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Who are you/what do you do?My name is Ellie and I run East End Press, who design and make hand-printed and hand made decorative homeware, mainly Christmas and party decorations! 

An interesting headline isn't it? And it's not what you think. Well, it is. Sort of.For the past month or so I've been working on expanding the wedding range as it's been more popular than I thought. I was also going along with the idea that more non-wedding-y cards would do just the trick because when I'm looking for something a bit different I just never seem to find any that suits my sense of humour. The same comes to the RSVP type cards or regret, so of course, I included some of those. You can thank me later.

Introduce yourself and your store.Hi I'm Siobhan and I run April and the Bear. Is there a story behind the name?There sure is! I was struggling with what to call the shop and one of my besties asked me what I love, so I thought about it and I love the month of April and the name so I went with that and I love my husband, Jamie - who is a rather large, hairy bear type and the name was born! 

What can I say. It's exactly 4 weeks to go until I open in London at Pulse for my first ever trade show. What was I thinking? I blame dear Ellie from East End Press. She talked me into this as she decided to do it and alas, I somehow found myself agreeing to chum her.

Ok. So the title of this is perhaps misleading but hey, I do have an idea about what you could do with any baggage, emotional or otherwise, you may have. Pack it up in one of my totes and carry it around with you in this new hand drawn design. What more could you ask for?