TEACHER GIFTS

A sensational example of Burgon & Ball’s collaboration with Sophie Conran, the latest generation of the British design dynasty. She brings her ‘modern country house’ style to a range of must-have garden tools and accessories, elevating the everyday for home gardeners and plant lovers.

Ergonomically, this tool is a joy to use. As with all things in life, it’s a matter of balance: the handle slides forwards easily in your hand as you tilt, the slender, angled spout to direct the pour for on-target watering. The result is more moisture where it’s needed and less waste of a valuable resource in a dry continent.

Behind this fusion of beauty and practicality is Burgon & Ball’s peerless metal-working skills, developed continually throughout the company’s 290-year history. The steel body is treated with a protective powder coating and a sophisticated matt finish in a range of colours, including Sophie’s choice of this deliciously creamy buttermilk hue.

A metal seal bearing the Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball logo on the top surface of the can adds the finishing touch and marks this out as a design of distinction. Pretty enough to leave out on the windowsill with pride.

Materials: Powder-coated galvanised steel

Dimensions: 43 x 23 x 13cm

Capacity 1.7 litres

Indoor plants add so much more authentic style to an indoor space, so to nurture your plant babies, why use a watering can which is anything less than gorgeous and that will likely not go the distance with your plants.

Burgon & Ball's compact indoor watering can is great for your small garden or balcony. Its stone look belies its lightweight steel construction.  And the slender spout is perfect for delivering water just where it’s needed – and nowhere else. The smooth wooden handle is sourced from Forest Stewardship Council ((FSC) certified beechwood which is extremely tactile and feels beautiful in the hand, and gives precise control over pouring. 

Beautifully moulded in steel for a smooth, flawless finish, with a tough powder coating to ensure it stays looking good.

Available also in Charcoal you'll be spoilt for choice with best-selling popular item.

Width 25cm, Depth 12cm, Height 10cm.

Capacity 0.7 litres

The Lighter Roast

There's a Ms or Mr Cappuccino in all of us. Any creative knows how important that first cup of coffee is, whether you're the type to linger over that first flat white as you plan your day in solitude, or sip your latte at your local before jumping on the morning train.

Creativity has to do with our ability to link ideas, entities and concepts in novel ways, whether that's writing a poem or cleverly coming up with a new mathematical proof s. This ability depends in part on the very thing that caffeine seeks to prevent: a wandering, unfocussed mind.

We all know blonde Ms Cappuccino. A perfect project or gift for a crafty caffeine lover.

Each kit contains:

♡ Hand-drawn pattern on calico cotton
♡ 20cm wooden hoop
♡ 6 stranded cotton embroidery threads
♡ 2x Needles
♡ Easy Picture Instructions

You can watch Jo's Wattle tutorial Ms Cappuccino video here on YouTube to build up your confidence before starting. 

Pre-order now. We expect delivery of this item within 7 days of ordering.

Kits made in Victoria, Australia from imported products.

How to fill those upcoming school holidays without reverting to screen time or a trip to the shopping centre?

Why not try loom weaving? It's a great sensory activity that helps promote hand-eye coordination and problem-solving in a super fun and easy to begin way. If your child loves a trip to the gelato store, they'll love the neopolitan, peach, mint, vanilla and blueberry coloured yarns. 

Remember sewing, cross-stitch or string projects at school? As much as being pretty mother's day gifts, these projects helped develop our fine motor skills. These days, with iPADs and keyboards, it's important that we re-discover a variety of hand skills, including weaving.

You and your child can get creative with this complete beginner's Weaving Kit for children. Better still, we've found that the kids love following the free digital tutorial. Much more fun than the Zoom videos they've had to endure this year!

The loom is designed with comfort and ease in mind and perfect for smaller humans.  You or your child can weave on your lap or on a table.

The end result? A super proud kid, with a gorgeous tapestry ready to hang on their bedroom wall or to offer to Nanna.

Remember to post your child's finished project on Instagram using the hashtag #unfurlyourcreativenature and you may just find a free little gift in your next order :-)

The Kit Includes:

25 cm Wooden Loom

Weaving Tools (Weaving Comb, Tapestry Needle and Weaving Shuttle)

4 x skeins of medium to chunky yarn

2 x wool roving (wool that has not been spun into yarn)

PLUS a Digital copy of Beginner's Weaving Guide "World of Weaving" (emailed to you when your kit is dispatched). 

Think pink

How to fill those upcoming school holidays without reverting to screen time or a trip to the shopping centre?

Why not try loom weaving? It's a great sensory activity that helps promote hand-eye coordination and problem-solving in a super fun and easy to begin way. This kit plays on the subtle variations of hue and texture with pinkish coloured yarns.

Remember sewing, cross-stitch or string projects at school? As much as being pretty mother's day gifts, these projects helped develop our fine motor skills. These days, with iPADs and keyboards, it's important that we re-discover a variety of hand skills, including weaving.

