Look What I Made!!!!

Afternoon peoples. i hope you are OK and have got to see some of the sunshine today!! I'm really pleased with myself because today i managed to make something i have been longing to make for ages!!

i found some great purse frames on Saturday night which came in great colours and were quite a reasonable price. Ive been waiting and waiting and waiting to make a coin purse with a clip frame, don't ask me why...i just have. Well they arrived today and i succeeded in my crafty ambition. i followed some instructions from an old sew hip....

I made this one for my mum as it is her birthday on Saturday...i hope she likes it. Ive also got a coral coloured frame which I'm going to save for myself. Right....I'm going to go and wrap up some stuff i need to post tomorrow. have a nice evening!

xx

Lovely Lovely Swap Goodness!!

Afternoon my lovelies. How are you all?? I'm sat writing this on the sofa enjoying a rest after walking up the race course for the car boot fair (not an amazing one this time....some rick rack and four special buttons...but i had fun so I'm not going to complain!)

My day off yesterday went a bit wrong. Arth and I were going to go to Cirencester so i could take some pictures of the StuffedNonsense stock in MADE...we decided to catch the bus from a different stop (one closer to our house) but the silly thing never turned up...well i say never...it was half an hour late by the time we decided to give up. I'm 100% sure we weren't being stupid and waiting at the wrong bus stop i checked about a million times!! So we had to change our plans.Instead we went to the Curious Cafe for Lunch which was scrummy, but i still felt a little disappointed for the rest of the day...i really fancied a trip to Ciren...grrrrr.

But i soon cheered up when i got my swap parcel from Steph !!! I loved everything in it.....

A lovely big pincushion...its so lovely i don't want to put my grotty old pins in it...i might have to get some pretty pearly ones to go in it!!

An awesome necklace!! with really bright buttons and crochet rings and balls. (my camera didn't want to play when i took this pick!) but trust me it is wonderful!! it went straight round my neck!!

The most amazing corsage brooch!! the colour matches my coat perfectly and it is sooo soft! i love the texture that the green wool on the bottom gives the whole brooch!! i kept stroking it yesterday!

And a crochet kit. id mentioned on Steph's blog that i wanted to learn how to crochet as my Nana (my dads grandma) was a master of it and used to crochet granny squares until the cows came home!! I'm going to knuckle down one evening and try and figure it out!

Thank you soo much Steph...i loved every item you sent!!

I had another go at the plush toy i made in the last post (i wasn't happy with the size of the head on the first one) I'm a lot happier with this one...i like its little french knot eyes and its small smile...

I'm definatly going to make some more...but I'm faced with a dilemma now....what should i call them???Any ideas??

Lastly i also messed around in my scrap box and came up with this little piece of patchwork, i followed instructions in one of my old sew hip magazines.... its pretty small (about the size of a coaster), so its not practical for all that much. i was thinking of sewing it onto a card for my mum...its her birthday soon and i thought it might look quite striking if it was backed onto a cream color?

Right...I'm a bit engrossed in a book at the mo' (which is good...i haven't read anything in a while!!!) so I'm going to leave you to you Sunday afternoon...Ive got work at 6 on the new Ben and Jerry's ice cream counter...yummy!!!

Take Care

xx

P.S. i almost forgot i saw Coraline the other week. Neil Gaiman is my favorite author so i was really worried about this adaptation but OH MY GOD!!! this film was amazing. anyone who has an appreciation for craft and hand made items would really enjoy it!! especially the bit at the start!!!

A Little Friday Evening Project...

Thanks to El swapping a shift with me yesterday i had Friday evening off...which meant i was able to indulge in a little brainstorming at my sewing machine!! I wanted to make a plush toy that was more spring/summery. When me and el had took our stuff to the shop in Cirencester they mentioned that they liked the tartan tearaways but thought they were a bit too 'wintry', sooo i put my thinking cap on and this is what came out....Shes O.K. but I'm not happy with the size of her head...I'm going to give her to arth's baby sister, I'm pretty sure she will like it. Right....I'm off to have another go!

Oh, Steph got her swap and loved it!! I'm really relieved about it!! phew!!

xx

Wonderful News....And A Little Spoiler (So Dont Look Too Closely Steph!)

