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!!

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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!

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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!

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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....

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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....

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Some Pretty Little Sewing Projects...

Hi everyone! Thank you very much for all of the great comments on the button necklaces! it seems the white ones are peoples favorites....me and el are trying to get the colour combos right so your comments were really helpful.

El and I sold another monster on Folksy the other day, which is fantastic!!!.....except when we went to package him up (Hermes the elephant) we realised there was no way we could sell him, he was just a bit too scruffy!! so we messaged the person who brought Hermes and offered a refund or a new Hermes....the gentlemen who brought him said he did not mind sooo.....

I thought it would be nice to include the little elephant because of all the messing around we did...

They look kind of bemused here!

I also finished one of the gifts for silkie sue's free style swap....this is just a little sneaky peek...hope it doesn't give too much away!!...

And lastly....look at these really cute tins that Arth brought me today...

They were from a new charity shop which opened last week...these were only 50p!!!! I've no idea what i will put in them but i like paisley print so maybe i'll just put them on a shelf and admire them !!!

Right, off to the horrible place that us tescos...my tummy is grumbling.

See you soon!!!

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New Pretties...

Hi everyone. Ive had the day off today so El came over to make some button jewellery for the shop in Cirencester. We are going to take our stuff over there on Tuesday coming....eeek!! it still kind of scares me that they want to sell it. What if they change their mind? or What if they don't sell any of our stuff?
Anyways....here's the necklaces that we made today...

This one is actually red and blue..not the funny browny orange colour it has came out as here.

And this one is actually blue and dark orange but the colours didn't come out fantastically.

And this one is purple and yellow...believe it or not!!

This one is made from some of my shell buttons, which means some of the buttons are probably really old.

I like this one...its kind of nautical and the three buttons in the middle look cool because they are squares...i think they kind of set the whole thing off.

I quite like this kind of design for button necklaces. the extra line of buttons on the back gives it more of a structure. some of them look quite short here but they all rest at about collar bone height... the shell one is a little bit longer tho'. The necklaces were quite popular at the craft fair so fingers crossed these will go down well in Cirencester.

Ive had the day off of work today and I'm glad of it (it means i can hide from people). Last night we went to a staff preview of Wolverine, i absolutely loved it...don't get me wrong it isn't going to get any best film awards but i genuinely think that it was a good portrayal of the history of Wolverine. I love X-Men and do not call myself an expert in the slightest, nonetheless i thought that seeing never on screen before Marvel characters was fantastic. who cares if dead pool turns into some crazy unbelievable monster that can shoot lazer's from his eyes?? HELLO!! your watching a film about a man who has metal claws that come out of skin!! I dont think believable characters are a huge issue!! as you can probably guess....im one of the few people at the cinema who did enjoy it. Whats annoying is that people have asked me if i liked it and Ive said yes...but the people just turn around and say "yeah...but you only like it because of Hugh Jackman" THIS IS NOT TRUE!!!!

Phew, i hope that doesn't a) bore anyone and b)offend anyone from work!!

Right, I'm off to see if i can coax my sewing machine to work properly...wish me luck.

xxx