Corban & Blair Lifestyle Blog

Corban & Blair November Sale – Engage your imagination and make gift giving easy.

This year, we invite you to our November Sale, with a difference. As all of you who have ever popped into our Lewisham store would know, we are always there to help you achieve what you are after and our sale is no different. With a few minor changes (for the better of course) we hope our sale this year will be even more rewarding.

Traditionally running from Thursday to Sunday, this November, our sale has picked up a few extra days, meaning, more open hours! In addition, we will also be dedicating a work space especially for all of you who would like to work with us one on one. Our work space will be focusing on photo frames and albums, so be sure to bring in your photos, artwork, images or objects and let us help you create something wonderful and full of meaning!

So come in, have a chat, a sticky beak, ask a few questions and let us make gift giving easy.

Sale Details

Tuesday 15 Nov – 8am – 5pm
Wednesday 16 Nov – 8am – 5pm
Thursday 17 Nov – 8am – 7pm (Drinks and nibbles from 5pm onwards – All welcome!)
Friday 18 Nov – 8am – 7pm
Saturday 19 Nov – 9am – 5pm
Sunday 20 Nov – 10am – 4pm

Be sure to check out our Facebook page for updates and photos from the event!

New range: Audrey albums and journals

To-day I'd like to introduce you to Audrey!  Audrey is a beautiful hand made range, made here in Australia having been designed by Corban & Blair design crew!  the charming flora style graphic is de-bossed onto textured book cloth, a technique which often requires lots of trial and error before you get it 'just right'!  As we have lots of different types of book cloth to choose from along with 'foil' colours to accentuate the block it is fun and exciting to experiment during the design phase.

The result for summer 2010 through to 2011 is Audrey.  Available in three colour ways.  Below are some examples along with specific information which people like to have available to help them choose the right product!

This 200 slip album takes 200 4x6" photos.  With Kraft inners and space to write information beside every picture you can build a beautiful collection of memories for any occasion. 

This album is 215x215mm in size and will stand on your bookshelf for easy access.

The Slip album is sold with a plastic sleeve to keep it clean.  It's a good idea to keep this and put it on when you are sharing the album around the luncheon table!

Check it out on-line!

The Large and Medium sized Albums with dry mount pages are a traditional product for Corban & Blair. Hand bound in Australia with this beautiful yet simple design it comes in three colour ways: Red, Blue and Yellow. 

With 25 acid free black pages both sides can be used.

Interleaved with opaque paper to keep your photos safe.

Expand the album with a 20 page Refill at any time!  Use Style A.

Dimensions: 305x360mm.  On the back you will find details about what size photo works in specific layouts.

Check it out on-line!

This charming colourway is shown in a Medium sized dry mount album:

20 acid free black pages included.

Opaque interleaving to keep photos safe

Expand with a Style A Refill.

Dimensions: 230x315mm - lots of room for your photos!

Look at the whole range in this colour way!

The Square Journal is hand bound, made here in Australia with plain white pages.  Included is a guideline card.

Each journal has 96 pages.

Dimensions 220x220mm

This bound journal can be used for sketching, writing, note taking or gathering guest signatures and comments!

Why not consider this as a gift?

Visit Corban and Blair on their web site to browse your choice: www.corbanblair.com.au 

 

 

A fond farewell.......

In 2008 my mother passed away.  We were all very sad, but knowing we had to celebrate her life, because that is what she would have wanted, my sisters and I planned a fun funeral that was filled with memories for all of us.  

Our strength and courage was lifted by a poem we found in her small flat, penned in our mothers’ shaky hand, perhaps copied, but we do not know.  For us, it was from her:

    To my daughters

Do not look on my coffin and weep
I am not there
Do not stand at my graveside and cry
I did not die;
 
Gaze into the green depth of the ocean
Watch the soft clouds in the sky
Look at the colourful flowers
There am I.
 
Gaze deeply into your mirror
What do you see
Join in your children’s laughter
There is me
 
Do not grieve, do not cry
For as long as you are here
So am I.

 

Mum

To help treasure her memory I had a Corban & Blair Black Album personalised with her name and life years.  It came in a black display box, which was ideal for the occasion of the funeral. But instead of just mounting photos in the album we wanted everyone who attended my mothers funeral to share, to be part of this wonderful collection of photos, stories and memories. 

During the service, tears flowed as each grandson reflected and recounted events and experiences shared with their loving nanny.

 Prior to the funeral my husband developed a self-running slide presentation of my mothers life history and backed it with music.  Saved onto a CD, we played this on a big screen at the wake, but it is now mounted inside the front cover of the album.

 Encouraged by the funeral director to have a document to sign, I printed off sheets and asked for signatures as people left the church.  I later punched holes in each sheet and placed them in the front of the album.

During the wake, we took the black album apart, inviting guests to write on each page while we took their photos. Many of my mothers’ friends had funny things to say, and really appreciated the opportunity to pen their thoughts.  For us, her children and grand children, it was good to be able to put faces to names then keep them as a record because all of these people were part of her very full life too!

Now all the pages are assembled in our beautiful album detailing moments in my mothers life along with her passing.  An album we will all cherish forever.

A personal story from Lexie Henderson-Lancett

 

A family history with photos from Gillian Corban

The pictures are from one of my family photo albums. I have 3 of my own life and 20  since the birth of my son Toby. They are a chronicle of his life and  adventures.

 

I have made captions, cut up photos and rearranged as  
collages, written stories, added news clippings, cards, school  
information and generally created albums that tell stories. 

Looking back over them is quite a feast.

 

 

If you would like to share your photo  album stories, go to Comments below.  We'd love to hear from you!