The magnets have arrived!!

I am so excited - looked what arrived today 100's of lovely new shiny magnets!

I seriously LOVE them and surprise, surprise

they have already made it onto the side of the fridge!

All that I'm waiting for now are the packaging cards from the printers,

which should be with me by the middle of next week.

Everything is ready to go - the website is primed and ready to take orders as soon as they're ready. Click on the image above to take you directly to our website, where you can see the magnets in more detail. You can buy them individually or as a pair!



Which is your favourite?
Decisions, decisions!
Perfect advent gift or stocking filler!

New Designs!

I've been busy working behind the scenes on lots of new designs and I thought I'd share my new tape designs with you. Our decorative sticky tapes have been so successful since we launched them in June, so we just had to add some new tapes to our range.

I like to sketch lots of ideas first then build up towards a theme and then work on the sequence that builds along the length of the tape. It repeats every 20cm so the repetition and overall design needs to flow the full 30m length.

I work in black as the designs are produced in single colour, not out of choice but out of cost. I would love some of the tapes to be mixed colour but simply can't afford to do it and offer you tape at an affordable price.

I actually like the black and may well offer it as a colour choice - what do you think?


Hens have been a favourite in our other lines so I thought it was about time to add them to our tape ranges.


And also the lovebirds - one of our most popular card designs had to become a new tape design too. With product requests for Valentine items already coming in, we hope this will be a winner too!

We have also decided to offer a slightly thinner, cheaper range of tapes for those smaller parcels and packages. Bunting, spotty, spooky, sweets and the very popular cupcake will form our portfolio of new designs and will be available in a range of colours in the New Year. We will of course let you know when they will become available and will do a giveaway or two to celebrate. Let us know what you think - we love to read your comments.

For now you can buy all our existing tapes from our website - a perfect stocking filler or wrapping 'must have' this Christmas.

Check out our seconds shop too for bargain tape for your own use only.

Happy Birthday

I'd just like to wish my gorgeous daughter 'Sophie' a very happy 11th Birthday!

She is delightful, excellent company, hardworking, thoughtful and in my eyes truly beautiful!

Happy Birthday Gorgeous!

Look what yummy, glittery delights we will be enjoying this evening!

Happy Halloween

So Autumn has really taken hold now and arrived in spectacular, colourful splendour.

The tree's that line the walkway and park behind the house is an array of autumnal shades. It won't be long before all the leaves will have dropped, the bare branches allowing us to spy on all the goings on in the park and we start to wish for the fresh green spring leaves to burst forth and hide it all away again!

So of course, with the month of October rapidly disappearing, we turn our attention to the Halloween festivities. The children are old enough and were adamant this year, that they wanted to do all their pumpkin lanterns themselves.



They had great fun but were abruptly stopped by an untimely rain shower!

The garden needs a good tidy up but there is little point for a few more weeks as we wait for all the leaves to fall! The tree is a Katsura and as the leaves drop they smell of delicious, sweet candy floss.


Autumn for me also means new designs ready for the spring Trade fairs in January. I've been working on this spooky tape design - very fitting for the time of year!

I hope you all have a very Happy Halloween!

A rare day off!

So yesterday I took a very rare 'whole day off work' and treated the children to a day out in London. We were up at 6.30 am and out the door by 7.30 where we waited in a very rainy car park for the 'Super Fast' coach to arrive and take us all the way to Hammersmith.

First thing to tick off the list was the London Eye. Both my daughter and I are scorpion's and with birthdays fast approaching, we decided to treat ourselves to a ride on the London Eye. Sophie decided to do this instead of a party and as it's the big 40 for me in a couple of weeks it seemed like a fantastic idea. Sadly the weather wasn't to be on our side all day but we just about made it on before the heavens opened.

Anthropologie was on the top of my list of things to do - having seen so many photos of it, it was a must see for me and I wasn't disappointed. The way everything is displayed is fabulous.

I loved the recycled chandelier - wish I had a house big enough to house one!



The children wanted to visit Hamleys - of course! Although it seemed everyone had the same idea - very busy, too busy! We also went to Covent Garden - anywhere undercover to dodge the rain! So after a lot of 'tubing' (as the children put it) we got home just after 9pm, thoroughly exhausted but already planning our next visit!!

Today has been 'back to work' and very much playing catch up - too much to do and too little time!

Festive Giveaway!

So we reached the magic 300 followers a couple of days ago and as promised I have put together a selection of festive goodies as a prize.

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*3 rolls of festive tape*

*2 packs of homemade festive gift tags*

*2 packs of our 2010 Christmas card designs*

*1 pack of 'Just to Say' Postcards*

*Some festive spotty ribbon*

...and a partridge in a pear tree!!

So all 310 names were put in the hat and picked at random was.........

drum roll please......

Tracey Chorley aka TopCat76

Congratulations Tracey!

Thank you to all of you who have been following the dots and spots blog over the past couple of years and welcome to those of you who have just started to follow.

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Keep your eyes peeled.

I will do another giveaway for my loyal blog followers over the next few weeks.

Something really special - a selection of all my new goodies, once they arrive off the various printing presses .

Looks like we have hit the big 300 followers - that didn't take long!

There is still time to join in the fun - I will put together a selection of festive goodies over the next couple of days and announce a winner on Sunday!

A BIG Thank You to all of you who have been following dots and spots on it's journey so far and welcome to those of you who are new!