feeling festive

it finally hit me today....you know... that Christmas feeling....I wasn't feeling it at all, despite making Christmas items for the past few months (maybe because I have been making Christmas items for the past few months!)

but this morning my smiling Happy Trees looked SO festive in the sunshine.

Then today at the Day Job the Christmas boxes came down from the dusty top shelf (SO many baubles to have fun with) ... the decorations aren't up yet, but Saturday is official Bauble day!

and THEN on the w-i-n-d-y walk home from the workshop there were Fairy Lights being put up in the trees in the town centre!

Definitely a Christmassy day.

Ho-Ho-Ho

perfect sewing weather

Don't you just love this cold dry weather?

It's absolutely perfect for snuggling up under a blanket with some hand sewing and stitching away the hours!

I've been doing just that .... I've completed some Christmas embellishments

and I am half way through some polka dot Happy Trees

... I've gone a little polka dot crazy and ordered some new tissue paper for wrapping up my festive orders...

...there are more packaging supplies on their way too...it would seem this cold weather is good for a spot of online shopping too :-)

winners!

Wow!
271 comments....Thank You everyone for entering...I called the Random Number Generator into action and he randomly decided ....

...comment number 226 & 50 are the winners ::

number 50 ::

jaja said...
i don't want to be left behind too. OMG, i want all those gorgeous ribbons.

number 226 ::
szkornelia said...
Wow, lovely ribbons. And many! I wish I would win!!!

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please email me your addresses and I can send you your prizes!

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I'll be back tomorrow with crafty news!

finished!

The freebie has finished.

Any entries placed after this post will not be counted I'm afraid.

Winners will be announced tomorrow...keep your fingers crossed!

ornaments

(November's freebie is still running...click here to go to the freebie post) ***FREEBIE IS NOW CLOSED***

a box full of ornaments all completed and ready to post...

...next on the list? 6 more owls :-)

woo-hoo FREEBIE DAY is here!

....and November's freebie is RIBBON!

....lots & lots of glorious ribbon ....

.....all housed in a gorgeous ribbon box...

...that's the candy stripe Christmas Box...

....and that's the polka dot box!

.... for your chance to win 25m of ribbon in a box just leave a comment on this blog post...

...there will be 2 winners, one will receive the Polka Dot Box, and the other will receive the Christmas Box.

rules ::

*one comment only please.

* I MUST be able to contact you through your comment.

*I will post world wide for free

*winners will be drawn late on Sunday 8th November and announced on Monday 9th November

*contents of the boxes can be seen here
***FREEBIE IS NOW CLOSED***
***WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW MORNING (Mon 9th Nov)***

gearing up...

...for freebie day tomorrow!
I'm so excited about this one...I think you'll all love it :-)
So today....what did I do?...what can I tell you without spilling the beans?....
well....along with the usual Pick-Pack-Postoffice shenanigans, I updated the website with ::
black penguins ::

russian dolls ::

reindeer ::

flower buttons ::

glitter (!!!) buttons ::

and felt flowers ::

if you click the pictures you'll be taken to my shop where you can find out more...
...see you on freebie day ....TOMORROW!!!

forgotten flickr

October has been a very busy month....I didn't realise quite how busy until I updated flickr!

I last did it at the beginning of October and have just uploaded a tonne of photos to bring me up to date...including photos of loads of made items, workshop re-arranging and TWO felt deliveries...not to mention the massive ribbon delivery ... wow! October was fun :-)

and I'm all ready for November!

a quiet weekend

with only enough time to do all this sewing ::

stocks

Lots more felt ::

and brooch bars ::

such pretty colours ::

yesterday

I changed this messy packing area ::

into a tidier packing area

complete with new lighting and artwork :-)

I put my new display bowls to good use ::

chopped and stuck felt for a long time ::

and felt very Christmas-y when wrapping so many parcels/orders!

a workshop day

I love workshop days.
I go to the workshop every day to pick and pack orders, but it's always a race against time to get them done and get to the Post Office before it shuts so a whole day there seems like such a treat!

Today's to-do list is quite large ::
I've already ordered findings and felt this morning, and today I plan to :: make swatch cards, pack some kits, make up more ribbon boxes, put my Ikea purchases in place, cut out my next wholesale order, stock take and check my website...and of course the daily trip to my lovely post office ... and this evening I can get started on stuffing all the cuties that have been in-the-making for the past 10 days!

stitch stitch stitch

every spare moment has been filled with stitching, and I am almost at the stuffing stage!

20 Fir Trees

25 reindeer ::

20 penguins ::

20 Russian Dolls ::

....with the last few pieces to add tonight...

most are for an order, but the rest will be helping to fill up my shop soon!

i love planning

my sister, niece and I are off to Ikea on Sunday.

I have spent a good long while browsing the website, adding items to the shopping list and being inspired ... thinking & planning ... and re-arranging parts of my workshop.

I'm not planning on spending much, but a few lovely items could make all the difference...

rainbows

I got up bright and early this morning (a day off the day-job today) and started the day with a spot of shoping for my neice's birthday present.

then I was off to the workshop where I packed some orders and pottered for a while, until my friend Becky and her little baby came to visit...she bought cupcakes and I made tea & coffee :-)

then I had another visitor (hi jackie *wave*) who came to do a spot of shopping because she discovered I was just down the road from where she works....

in between chatting and coffee I made some mini rainbows and decided to tie them together with ribbon rather than wrap them in tissue, because workshop shoppers didn't know what all the tissue wrapped bundles were!!

and now?

now it's time for handsewing :-)

scallops

cutting out felt scallops is very hard.

and I cut out 200 of them!

but seeing them all sewn into position is more than worth it!

I think I may have to add felt scallops to more things.....

...but first I need to join these happy faces with their fir tree bodies!!

my favourite corner

I got up bright and early this morning and headed straight for my workshop, after picking & packing orders I made up some more kits and then decided to have a little move around and tidy up.

my felt shelves are lovely and full and I now have a ribbon table!

The table was 'going spare' because it used to have my domestic machine on, but since introducing my industrial sewing machine the table didn't know what to do with itself..

I've recycled a large cardboard box and pieces of card from work to separate and label the ribbons, it's not very pretty but it works really well!

my other shelves are looking nice and full too...it definitely is my favourite corner!