Good Oman

They're a good breed the Oman women. Young Hannah who works with us is the queen of cupcakes. She's been baking for us for wedding celebrations, births and birthdays! Even catering to our bizarre dietary requirements - see dairy free dark chocolate and raspberry cakes above. Cheryl baked us homemade coconut bread this week and Kathleen helped us select our new red studio chairs. Thanks Oman ladies - we love you!

We Can Do It!

Polli was proud to offer our Export Advice on Design*Sponge's Biz Ladies section. It's a great resource for all kinds of business advice including marketing, PR and HR.

Kate visits Phily

Kate visited beautiful Philadelphia a few weeks back and popped in on a few of our local stores. Including Hello World (above) and Open House (below).We're also excited to be stocking Bus Stop, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Lost+Found on North Third Street.

Earth Hour Competition

Tell us how you celebrate Earth Hour this weekend for a chance to win a Polli Tea Light Shade of your choice. We're looking for the most creative ways to spend an hour without electricity! The winning entry will be posted on the Polli blog next week. The competition is open to people worldwide and finishes Thursday 2 April, at midnight (AEST).

Email your stories and photos to info@polli.com.au

Get behind Earth Hour, 8.30pm local time this Saturday night.

Hey Susy

Polli's new Woven range has just been featured on the great blog - HeySusy! The posting - Leave it to Weaver requests cuffs with embroidery... we'll see what we can do Susy. Susy makes her own gorgeous stationery under the name SusyJack including these gorgeous calendars which are all made locally in the USA from 100% post consumer waste paper.

News Watch

Polli has been getting some love in the media recently with our SS Bamboo Earrings and Pendant featured in QLD Brides Magazine (above) and our SS Magnolia Necklace featured in Virgin Blue Magazine (below).

Moody Friday

We've only just launched a new collection and we're already thinking about the next one! We keep a collection of images we collect on the pin boards in the studio for inspiration... they've even some photos of two cute kids we know - Ruby and Illa!

Earth Day - Today!

Happy Earth Day! Here at Polli we’re celebrating Mother Earth by doing our best to preserve it. It’s the little things you do that make a difference – like preparing a communal lunch to save on packaging or catching public transport to work. We’re lucky enough to have the talented Sherri Hilario cooking our lunch each day. Sherri has started a herb garden here at the Polli studio, she buys our food at the local co op and even carries our compost waste home... on the bus!

Polli aims to be a carbon neutral company which is socially responsible, reducing our environmental foot print wherever possible. Check out our progress on the Polli website.

Material Girls

We're so proud of our fellow Sydney designers - Dandi - who are getting some awesome media coverage for their beautiful homewares line. Dandi have been creating beautiful napery and homewares for serveral years. We love our Dandi ironing board covers - thanks girls! x

Knott Again!

Our stunning David Knott Dracaena lights are up in the studio! They look fantastic and to celebrate their arrival we've changed our front window graphics to a shrine of all things Knott. Floating like beautiful sea creatures from the timber ceiling they greet us as we enter each day. Thanks Dave! xx

Coolmompicks.com

We were thrilled to have our Black Anodized Rose Bud Pendant featured on Coolmompicks.com this week. They feature some great products including the beautifully colourful Danish Rosenberg bags which we spied Asger&Mum importing into Australia last month!

MMMMMieke

The postman arrived this morning with a special parcel -a box of chocolates! - from our new favourite store Mieke (above) in Belgium! Mieke is a gorgeous store with a great range of vintage style dresses, jewellery and gifts. Ahhh... the way to our hearts is certainly through cocoa! Thanks Mieke! xxx

Polli mums at work

As requested here is a photo of the Polli mums, Pia and Sue, working hard on Polli woven production. Keep up the great work mums. Thanks xx

Earth Hour

We got a parcel in the post today which informed us about Earth Hour. "This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming...In 2009, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote." Be part of it...8.30PM, Saturday 28 March 2009.

We Heart Tivi

This is a very belated thank you to Paul (of Tivi) and this wonderful wife, Dori, for showing us around Chicago last month. It was great to see the Tivi HQ, meet local celebrities (Eric!), head to their local (complete with old school photobooth) and taste the many culinary extremes the city has to offer! We were lost without these guys!

Tea Time

Polli put the kettle on... to top off tea time at Polli Barbara Sargent has knitted us two custom designed tea cosies! They are THE CUTEST things we have ever seen - one even features the umbrellas from our logo! So talented - we're trying to encourage Barbara to get an Etsy site to share her work so stay tuned!
PS. Our house blend of tea is T2; 3 parts Mont Pear with 2 parts Girlie Grey.

The Near Future

We had the pleasure of visiting The Near Future at Mosman Markets on the weekend. The talented Nicky Law and Julia Lee (soon to be Skinner) have been cooking up some beautiful screen printed tea towels. All designed and made locally they have a beautiful hand crafted feeling. If you can't make it to the markets you can now purchase online... perfect for Mother's day.

Hable Construction

While in the states recently we met Susan of Hable Construction. We feel in love instantly with her Texan accent and soon learnt of her beautiful work. The sisters, Susan and Katherine, named their business after their family construction company. It fits perfectly as the collection of personal and home accessories (designed and made in the US) are so well made and considered - they're built to last! The bold, graphic style of the prints come to life with vibrant colours on thick canvas.