag as the backing card for strength and beautiful business marketing and promotion!  

Easily personalize with your own logo (best suited for .png logo's with transparent backgrounds) and text in just minutes online!

Each card costs under approx 50 cents each (even less if printed on standard card stock) and are double sided, full color large business card sized cards printing on stunning eggshell embossed & textured card stock (or you have the choice or white linen, metallic gold, metallic pearl, metallic platinum, recycled white or just plain white card stock)

More designs coming very soon so be sure to come back to my store.

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Snail Garden!

Outside in the yard with my Mr while he did the very impressive job of removing the 100s of big weeds that had made home in our garden... I watched as he found what I can only describe as an orgy of snails! He picked them up on his shovel and put them all atop our green bin and I have to tell you I was enthralled! I just stood staring at this mass of shell, sluggy, slimy, slugness and was mesmorized! A sight I'd never seen and I doubt many others had too. So I ran and grabbed my camera to get the little slimy suckers on film.

"Home Sweet Home" Wall Print

"Home Sweet Home" by Pip Gerard | RedBubble:

Pip's Pink Dessert Table Party

I've been talking about all things pink and having a pink party for some time and I finally did it! Me and my siblings threw a huge 60th Birthday Party for our wonderful Mum and that was my excuse to go all out and finally make the pink dessert table I've always wanted to make!  And thankfully it was all to Mum's taste and she loved every bit.  It so lovely to see how happy the party made Mum... she deserved it and so much more! x

Months in the making this dessert table was full with home made accents and accessories, vintage treasure finds and lots of chocolate and sweet delights!

Now I completely understand the appeal and know why so many Mum's do it! Seeing it all come together on the table was such a buzz... I enjoyed every second creating this luscious, pretty in pink dessert table!!

Circus Carnivale School Theatre Production Canteen Chocolates

Recently my 6 year old son did his first ever school production.  It was a Circus production... filled with clowns, acrobats, strongmen and animals.  It was wonderful.  I actually shed tears for a second while watching him perform... and I always... always... thought I would not be that kind of Mum!  I just couldn't help it!  It was seeing him looking so independent, so confident, so grown up.. I just couldn't stop the feelings from overwhelming me. 

I was so unbelievably excited leading up to the big nights (there were two nights of the show on a local stage).  The kids had been working on this all year so the build up was huge!

I decided I'd do my tiny part (especially compared to some of the incredible help others Mum's gave to costumes and organising!) by helping, along with other Mum's, to make food for the canteen to sell at the shows as a school fundraiser.  So of course me being me... I couldn't help myself from getting all over the top creative!  No I couldn't just make chocolate crackles and be done with it... I had to come up with all these hair brained ideas and go ALL out for it!!  I made myself feel less silly by figuring it was good practice for my party planning skills as well as a good chance for taking photo's to show on my blog (which as you might have noticed has been hugely neglected!).

So here's what I made... chocolate dipped marshmallow sticks and home made chocolates.

I think I enjoyed making the marshmallow sticks the most!  I purchased the long marshmallow twirls... then stuck a skewer up through the middle (which is harder than it sounds) then dipped it in melted chocolate. :) 

The Ice Cream truck is a cookie jar I found in the local vintage shop!  I spent many an

 hour working on these but it was all worth it.  Knowing in a very small way it was going towards the school was what meant most.

 

 

People's Essentials - Photography Series

Just stumbled upon this awesome series by artist Jason Travis. 

Started in 2007 it was originally for Travis, a way to get to know old and new friends... to find out what people find essential to carry with them all the time.

Years later and many dozens of people photographed later... you can wade through this awesome series to see exactly what it is people keep in their bags!  Some are so interesting... some are hilarious pisstakes!

And Jason has just begun doing them in video form which I'm very excited about... I'll be watching him for sure!!

My Designs Featured in the Home Magazine

I couldn't be more thrilled today! The Home Magazine dedicated a full page to my wall decal sticker range available through the Wall Sticker Company!

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New Fashion Homewares Retail Store Design

My sister in law, Danika Gerard manages a gorgeous shop on Main Street, Mornington, Victoria called Lola's.  Her Mum bought the place not too long ago (she already owns quite a few homeware shops around the Peninsula too) and needed a logo for the shop.

It's a beautiful fashion & homewares store with gorgeous product throughout.

I was quite chuffed when they asked if I'd have a go at designing the logo. It's definitely not my forte but wanted to try for them. 

They gave me their ideas of the style they wanted and I created about 20 slightly different and varied designs for them to choose from.

Here's the final result. Can't tell you how giddy I felt to see a design I created so big and bold like this!

They're very happy with it which makes me very happy.

It's a stunning shop, especially one for us Ladies... so if you get to Main Street Mornington... make sure to drop in.

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Queensland Floods - how we can help

If you're an Australian... you know the floods are our main subject topic of late.. if you're overseas... you may have had a glimpse on your news... or perhaps you're none the wiser.


In the north eastern part of Australia... the area called Brisbane, Queensland... areas bigger than France and Germany combined have been flooded.
Luckily all my family from these parts are ok.

So many were not so lucky at all.

So a friend just shared this on facebook and I thought I'd post it here. It's a page that gives plenty of options for those who wish to help.

They're asking for funds to re-build which makes sense.


The overwhelming message from charities and relief funds is that money is the best way to help in a crisis like this.


Here's the page that lists all the donation areas to contact.