a round up!

A round up of my year, Jacques' year, designosaur's year and a year of Brighton Etsy all mashed together. Lots happened, it was FUN.

Jacques bought me a Neon light, it's my favourite thing ever, it made it to the list cos I've wanted one FOREVER and I didn't think I'd get one :D

Jacques and I went to Berlin, it was ALL THE FUN, it was a perfect mix of history/war history for Jacques and BRIGHT COLOURFUL RAVEY things for Karli.

I was invited to the very first Etsy International Captains Summit and did a talk in Berlin...

Credit | Silja Erg

...and Etsy enjoyed it so much they invited me back to do one in Nantes...

Credit | Secondhand Sandy

and Berlin again....

Credit | Berlino Vintage

....and then London too! I dragged Rockcakes along this time and she took a pretty bad photo of me... #awkward

I went to Zambia with my family to work with young people in the schools there. It was cold - don't let anyone fool you that Africa is always hot!

May wanted to try on my gold Triceratops!

We become TV Stars and were featured as the opening shot of the first ever Etsy UK TV advert

We were part of AT Open House, that's April wearing a Sabre Tooth Necklace!

Our 2nd #CRAFTPARTY with the Brighton Etsy Team was BIGGER and BETTER with over 100 attendees, fro-yo from Lick, smellies from LUSH and bumper goodie bags!

Yellow Bear Wares x designosaur - our knitting themed collaboration!

Hello DODO got married and we made their wedding jewellery!

We had some time off and went to EXIT Festival in Serbia and Montenegro

My parents moved to Brussels and we went to visit!

Turning on all the lights, yes we're really grown up...

We met Kirstie Allsop at The Handmade Fair

Credit | Alice Tams

We organised the first Brighton Etsy Team Market

We were featured in the Telegraph!

We designed the 3 of Diamonds for the Brighton Artists Deck of Cards Project

Brighton Etsy Team Pop Up, a real life shop, in the South Lanes open for 4 weeks with 25 awesome designers (including us!)

We were invited to be part of Etsy House - Etsy's first Pop Up shop in Covent Garden. You had to queue to get no matter what time you went! WOAH!

Credit | and smile

We created our first Sterling Silver Collection, two super cute tiny dinosaurs!

Renegade, our third Renegade! Every time we go we get to hang out with AWESOME people, this time it was Hand Over Your Fairy Cakes (Sally and Keith), Woah The Pickle (Vicky), I Like CATS (Toby) and of course hello DODO (Jam and Ali) and we all squeezed in here!

Credit | Hand Over Your Fairy Cakes

And that's it, well it isn't obviously, I had to cut a load out else you'd be reading until 2016 and be bored out of your mind. THANKS for coming along for the ride! 2014 was AWESOME and ALL THE FUN! Here's to an awesome 2015, we couldn't do it without you guys!

ROAR!

Karli (and Jacques)

Goodbye 2014, Hello Resolutions!

The end of the year!

WOAH! Where did it go?

I wanted to review my new years resolutions and to let you know that I really didn't do that badly!

I said that I was going to blog once a week every week and OK I missed a couple of them BUT I did blog most weeks. The big question for me is, did anyone read them? Did you enjoy them? And do you want me to blog some more?

I have found it really difficult to judge how much you guys have enjoyed my blog posts and which topics you like most.

I asked out on Twitter what they'd like to see of my blog and my blogging New Years Resolution for 2015 is to do some more outfit posts let's say I'll do a total of 5 minimum next year.

Also we were asked to do some process posts so let's say I'll do 5 of these too. (I like winning so I'm keeping the numbers low)

Anything else you'd like to see let me know in the comments and I'll add it in, if I think it's good obvs.

Oh and obviously I'm going to keep up the blogging once a week as once a week is stressful enough. My upload day is Tuesday, did you even know that? Probably not so I'm going to make that an actual regular day that I upload. YES I AM. I CAN AND DO THIS.

What's your new years resolution? Oh and don't forget to help me out with any other blogging related resolutions!

ROAR!

not at all related to the post, here's a picture of my face...

Come and see us at Crafty Fox this weekend!

Our last face to face selling event of the year is the Crafty Fox Market this Sunday.

We are very excited to be offering you a range of dinosaurs and other shiny things at the Dogstar in Brixton alongside some incredible designers.

These are my top picks! Who are you looking forward to getting something from?

