National Bird Week 2018 will take place between Monday 22 October and Sunday 28 October 2018.

The celebration of National Bird Week has its origins back in the early 1900s when 28 October was first designated the first ‘Bird Day’. BirdLife Australia organises and promotes Bird Week with the goal of inspiring Australians to take action and get involved in bird conservation efforts.

To recognise and contribute to the work being done by Birdlife Australia towards recovery of endangered bird populations, Alison Green Designs will make double donations from sales of endangered species bird design T-shirts during Bird Week from $3 to $6.
Double donation applies to all T-shirts on the Endangered Species Page of the website and offer expires midnight Sunday Oct 28th.

Happy Bird Week everyone!

Cheers
Alison

… is going plastic bag free.

The fabulous community I now call home – Mallacoota, on Victoria’s wilderness coast – has adopted the plastic bag free campaign and now that I work and live here, I am keen to follow suit.

I am already offering only paper bags when I sell at the local Artisans & Producers Market but I will continue to use up my existing supply of plastic bags for postal orders until they run out.

If you have received your order in a plastic bag, please reuse it as many times as possible before passing it on or recycling (if possible).
Cheers and here’s to a…

The new studio down here in Mallacoota is going ahead in leaps and bounds. Three walls up and will be moving printing & cutting tables in this week. Exciting!

Max wearing the ‘Repeat Perentie’ design T, available now on rust background… View here…and once again on purple as soon as my squeegee hits the ink! Let me know if you want one & I’ll let you know when it’s available.

The big move south went well and we are slowly settling into our new home and planning the creation of a new workspace – exciting!

It is a delight to be relocated at last to a part of the world that we have always treasured. Can’t believe it when we wake up and look out on beautiful Mallacoota Inlet with Croajingalong National Park all around us to explore.

All the hard work of relocation has been worth it and I’m happy to report that the new stockroom is up and running and orders are being posted out as usual.

Cheers … Alison & Max

…in order to keep your balance you must keep moving.  Albert Einstein

A new financial year draws to a close and exciting changes are afoot.  After 24 years printing and creating in my beautiful big red shed here at Wallaby Gully, Alison Green Designs is on the move…to Victoria’s wilderness coast.

Max and I are moving our home and workshop to the little town of Mallacoota, tucked away in the far south east corner of Australia.

Mallacoota is surrounded by Croajingalong National Park with landscapes so spectacular and environmentally significant, UNESCO nominated it a World Biosphere Reserve in 1977.^[6] The park houses impressive biodiversity, including almost 1,000 native plant species and 315 animal species… so I will have endless inspiration and exploration on my new front doorstep!  Exciting!

The endangered Hooded Plover breeds there and there are seal colonies off the coast so seals often find their way into Mallacoota Inlet to feed and haul out. Birdlife is abundant – a birdwatcher’s heaven.

I have built up stock in preparation for the move so there will be no interruption to orders but may not be able to fill special orders for a while until my new workshop is up and running.

I will announce and post pics of new workshop when operational.

Cheers, Alison 🙂

December 12, 2016

I received this lovely update today about the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Wyndham research centre by Save the Gouldian Fund as a base for scientists and volunteers working in the field there. Click HERE to read.

If you have ever purchased a Gouldian Finch T-shirt from me then you are a fellow donor to this wonderful project.  Thank you.

November Endangered Species Month – where together we made double donations to each species’ recovery fund – raised $396!

Orange-bellied Parrot was the most popular – majority of $$ to Moonlit Sanctuary’s captive breeding program to reinforce numbers in the wild. I also donated $55 of the money raised to the OBP crowdfunding campaign set up by TeamSwiftParrot from ANU to move quickly on setting up nest boxes and monitoring for the next 2 years at the OBP breeding ground in Melaleuca, southern Tasmania.

Other funds have been allocated according to sales of each design.

Donations on ENDANGERED SPECIES DESIGNS page now revert back to $3 as usual.

Thank you to everyone who purchased & contributed through November.  I’m now filling orders with Christmas on the horizon, ensuring they get to you as quickly as possible.

Cheers,  Alison

It didn’t come without its problems but I think the new website is going to be wonderful.

As you can imagine, it has been a herculean task to transfer and cross check every product and its options but we think all is as it was on the old site … and hopefully better!

Please peruse and shop ’til you drop and let me know if there’s anything we’ve missed.

Enjoy

Alison

A dead Great Egret with a bird band still attached to its leg from the 1960s has been found in Deadmans Swamp in South Australia. So not only are they majestic and lovely, they are tough and long-lived as well! Awesome birds!

Here’s a link to the NEWS ARTICLE on ABC website.

First 2 images below are my GREAT EGRET ‘Aloft’ wall piece – available unframed. Now only bottom panel available – size: 650 x 550 mm.

Last image is GREAT EGRET ‘At Rest’ – available unframed. Size: 830 x 380 mm.