Monday, 7 December 2009

I’m back…

My poor blog has been so neglected recently as I was getting my stock ready for my first craft fair yesterday.Image0192

My sewing area (dining table!) has been overflowing with everything I’ve made over the past few weeks as I’ve checked to make sure linings are sewn up, eyes sewn on and everything is perfect.

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I would like to say hello to anyone arriving here after picking up one of my business cards – hello!  I also want to say thank you to Pagette for the lovely email I woke up to this morning :)  I’m so glad my little owl has a good home, I was very attached to him and almost didn’t take him to sell!

 

 

For anyone who wants to come and see me again I will be selling at the East Grinstead Victorian themed Christmas shopping day on 20th December, outside the lovely Threadneedles.  If you didn’t pop by yesterday here is what you missed:

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I managed to sell quite a lot, and had several enquiries about custom orders (I will do a separate post on this).  I had a lot of fun and it was a lovely feeling knowing people were actually willing to part with their money because they liked something I made.

It was also Dylan’s 4th birthday on Friday – where does the time go?!Image0205 August 011Image0218

So his facial expressions haven’t changed!  He was Joseph in the Pre-school nativity today but was not impressed about me tying a piece of gingham to his head with piping cord this morning!Image0154

 

 

And just because she’s cute, a picture of Daisy modelling a flower hairclip.

Monday, 16 November 2009

Some things I would like for Christmas: An exercise in extreme window shopping!

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Fabric…

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Furniture & accessories…

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This is slightly addictive… more to follow!

Saturday, 14 November 2009

My family…

I’ve been meaning to write more about my family and what we get up to, so here we go…

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My husband and I on our wedding day in 2008.  We met at school and were friends long before we started a relationship.  We have packed a lot into our almost-5yrs-together: having our son, getting engaged, buying a flat together, having our daughter and getting married.  Tim is a carpenter and I used to work in e-commerce, but have been made redundant twice in the past 2yrs.

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Dylan will be 4 in December.  He’s really tall for his age and is very clever.  He loves cooking, especially baking biscuits.  Dylan’s favourite things are his scooter, cuddly Duckie, going to the skatepark, making things, going to preschool and playing with his little sister.  He has lots of friends and is a gorgeous little boy.

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Daisy is just 2 and is a proper little madam!  Her talking is fantastic and she has a big personality.  Daisy loves playing with her dollies, drawing, eating, Peppa Pig, cuddles, handbags and chocolate.  She has mad scarecrow hair and refuses to keep it tied up!  Her favourite saying at the moment is ‘Mummyyyy… boys have willies!’ – aaaaaah!