> winter solstice at Avebury

A tradition of ours is to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Avebury every year - this really marks the start of our Christmas celebrations.  This year, complete with a beautiful dusting of snow, we actually saw the sun rise - the first time since 1998!

Happy Solstice!

> FOKaL feature

Asia from FOKaL featured us on her wonderful blog last week.  FOKaL is an "interior design blog and home directory tasked with finding modern design, home decor inspirations, fresh modern furniture and top design goodness!"  Asia and Vish source a treasure trove of brand new and exciting interior products - an absolute must if you are planning to redecorate!

Thanks to you both for the feature!

> Oh Christmas Tree...

We are feeling excited and very Christmassy...

we have our tree, selected by our daughter and her friends last week and freshly cut for us by Richard from The Orchard.  It is tastefully decorated in pink and white (with the exception of the most enormous red plastic bauble she insists must be on the tree) and is topped with a beautiful blue bird she made at Pre-School. We spent a lovely afternoon gathering armfuls of holly and ivy, singing carols and jumping in muddy puddles, and freshly wrapped around tiny white lights, our house now looks festive and magical!  I love this time of year!

> Junior magazine

We are delighted Kate Street from "Junior" has featured our "Dinosaurs Rock!" wallpaper on her Interiors page in the January 2010 issue.

Dinosaurs Rock! in duck egg blue with soft brown and punchy black is inspired by the styling of retro comics.

Thank you Kate.

> BMX Wallcovering

One of our most popular wallcoverings, "BMX", has been refreshed.  Whilst preparing the design for a client, we altered the angle and loved it!  So did our client!  We will be uploading the new design onto our web shop today.

We are currently working on new range of BMX, Skateboarding and Snowboarding designs and these will be available in January.

> new supplier "Ele-ahbaant"

We have our first retailer in Australian - "Ele-ahbaant".   Ele-ahbaant (pronounced El-ly-ah-barn-t), run by Melissa Skinner, is essentially a funky clothing company, but she also has a range of wall decor available and our products will be alongside Blik's fantastic range. We are also delighted to hear that she plans to use our designs to decorate her youngest daughter's room next year - thanks Melissa, we can't wait to see what ideas you come up with!

> Christmas is coming...

It's the 1st of December... I know this to be true as our daughter, already fully immersed in the festive spirit, awoke us super early this morning in her excitement to open the first door on her 'huge' advent calendar!  And we are under strict instructions to put up a Christmas Tree in her bedroom this evening (after she returns from a Pantomime, naturally)!

Christmas is a lovely time of year - for me, it is filled with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, the scent of spiced orange and cinnamon and going out on lots of exciting Christmas inspired family trips.  We have an action packed December with outings to The Bluebell Railway, Hever Castle's Christmas Winter Wonderland and The Natural History Museum and Ice Rink!

Looking forward to a happy, exciting and merry Christmas!

> "Big Ben" review by Fresh Design

Our "Big Ben" Wall Sticker Clock been featured on the fantastic Fresh Design blog.

Fresh Design are dedicated to finding and profiling the best in contemporary, fresh and modern design and we are delighted they have picked it up, writing... "We've featured lots of wall stickers before, but this one goes one step further".

Many thanks to Rachel Newcombe for the review.

> Monsters and Munchkins blog entry

Thank you to Tze Ching from "Monsters and Munchkins" for her fantastic interview with us on her lovely blog.  We had a chat last week about what inspires and drives us to create our products and our interior designs.  You can read the full interview on her blog.

Monsters and Munchkins are now stocking our Deluxe Wallpapers, WallScene, Wall Stickers and Limited Edition Fine Art Prints.