Oh My Green

Lucky me, I'm on vacation right now! In sunny Thailand, where it's warm weather, wonderful food, great beaches and lovely things all around.

Pocket Carnival is closed until I get back to Melbourne (in one week-ish) but until then please pop over to Oh My Green, where I've been blogging all my favourite eco-friendly design tips, interviews with amazing businesses and creative people, and sustainable and fair trade products.

And just to make you jealous, a picture of me going to get my breakfast from a fruit seller on the beach.

xx

we are go! for a sale

Hello, and Happy New Year! My little blog's been a bit neglected lately, as I've been blogging over at Oh My Green, my new eco-design/living/business blog. I have some big plans for Oh My Green, so keep checking back! And you can follow us on Facebook now too - hooray!

In celebration of the new year (and of course to sell some stock quick-smart) I'm having a big bit of a sale in the Pocket Carnival online store. Pretty much everything is between 30 & 50% off. Amazing. And if you use the code nice you'll get an extra 10% off store-wide. Plus postage is still free. I know, crazy!

So, pop over quick-smart and get your mitts on some organic purses, recycled paper cards, and cutie everythings.

(Also, Christmas stock is 60% off - time to stock up!)

Today I...

Of course, anyone who works in any way connected to the creation of retail of any goods knows that Christmas-time is bonkers. Unless, I suppose, you're an Ugg booter maker, in which case - winter's coming in 6 months! Hang in there!

Thankfully this year my bonkerdom has manifested differently than last year, which was generally tears & tantrums, terrifying Chris to the core. This year I am cool, calm & collected, my Christmas shopping is DONE! (don't hate me!) so I am free to enjoy my craziness in a more leisurely way.

This is my day today (blame Shannon for encouraging me to share this):

Discover Handmade Ryan Gosling.
Read Handmade Ryan Gosling.
Look up other Ryan Gosling tumblrs.
Watch videos on Youtube of Ryan Gosling reading from Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling.
Spend a bunch of time tweeting/facebooking Handmade Ryan Gosling (surely this is too good not to share!)
Realise Chris's mum is coming over in 30 minutes.
Clean, a lot, and very quickly.
Eat some cupcakes (multiple cupcakes are okay because they're tiny ones).
Think about writing a blog post for Oh My Green.
Check Google Analytics for Oh My Green.
Finally discover why Google Analytics says people spend 0:00:00 seconds on my site.
Have tea & cupcakes with Chris's mum.
Chat for awhile.
Have secret conversation with Chris about Christmas gifts while his mum is in the kitchen.
Ask Chris to buy ingredients for more cupcakes.
Package up 2 packets of gift tags.
Write this list.

Realise really need to vacuum.
Eat another cupcake. They're really good.
Contemplate on what an amazing invention vegan ganache is.
Congratulate self for figuring out how to make a recipe* for said ganache.
Take above photo in kitchen.
Look around studio in horror at annual pre-Christmas biggest-ever-mess.
Think about making lunch.
Stress because I have not actually done any work today at all.


*Vegan chocolate ganache - it's simply made replacing regular cream with thick coconut cream! Delish.

Craft Hatch - 10th December

Hey Melbourne! What are you doing on Saturday? Because Pocket Carnival will be at Craft Hatch, and we'd love to see you there!

Craft Hatch is a wonderful market run by Craft Vic, featuring a bunch of awesome stalls selling products all made here in Melbourne! A wonderful antidote to the craziness of wandering up & down Swanston St at this time of year!

Saturday 10 December
11am-4pm
At 1000 £ Bend
361 Little Lonsdale Street

1000 £ Bend totally has a cafe with yummy food, great coffee and comfy couches!

We'll have a sale basket, Christmas cards & gift tags, make-your-own softie kits, and of course cards & purses too.

See you there!!

Something Special

Some special things created for a special reason. I wanted to create a few products that were bright, sunshiney & happy, and you can see them here.

If you purchase one of these items on the Pocket Carnival website, 50% of the profit will be donated, split between the Peter Mac Foundation for cancer research, and a fund set up in the name of a beautiful friend.

If you happen to see one of these products in one of our stockists, 10% of the sale price will already have been donated to the Peter Mac Foundation.

xx Penny