feathered friends

this morning I finished these 4 boxes, 15 Robin kits and a pile of thank you cards...
...and this afternoon I've got deliveries galore to unpack!

34 and a day

a big thank you to everyone who took time to leave a Happy Birthday comment for me yesterday ... I had a great 34th birthday! I left the workshop at 5pm (that's early) and after a quick change John and I were on the bus and heading into Shoreham to find a nice restaurant ... we were going to go to Brighton but I didn't feel like battling with all the sun seeker tourists! We chanced upon an Italian restaurant and the food and atmosphere were great!Today I have finished lots of little jobs, ...one of which was counting and bagging some more teeny tiny buttons, hence the photos! I also got down to the serious business of freebie planning...October's freebie day is this Thursday (6th) I've got it all planned ... planned but not actually done...but it will be!

surrounded by work!

phew! I had a super busy weekend...a felt delivery was sorted and stored500 kits were made and packed in boxes (that sounds easy but it took hours & hours & hours and I worked all day Saturday and Sunday!) I still have more kits to pack in cardboard boxes (they have been ordered but have not yet arrived)and still more kit boxes to fill....and more stickers to stick on!But before I get stuck into more kit packing I have paperwork (and biscuits! yay!) waiting :: sewing to finish ::parcels to take to the post office ::

AND tonight John and I are off to Brighton for a lovely dinner because today is my birthday!

bauble kits

My Bauble Kit has a lot of my very favourite felt colours in it ::

2 each of orange, red, thistle & yellow 4" squares...

and one each of plum and bright pink (9" squares)

they certainly look very Christmassy all stacked up together...

and even better when they have been turned into baubles!
there are 17 different ribbons included in the kit...

...along with a purple/orange/yellow mix of buttons and some fluffy pom poms!

I'm definitely making some more of these for my tree this year!

new kit :: Christmas Tree Garland

My Christmas Kits were delivered to John Lewis a few weeks ago...and the Christmas Tree Garland kit has been a big hit!
In the kit there are 3 tree patterns and enough felt & stuffing to make at least 9 trees....

I had so much fun choosing which buttons, pom poms and ribbons to include to decorate the trees...

...and choosing which shades of greens & blues to include

the new Christmas kits have been added to my shop... and tomorrow I'll show you the baubles kit!

boxes

hand sewn last night in front of the tv

machine sewn this morning

and posted this afternoon!

I may have to tweek my express postage options in my NotOnTheHighStreet shop, but so far I've managed to juggle everything and get all orders finished in the nick of time!

multi tasking

cutting and rolling ::

stitching and sewing ::cutting and packing ::

I also cut out a whole pile of stitching to do tonight but forgot to get a photo of that...you'll see it when it's finished :-)

a stitch filled weekend

I had a lot of sewing to do this weekend (yay!) and just about managed to get everything finished....I made 12 tortoise brooches....
....6 felt boxes.......and 12 giraffe brooches!

work & reward

the kits I've been making for wholesale orders are done

phew, that was a lot of work!

..and now?

now I am off to the pub to sit in the September sun and have a drink!

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today is my Mum's birthday, Happy Birthday Mum, love you loads xxx

new things!

there are new things in the shop!!new BULK bags of cute flower buttonsnew BULK bags of Christmas Star buttonsnew felt flower & happy cupcake embellishmentsnew mini cupcake packsand more Christmas ribbon boxes....but just in case you begin to think that I'm superhuman doing all this as well as slaving in the kit factory (!) I'm not...I'm lazy!! these new items have been accumulating in a box, waiting for photos to be taken and website fiddling to be done, for oh, about 10 days or so ...

quick links ::

flower buttons here

star buttons here

felt flowers here

happy cupcakes here

mini cupcakes here

Christmas ribbon here

wednesday = kit day

this morning :: ...yesterday's felt piling finished! this afternoon :: prepping ingredients for 2 big orders of my original kits!

felt piling

This is my little room ... jam packed with bits of kit, the big boxes on the left all hold bags of stuffing which have all been measured out ... these filing boxes :: all hold felt that has been cut to size & is waiting to be piled up ready for kit making....

Today I'm working on the felt for the Christmas Tree kits and have got all the boxes of felt out ...the boxes behind are full of felt I have already piled up ::
...pre-piling the felt really does speed up the last stage of kit makingSo all I have to do now is turn those neat piles into piled up neat piles, 270 times!Yum! such lovely colours!