Thankyou thankyou

Well I've been absolutely inundated with emails re our shop dilemma. And I thought I was the only one who kept their eye out for good little spaces! Thankyou everyone - I'm going to be very busy this week! I was especially excited by the prospect of moving into the old Darrell Lea space in Elizabeth St. Unfortunately the lease is a little expensive but I think I'll have to have a look, at least for curiosity sake!

I've also had lots of feedback regarding our new website which is also wonderful. Of course, it's still a work in progress which is why there isn't yet an explanation as to why the Steiner Doll (pictured) is faceless. I'll leave that up to Sooz to explain!

The good news or the bad news first?

So do you prefer the good news or the bad news first? I prefer to brace myself for the bad news first so if you’re like me, don’t check out www.aprilmay.com.au just yet, read on...

Aprilmay will be closing permanently on the 24th of December. We’ve been unable to renew our lease and so whilst we are looking for new premises, we’ll be trading every Friday, Saturday and Sunday (10-5) until Christmas. Which brings me to the fact that I completely forgot our Giveaway Day on the 1st so tomorrow we’ll be sending out Mistress of the Upper Fifth button brooches to anyone with the address of any great little shops for lease in the Melbourne inner city area.

The good news is that www.aprilmay.com.au is finally up and running (and is where you can find this wonderfully versatile Yolk dress) with plenty of new stock to be added over the next couple of weeks!

Peta Pledger Hawaiian Skirt

After Peta Pledger delivered her beautiful summer range of fifties dresses and skirts last week I couldn't help but try on this Hawaiian bark cloth skirt. Admittadly I pulled it on over my jeans and boots but even then it looked great so I figured it would be the perfect excuse to race out and buy a new pair of raffia thongs!

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.