Hand Printing Gifts for Christmas

Putting some last minute festive touches to some ideas for the season - like block prints of Shackleton rabbit and Vanilla bunny in RED.

Some nice soft block can be bought online, ours came from Handprinted - really easy to carve - with a textured side and a smooth face, for different uses and results.

Next - some winter themed motifs to compliment these two - which can be printed onto paper, card and fabric too....hand-made hands-on FUN!

We'll let you in on a preview as soon as....

Inspiration

Next big thing - Chrimbles...
What to do??
Let's look at a bit of pictoral inspo:

I love Helen Dardik's design and illustrative work - and orange is a colour we're planning to use for our Christmas 2013

Ways to depict little Teasel hedgehog...

Paper cuts / prints / winter but not too 'Christmasy' theme?

  

Love the wonky bonkers birdies - a bit rough and ready, with a real homemade feel - yet still stylish with the bold prints in a simple colourway

And let's not forget the way all East Place Designs' pieces hark back to a sweet old-fashioned simple, mostly outdoors childhood, the like of which I was lucky enough to have myself - beautifully represented by this card that must date from the 1960s 

All images from the very addictive and fabuloso Pinterest - yeah

New Photos of the Dresses

I have put up the dusky pink jacket onto our Etsy shop - here
Some lovely new photos really show it off beautifully:

And - here's the flower dress:

Thanks so much to all who helped make these happen! Amazing and gorgeous images

Exhibition

If you came along to the exhibition in St. Lawrence's Art Centre in South Walsham, you'll have noticed the way East Place Designs displayed products looked quite different from previous stalls. It was an exhibition as opposed to a fair - so it needed to have a different emphasis...

Here are a few photos of the space and some close-ups of the display as well:

Also, if you did go - we just want to say a big Thank You! - It was a real privilege to meet so many interesting and interested people over the three days. 

You all said such lovely complimentary things about our designs and products. 

You gave us lots of exciting new ideas too!