it's SWAP time!

it's back for it's second year:

 and this year it's even bigger - you can now send & swap upto 6 decorations!

 if you need and inspiration here's the 2014 swap in collage form:

full details can be found here: the hand made Christmas Decoration Swap 2015

advanced warning

just a littlle heads-up that we will not be posting orders out for one week
this week is normal, but get your orders in before Thursday to make sure they get sent before we go :-)

Ribbons for Christmas

Some  times I forward order stock - I don't do it often because not all suppliers do that, but this ribbon was ordered waaaay back in February....I was a bit 'over' Christmas at that point but I could not resist these - and when I opened the delivery on Friday afternoon I was SUPER happy that I'd got my hands on these :-)

 there's lots of grey - my favourite base colour

 lots of cute (of course!)

 and lots of Christmas colours and characters

 the silver on these baubles is all sparkly :-)

All of them are just 40p a metre - Good huh?
you can see them all here

why hello!

well I don't know, I don't pop up on here for a week or two and then when I do all I want to do is flog you some stuff ;-) .... good job it's all so lovely else you may not want to come back!

1. Cotton & Star Ribbon – 85p / metre

2. Metallic Chevron Ribbon – 95p / metre

3. Sew on Jewels - £4.50 / pk of 25

4. Promo Priced Scissors £2.75  & £3.50

5. Padded Stars - £4.75 / pk of 30

6. Mobile Wires - £2.00

7. Star shaped ribbon - £1.70 / metre

8. Jacquard Ribbon - £1.75 / metre

9. Gold star ribbon – 45p / metre

10. Lemon ric rac – 70p / metre

11. Hanging Frames – small £4.50 large £7.50

12. Snowflake ribbon - £1.25 / half metre

13. Snap Hairclips - £1 for 10

14. Grey star ribbon – 35p / metre

15. Double stitched ribbon – 55p / metre

16. Padded Stars - £4.75 / pk of 30

17. Clips - £5.50 / pk of 12

18. Snap Hairclips - £1 for 10

19. Sew on Jewels - £4.50 / pk of 25

20. Gingerbread Man buttons – 10p each

ALL in the WHAT’s NEW section of my website

shop talk

Today we spent time prepping stock to fill up the pop-up-shop...now we have more space there (and more stock!) we can fill up twice a week, rather than every other day - which is a lot more efficient ... It's amazing how different the fill-up list is every time....this time it was fabric, fabric & more fabric!!

It takes a lot of cutting, folding & packing but it looks lovely when it's done!! (these are photos in the workshop - they will be put in the shop after work tomorrow)
***our shop is within The Custom's House, West Bay, Dorset their website is HERE our shop will be there for the rest of this year (at least!) and they are open 7 days a week***

colouring in - with stitches!

I have had so much fun making these samples up!

They arrived on Friday and I couldn't wait to stitch them - there are two packs...each pack has 8 animals (2 each of 4 different animals)

 Rabbit, Bear, Penguin & Owl

 Cat, Dog, Snail & Horse

 This is Ted :-)

 This is my cat

And this is my rabbit wearing a rainbow jumper!
Each pack has 8 animals (2 each of 4 designs) and costs just £3.50
You can find them by clicking HERE

Feeling HOT?

Yestreday was the hottest day of the year so far - and we had a delivery of Christmas Fabrics!!

 they are very very cute!

 ALL our Christmas Fabrics are HERE and they all get cheaper the more you buy ... these are the prices for today's new fabrics:
 £3.25 a fat quarter
 £6.30 half metre
 £12 a metre

A well deserved break

We've just got back from a mini holiday! John booked a last minute trip for us to the Isle Of Wight. We stayed at the Vintage Vacations campsite for 2 nights ...we arrived on the island late on Friday and got home to Dorset at 8pm tonight (Sunday) - it was a brilliant break that has recharged our batteries completely

 Wild Flowers at the IOW Garlic Farm

 one of the many bunnies who lived around the campsite - this brave little one liked to stay round our caravan so we gave him a carrot :-)

Impromptu holidays are the best!

Glittery Felt?

I've just unpacked a delivery of *new* glitter FELT.....It is like the glitter fabric BUT ON FELT!!!!
...can you tell I'm a bit excited???

 Fine Glitter Felt (small 15cm x 15cm £1) (large 30cm x 30cm £4)
Chunky Glitter Felt (small 15cm x 15cm £1.25) (large 30cm x 30cm £5)
On the website HERE

15 NEW felt colours

that's right - we have 15 NEW felt colours in our premium wool blend felt!

 The original 45 colours all remain just as they are....

 ...and the NEW 15 colours look lovely alongside them :-)

Find it all by clicking HERE

Pop-Up Shop

Our Pop-Up Shop has expanded :-)
The space next to us became available so we now have twice as much room! 
We're very lucky because hardly any spaces have come back up for rent since it opened and when the one Right Next Door emptied we thought we'd go for it!
Ready for a gazillion photos?

 

standing in the new space looking at the original space

 the new space (to the left of our old space)

 the new space means we have tonnes more room for fabric - there are 400+ fat quarters on that table!

 felt corner has expanded

 and now there's a whole table full of buttons

 the giant 'dolls house' shrank a touch to fit the hang-display unit on the right hand side

 I hope this stays nice and tidy :-)

 We've still got some more stock to put in there and fill it out a bit more - I completely under-estimated quite how much stock we'd need to fill all the new space!

 I love how the whole building has been left un-touched ... crumbly walls and uneven floors - and I love the curved ceiling - it's like a cave :-)

 That big cream & black bit behind the Handmade display is the back of our cupboard (it's full of kits, you can see the pretty side in the 1st photo) and there will be something pretty covering that by the end of the day!!

 It took John and I four hours to set it all up - not bad going!  and because we were there for so long we got to meet some of our customers - one lady & gentleman had travelled from Sidmouth for a day out and thought they'd pop in and see the shop - hopefully they came back after their lunch and saw it looking a lot prettier than when they saw us mid-way through the set up and the whole lot was in boxes and a bit of a *mess* :-)

hello Pearly

 Our Pearly buttons have been restocked!

 Some colours had run out and some were very very low, whic meant the drawers were looking a bit empty ...

 But now both sizes (small & large) have been filled up and the drawers are looking pretty again :-)

 Glorious :-)

The pearly buttons are on the website with all the other pick & mix buttons that are dyed to match our main felt colours - you can see them all here

it's coming ....

...the new felt colours are on their way!   Tiny samples of the final colours were posted to us so we could approve/change before the final dye .... and now they are all finalised I have been choosing threads to match :-)

eeeekkkk I'm excited to see them !!

new ribbon extravaganza

SO many *new* ribbons, elastics, trims, bindings and ric rac have been added to the website :-)  phew! that was an epic website update marathon !!
enjoy: 
ribbons/ trims/ ric rac can all be found here
elastics/bias bindings are here