winners

There are 4 winners this month and the Random Number Machine has chosen ::

1. comment # 57

Jayne Schofield ....Love the colours sarah - just up my street!! Now I feel all christmasy...

2. comment # 182
MissNafa ... hai owner :)

I love the colour. so i decided to enter ur giveaway. tQ :)

3. comment # 206

Katy- Artfelt ...ooh, great freebie this month!.....the colours are gorgeous and could be used to make all sorts of goodies! Kx

4. comment # 216

Eli ... another super giveaway! Such a fab colours. Fingers crossed. Thank you. Eli

Congratulations to all the winners...please look out for an email from me!

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And for everyone else ... I stocked up on Jingle Bells as requested!

They are 10mm across and are just 10p each...you can find them here

halfway

half way through Wednesday & I have some serious on-the-sofa crafting to finish ::

halfway through cutting & folding loyalty cards

half way through making scarf monkeys

half way through a dozen reindeer ornaments (ahem, or hardly started!!)

half way through turning scraps of felt into little squares into swatch cards!!

and in the workshop I have half made rainbows waiting for me!!

2 dozen...

...reindeer kits. Printed, cut, packed & posted today.

no glamour at all

but very necessary...tissue paper, boxes, gift boxes and tiny grip seal bags, all unpacked, put away and ready for action!

flowers

I've more hand sewing to share ::

a flower brooch made for an order

and lots of flowers for another special order ... if you're wondering about the green tissue paper background...it's because I nearly forgot to photo them and it was the only space on the table!!

order complete

click here for the freebie post

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this past week I've been sewing a wholesale order...the fir trees I had in stock and luckily I'd started some reindeer before I received the order...I've been sewing every moment I could to get these finished & everything was posted off on Thursday. They have been received and my customer is very happy :-)

Today I dedicated the day to more hand sewing...I'll show you that tomorrow!

November Freebie

I'm glad it's not just me who thinks this freebie has come around pretty fast!

This Month's Freebie is dedicated to a make-your-own Christmas!

4 winners will each receive a winter themed craft kit.

There are 4 identical prizes containing ::
Five 12" squares of felt (Teal, Plum, Charcoal, Ice Blue, Mauve)

Seven Metres of wintry ribbons

45 wintry buttons & 3 jingly jingle bells

all wrapped up in a pretty way and delivered to the winners in plenty of time to make something Christmas-y

How To Enter ::

Leave a comment on this post...it's as easy as that!

Rules ::

one comment only please

I MUST be able to contact you through your comment

I will post worldwide so wherever you are please join in the fun!

winners will be drawn on Thursday 11th November

Good Luck!

sewing wholesale

I'm three quarters of the way through a wholesale order...I'm hoping that by the end of tonight these will all be finished too ::

it's freebie day tomorrow...I still need to to take the photos so it'll start about 6pm ish

no time for styling!

the BIG felt delivery arrived yesterday ::

and today I was on a mission to sort it all out and put it all away ::

rainbows all unpacked and sorted into order...they're just waiting to be made!

24" squares all unpacked and folded ::

metre felt all in order (the felt arrives on one big roll with all the colours wrapped round each other, so I un-roll it and then roll it onto my bolts!!)

Felt Central Before ::

and After ~ lots of lovely felt ::

in between all that unpacking, folding & checking I also made these ::

but it's easy to work hard when I'm having this much fun!!

anyone for buttons?

buying a Big Bag of mixed buttons is great.

you have lots of buttons in lots of colours and there is sure to be *the perfect button* in there somewhere....but what happens when you find *the perfect button* and want some more? ...the only thing to do is to buy more & more mix bags until you have enough....but not any more!

I have hand dyed teeny tiny buttons in 10 yummy colours and yes, you can buy a big mixed bag of 100...

AND you can buy them in single colour packs too!

and because I have made my own dye recipes and dyed them all myself these are unique paper-and-string buttons

Teeny Tiny Hand Dyed Buttons available here

stocking up

I try to spread out in-coming deliveries as much as possible otherwise I spend all my time photographing and sat at the computer, rather than cutting & stitching felt (and that's my favourite thing to do!)...but at this time of year it gets tricky!
This little lot of sewing supplies arrived on Friday...most of it is in the shop already but there's a few photos to take before I finish it all...I'd better hurry up because tomorrow the felt is coming!

wow

I really wish that all you lovely blog readers were in my Post Office queue yesterday ~ I get the feeling that the offender would have slunk out and never returned! Your words really were kind and it's nice to know that polite & kind are normal after all ;-)

Today there was no queue whatsoever ~ Hurrah!

oh, and Mississippi Mud Pie is highly recommended!

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This morning I received a delivery of buttons...just a small fill-up order & something new which I am keeping secret ::

I've spent the day pottering on the computer...I listed loads of items on Etsy & in my Folksy shop and in between started sewing some reindeer....a nice relaxing lead up to the weekend!

harummpphhh!

~Today I politely asked someone to not push in in front of me (and the others behind me) in the Post Office queue.

~Today I got shouted at. A LOT. whilst in the Post Office queue.

~Today I got the chin-wobble-try-not-to-cry-face when all the other people in the queue didn't stand up for me ~ GAH!

~Today I bought Mississippi Mud Pie from the shop on the walk home from the Post Office

:-)

pictures are of special orders I finished & posted today

Ho!

you know I've been making sets of flowers ::

so there's no surprise that they are finished...but I didn't take photos of these in the making! ::

Santa Decorations ::

Ho Ho Ho!

perfect weather...

...for staying in and sewing!

So I spent a good few hours turning this pile of paper ::

into shelves of kits!

so if anyone needs a sewing fix in a hurry, I'm ready to go!

colourful Monday

I Love Mondays ... especially Mondays that are filled with felt rainbows!

Sunday Jobs

Today I am sewing felt flowers

and cutting and folding kits bits & loyalty cards

Yesterday I went to my sister's to visit ... Mum, Dad & Nan were also visiting so it was a great day of family time, lovely :-)

home alone

John is working a long way away at the moment so tonight he's staying the night at work rather than travelling all the way home...so I decided to have an afternoon & evening of hand sewing!

I got up bright & early and whizzed to the workshop...packed kits, made felt rainbows, glued some swatch cards and packed all my orders...went to the Post Office and Wilkinsons (Ink & A4 paper shopping!) and now I am home...I've already finished some little birds and next on the list are some flowers....

a new toy

I've just added 30 little Christmas Trees to the shop...if it's too early for you to look at Christmas things you can look at this ::

my Brand New teeny tiny ironing board!

Brilliant!