A Little Stranger

Back soon!

Holly — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:22:03 +0000

We’re off to Comic-con today, our flight leaves in just a few hours! The shop will take orders as normal, but shipping will resume when we get back. I’m not sure if i’ll be updating the blog while we’re gone, but will post some pictures to my flickr if i can. See you soon!

Redcoat Custom 8″ Qee for sale

Holly — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:34:08 +0000

Remember my 8″ Qee custom, Redcoat for the Civil War & Founding Fathers Qee show? He’s up for sale in the Spaghetti Project shop. (Yes they spelt my name wrong, charming!) There are lots of other beautiful customs from the show, and a percentage of the sales goes to charity. Click here to visit the shop

Super Duper Caped Cavey

Holly — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:57:11 +0000

I am very excited to announce Super Duper Caped Cavey, a SDCC exclusive. If you want one, find me at Comicon on the Sunday (July 25th, i’ll no doubt be hanging around the toy booths) and he’s yours to buy! They’re a limited run of 10 so you’ll have to be quick. Super Duper Caped Cavey is $20 including a drawstring bag to keep him safe, stickers and a badge. There’s a picture of me at the bottom so if you didn’t know what i look like, now you know who to look for :) Even if you’re not after a Cavey, come say Hi!

Cavey on youtube

If you see pink hair and Cavey ears, thats me, Holly!

Week in Pictures: Graff & Graft

Holly — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:35:33 +0000

Its been a week of hard (but still fun) work getting things sorted and ready for ComiCon. Mostly i’ve been finishing up jobs and Cavey stuff so i can have a calm few days before we go away, and get the next batch of Caveys online when we get home. Hinty hinty; more Caveys when i get back! Until then keep your eyes on the heycavey site for a special SDCC Caevy related announcement! Not too many pictures this week, everything i’ve bene up to has been secret or i’ve forgotten to take my camera out with me, duur!

Mega Graff: While the rest of us stuffed our faces with beers and a delicious texmex feast Joe was up the end of the garden creating this. He literally did this over a couple of hours, i kept sneaking up to take a progress picture and before i knew it he was done! It would have take me forever, i don’t know how he does it :)

The design was based on a ram’s skull and painted in UV spray paints. My camera couldnt pick up with brightness of the final piece, the colours are incredible, it was literally glows! I think they’re hanging it in their house soon, so i’ll be sure to take a picture of it in all its glory. Its GIANT, too, 8ft x 8ft i think. You have to really stand back to take it all in.

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Cavey Totes: Now in the A Little Stranger shop are these organic cotton tote bags featuring a cute (if i do say so myself!) Cavey design, each is screenprinted by hand and absolutely gorgeous! Limited to only 50 bags. Click here to visit the shop

That’s it from me for now, ive got a big stack of flyers that need badge packs stapling to them (handouts for Comicon) that’s calling my name! Other than that a relaxed and lovely weekend ahead, kicking off with drinks and dinner with my girlfriends tonight. Have a super weekend, see you on Monday for an exciting SDCC announcement! :)

A Little Stranger x Triclops Eyeball wallet

Holly — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:22:03 +0000

Soon to be gracing the jeans of Rob Clops at SDCC this year. Catch Triclops at their signing on the Onell Booth #4937 Sunday morning 9.30am – 1pm. Loads of Cloppy stuff up for grabs including limited numbers of our last collab; A Little Stranger x Triclops wallets. Check out the Triclops blog for more details.

I can’t believe SDCC is only a week away! The toy blogs are rammed with so many brilliant SDCC exclusive toys, i’m preparing my wallet for a beating. I’ll be there on the Sunday with some exclusive Cavey stuffs, more details soon :)

Panda and Floral Caveys go on sale tonight

Holly — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:08:22 +0000

Hi its Holly, remember me? Sorry for neglecting the A Little Stranger blog over the last week, work & Cavey stuff has kept me away from the computer, big exciting things have been happening and i hope to have some good news for you soon! A little bit of exciting news today is that the second wave of Caveys goes on sale in less than 12 hours!! Floral and Panda Cavey will go live tonight, July 12th at 7pm GMT. The first batch of Caveys sold out in less than half an hour so i hope everyone who is hoping for one tonight will be able to get one. Both Panda and Floral Cavey are each limited to 10 numbered pieces and will not be repeated.

How to get your Cavey: At 7pm tonight (GMT) the A Little Stranger shop listings will go live (panda here, floral here) Please refresh your browsers then :)

Week in Pictures: Zoo, Unicorn cake & a Pickle Surprise!

Holly — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:06:57 +0000

Apologies for the deadness of the blog all week, and the flurry of posts today as i catch up, i’ve had so much extra traffic to the shop and heycavey.com that I had to upgrade the server :) Its been a really fun week, Caveys release was a huge success and im so so happy about it, it feels like all the hard work behind the scenes s starting to come together! Onwards with the photos!

