The Artisan Group at the GBK Golden Globes Gift Lounge January 2012

This weekend saw artisans from all over the globe glued to their computer screens as we kept track of Founder Valerie and Managing Partner Nikki at the GBK Gift Lounge in honour of Golden Globes nominees held at the Beverley Hills L'Ermitage Hotel.


100 gift bags containing $800 of handmade goodies were gifted to attending celebrities such as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Elizabeth McGovern, Jeremy Irons, Damien Lewis, Chris Noth and many many more.


The press were also gifted mini swag bags with reporters from the The Huffington Post, ABC News, Mingle Media, Hollywood.TV, LA Daily News, LA's The Place, Splash magazines and The Today Show in Australia in attendance.


Artisans participating in the gift bags were BeezKneezDesigns, 13 Black Cats Designs, Sahetah's Jewelery, Piccolo Paradiso, Cherry Tree Soaps, JuditB Jewelery, Blue Scarab Jewelry, Villa Lusso, Barefoot Bath & Body, Jewels For Hope, Java Jane Designs, Dave Dilli Photography, I Am Maryann, Expression Rings of Hope, Alexis Studio Design, Luster Metalworks, TearDrop Paperie, Botjoy, LapisBeach Hand-Knit Wearable Art, Simply Paperie, The Crimson Poppy, Swirly Garden, SariBlue, Caroline G, Kath's Elegant Accessories, The Write Stuff Design, Taradara, Oh Joy! Photography, Wee Bindery, Cloven Rustic Jewelry, Hearts Of Stone Jewelry, Longrunners, Cassia Aromatics


I was a participant at business card level along with a whole heap of other talented artisans.


Everyone's displays were greeted with such enthusiasm and many celebrities have tweeted the artisans thanking them.


Looking forward to hearing all the success stories that come out of this event!!

Happy New Year!!

I really need to do more of this blogging malarky....and now I have my brand spanking new laptop I really don't have much of an excuse!
Managed to spend a pretty quiet Christmas and New Year at home with my kids but now it's back to business and the January order list.

Today's custom order was for a brightly coloured octopus (or soctopus as I like to call them!)

He is available as a custom order in my Etsy shop here. He's pretty big - 70cm across and it was a real challenge to get that last leg sewn on!!! I'm very happy with how he turned out though and so was the customer :)