welcome to my bakery

Today I made my dough into poppy seed topped rolls & cheese topped rolls.
YUM

I also have some cupcakes in the oven....cupcake magnets...

...and cupcake mini softies, in the making!

a new market place

I just opened another online shop.

I know, I know...how will I find the time etcetc but Lisa talked me into it!

and she doesn't even know she did that!

The new site is called Artfire, my shop is here :: my artfire shop

If you need convincing, Lisa will do it!!

winners and two loaves

I've got a couple of days off the day job and today I sewed and sewed and I made bread!

I have never made bread before but found it very satisfying (and yummy!)

After a lot of kneading I was left with this ::

...after a couple of hours it had grown to this ::

after a bit more kneading it was settled onto baking trays ::

and kept warm under some tea towels ::

...finally it was ready for the oven ::

...and yes! it tastes amazing :-)

if you fancy having a go I used this recipe

now....down to business...I deleted all the repeated comments and the final number of entrees received was 76....so, to the random number machine ::

which has picked comment numbers :: 20, 31 and 62

which means the winners are ::

(20)

shell said...
I'm a list person too, normally leave the shopping lists at home but at least I write one ;-). Great looking books.x

(31)

Jan said...
What gorgeous notebooks - any of them would look lovely on my desk.... Here's hoping!

(62)

Dolly said...
Loverly notebooks! Thanks for the chance to win one x

well done to the winners....freebie day'll be back next month as usual on the first Thursday of the month.

march freebie day

I'm posting a little bit later than normal...sorry about that!

I don't know if it's the time of year but I keep writing loads of lists at the moment...loads of ideas are floating round in my head and inspiration keeps coming so I thought, maybe it's not just me?

Hopefully you'll all be list maniacs too because this month the freebie is felt covered notebooks...there will be three winners, drawn at random from the comments left on this post...as always the only rule is that you must be contactable via your comment please.

The notebooks are all A6. One is mint, one turquoise and one teal. If you have a preference then leave it in your comment and I'll see what I can do :-)

I'll draw the winners on Monday so there's plenty of time to comment.

green

another brilliant Wednesday!

I went for a walk along the beach this morning, it was glorious...the perfect way to start a day of hard work!

I packed 100 mini rainbows

some BIG rainbows

and finished off a little sewing

now there's just enough time to get the hoover out before I get started making the freebie for tomorrow :-)

out and about

The past few days at work have been VERY busy so this weekend I concentrated on relaxing, rather than paper-and-string things.

Saturday evening we had a friend's birthday to celebrate.

Sunday we went to Goodwood Breakfast club ( lovely cars) then for a drive on the south downs finishing with a warming cup of coffee :-)

We had birthday drinks part 2 yesterday evening, then went to our local tapas restaurant for a quick bite to eat...strangely the restaurant has transformed from spanish food to an entirely italian menu, but it was still a fun evening!

Inbetween all this relaxing I have been packing orders and updating my shops, making felt rainbow packs and have done a teeny tiny bit of sewing!

Hurrah for Wednesdays!

I'm back in my normal routine now... working Saturdays but having Wednesdays off, and yesterday (being Wednesday) was a pretty near perfect day off :-)

I had a lovely lazy breakfast of bacon and eggs, then spent the best part of the day making these needle cases.

I updated my folksy shop, my etsy shop AND my ebay shop because my latest felt delivery has arrived and everything is now back in stock.

I popped to the Post Office with a few orders and from there went to the end of the seafront and back (4 miles in all) walking west I wander through the streets of Worthing and look at all the lovely (and not so lovely!) houses and gardens and then on the way back home I go along the seafront. And I have Kings of Leon on my iPod. Like I said...perfect!

My evening was spent constructing mini rainbow sample packs, I even roped John in but he got bored pretty quick!

Hurrah for Wednesdays!

a lovely surprise

today I had a lovely surprise in the post

a thoughtful gift from a friend I have never met, except in blogland of course!

Jojoebi found some iron on felt in her craft cupboard, promptly thought of me and sent it my way, along with a gorgeous ornament and a clever origami cat which is also a letter.

Aren't bloggers the kindest people ever?

you can craft

A while ago I was asked to send some felt samples to You Can Craft magazine for a felt feature

and what a feature ::

It made my heart beat a little faster when I saw my shop in amongst the big guys :-)

hurrah!

filling up

yesterday I took advantage of the sunshine and took lots of photos of finished felt items and today I have taken advantage of the gloomy day by sitting in front of the computer for a few hours, editing photos and updating my website! It's nice when the weather fits in with your plans!

So now for some website plugging ::

there are cupcakes

mushrooms

owls

tortoises

and more cupcakes!

felt picture badges

A mini tutorial by me.

You will need :: transfer paper, computer & printer, felt, sewing thread & needles, brooch pins.

The instructions inside the transfer paper pack are pretty foolproof so I won't repeat them...I used transfer paper for light coloured t-shirts...I picked a few favourite photos, cropped them square and then ironed onto beige felt.

cut out leaving a border and stitch onto some contrasting felt (I used teal)

trim the teal felt to size and cut round to make a matching piece.

prepare the back of the badge by adding a brooch pin and a label, if you like :-)

stitch the two layers together using blanket stitch

and voila! you've made a felt picture badge!

experiment with shapes and make a whole heap of badges

a fun way to spend a couple of crafting hours :-)

fun with transfer paper

Last night I had a bit of a sort out and found a pack of transfer paper...so today I decided to make some new paper-and-string sew on labels....the idea has been in my mind for a while, and it looks as though I'm in good company too!

I have used felt (of course!) and made super-tiny labels for the backs of brooches and mini softies...I can't wait to sew them on everything!

I also got a little carried away and have made something else with transfer paper, but you'll have to come back tomorrow for a tutorial on that :-)

round & round

I've just finished a special order ::

A customer asked for 50 felt circles that would be iron-on-able, all in different sizes.

I duly got the bondaweb, compass and scissors ready and voila! order complete :-)

blanket stitching

I finished my notebook covers ::

So that's one cupcake order done....one more special order to do....then I've just got the website to fill up !!

Expect a lot of making from me ...