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Say it with words or flowers… or cuddles and kisses (which we can’t provide via Royal Mail). It is Valentines day on Sunday and if you’d like your gifts to arrive in time, please place your orders by noon on Thursday. Big love, x

We’re on the look out for a new member of staff and have placed a tiny ad in the local press. It might be so small that it is illegible, so thought I’d say a little bit more about the position here.

Essentially we’d like an extra pair of hands to help with the day-to-day ‘office’ side of things. We don’t expect you to create artworks or have screen printing expertise, that bit is happily taken care of by Jane and David but we would like someone who:

- can handle our screen prints with love and care whilst packaging them up for our customers
- is upbeat and happy to chat to our customers and answer e-mail enquiries
- is (preferably) familiar with press liaison, magazines and online design blogs
- is organised and has experience of accounting and office administration
- has proficient computer skills and perhaps knowledge of retail systems and processes
- has an interest in culture, design and interiors
- is happy to roll up their sleeves and muck in

We’d like someone asap for this part-time position which is based in Hitchin. We’re happy to discuss salary and hours when we find the right person.

Please send a brief covering e-mail and your CV to work@boldandnoble.com by 21/01/10 if this position interests you.

All orders can be sent on a next day service up until 3pm on the 22nd December – which means you’ll have your pressies in time for the big day. Just call me (Jane) on 07726 714 924 if you’re worried about things getting there on time – we have plan Bs and Cs!

We’ve been collaborating. Fantastic fashion and homeware shop Foundation approached us to design their shopping bags and packaging for a range of scented candles. Nice job! They’ve just launched a new area in their Cheltenham shop where they’ve mixed in clothing by British designers, such as Vivienne Westwood, Paul Smith, Nicole Farhi etc., our Bold & Noble prints, furniture by Pinch, wallpapers by Deborah Bowness, plus other items such as Branksome pottery etc… And it is all British! We’re delighted to be rubbing shoulders with the noble designers of this land!

We recently got involved with the Kambia christmas appeal which raised enough funds to establish a Maternity Waiting House at a hospital in Sierra Leone. It means expectant ‘at risk’ Mums can stay at the hospital in case of complications when they go into labour. Brilliant, we’re delighted that our prints could help generate some much needed funds!

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to… Received a text today telling me that it is a year since we launched Bold & Noble. Blimey, it feels like about 10 years – in a good, well established way! Any excuse for a tipple, I’m quite into Harveys Bristol Cream at the minute, I know it is a grannies drink but I used to drink it with my Nana and Grandad at Christmas and it makes me feel all nostalgic… Raise a glass to Mont and Renée, I know they’d be proud of our design venture.

I flipping love this place and it seems to consistently find ways to weave in and out of my life. I used to come here as a wide eyed student on day trips before I moved to Newcastle, when I was employed and living in London my wonderful boss (Lynda) would send me on inspiration afternoons here (what a job!) and it was in the cafe here that the fluffy ideas about starting Bold & Noble were cemented. And now, cue drum roll, we’ve actually got something tangible under their roof, as of next week the V&A shop will be stocking Bold & Noble prints.

This is big stuff for little people like us!

It is a big day. After three months of late nights, early mornings and inky aprons, the new collection is ready. We’d love to hear from you if you have any comments, maybe ’sheer slate’ should be called ‘blue slate’, perhaps that big flower should be a bit smaller or maybe you don’t care. Either way, we hope you like the new designs, here goes…

Who needs six?

We’re in there with Barack and Hugo and all because of a book.

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, was ranked 54,295 on the sales charts of bookseller Amazon.com back in April but it has since risen to number two. Why? Because President Chavez presented the book to President Obama at the Summit of the Americas.

Savvy UK publisher Serpents Tail immediately snapped up the UK rights and we were asked to create the cover at high speed – quick work Wardle!

Hot off the press… The Junior Officers’ Reading Club designed by our very own David Wardle is BBC i-players book of the week.