Bunting Stories
November 8, 2011 at 12:25 am | Posted in Products | 1 CommentTags: bunting, customers, printed wonders
Xtina makes bunting as all sorts of wedding, birthday, Christmas and bedroom decorations, and it’s fantastic to sometimes get a photo back of the banners being used in their new homes.
Earlier this year Lucy bought some bunting with lucky motifs and promptly emigrated with it. She sent this great photo with the message “Just to say thank you for getting the gorgeous bunting to me in time before we flew. We moved into our Chicago apartment with nothing but an inflatable bed, a duvet and your bunting, it was the perfect instant decoration and has indeed brought us much luck.“
Greg got in touch in September with the delightful idea of commissioning custom alphabet bunting to help him propose to his girlfriend Cathy. He chose the style that threads onto tape with a hem, so that he could assemble the letters himself and build a sense of anticipation! Plus the bonus of being able to rearrange them into amusing anagrams afterwards. Thankfully Cathy is now his fiancé, and Greg sent this photo with the news “Just to let you know that I finally asked and she said “yes”! Your bunting worked a treat. Everyone was very impressed!“. Phew! What a great idea, who could resist a proposal written in bunting, and someone sweet enough to think of it?
Lucky Bags
April 15, 2011 at 3:24 pm | Posted in Events, Products | Leave a commentTags: craft fair, London, Lucky Bag
Xtina has printed up a small batch of bags with the same motifs as her Lucky Bunting. The unbleached cotton bags come as a light weight tote with long handles, or a thicker canvas weight with shorter shopping bag style handles. Screen printed in red, black and green with symbols including a horseshoe, back cat and wishbone on the front, and a four leaf clover on the back. Great for carrying off the best boot fair treasure, or bagging the very last packet of chocolate hob nobs in the supermarket.
Available tomorrow Sat 16th April at the fab Crafty Fox Market in Brixton (The Dogstar), where the lucky first person to buy one will get a bonus gift.
Seaside Sisters have a stall and are running a drop in workshop where you can hand sew one of these lovely fabric brooches from vintage fabrics.
Handmade Wedding
April 1, 2011 at 3:35 pm | Posted in Events, Fairs, Products | Leave a commentTags: bespoke services, bunting, wedding fair, weddings
Hurray! Printed Wonders has been selected for a fantastic handmade wedding fair Craft Central Gets Hitched! This new event in Clerkenwell opens its doors for three days 23-25 June 2011, and features work from over 30 UK designer-makers.
Xtina is excited to be launching her new wedding bunting website at the fair, showing flags embellished with trimmings and lace, and her new range of screen printed wedding bunting. Designs will include confetti, cakes, hearts, lucky symbols, couples, vintage cars and letters of the alphabet.
Bespoke options on offer at Craft Central Gets Hitched! will include Xtina’s custom wedding bunting & handmade wedding stationery services, with screen printed and letter pressed wedding invites, place markers and congratulations cards. Many samples will be on show and available to buy. Xtina works with new fabrics and vintage / recycled textiles, and loves spending time with brides, finding out all about their colour schemes, creative themes and highly individual wedding plans.
Find out about the crafty hen party and bridal shower activities on offer, including screen printing custom decorations to match a wedding theme, making keepsakes, corsages and party favours.
This is going to be a really lovely event, so whether you’re looking for the perfect handmade details for your wedding, or just fancy a bit of daydreaming while browsing the most romantic-themed goodies in town, we hope you can make it along.
Vintage inspired Christmas bunting
November 26, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Posted in Events, Products | 2 CommentsXtina has drawn ten new motifs for Christmas bunting, cards and wrapping paper. With a vintage look inspired by 40s and 50s illustrations, they make the perfect festive decorations for a stylish Christmas.
There’s a choice of two colour ways for the bunting: red and greens making a nod to Scandinavia, or a subtle mix of lavenders and greens that look Christmassy without being too traditional.
Xmas wrapping paper for Printed Wonders
Christmas cards screen printed with the same motifs are available on recycled card in pretty colours, paired with recycled envelopes. Sheets of wrapping paper with a repeat version of the designs, are litho printed in vegetable inks on recycled FSC certified paper.
A few unique editions of the bunting printed onto vintage fabrics will also be available at the Eco Design Christmas Fair in Islington.
