I always forget how long it takes me to add new products to the website...from waiting for a sunny/bright day to take photos, to cropping and editing and filing them (I'm bad at filing them...but getting better) to re-jigging the website & adding new pages...I'm nearly there and after a few hours more work tomorrow there should be ribbons galore...it's a good job that just looking at the ribbons makes me happy in my work!! 
I had a lot of fun choosing which fabrics and buttons to use for my new colour selection of drawing pins...there are now 8 colours to choose from and you can see then all by clicking here!
this huge delivery of ribbon arrived on Friday ... after the checking and the counting and the sorting it created two jobs; find somewhere to put it & photograph it all for the website...today I finished the 'find somewhere to put it' task! I cleared off these two shelving units ...
...and filled them with lovely lovely ribbon...
..I made 'drawers' out of some of my kit boxes and it makes finding the right ribbon very easy indeed!
I'm hoping the sun will come out tomorrow so I can get started on the photos!! I also filled up all of the findings and updated the website and the out-of-stock swivel clips are back!
This pile of cut out owl pieces is for another secret project...you know I'll spill the beans as soon as I can, right? ... There are enough pieces here to make 100 owls...it doesn't look like that many does it?
The Big website re-stock has begun!
in between all the moving and re-organising orders have been packed & dispatched and felt has been chopped...two boxes of orders to stitch (above) and funny little piles of felt which will be key rings soon (below)
I'll be back tomorrow with photos!
before :: from the door looking right.
before :: behind the door.
before :: from the door looking left.
during :: from the door looking toward the window.
during :: behind the door. 
I do enjoy moving and re-organising, and I can't wait for everything to be in it's new, bigger space...the goal is to have it finished by the end of Sunday...I'll keep you updated with it all :-)
My sewing machine certainly knows the holidays are over!
In amongst all the New Year plans I'm still stitching and sending out orders, although I have to admit I wasn't expecting to be making Christmas Decorations for a few months yet!!
I soon learnt that Solicitors are SLOW and I finally moved in in MARCH!!! but the delays did mean I had time for sewing....
...on my new sewing machine!
February...was the month of the box!...I made loads of sample boxes ::
...took loads of photos and voila! introduced made-to-order items to my Not On The High Street Shop
To mark the launch I advertised my alphabet boxes in the Not On The High Street Catalogue and had my boxes photographed by a professional photographer!
the rest of the month was spent packing
...moving...
and unpacking!
..and finally filling my new workshop with all my things
April was the month for moving in properly...making ribbon spools look pretty::
...and re-using my old cassette tape holders for large ribbon spools :: 
My first paper-and-string computer was delivered and set up, no more working from the home computer for me!!
There was also time for a little bit of sewing...new pebble key rings::
..and a free bird pattern for you all...
May: Finally! The month I could spill the beans and tell you all that my BIG secret was to supply John Lewis...finally all the piles of stock everywhere made some sense...
..and I could share all the felt cutting...
...and ribbon cutting that was filling my months!
June my workshop was bulging at the seams ...
...all the printing arrived and was stored on the stairs!...
...the kit felt had a whole room to itself!!...and the fluff, ginormous bags of fluff that just sat in the middle of the floor!!
But it wasn't all about BIG things...there were new teeny tiny polka dot buttons
...and a huge box FULL of pom poms!!
