Lovely wrapping paper...

I needed to buy some wrapping paper to wrap my Nephews birthday present on Saturday so nipped into Blackwells Art and Poster Shop to get some. Blackwells is a VERY old book shop chain in Oxford and the art shop really has some lovely things in it of late.
Anyway I opted for this paper from Sukie as its covered in animal. My Nephew loves animals especailly deadly ones. He loved the paper, and the sharks jawbone that was inside. That just blew him away (razor blade teeth and all)
He said ' i like the wrapping paper, did you peel off your wallpaper?'
Now that would make some lovely wallpaper!
Anna, CM

New in the shop today...

I have been wanting to add a couple of new products to sit with the Geometry Friends for a while and here they are...

There is a rather nice little stackable ring set and a selection of little stud earrings. To grab yours, nip on over to the SHOP :)

Pesky pets...

As some of you may know the Custom Made offices are the ground floor of our house. Its pretty good, its totally separate from the house and next door is Anthonys workshop. One problem is little Missy wants to come in here and make a pest of herself. Sometimes she goes to sleep BUT sometimes sparkly jingly things catch her eye. I have some sample chains hanging up at the jewellery desk which frequently atract her...
Anna, CM
PS- the chains will live to see another day!

Old and new...

I have been getting bits and bobs from my Mum & Dads house of late. Rollerboots, a rug my Mum crocheted for me when I was little*, the scarf my Mum knitted for me when I started school at age 5! Anyway the racoon you see above my Grampy Butler bought me for my birthday when I was around 10 years old. I love him. So now he sits with my yummy plushes from Kid Robot
They are all pretty happy together!
Anna, CM
*Oh and my Mum has started crocheting a new rug recently. I will post some pictures. Its crocheted from old t-shirts...she is very clever!

Oh hello...I'm a giant apple

So happy these are up in the shop!

They really are giant apples...and brooches all at the same time. Giant apple brooches.

If you would like one you can buy one RIGHT HERE

Anna, CM

Dashing Mag...

Out Tiny Heart Studs are in Dashing Mag this month. Thanks Dashing Mag!
Anna, CM

Moonrise Kingdom Official Trailer 1

Amazing looking...as usual. Trailer for the new Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom.
Anna, CM

State of Craft

I know I am very late with this, the book has been out for a while but...here you go anyway. Here is my project for the lovely book State of Craft. Thank you Victoria for including Custom Made's giant cushions!

Nearly 5 years ago we moved from a very small house to a larger house. All our friends laughed at us because we had 1 little sofa and a very little TV. Since moving into the house Anthony and I decided to become wombles. You know making good use of the thigs that we find etc.
We didnt want to fill our house up with expensive things, we decided to womble things a little more. Hence the giant cushions/bean bags.
We needed more seating. Our sofa fits 3 people at best but we didnt want to buy another so I decided to make GIANT beanbags. We have three in the living room. Because they are square you can sit them upright and they make soft giant chairs. If you lay them on their sides they make sort of comfy hamocky sort of beds pefect for film viewing.
So I decided to pass them on via this book. They are very simple to make and you can use the pattern for lots of end uses if you change the size; giant bean bags, a comfy pet bed or cushions for your sofa.
Anna, CM
You can buy State of Craft HERE there are LOTS of lovely projects.

SPECIAL OFFER IN THE SHOP!

An offer you cant refuse! To grab your free purse to go with your bag CLICK HERE

Pigeons!

I love these! I think my Dad would too. He used to have pigeons when he was a little boy and used to race them. He is always telling me stories about how his prize pigeon flew from San Sebastien etc etc...

So if you have a love for pigeons you can get yourself one from Coo & Co.

Anna, CM

Blog and Buy Sale...

We are very pleased to have a stall on Blog and Buy Sale for the month of January! Our 'virtual stall' is stall 9. The idea is to showcase creatives works on the site on a Monthly basis. We will have a stall for the month of January. I love the idea.

There are lots of other lovely sellers this month including Jo Cheung, Harriet Gray, Finest Imaginary and lots of other lovely sellers. 21 in total. 

Here's a little screen shot of our stall, the products are below. I had a little trouble with the banner, simple as it looks it was one of 'those' days! I quite like it now though...

For the month of January Society 6 will be picking their favourite stall. How cool is that.

Go and have a look at our STALL HERE Oh and buy one of the products if you fancy. Each products link straight to the site. Oh and 25% off in the shop till Friday!

Anna, CM

Oh goodness...

So cute! Found on Pinterest via this lady...
Anna, CM

Happy New Year!

CLICK HERE TO SHOP!