Printed Wonders bunting (£25), cards (£3) and wrapping paper (£2.50) are available at:
Covet, 21 Arlington Way, London EC1R 1UY
www.covetshop.co.uk
Printed Wonders, buy online
www.printedwonders.co.uk
Bust Christmas Craftacular, 28th November
York Hall, 5-15 Old Ford Road London E2 9PJ
Bust Craftacular Facebook Event
Eco Design Christmas Fair, 4th & 5th December
Assembly Hall, Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1 2UD
http://ecodesignfair.co.uk
YuleTIDE, 18th & 19th December
LV21 Lightship, Gillingham Pier, Pier Approach Rd, Kent, ME7 1RX
http://www.lv21.co.uk
Vintage fabrics galore
October 15, 2010 at 2:47 pm | Posted in Events, Products, Workshops | 2 CommentsTags: material, vintage fabrics, workshops
Wow, we’ve been busy collecting fabric for upcoming workshops and making new bags, owls, cushions and accessories. This lot was amassed in one morning at boot sales and a big jumble.
If you join us for our bunting and Christmas decoration making workshop at the Eco Design Fair, you’ll be sewing with some of these goodies.
Horrockses & Pat Albeck talk
September 21, 2010 at 8:30 am | Posted in Events, Products, Things We Like | Leave a comment
The Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey has a great exhibition on at the moment, celebrating Horrockses Fashions: Off the Peg Style in the ’40s and ’50s. Seaside Sisters are in love with the patterned prints and tailoring of this era, and we’re excited to be attending the talk by Horrockses designer Pat Albeck on Friday 24th September.
The exhibition runs until 24th October 2010, and the museum is open Wednesday – Sunday.
If you go along, check out Bermondsey Fayre a short walk down Bermondsey Street at number 212, a lovely boutique gallery and shop where Linda is selling her owls, bags and purses. Linda has recently made zodiac purses from an original Pat Albeck designed fabric, and these are available from Bermondsey Fayre and Covet in Islington.
Vintage fabric shoulder bags
September 20, 2010 at 7:32 pm | Posted in Products | Leave a commentTags: Autumn, bags, barkcloth, cycling, fabric, handbag, reflective, shoulder bag, table cloths, vintage
Xtina has made a fine selection of shoulder bags that will go a treat with Autumn fashions. She’s been working with some very pretty pre-war table cloths and vintage barkcloth curtains, with leafy patterns and green abstracts. A few new fabrics have caught her eye too, and prints with lighthouses, twigs, and camping gear have also been paired up with vintage linings and made up into lovely bags.
The bags have long, strong straps with pretty trims and adjustable vintage sliders – so they can be carried by hand, worn on the shoulder or across the body. An ideal size for carrying all your bits and pieces plus a book or two.
They’re great for cycling, and some have been sewn with reflective tape on the bag and strap. They show up as a bright sash, without without making you look like you’ve come straight from a cycling proficiency course.
£30 – 35 each
Available at Covet, 21 Arlington Way, Islington, London EC1R 1UY
Lucky
August 20, 2010 at 7:09 pm | Posted in Products | 1 CommentTags: bunting, lucky
Good luck symbols are one of Xtina’s obsessions, and she has just added some colourful lucky-themed items to her Printed Wonders store on Etsy.
On offer are lucky bunting, greetings cards and exercise books, all featuring illustrations including a lucky horseshoe, nautical star, black cat crossing your path, number 7, wishbone, key, henna hand, four-leafed clover, ladybird, and a pair of dice rolling two sixes.
New printed wonders
March 1, 2010 at 4:43 pm | Posted in Products | 1 CommentTags: art, bunting, greetings cards, stationery
Lots of new products have been added to the Printed Wonders Etsy shop, including new anchor, diamond and star bunting flag designs, the Love themed gocco print, greetings cards with decorated fancy alphabet letters, card suits, diamonds, and lucky horseshoes. You can now also buy Xtina Lamb’s packs of beauty spots and hand made artists book Swept Away online.
Xmas cards
December 14, 2009 at 11:07 pm | Posted in Products | Leave a commentTags: printed wonders, xmas cards
These xmas cuties are screen printed in dark blue and white, on pink or green card. The girl in a xmas tree hat is adapted from a mid-century wrapping paper design.
£2.50 each or £10 for 5
Available from our stall at Truman’s Brewery – see events.
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