4 owls

Choices choices.... we've finally made up the last of our owl bags and we have 5 of each of the Grey Screech Owl, Red Screech Owl, Barred Owl and Saw Whet Owl remaining. The bags are reversible and with detachable handles are also machine washable!

Father's Day

Thankyou to everyone who left a lovely gift suggestion for Father's Day. I'll be popping a Lauren Williams brooche in the mail to each of you so don't forget to email your address to sam@aprilmay.com.au. I thought the seeds (Annie), personalised beer (Iris), vintage car mags (Katie) and of course, "going out" shirt (Jenaveve) were all fantastic ideas. My step father's an engineer so I was also particularly taken with the notion of a book entitled "To Engineer Is Human" (Amy) although I'm not sure that my mother would agree!

On a completely, unrelated-to-Father's Day note, I've had alot of Owl Bag requests recently and so after a quick head count have discovered that I only have 20 owls left! The bags are being made up this week and will be ready on Friday so let me know if you'd like one put aside. Today's image is of the Grey Screech Owl - I'll be posting the other owl images later this week.

Giveaway Day

Help...Father's Day's only a week away! Life's been a little hectic at Aprilmay lately - to the point where I missed a certain someone's birthday recently - so I'll be sending out 6 Lauren Williams brooches to the most interesting (and mail friendly) Father's Day gift suggestions.

New A Name is a Label Stock

Just in case you haven't already heard the ultra-talented A Name is a Label girls will be setting up shop at Bird Girl in Brunswick from early September. They've been so busy designing clothes for their new store so I feel particularly blessed that they still managed to whip up a few new stock for Aprilmay! The tops pictured are wraps and so fit a range of sizes.

Aprilmay now open Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Finally...we've decided to reopen Aprilmay every Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 10 -5pm. We'll still be operating on a month to month basis (re: our shop lease) hence the not quite, full-time hours but figure this is the best compromise for now!

Giveaway Day

Some of my thoughts today -

A "parliament of owls".
gracia and louise.
So many talented people!
What would be a good collective noun for all the talented makers/designers in north fitzroy?
Oh yes, that's today's giveaway question!
What am I sending out?
A nicola cerini limited edition tea towel to the most creative answer!
This could be a good starting point?

Fridge Magnets

Thanks Melita and Philippa for your great ideas! I'm now tempted to keep them for myself but will be sending off a Blink tea towel to Karine from Made by Maude for her fridge magnet suggestion (and as a belated house-warming present). The blocks themselves are just a bit too heavy to send to KL so I'll be donating those to Lauren whose son is going to feed them into their VCR!

Thanks also to everyone who dropped by during our recent Open Weekend. Aprilmay will be open next on the 4th, 5th & 6th of July.