Thank you! {and a free printable download}

A little while ago on the blog I asked for everyone to complete a quick survey - so that I can get a better idea of what you all like about indieBerries, what you want to see more of and why you keep coming back. It was really insightful and some of your answers and extremely kind words made me almost a bit teary. (I'm serious).

I promised free bananas for all those who completed it

and I have subsequently run out of bananas - 

but for those of you who would like - I designed a set of  business card sized "compliment cards" (like the one above) a few years ago - 

in the time long before my SLR

(can you tell?)

Now, I know this is no substitute for a banana, but they do make lovely additions to any gift wrapping project or for a quick note to hand to someone, or to leave on a pillow, mirror, lunchbox or whatever for someone special to find it.

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You can download a PDF printable set of compliment cards here.

and you can download the .jpg (slightly quicker download) here.
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I also recently posted an easy-peasy tutorial for drawing your own Mickey Mouse, I've had some awesome submissions from readers which I thought I would share - 

Left: Andrea Motley & Right: Janina Oberholzer

Left: Alice Stevenson & Right: Kerry Wickens

And my favourite - "retro Mickey"

from By word of mouth :

Am well impressed with all your Mickey Talent!

If you haven't seen the drawing tutorial - 

give it a bash here.

Happy Thursday x

BINGO.

My lovely friend Nicole celebrated her birthday mid November last year and I haven't had a chance yet to blog about her celebrations. As a B-day gift I organised a year-long Marie Claire subscription for her. (Some South-African english magazines to be shipped to Korea~ woop!) This isn't a sponsored post - but the Marie Claire team were so helpful in answering my questions and replied immediately to my twitter questions. (@marieclaire_sa). Since the subscription I ordered would only kick in the following month - I managed to scout around Korea for (probably the only) english Marie Claire I could find. I photoshopped a magazine-sized page with Nicole on the cover and "article titles" relating to her and pasted it onto the Marie Claire magazine so that she had something fun to open.


I also covered up the first two inner magazine pages and made a space for everyone who had contributed to the subscription to write a note for the birthday girl.

For Nicole's surprise birthday party we organised a fancy Black & White themed cocktails and snacks and I made some black and white decor gift bags for each of the girls. Each gift bag included a headband or hairclip, chocolates, facemasks and earrings.




I designed black and white name-cards to put on the white paper bags and I bought black polka dot stickers to fasten the name-cards to the bags.

Along with the gift bags I also created a personal Birthday Bingo for everyone to play and had a Manicure Voucher as the first place prize. The Birthday Bingo Boards included squares with the names of all the party guests, favourite foods, drinks and funny memories. The cards we pulled out of the bag included clues to these answers such as "Nicole's favourite food" or "This person loves to dance on tables".  Anyone who had the corresponding squares on their boards placed a sticker over the block. The first person to complete a Bingo row was the winner. This game was really fun since some bingo clues allowed for decision making amongst the guests (ex: "the craziest person in the room" and we would take a group vote or ask around until someone fit the profile - a great ice-breaker game, FYI.) 

Below are a few party snaps:

1. Individual Pudding Mousse in cups onto which we'd attached "yum" labels that I designed and also some black and white decorated dessert spoons.

2. Korean Kimbap with "just a nibble" toothpick skewers which I designed.

3. Some party decor I designed and the pretty cocktail cups which Sarah and I hacked up.

4. Bingo!

I have included a link to download the Black & White party decor I designed - CLICK HERE - in the zip file you will also find a 'How To' for assembling the different decor items as well as how to create your own Birthday Bingo. If you use any of them - I would love to see some pics! *enjoy!

mmm...milkshake

When I was home, it was my cousin's birthday - my mom needed something to add to her birthday gift - Enter: Milkshake voucher! Because what eleven-year old doesn't love a milkshake?

I also made a few other vouchers for cocktails, meals and coffee - for birthday/anytime treats to hand out to special people.

If you would like a copy of these vouchers - you can download them here. Go treat someone special. :)

'taches

do you need a moustache on a stick?

yeah.

I thought so.

click here.

I'm making things easier

So, lately I have been a little...

with 

etc

As a result I have invented the handy "catch-all" doccie. 

You can use this lovely doccie in a variety of situations and it can be printed out as many times as you can possibly manage. All you need to do is tick the correct box. and hey presto! 

you don't have to go through the whole congratulatory process a ga-zillion-thousand times.

As my (wedding) gift to you, you can download the handy all-purpose congratulatory doc.

It can be printed (or even emailed) over and over again  - so tell your friends they can have as many weddings and babies as they like. 

Download it here.

you're welcome.

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oh, and PS. a big congrats to all 467 of my facebook friends who have recently got engaged/married/babied. I am truly happy for you. (really). 

But for me... 

I'll just be chilling out in SoKo, 

BI-WINNING.

Another free Calendar

Another free postcard sized, downloadable calendar made from Diana Images. You can download the calendar from R's Adventures

image via Pugly Pixel.