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Me and Oli Pop Up Shop

3 May 2012

One of our very lovely friends Lalita is the brains and braun behind Sydney’s Me and Oli, a beautiful clothing brand with illustrated themes like Australian Animals and forest creatures. How could we not like that? You might remember me raving about her cool new wesbsite a little while back, but this time its an in-person shopping experience being offered up.

Me and Oli is having a pop-up shop at Sydney’s Gaffa Gallery for this week only. Pop in tonight (thursday) for the launch party or check it all out over the weekend too. Lalita will be working on an amazing LIVE drawing for the time she’s there and also be showing off her range of dresses, tops and totes. There will be MANY goodies on offer, custom fittings and lots beautiful things to see and buy for the animal lover, fashion savvy and everyday admirer of all things lovely!

Opening Hours:
Monday April 30: 10AM-6PM
Tuesday May 1: 10AM-6PM
Wednesday May 2: 10AM-6PM
Thursday May 3: 10AM-8PM*
Friday May 4: 10AM-6PM
Saturday May 5: 11AM-5PM

See you there for drinks and nibbles tonight from 6pm! kx

Posted by: kell

Good Things Lately…Christmas!

30 December 2011

I realise now I rudely never wished you all a Merry Christmas last week. Unfortunately as lovely as christmas is, it’s also one of the busiest times in all aspects of life, so alas, my yuletide greetings went by the wayside. So apologies, but I hope you truly had a great one! Here are some little highlights from our festive season so far.

Our custom portrait by Miss Lauren Carney turned up in time to be gifted to my boy for christmas. We are so impressed by this girl’s talent and are in love with our little piece of art created by her (hey, it’s even on the wall already!). It’s a loose documentation of our last two years together (we celebrated our anniversary this month too), including icons from places we’ve visited, the kids and other cute stuff.

Lynds gave me an AMAZING garland by confetti system I’ve been drooling over for a few months now and I must say I do think it looks rather good on our hallway wall.

But lets face it, nothing will beat this gift from Trev. My new bike!! It’s by Melbourne company Papillionaire and I LOVE IT to death.

Custom Storybook tees made for some special little boys I know, I’m told they went down well on Christmas day.

The Peanut butter cheesecake I baked for christmas day. This baby contained two blocks of lindt chocolate (one in the topping, one in the base) and almost half a jar of peanut butter in the middle section. To say the least it was decadent, but amazing.

The fur kiddies also enjoyed Christmas, Wilfy spent a lot of time chewing sticks from the garden, possibly one of his favourite past times.

And Juno barged her way into his bed one morning, much to Wilfy’s surprise and excitement.

We’re taking a little break over new years to spent some time at our family beach house (with both the fur kiddies -eek!). We’re looking forward to not working, laying on the sand and escaping Sydney for a little while (even though we love you!).

A big thank you to everyone who reads our blog and for your continued support of Made By White, The Storybook Rabbit and Candy Stripe Cloud, it would all be pointless without you and we appreciate your input! See you all in 2012 K & L xx

Posted by: kell

Finders Keepers Fun!

8 December 2011

We had lots of fun at the Finders Keepers last weekend, here are some snaps of the best bits!

Made by white goodies!

Candy Stripe Cloud Garden Stakes and colourful chain necklaces!

Super cute Candy Stripe Cloud and Andrea Smith christmas decorations, displayed beautifully with Andrea’s amazing screen printed wrapping paper!

Lots of Storybook Rabbit goodies including brooches, plates, bunting packs, one off ceramic pieces and lolly jars.

Wilfy on a plate, which I kind of threw together at the last minute the week before the market. He was a very popular choice and I sold all the Wilfred plates I had made!

We had lots of creative friends with beautiful stalls, including our stall-neighbour Andrea Smith who was selling prints, hand-printed christmas paper, cards and of course the decorations her and Lynds collaborated on.

Made590 was represented too of course, with some of the most amazing clothing, gifts and gifty pieces.

Our dear friend Mechelle Smitten was the highlight of the zine room! With zines galore, brooches, plates, hand drawn ceramic beauties and other bits and pieces.

Our talented friend Mia aka The Raisin Did It had a fab stall brimming with beautiful kids wear, one off ladies tops (which we all hastily purchased) and lots of fun little bargains.

We are always so happy to be part of The Finders Keepers Markets! We always meet lots of new friends, see old ones once again and make lots of great purchases on the day! A special mention must also go to the lovely Lalita from Me and Oli with her beautiful tailor shop set up (and spectacular range of clothing), The Horse for making PERFECT shoes (which we purchased several pairs of!) and for always being so great to chat to, The lovely folks from So Little Time Co for making such cute jewellery and for sharing bunny stories with me, and our stall neighbours Serpent and Swan for being such nice people to bump into several times an hour. Also thanks everyone who came down to say hi, purchased something on the day, or just made the market the highlight it always is. Kx

Posted by: kell

Follow Store

17 August 2011

On sunday we paid a little visit to Surry Hill’s newest super cute shop, Follow. Brimming with boutique giftware, fun jewellery (including a little Made By White selection) and lovely clothing by local brands like Me and Oli, made590, Kindling and Myrtle and Dove (oh my goodness, the most amazing tapestry pocket skirts!), this place has it all. Incase you haven’t heard about it, Follow shop is the creation of Brooke and Sarah of The Finders Keepers who have also just returned from an amazing trip to several renegade fairs in the USA (you can read about their adventures here).

Follow shop is a wonderland full of cute displays, unique goodies and things you wont see everywhere! While I was there, I snapped up a Whiskers Lane bow clip, Dutch Door Press Teatowel, a set of Sarah McNeil postcards and a cute little bike-riding animal card that the girls picked up on their recent trip. There are a million things I could have bought if we hadn’t just decided we are jetting off to Europe in less than a month! (YAY!!)

