Day 5 Button Comb

Todays post has been a little late as I have been busy banging my head on the keyboard!  I have been busy setting up my new Folksy shop and revamping my website.  So far I only have 6 items but will be adding the rest of my stock over the next few days, have a look at let me know what you think.

So here is todays make a cute comb adorned with some of the gazillions of buttons that I have accumulated over the years.

Ok I am going for a lie down in a dark room now!

Day 4 Minnie Joins the Army!

Well here is day 4's offering I told you there would be more bows!  I don't consider myself a girly girl at all, however, this seasons fashion with the bows is starting to appeal.  That said, I have done the bow in a khaki colour so maybe just baby steps towards girliness!

My next make involves some of the gazillions of buttons I seem to have hoarded and there is also some lovely green patterned material calling to me from my fabric stash that is just begging to be made into a bag or some kind.

Today I am also going to look into setting up my folksy account.  Whilst I have done quite well in google listings for my site, sales have been, well lets just say a little slow, lol.  Therefore, I was thinking of spending a while of folksy to see what that brings, even if the sales are enough to cover my fabric habit, which I think at some point I am going to have to get help with! 

Hope you are all a little warmer if only by a few degrees.  The snow has all but gone up here in the North West, however, the weather lady said it will be back again tomorrow,oh joy just in time for a trek to the hospital!

Handmade Christmas!

This year whilst trying to get my own little business off the ground money has been tight to say the least.  Needless to say that when it came time to ask the girls how many presents they needed for friends this year after a large gulp I needed to get my thinking cap on.  Normally I would just trundle off down to either superdrug or boots and buy something, however, budget constraints were not allowing that this year.  So here is what I came up with for littlest child a cupcake brooch with small tissue parcel of sweets and a handmade gift box.  For teen a felt twilight brooch and a feather hair clip, now this is where the plan went a tad pear shaped as I had spent so long planning and making I ran out of steam admitted defeat and bought the gift bags for her.  So all in all not 100% handmade but a sight cheaper than a trip to the town centre would have been and there is no wonder Santa needs all year off I am exhausted now!

Feathers, feathers Everywhere!

I have had an extremely busy week this week.  On Monday my youngest baby was singing in Young Voices at Manchester MEN Arena, Tuesday they had athletics, Wednesday football tournament, Thursday was assessment for Web Design course and tonight is finally night off!  We are off round to a friends for a meal, a chat and possibly a glass of wine or three!

Craft wise this week I had the wonderful luck to start chatting to Krysia on Crafts Forum aka Sparklyshoes who had a lot of feathers and wanted to know what people used them for.  I replied that I use them in my fabric brooches and thus a deal with was struck.  In return for a bag she had spied she sent me feathers and boy did she send me feathers there was an extremely large box full of the most beautiful feathers in all different colours.  Alas, I could not restrain myself anymore, even being time poor I made these feathered hair clips which were promptly snapped up my eldest daughter for her friends' Christmas presents.  Anyhoo have a look and let me know what you think.........