Book Love

This is a movie clip for the New Zealand Book Council. I love how the story comes alive and peels off the page. I wonder how long it took the talented book sculptor to create this? It’s just lovely.
Via Ness Donnelly’s blog.

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Looking Forward

Happy New Year! I hope you had a good holiday. It all goes too quickly doesn’t it. After weeks of planning and shopping and stressing, it’s all over in a few days and then it’s back to work again. For many people today will be the first day back. [.....]

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Can Your Creation Impress the Nation?

A rather exciting opportunity landed on my desk this afternoon. Two Four Broadcast are in production for a really exciting new BBC1 series. The premise of the series is that a team of top entrepreneurs will give twelve small businesses or individuals the advice and support they need to get their products[.....]

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My Office

Here it is. As promised. I thought I’d get the ball rolling and post some pictures of my office. It’s based in Heaton Chapel which is just south of Manchester. All of the Vanilla Storm web team are based here.
I moved into this office a few months ago. It’s[.....]

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Indie Crafty Gifts

To kick off the New Year, I thought I’d share some of my Christmas gifts. I’ve been very lucky this year and received lots of lovely presents. Here are just a few with an indie / crafty theme.

Beautiful cherry cake tea cosy by my talented sister, Cassie Oldham. Cassie doesn’t have a[.....]

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Scrap in Style

I was reading Claudine Hellmuth’s blog this morning (Claudine is a talented collage artist and if you haven’t discovered her work yet you should definitely take a look) and came across a post about a new TV site called Scrap in Style.
Scrap in Style is the result of Jeanette’s Herdman’s dream of[.....]

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Selvedge

A few months ago I had a meeting in Manchester at the unsociable time of 6pm. I arrived early and so decided to kill some time in the Corner House. While I was in there I came across a fantastic publication called Selvedge.

If you haven’t already discovered Selvedge I[.....]

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Ten Top PR Tips

So, you have a gorgeous range of products ready to sell to discerning customers, you’ve sorted out your brand, you have a website and an online shop. Now all you have to do is let people know you’re there.
We all know how difficult it is getting into the press and getting your[.....]

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