Day 232 of my Flickr 365day project

After the Cavey launch on Monday we went to the zoo, it was another scorcher here so lots of the animals were sunbathing and looking cute.

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Waaa elephants holding tails!

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Took Cavey to Ikea

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Me and Vicky made this beautiful lemon drizzle unicorn cake at the weekend. It was deeeeelicious! You can’t see it so well in the pictures but its covered in glitter :) It started because i wanted to make a cake with the new pan i got at Ikea, then we found out we were going to a birthday party so we combined the two into this gorgeous master piece. Then this happened….

Pickle surprise!

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Day 236 of my Flickr 365day project

Got my hair did Back to pink,the purple kept getting on stuff and i couldn’t stand it any longer! purple nails, hands, towels, bed, neck, clothes, blech! Maddi worked her magic on me and now im root-free and back to pink, very happy bunny! I also got these sunglasses this week on eBay, i love how big they are.

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Guinea pig fun This is the Lizard Man’s new trick, she lays on her back and you can stroke her tummy. Its so cute i can’t stand it! I think she looks like a little fat koala like this <3

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Cavey release

Holly — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:50:59 +0000

Wow Caveys release day was mental! He officially went on sale at 8:30am GMT, i woke up to find an email from Lauren saying that the A Little Stranger shop had died, it had gotten so much traffic it had crashed! So i decided to take orders manually by email (people in America had waited up half the night to buy one, wow!) and within half an hour all 20 had sold! They were paid for, packed up and sent by lunchtime so me and Jonjo went to the zoo! This picture isn’t even of all the boxes, they’re still being packed at this point, how mean am i – messing about taking Cavey pictures while Jonjo does the packing-up!

Bigest of thank you’d to everyone who made the launch such a smashing sucess! And hugs and kisses to everyone who stayed up late to order theirs, i am the happiest bunny in the world! New Caveys announced soon! www.heycavey.com

Race for Life

Holly — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:02:33 +0000

Sunday was the Watford Race for Life 5k, I ran it in half an hour which i was really pleased with as it was the hottest, most humid day of the year so far! It was a really great day, and a very moving experience to run and to see who people were racing for written on their backs. I was waiting at the finish line for Vicky to finish and saw ladies breaking down in tears, finishing the race that meant to much to them, i started crying too! This picture is me and Vicky (who walked it with a big gang of work friends, they raised £thousands for Cancer research – go team Carphone Warehouse!) just after we finished, i wore my medal all day! I will definitely do it again next year.

I raised £145 for Cancer Research. Thank you so much to everyone who sponsored me, i hope i’ve done you proud :)

Week in Pictures: Toys & Sexy lady beards

Holly — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:38:42 +0000

Ok so after i wrote the title i thought “sexy lady beards” could be taken the wrong way, so to clarify – I mean a beard on a lady’s face. Get your mind out of the gutter, guys! It’s been a super fun week with lots of toy surprises and fun with friends :)

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Treeson cuddling Cavey – cuteness overload!

Toy surprises in the post: I was over the moon to get this little bundle of loveliness in the post from Bubi – including the sweetest littel note with a drawing of Treeson cuddling a Cavey. It’s gone straight into a frame and onto the wall, it makes my heart feel puffy whenever i see it. Cavey <3 Treeson

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Meet Winston: More lovely toy surprises in the post! Winston Stitch by Triclops x Mindstyle. We’ve been going crazy over him since he arrived, such a great piece, a good size and his little plush hat just makes him for me! A really nicely produced figure, he’s limited to 35 pieces, head to the Triclops blog to get yours! Lots of love to the Triclops boys for mine <3

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Cavey goes on sale on Monday: Don’t forget to head over to heycavey.com, when the first release of Caveys goes on sale Monday June 28th at 8:30 GMT. Here they are posing with some vases i got on a trip to Ikea this week with Vicky. We got Big sooz a boyfriend; Big Steve, and matching vases with googly eyes. True love :)

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Louis’s Birthday Party: Me and Jonjo went dressed as louis, i even painted on a beard which got some weird looks on our way there. It was very weird getting ready for a party by putting on jeans (!!) a hat, trainers and no glittery make up. I didnt even know i had a pair of jeans until i had a good root through the back of my cupboard. It wasn’t a dress up party so i think lots of Louis’s friends thought that’s just what i look like, which was even weirder, I quite liked the bear though, whaddayathink?!

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POW!

it’s me as a mermaid and says “i love holly forever”

Vicky’s very proud of her work

Gangsta biatches

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We celebrated doing tattoos on each other by doing some pull ups…

Veronica can actually do pull ups, i’m impressed and feel so puny next to her!

And before i bugger off, im running the Watford 5K on Sunday, this is your last chance to sponsor me. Thats it, the weathers too nice outside to be on the computer, have a great weekend y’all!!