First Comes Love is done and dusted and we’re back to our everyday design lives, part of which means checking in on blogs we’ve neglected (it’s called research, honest). Two things for you today – let’s start with Scout’s Honor Co. – a lovely designer-stationer with a lovely studio in Vermont and a lovely blog. You’ll love it. Also, a great find of Annemarie’s – General’s Charcoal White pencils which look just like chalk on a blackboard. So, if like us, you’re a little daunted of the endless possibilities of a blank white piece of paper (we choose kraft), they’re a nice option.

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Oh my. Here are Mitchell & Dent‘s brand new greeting cards, available right now in our little online shop. We think there is no nicer way to say hello than with a dapper monocle-wearing tiger or the Tara Banks of the animal world in lion form (“You’re fierce”) or a chubby little balloon-wielding bear encouraging you to hug it out.

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Hear all about it! Hear all about it! Exciting news! Mitchell & Dent is now a part of The Pressroom and Co in the US. What is The Pressroom and Co? It is a collective of very clever letterpress stationers from the USA, UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia and is an initiative of the extraordinarily lovely Valerie and Jim from Spark (first comes love and then comes letterpress). So, for folks across the pond who have been coveting our designs but have been hampered by the exchange rate and non-US-standard sizes, why not order through The Pressroom and Co? Off you pop now poppets.

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Worried that your mantle will let you down this Christmas? That you won’t have enough cards on it to adequately reflect how popular and cool you really are? Well, Domestikate have got you covered. You can subscribe to their Christmas card list and receive a photo card every December for the next six years. They’ll be your ‘kooky, new, insta-friends’.

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Omigoodness. I don’t know where to start. I’ve been loving the blog A Beautiful Mess by Elsie Flannigan, choc-a-bloc full of vintage and creative crafty goodness and fashion. That alone would be enough, but then Elsie and her chum Rachel and sister Emma have just opened Red Velvet, a seller of vintage and pretty things and sweet shoppe combined. I want to go visit, but am sadly rather far from Missouri. Not to worry, there is a Red Velvet online shop, oh yay. Emma and Elsie pictured above thanks to Float Away Studios.

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You might have noticed that Mitchell & Dent have been a little quiet on the tittle tattling front recently. That’s because we’ve been beavering away, making damn good goodies to take to Melbourne next week. If you want to take a sneaky peek before they hit our online shop, just trundle on down to Magnolia Square at the Malvern Town Hall on August 5-6-7 and come say hooroo. We’d love to see you.

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I remember the first time my dear friend Miss Marie first showed me her eraser collection. She poured the contents of a 40 litre bin onto her living room floor and we spent hours rummaging through mini hamburgers, kittens and soccer balls. I’m not quite sure I should introduce her to the wonder of Hapa Culture. I’m afraid it will only feed her addiction.

www.hapaculture.com

Madame Mitchell does not approve of glitter and gaudiness and simply cannot abide an unattractive wedding invitation, so Mitchell & Dent has been beavering away to make pretty with paper. Here is your first peek at the results – the letterpressed Ampersand wedding stationery suite.

Madame Dent has been working hard too, but mostly in the hopes of being invited to more weddings. She likes cake and champagne.

Find us amongst the frocks and frou frou at our very first bridal fair…
Perth Bridal Expo, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th June, 9am to 5:30pm, Burswood Resort Grand Ballroom, $15

Sometimes our tastes here at M&D are as different as *apples* and *oranges*, however we are all *bananas* for these Kudamemo Fruit Memos from D-Bros in Japan. Even the most passive aggressive of notes would seem sweet if it was written on a slice of pear. Want one? You can buy them from Geek Stuff 4 U.

Kudamemo by D-Bros on Designer Roof
www.d-bros.jp

Don’t say Mitchell & Dent doesn’t think of you boys. If you want to express just how much your significant other means to you, go no further than this little card. I love you more than football and cars, that’s a whole lotta love.

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