Follow is located on Cleveland St in Surry Hills and is open Wednesday-Sunday. You can find more links here and keep an eye out for their online store, coming soon! A bit thanks to Brooke for the shop photos, because silly me, forgot my camera! Kx

Posted by: kell

New Collaboration: Lauren Carney

1 August 2011

We have had the pleasure of working with miss Lauren Carney on this little collaboration, whom we’ve been big fans of since meeting her at one of the Brissy Finders Keepers Markets years ago, if not even before that! You can check out more of Lauren’s work here on her website and here on her blog. This amazingly talented lady came up with some of the cutest and most detailed drawings to transform into jewellery and boy did they turn out great! She’s encapsulated all we love with owls, bunnies, nautical goodness and even indians in her own unique and truely special style! They are a must see and are available RIGHT NOW. Get in quick, as always they are limited edition pieces, each one hopefully going to a very special home. We hope you like them as much as we do. Kx

Posted by: kell

Baby, it’s cold out there…

29 July 2011

So here is some great news for all you envious readers out there. I know I’m always raving about mums knitting skills and now there are some cute little bits and pieces available for purchase over at The Storybook Rabbit etsy store!

These bow headbands are one of the best things for this wintery weather. Surprisingly they keep your head really warm and they are all handmade by our mum! Super stretchy and available in 12 real wool colours (until sold)! We had these at our last Finders Keepers market stall and they were a complete sell out, so get in quick. As an added bonus they have free shipping within Australia!

And if you’re feeling a little more adventurous, what about a super cosy chain scarf? These babies are SO incredibly good in winter. Despite the “holey” design they are REALLY warm and add a splash of colour to anything you might wear, even if you’re rugged up in a huge coat. There are only 4 available, so get in quick, there’s the pastel daydream (my personal favourite), blue tones, rainbow bright and autumn colours.

These scarves are really very special and they are all handmade with love and care. All scarves are knitted in individual coloured links and then felted, to give them a very sturdy and unique smoothed look, like real chain links. Each one is a complete one-off piece and will never be remade exactly the same, which is why we always find it so hard to sell them! We do want to keep them all, but we also know it’s good to share the love (and knitting skills!). You can check out all the knitted goodness here. Enjoy! Kx

Posted by: kell

New Me and Oli Online Shop!

28 July 2011

Here’s something exciting and fun that might make your day as much as it did mine. Our lovely friend Lalita Lu (aka Me and Oli) has just launched an amazing new website. You might know Lalita’s work from around the place, we had an amazing range of dresses by her at Made590 last summer, she has worked on illustrations for designers such as Peter Alexander, Mambo and Romance Was Born and she also had a stall at The Finders Keepers Markets a few years back with her amazing clothing range. Basically she is an extremely talented (and super lovely) designer and illustrator based in Sydney who has a soft spot for Australian wildlife, line-work animals and pretty, delicate illustration. How can we not love that?

And her new website represents all of this. It’s completely illustrated by Lalita who designed it with her partner Brett and it is a pretty great little online concept shop. Basically you choose a print, garment type and shape and your dress or top is CUSTOM MADE for you within 3-5 weeks, depending on where in the world you order from. Pretty cool eh? You can even lengthen or shorten your dress at checkout! Such attention to detail must not go unnoticed, because it’s the little things in life that make it that much nicer.

There is a library of prints and shapes to choose from, each with photos and examples to give you a really good idea of how it will look on the body and to show scale of each print. SO easy and soooo tempting. I want them all! (But I think the dress on the fox there is the one I will go for!)

Also very tempted by the owl print though. And a little bit in love with this deery friend below. But if deers are not your thing you can change the character heads and feet on the website home page! TOO CUTE!

You can read lalitas blog here and get ordering on her site HERE. Just think how special it will feel putting on your very own custom made (and VERY well priced) piece of Me and Oli loveliness for the very first time…sigggghhhhhhhh. Kx

Posted by: kell

Last Week’s Highlight

5 July 2011

The best thing about last week was mum showing up to check out our new place baring the best housewarming gift I could imagine. THIS DEER JUMPER she knitted for me (ok housewarming is a stretch, but I SO do not need anything for the house)!

I found this knitting pattern by Tiny Owl Knits ages ago and after hinting I might need a deer jumper in my life, mum made me one. I absolutely love everything Tiny Owl Knits produces, she’s is soooo incredibly cute and a little bit crazy. I could easily own these and these and this too! Kx

Posted by: kell

New Collaboration- One Little Red Fox.

4 July 2011

The extremely lovely Julie Camille hails from France and draws cute little squirrels, racoons and of course foxes! It’s no surprise we wanted to collaborate with her when we spotted these cute framed embroideries of hers on etsy. The new jewellery range we’ve come up with includes the best of all the cute characters she could muster. Shop the whole range here or check out the other cute things Julie has on offer over here. Hope you love them as much as we do! L & Kx

Posted by: kell

2 reasons to leave the house this weekend!

17 May 2011

The Finders Keepers is on at the Carriageworks in Sydney – Friday night and Saturday ALL day! We will be having a stall with lots and lots of Made by White, Storybook Rabbit and Candy Stripe Cloud things!! Details can be found on the Finders Keepers website.

Also checkout the list of awesome designers that will be joining us!

And this is the beautiful flyer!

AND THEN on Sunday the MCA Zine fair will be on with stalls from many more talented people and also our friends Mechelle B & Anney B – Details on the MCA website here.

Posted by: lyndsay