Luna On The Moon

Dianne Tanner

Miesje Chafer

James Brown Prints

Bat and Wolf

ROAR!

Craftaganza - This weekend!

Christmas is a crazy busy time for any designer maker and we are at another handmade market this weekend. You may have been to Craftaganza before but if you haven't come along as you're in for a treat!

Here's a teeny tiny sample of what's on offer!

Mooshpie

hello DODO

i Like CATS

In The Making

Rock Cakes

Super + Super

I bet you're excited to come and buy ALL THE THINGS!

See you there!

ROAR!

Selling at Renegade Craft Fair this Weekend!

This weekend we are going to be at Renegade Craft Fair with ever AWESOME hello DODO and we will be competing for the prize of most colourful stall ;)

Oh and we will be selling everything you can find in our Etsy shop, slightly cheaper than it normally is (it's always best to buy from us at craft fairs!)

If you're London based or just in London for the day come and say hello, we'd love to meet you!

Here's some of the awesomeness you can get your hands on!

Rockcakes

Woah There Pickle

I am Acrylic

hello DODO

Faye Moorehouse

i Like CATS

Beetlecherry

ROAR!

Brighton Etsy Pop Up Shop

I didn't have time to blog last week, so I apologise if you missed your weekly dose of inane rambling.

However this is slightly justified as we have been crazy busy organising the Brighton Etsy Team Christmas Pop Up!

There are 25 designer makers taking part including ourselves. The shop is in 16 Brighton Square which is where Chubby Chops the dog cafe was (if you're local to the area) and where the dolphin fountain is in the South Lanes.

We launch this Saturday 8th November with an all day party and everybody is welcome, there will be live music, refreshments and free workshops.

For more details have a look at the Brighton Etsy Team Blog and also join the Facebook event.

COME ALONG IT'S GOING TO BE ALL THE FUN!

ROAR!

For more Press information please email brightonetsyteam@gmail.com

Meet our Stockists! Pyramid Gallery

We mentioned before that we have around lots of stockists all over the place and we have started to interview them for our blog, the last one we did was about Jolly Brown Vintage and this time we have gone further north to York! Meet the guys at Pyramid Gallery!

TERRY, FI & RUTH
PYRAMID GALLERY
YORK

Describe your shop...

Terry has owned Pyramid Gallery for 20 years, and his fun, eclectic and soulful taste has kept the shop a firm favourite with locals and visitors alike. Here, you will find work by important British artists like Peter Blake rubbing shoulders with jewellery sourced from British designers [such as designosaur] and the most exquisite objects d'art. Our shop is a 400 year old Grade 2 Listed Building with no straight lines and far too many stairs. People love to shop here because they are after something unusual, well made, a whimsical; many of our customers are creative themselves so the shop acts as a sort of hub for local creatives.

Which designosaur design do you personally like the most?

Fi - ALL OF IT but particularly the dodo necklace, of course
Ruth - I'm partial to the Cockatoo necklace
Terry loves the brooches

Which designosaur piece do your customers love?

They all get a lot of comments, Fi tends to be wearing a piece every day so people often have a look at the cabinet once they are told they can get them here. We have a very mixed demographic here at Pyramid and there's really something for everyone in this shop. Customers are often captured by the shiny cockatoo.

How did you find out about designosaur?

Fi has been a customer for a long time, having been gifted a beautiful T-Rex for a present back in 2012 which she wears (almost) daily and gets LOADS of comments about. Ruth got the bug after meeting the team filming the Etsy advert [hello from Moth and Magpie!]

Have you done anything particularly creative/ different with the way you display our products?

We've given flight to the Pterodactyl (see photo) and we've used your packaging within our display. If it was up to Fi, there would be a full Jurassic scene with sand and mountains but I don't think the boss would approve of that.

What do you hope will come next from designosaur?

We have so many ideas, this is great fun!
A moose would be amazing, or a sloth on a branch. Foxes, stags and birds/bird cages are super popular here in York, we could sell those a million times over! We love your Brighton Pavilion necklace, but it's not appropriate for York... Minster could be a bit far fetched but maybe other buildings could work. Ruth has just said GODZILLA - of course! And then there is one of my favourite mythical creature of all time... the KRAKEN! Please release the Kraken, it would make me very happy.

Thanks to Ruth and Fi for answering our questions, what do you hope will be next from designosaur? Let us know in the comments!

ROAR!

Photos taken by Ruth and Fi.