You and your child can get creative with this complete beginner's Weaving Kit for children. Better still, we've found that the kids love following the free digital tutorial. Much more fun than the Zoom videos they've had to endure this year!

The loom is designed with comfort and ease in mind and perfect for smaller humans.  You or your child can weave on your lap or on a table.

The end result? A super proud kid, with a gorgeous tapestry ready to hang on their bedroom wall or to offer to Nanna.

Remember to post your child's finished project on Instagram using the hashtag #unfurlyourcreativenature and you may just find a free little gift in your next order :-)

The Kit Includes:

25 cm Wooden Loom

Weaving Tools (Weaving Comb, Tapestry Needle and Weaving Shuttle)

4 x skeins of medium to chunky yarn

2 x wool roving (wool that has not been spun into yarn)

PLUS a Digital copy of Beginner's Weaving Guide "World of Weaving" (emailed to you when your kit is dispatched). 

How to fill those upcoming school holidays without reverting to screen time or a trip to the shopping centre?

Why not try loom weaving? It's a great sensory activity that helps promote hand-eye coordination and problem-solving in a super fun and easy to begin way. The kid's loom weaving kit includes an array of cool coloured yarns, inspired by children's forest fables.

Remember sewing, cross-stitch or string projects at school? As much as being pretty mother's day gifts, these projects helped develop our fine motor skills. These days, with iPADs and keyboards, it's important that we re-discover a variety of hand skills, including weaving.

You and your child can get creative with this complete beginner's Weaving Kit for children. Better still, we've found that the kids love following the free digital tutorial. Much more fun than the Zoom videos they've had to endure this year!

The loom is designed with comfort and ease in mind and perfect for smaller humans.  You or your child can weave on your lap or on a table.

The end result? A super proud kid, with a gorgeous tapestry ready to hang on their bedroom wall or to offer to Nanna.

Remember to post your child's finished project on Instagram using the hashtag #unfurlyourcreativenature and you may just find a free little gift in your next order :-)

The Kit Includes:

25 cm Wooden Loom

Weaving Tools (Weaving Comb, Tapestry Needle and Weaving Shuttle)

4 x skeins of medium to chunky yarn

2 x wool roving (wool that has not been spun into yarn)

PLUS a Digital copy of Beginner's Weaving Guide "World of Weaving" (emailed to you when your kit is dispatched). 

Have you ever marvelled at the art of loom weaving?

There's a rich history and skill involved in the craft, which, despite industrialisation, has endured for centuries over many cultures. Believe it or not, once upon a time, such looms were considered as high-tech as your Samsung Galaxy 20 is now.

Why not start out with a smaller handloom. You can get the feel of the loom and understand what all the old technologies, like shuttles, actually do.

My Little Dreamer Studio's DIY Beginner Weavers Kits allows you to pick up this beautiful craft at your own pace. The package combo includes everything you need including fibres, tools, fully assembled loom and digital instruction book, so the project will never get to overwhelming for you.

You can still get as creative as you want to be as you'll be able to create your own patterns and textures, the options will be endless! 

The RETRO CHIC coloured yarns evoke a retro aesthetic with shades of mustard, blue, pinks and creams.

Remember to post your finished project on Instagram using the hashtag #unfurlyourcreativenature and you may just find a free little gift in your next order :-)


The Kit includes: 
44cm x 44cm Loom
Weavers Comb
Large Tapestry Needle
Shuttle
4 skein yarn
20mm rope
warp string

PLUS Digital PDF Tutorial "World of Weaving" for beginners

Due to COVID-19 some yarn colours are in short supply or have become unavailable. In this instance, the colour of yarn with be replaced with another yarn of the same texture and similar colour wherever possible.

Schedule your loom meeting

Have you ever marvelled at the art of loom weaving?

There's a rich history and skill involved in the craft, which, despite industrialisation, has endured for centuries over many cultures. Believe it or not, once upon a time, such looms were considered as high-tech as your Samsung Galaxy 20 is now.

Why not start out with a smaller handloom. You can get the feel of the loom and understand what all the old technologies, like shuttles, actually do.

My Little Dreamer Studio's DIY Beginner Weavers Kits allow you to pick up this beautiful craft at your own pace. The package combo includes everything you need including fibres, tools, fully assembled loom and digital instruction book, so the project will never get to overwhelming for you.

You can still get as creative as you want to be as you'll be able to create your own patterns and textures, the options will be endless! Whatever you decide, the rich regal tones of the various textured REGALIA kit yarns will result in a truly sumptuous tapestry once complete.

Remember to post your finished project on Instagram using the hashtag #unfurlyourcreativenature and you may just find a free little gift in your next order :-)

The Kit includes:
44cm x 44cm Loom
Weavers Comb
Large Tapestry Needle
Shuttle
4 skein yarn
20mm rope
warp string

PLUS Digital PDF Tutorial "World of Weaving" for beginners

Due to COVID-19 some yarn colours are in short supply or have become unavailable. In this instance, the colour of yarn with be replaced with another yarn of the same texture and similar colour wherever possible.

