I had seen these:

and decided to make her this topper for her gift….

She was pretty happy with that!

Then their lovely mum,  Kim contacted me to let me know she was adding a little girl to their tribe and ordered a poster for her soon to be newborn, in sweet colours with birds and butterflies:

I love that little knight on the horse and the rockets too. What would you have on your kids posters?

Tonight we’ll see the end of 2009 and welcome 2010 in with a boom! Literally! We’ll be at the top of the Husbands office builfing with some friends and their kids, watching the fireworks  and having a little celebration of our own.

2009 has been a huge year for us- we got a new house, sold an old house, got new jobs, new hair, took a holiday and are already making plans for next years holiday. For 2010 i hope Nicholas will love starting kindergarten, we’ll thoroughly enjoy our holiday, perhaps buy an investment property and do a lot more design work! Until then, thank you all for your comments and thoughts this year, and heres some virtual vintage champagne for you all:

So while i was strolling through a department store i noticed a gorgeous tree. Its bristles were shiny and thick, it was tall and dense and everything my sad old tree wasn’t. Plus, the thing that won me over straight away, was that it was BLACK!

You know my small obsession with all things black and white…

So i took it home and had to wait a whole month before i could put it up, then i completely caved in and put it up anyway! It was October! People thought i was clinically insane for a. Buying a BLACK christmas tree and b. for putting it up in October. But i didnt care one tiny ounce. I got to enjoy its magnificence for 3 whole months. The kids loved it and the Husband even declared that it was cool!

I bought new decorations for my new black tree too. Guess what colour they were? Duh – WHITE!! And silver and black and glass and crystal. When i told people of my new tree and its colour scheme they all screwed up their noses at me- “Black! Thats not a christmas colour!”, “Are you sure its black and not dark green?”, “It’d look a bit boring dont you think?”

Well you tell me what you think:

The black and white decorations still feature proudly this year and perhaps next year i will add in a few touches of red, or blue or turquoise… so whats on your tree?

Heres a sample of what ive been up to:

Ive been selling these to some friends who are just as crazy about tags as i am! They are $5 per tag and you get a sheet of them in a PDF document. The files are modifiable so you can just type in your recievers name and it will appear in the font ive used. No need to practice your best handwriting! It took me a while to learn how to create a file like that so im quite happy i learned something new on my own. I didn’t even have a sook and make the Husband figure it out for me!!

There are also some more generic gift tags for those non-christmassy times like birthdays, anniversaries, parties and those ‘just because i wanted to give you a gift’ moments.

These ones are also for sale at $5 per set of 3. So you get a little bit of variety in colour. You can just print them out on some thick paper stock (look for anything higher than 100gsm- thats the weight of the paper) on your home printer and cut them out. Easy!

If you are interested just drop me an email at nisha@creativeneesh.com and we can organise payment and i’ll send you the files you’d like. Hope you like them!

Hope little India likes it! Orange and soft turquoise are such wonderful summery colours! Hope the sun shines bright on her special day.

for the transport obsessed little boy! I really enjoyed putting that truck face together and the train tracks too.

The helicopter and the dump truck were personal favourites here. But Samuels mum let me know that he LOVED the birds! They’d been to see an artist throw thousands of coloured paper planes off a building in their city and the birds reminded Samuel of that wonderful looking spectacular!

Hannah’s mum had gone into great detail to decorate her princess’ room in shandes of pink and green. We matched the colours to her bed spread and decorations that are in her special place. How cute are the faries?!

Some robot love for little Luca. That silly ‘p’ … doesnt he know he’s way too big to be hiding behind the L!! This was a christening gift for a special boy, that the parents loved.

Hope you liked them all too. Dont forget – now that we’re in NOVEMBER, its time to get organised for the Jolly Fat Man (aka. Santa) let me know if a custom poster, or any of my posters, would be perfect for one of your clan.

How adorable is that little military jacket! Why shouldnt kids look stylish without having the usualy spattering of cars, dinosaurs and faries on their clothes?!

Some of the pieces are mini versions of what has appeared on the catwalks for her Womens range and she has applied the same principles to kidswear that she does to her womenswear line- no leather, organic materials like cotton, wool and cashmere and beautiful detailling. The price point for the garments are also in line with GAP clothing and less skewed to the haute coture, so thats an even bigger plus! You can read more about it here

Once we were home, it felt like we’d been away for a month! I guess thats a sign of a good holiday, returning home utterly relaxed and refreshed. And thats exactly how i felt when i found this beautiful print. The shades of blue are just sublime! Reminds me of the ocean and spa ripples im missing already…

image via here

Catch you on the flip side!

photo from here