Magpies

Today is all about *new* shiny things :-)

 *new* metallic vinyls

 *new* 'shroom with a view buttons (what a great name!)

 *new* dainty snowflake trim

 *new* metal glitter beads in gold....

 ....and silver too

 AND *new* snowflake...

 Christmas themed...

...and star shaped sequins
all here http://www.paper-and-string.net/what-s-new

Fake Fur mini syle

*New* product alert :-)

Mini Fake Fur trim sold by the metre (70p) and available in 3 colours

I'm thinking thi sis PERFECT for mini santa hats, elf clothes  and all manner of cute tiny things :-)
It's here is you need to know more http://www.paper-and-string.net/product-page/f2745638-cf57-f443-4f05-0fbc30dbc3d5

Swap Tree

 I've had a swap re-think this year and made a Swap Tree to show off all the handmade loveliness as it gets posted to us :-)

 All the tree-making credit goes to John - I knew I wanted a tree-that-was-like-a-poster-I-can-hang-things-off...and I knew what it should look like, and then John was super smart and worked out how to make it perfectly :-)

 The background fabric is my favourite Cool Yule fabric...the tree is Apple felt, and the lengths of  mini-tree-garland work perfectly as an anchor to hang the decorations off

 The first swap decorations arrived with yesterday's post and look great on the Swap Tree :-)

Full swap details are here http://www.paper-and-string.net/swap
and there's a photo album on our Facebook page which will have more details on the swap's progress and the decorations received https://www.facebook.com/573466359364325/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1270143199696634

pop!

We no longer have our pop-up shop.

 We opened our shop space when the Custom's House opened it's doors (Easter 2015) and we stayed waaaay longer than we initially thought!  Yesterday we cleared everything out  (I say we, but mostly it was John's hard work)

We shall miss our little cave shop (the curved ceiling made us nickname it the cave) but after 18+ months we decided it was time to close the doors and move on - we've loved having a retail space,  but after we moved house last year (we used to live opposite The Customs House) we couldn't get there as often as we wanted to to keep it all clean & tidy and fully stocked up - and you know how we work - if we can't do it properly then we won't do it at all.

We want to say a BIG thank you to all our regular pop-up shop customers .  We only ever met a handful of you whilst we were there tidying/stocking up  - but those we did meet made it even more fun :-)

NEW fabrics NEW fabric felts (and unicorns!!)

 I LOVED the vintage-y colours of this brand new collection when I ordered fabrics in April...there's just something about Mustard and Charcoal that makes me smile :-)

 The co-ordinating patterns are gorgeous too...little triangles...

 ...and diamonds too

 The florals come in Large and Small scales

 I think the small flowers will be a big hit with our Fabric Felt fans!  These flowers are on a red background but it goes so well with our coral felt - scrummy!

 The second new collection is called Princess Dreams and is SO perfect...it's bright and cheery and there are unicorns, rainbows & toadstools!!

 It's girly, but not too girly

 The Frog Prince's are CUTE

 it's ALL cute!

As always our fabric ranges are available as fat quarters,  half metres & meters AND as fabric felt too :-)
All these can be found in the what's new section http://www.paper-and-string.net/what-s-new

chrystal white glitter

 Our original white chunky glitter is called snow white because it has pinky/lilacy tones to it but we kept getting asked for chunky white white....

 ...so I got some in!  This white is called Chrystal White and it is white with tones of silver....

...all the better for making snowmen or Santa's beards this Christmas :-)
We're keeping both whites in stock because they are really quite different :-)

new jars

All my drawers are FULL (aaahhh) and I was fed up with old cardboard boxes and grip seal bags holding some of my packeted stock SO I got John to measure the gap under my button shelves and I found the perfect size jars to fit in there (even better that the jars match completely)
It looks so much better :-)

winners!

Our 10th Birthday Free Prize Draw winners have been picked!
Each winner wins £100 of paper-and-string website credit to spend as they wish :-)

 Entries were received throughout our 10th birthday month (September) and there were four ways to enter: commenting on our birthday blog post, commenting on our facebook post, making one of our free templates & sending in a photo AND placing an order on the website (the order number was entered every time £15 was spent)

 I slightly underestimated how long it would take to copy and paste, print, cut & fold over 1100 entries!!

 After a BIG shake of the button jar John pulled out FIVE winners....

 Well done Ladies :-)
Please contact me to claim your prizes