Order your copy through Booktopia and receive a free gift from Fora Studios.

"Success is not fame or money or power...it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill...a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life"

-Charlotte Gray

Escape into the most enchanting cities in the world with just a needle and thread.

This is the story of Elin Petronella, who convinced her boyfriend, Charles Henry, to pick up a needle, thread and cloth to join her in her passion for stitching. They began designing their own works, under the moniker Charles and Elin and, ever since, their unique architecture-themed artwork have taken the ever-growing, ever-more youthful embroidery community by storm. They've now gathered over 200,000 followers from around the world.

Discover or relive the dreamy street scenes and quaint corners of that trip to Europe. Famous landmarks in romantic cities foster mindfulness as you stitch the line upon line upon line dwelling on thoughts and recollections of dreamy travels in the places you can only but dream of right now.

Whether it's biking along the canals of Amsterdam, marvelling at the scale and charm of Notre Dame Catherdral (pre the fire of course!).

You'll smell the aroma of freshly baked Portuguese custard tarts as you thread red roofs over Lisbon facades.

And, just like Charles and Elin, whose two needle heads created something greater than the sum of them, you'll practice your linework, stitching structure into the Brooklyn Bridge while contemplating the immensely innovative work of structural engineers Washington Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling, the husband and wife who designed and created this iconic bridge.

Order your copy through Booktopia and receive a free gift from Fora Studios.

Simply send a copy of your receipt and your address to info@forastudios.com and look forward to receiving a delightful surprise in your letterbox on us!

"I will never forget the first time I saw Elin and Charles' work and said, 'Wow! I have to try this embroidery thing immediately.' It's an honor to recommend their amazing work and this book, as I know it will make everyone fall in love with hand embroidery, too."
Sila Gur, embroidery artist, @jolly_hoops

"Elin and Charles' passion for embroidery and their love to inspire new generations to pick up a needle and thread shines through in this book."
Abi Skinner, designer, DMC

This book contains 20 patterns and 100 photos.

SBN: 9781645670520
ISBN-10: 164567052X
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 160
Published: 26th October 2020
Publisher: St Martins Press
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 22.7 x 20.3  x 1.1
Weight (kg): 0.49

Small & Mighty

Don't let this little Planner fool you. Bespoke Letterpress' 2022 Day-to-A-Page Planner is a handy planner full of detail and with that extra room for everyday notes and reminders.

The thicker linen-bound diary feels great in the hand so you'll delight in every opportunity to scribe in this day-to-day and pore over the magnificent Finches internal cover illustrations of Folklore & Flora 

SPECIFICATION

384 internal pages. Offset printed. Hardbound in durable linen.

Material

Heavyweight environmentally friendly, 
chlorine-free, pure wood fibre paper in a lovely light ivory colour.

SIZE

120 x 170mm

WEIGHT

436g

"Cobalt is a divine colour and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere around things"

-Vincent Van Gogh

Some of us want to travel light. Whether we keep our planner at home or take it to appointments, it needs to be lightweight and easily found.

Sure, you can add appointments on your phone but when was the last time you opened your phone to do just that but found yourself distracted and stuck, mindlessly scrolling through plant shelfie after plant shelfie.?

Bespoke Letterpress 2022 Petite Diary Planner is up the minute in this new warm Terracotta. It's just the thing to help regain conscious control of your precious time.

With its exquisite Budgerigar internal cover design by Sarah Gordon, thoughtfully diarising and journaling will reclaim its inherent pleasure.

Our new beautiful linen bound 2022 Petite planner features:

SPECIFICATION

148 heavyweight internal pages. Offset printed.

Front and back internal spread illustrated by Sarah Gordon

MATERIAL

Heavyweight environmentally friendly, 
chlorine-free, pure wood fibre paper in a lovely light ivory colour.

SIZE

145 x 215mm

WEIGHT

403g

14.6 x 20.3cm

144 pages (72 sheets)

Some of us want to travel light. Whether we keep our planner at home or take it to appointments, it needs to be lightweight and easily found.

Sure, you can add appointments on your phone but when was the last time you opened your phone to do just that but found yourself distracted and stuck, mindlessly scrolling through plant shelfie after plant shelfie.?

Bespoke Letterpress 2022 Linen Bound Diary in Lavender is just the thing to help regain conscious control of your precious time. With its pretty Lavender cover and exquisite Fruit internal cover design by Hoglet & Co, thoughtfully diarising and journalling will reclaim its inherent pleasure.

Bespoke Letterpress' new beautiful petite lavender linen-bound 2022 Petite planner and diary features:

Does papercraft and stationery get you excited? Find out more about Bespoke Letterpress and their amazing antique studio nestled in Bowral NSW for inspiration.