Hello!!!! How are you all??? I'm on a bit of buzz today...after yesterday going soo well (seeing mine and El's stuff in the shop) we put the extra stock we had on our stuffednonsense folksy shop....El finished doing about 2 hours ago...and guess what?!!! we've sold TWO monsters all ready!! AND to a returning customer as well!!!
So on a high, i came back from work and finished off my Freestyle Swap which is loooonnnngggg over due!! Ive taken some (what i hope are ambiguous photos) so that you can have a peak!!

I hope Steph likes these!! I'm a bit worried because the wonderful items that she makes look so professional...I'm not sure how my little makes will look next to hers!!

Anyways....its a friends birthday so I'm going to go out and sip a lime and soda!!! how exciting!!!

Take Care!

xx

Thankyou.

Id like to start this post off by saying a big thank you to all of you for your comments on the last post. they really cheered me up and restored my faith in society.

Today El and I took our stock to MADE in Cirencester...we were both a bit nervous because we weren't sure what they would take. There was no need at all for us to be nervous as they took almost everything (apart from a few brooches and a few tartan tearaways but that was only because we had brought a few too many of them) When we got to the shop we were having a look around and guess what??? we saw some of our stuff out all ready, we had given them some samplers and they had put them out on display. it was such a wonderful feeling to see our stuff out on display, i was very proud !! And i was even more proud when they told us that some of our samples had all ready sold and that they had some money to pay into our account!!! They loved the dust bunnies...which is good because i would have been annoyed if i had sewn 32 pairs of eyes on today for nothing!!!! El took some pictures on her phone....

After we had dropped of our lovelies we went for a wonder....i decided that i HAD to go to the button shop that sells buttons by the scoop because i didn't have enough little buttons...(hmmm I'm pretty sure that was a big fat lie! and we found some purple and some red hounds tooth fabric for 4 pound!!!...you cant see the purple to well here but its a really bright shade.

Right...I'm off to have a drink and celebrate having a shop with our stuff in!

xx

Such A Rubbish Horrible Day.

Hi everyone...please excuse me for the next few sentences but i need to get this off my chest. i was working a 9-4.30 today...my shift started off OK, although i had a splitting headache. But about 2 hours into my shift and it all went down hill...down a really steep hill!!! i think that every single grumpy/annoying/horrible/miserable customer came to my till. i had pretentious teenagers (i don't like to stereotype but i would money on them being cheltenham ladies) who thought that not only could they talk to me as if i was a retarded robot but that they could bitch about my colleagues in front of me. apparently it would seem that if you wear a cineworld hat you have no ears...or independent thought. After id gotten over the teenagers i then had numerous people who took the prices of stuff in the cinema personally and as a consequence blamed me. But the real icing on the cake was a man who through a hissy fit because the hot dogs weren't cooked. what would he rather?? a nice 'hot' hot dog (which i offered to take through to his screen for him!) or one that would give him a squiffy belly because it wasn't cooked properly. He was soo mean that he made me cry after he had been kicked out. I'm sorry to moan and groan but by writing about it here i am able to prove to myself that i am articulate enough to better myself over them.

phew!!!!

Anyway. on Tuesday el and i are taking our stock to MADE. I'm really looking forward to it...but also worrying because we have no where near enough stock....hence these little guys are going to be transforming on the sofa with me this evening.....

About 25 dust bunnies...and guess what?? i didn't ruin any when i was turning them the right way round!! i made the ears a little bit wider than the other ones and it has made a real difference. hopefully i can get all of these stuffed and closed tonight....hmmm wishful thinking methinks?!

Do you remember a while back i posted a picture of some of the seeds that we had growing in the pots on our window sill....well there not seeds anymore...

Well, the dust bunnies are waiting. I'm sorry about the tirade at the start of this post....

xx

Just a Short One..

Hi everyone! Just a quick one. i thought id post a picture of these because they looked pretty. had a horrible busy day at work today so i needed something crafty to take my mind off it, but i was too tired to do anything big....so i picked apart some broken jewellery i was very kindly given....

xxx