Take a look at our new studio...

We've moved into our new Little White Dog HQ and we're absolutely loving the extra space to work in (Suzie) and to roll around on the floor (Milo).There's still a bit of confusion about who is supposed to be sitting at the desk and who is supposed to be sitting under it but I'm sure we'll work it out!

Visit our contact page to make an appointment for a studio visit if you'd like to have a chat about some customised letters or to collect something you've ordered.
You can even get Milo to email directions to you!

Prudence

Milo and I are in this month’s Prudence magazine! Along with five other Irish Etsy businesses, Little White Dog has been included in their ‘Recessionpreneurs’ series of articles about people who have started new enterprises in the midst of the **whisper** recession.

You can have a further peak at the article here on the Etsy Ireland Blog.

You can also have a look at www.prudence.ie but really you should pop out the shop and pick up the magazine.

Its full of prudent fashion, style and glamour, as well as good sound personal finance tips, and at only €2.95 it would be imprudent not to! Thank you to Alex from the Etsy Ireland Team who made it all happen.

Check out her shop Propeller Prints on Etsy for some beautiful original handmade cards & stationery.

The Joys of Spring

I love living in our little cottage but for a while now my creativity has been outgrowing the limited space available.

My, emm, previous landlords suggested that I could use their spare room for my work so this week I made it all happen.

Monday was spent buying furniture and bits & pieces, Tuesday waiting for the van to deliver my furniture, Wednesday assembling everything (I just might be the only person in the world who enjoys assembling flat-pack furniture!), Thursday moving my boxes & tidying, and by Friday I was working in my new studio! How happy-making it is not to have to get up on a chair and unpack boxes every time I’m making something! Its also giving me the motivation to get up and out every morning, even Saturday.

Milo loves his new routine of a walk in the park before ‘work’ and then settling down disguised as a designer cushion on his new day-bed in the studio, with the odd bit of barking at passing cats/dogs/magpies during the day.

We’re looking forward to Monday already!

ps You can see some more images of my studio in this article on the Etsy Ireland Blog

The Little White Dog is loose on the internet!

Christmas has come early here at LWD because the new website www.littlewhitedog.ie is up and running! A million thanks to GB for such a fabulous Christmas present xxx

It’s been pretty busy here in the run up to Christmas, with all sorts of handmade boxes and cards growing legs and running down to the post office to be sent all over the world.

There were a few custom orders for letter shaped boxes and the ones made from sheet music seem to be really popular. I love the randomness of making these because each one is different and one of a kind. There might be a string of notes running up the back of a letter or a nicely placed treble clef that really enhances the shape. O is probably the most challenging letter because it has no straight edges, but when something turns out well its worth the effort.