We have a winner

This morning while pumping iron at the gym, Gareth smsed with the simple message "WE HAVE A WINNER!" Exciting times and a bit congratulations to Danielle who has purchased our 10000th item on Etsy. Here is to the next 10000 sales!

Able And Game's 10000th Sale On Etsy - A Big Prize To Be Won!

Our 10000th sale has crept up on us and we realised we better get our wheels into action and sort out things like prizes and the like. So to celebrate, whoever buys our 10000th item will be winning a big pile of Able and Game cards, in fact the pile is so big it will last you a year. Yes a year's worth of greeting cards. We plugged numbers into the calculator and decided that this was 2 cards per week, a total of 104 cards. Pretty soon you will be known as Greety because you give out so many cards. The 10000th item purchased sale person (or TIPSP for short) will get to choose the cards, or we can help chose the cards because it will be a big decision, 104 big decisions. The TIPSP will also get a years worth of Able and Game tea towels. As we have 12 designs that is one for each month of the year. Image how dry your dishes will be! Super dry!

We are currently on 9927 sales, so not long to go now! You can visit our Etsy shop right here.

New Tea Towel - Butter Beats Everything

This tea towel came about from our recent trip to Paris. Our plan for our week's holiday was to go somewhere we could happily wander around and to go somewhere with good food. Paris seemed to tick both boxes, although we had both been there before we wanted to enjoy the city rather than do the usual touristy things.

Each morning I would pop to our local bakery to pick up some bread, and often cake. Cake for breakfast? Why not. We had lots of different things on our bread but each time we went back to the butter we realised it was the best thing ever. So we came up with this tea towel in honor of the yellow stuff.

Below is a shot of our breakfast one morning on a little makeshift table I made. The butter got a good working over!

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Limited Edition Postcard Giveaway - This Sunday at Rose Street Market

This Sunday 30th June at Rose Street we are having a special giveaway. To help celebrate the closing of the Pizza Festival (the event has sold out but you can still come along to the market) we have made a limited edition postcard that will only be available this Sunday (until our supply runs out).

We thought we would stick with a pizza theme and celebrate the dream party my Mum had for us as teenagers, the pizza party! Complete with our old mini CD player, the card features how the party would play out. Everyone would get to choose their own toppings and make their own pizza and then there would be a disco in the lounge room. FUN TIMES! Sadly for my Mum it was the '90s when teenagers had to be sad sacks and we never took Mum up on the offer. This is one of my life regrets! Come along on Sunday, have a look around Rose Street and collect your postcard from our stall. We can talk about pizza, parents and parties!

Rose Street Market
60 Rose Street
Fitzroy
11am - 5pm

Getting High On The HashTags

I know I said in our last blog post that I love made up words and changes in language. One exception to that is hashtag talk, which seems to be creeping into all sorts of places. I even doing like it much in the birthplace of hashtag talk, twitter. I don't know why it bugs me, maybe because often whole sentences are mashed together and it takes me 10 seconds to read a sentence when it should only take one second (whoa, massive first world problem there!). Being a bit of and old fashioned grouch isn't something people like, so I know I am going to have to learn to love them the same way I learnt to love pumpkin, red wine and green tea. I guess this card is my toe in the water when it comes to learning to love the hashtag. It is available on Etsy, perfect for that smart phone addict in your life. If you do buy it just made sure you write your entire #message #inside #using #hashtags. #LOL!

New Tea Towel - Totes Def Amaze Balls

While we were away we sent off this design to the screen printers so we arrived back to the office and were welcomed with a brand new tea towel full of purple goodness. I'm not sure why we have not printed in purple before because it a great colour but also a colour I snob a lot. Well foolish me as this shade of purple really is totes def amaze balls.

The tea towels are available in our Etsy shop for that special amaze balls person  in your life. Maybe even a totes def amaze balls person who doesn't much like all this new modern language and internet speak. Do you find these new words and language a bit too much? I've always been a big fan of silly words, although it took me a long time to come around to LOL. I also often make up my own words with one of the current ones being "gongies" which means going or leaving, as in "are we gongies?". Lucky Gareth understands them and also makes up a few of his own, although being a couple that appears to have their own language is a scary thought. I am looking forward to these strange words become normal everyday in the dictionary words. I'm sure one day in the very distant future a grandchild of mine may come home with a school report in which their behaviour is described as amaze balls. I hope when this happens I'll remember this day and age and have a smirk on my face.