I'm still alive!!!!

Hello everyone!

I'm just popping in quickly to say I'm still alive, I know it's been ages since my last post and since I got to visit you all and I'm really sorry. I got a lot of custom orders for Christmas and have been doing lots of fairs too, this is the first Saturday I've not done one for weeks as I wanted a break. I'm getting there and hope to be back here properly by Christmas :-)

I have called in to see a couple of blogs in the last week and entered a advent giveaway on the fabulous Laura's blog and I won yay! This morning the postman brought me this.....

A parcel with lots of little parcels, one for each day until Christmas! The first one was swiftly opened and this gorgeous little crochet snowman was inside :-)

He's now on my Christmas tree along with lots of other handmade decs from my lovely friends, Kerry and of course lots from the wonderful Steph as well as some of my own. I'm getting quite a collection now :-)

I have some exciting news too. Two of my felt cupcakes went to Hong Kong this week, they were bought to put on a headband to be worn by a local celebrity in a TV commercial!! I've asked if it's possible to get a picture of them in the advert and hope to get a reply, fame via cupcake! :-)

I was also in this months Craftseller mag again :-)

I'll try to get back here in a few days as the ami swap pics need showing too! So much to catch up with!

Have a fab weekend and I'll be back as Arnie said.....

And the winner is............

Hello everyone!

Well today is the day of the giveaway draw :-)  Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway. I put all the names in a bowl and got the boyfriend to do his usual job and pick the winner for me. So without further ado the winner of Sunflower Cottage is..................

Grateful4crochet

Well done you! I'll get that off to you this week, hope you love it :-)

Also this week I received a lovely parcel from Laura I had been a winner in her giveaway for this fabulous little crochet purse filled with all these fabulous buttons, bells, eyes and crochet flowers!

and these goodies were from her holiday in Northumberland, not too far away from me it's a bit further north

postcards from Cragside, Lindesfarne and Barter Books where the original Keep Calm and Carry On poster was found a few years ago.

And these fabulous goodies too, love the wire fairy! A fabulous fairy bookmark and little wooden fairy stickers, buttons and lovely felt hearts too. Ooo there was a really cute cat magnet too but that's on my fridge and I forgot to take a pic of it!  Thanks Laura for a lovely parcel of goodies :-)

I'll be back in a few days with pics from the craft fair on Saturday, which was a lovely day, and some makes too for the travelling craft box as well as the goodies I took for myself  :-)

Have a great week everyone!

Giveaway!!!

Hi everyone, it's been a mad busy week so I'm a bit late with this post as I only finished the giveaway prize last night.

So lets start with that shall we, this is a giveaway to celebrate me passing the 100 followers and to say a huge thank you to you all  for being so lovely :-) Who knew when I started this blog that many people would be interested in my stuff!


Lets start with  the prize, I thought why not make it a mushroom cottage as it seems to have become my 'thing' so this is Sunflower Cottage.

All hand stitched by me, I hope you love it :-) 

As always the rules are simple, be a follower and leave a comment! I hate lots of rules so that's all I ask, if you want to mention the giveaway on your blogs go ahead but you don't have to, I don't mind. I'm happy to post anywhere in the world too so that shouldn't rule anyone out unless they live on Mars or something :-) I'll draw the winner on the 31st so you have the rest of the month to enter.

So onto the other things I've been up to this week and a bit. I had a lovely day yesterday as I had the chance of setting up my stall in the gift shop of a local garden centre. It was such a lovely place to be and I got half price lattes in the cafe all day too :-) I'm back there on Saturday too so that'll be lovely. Here was my stall yesterday

I really need to find a way of getting my cloth to stay ironed while getting it to these fairs! It starts out so nice then seems to crumple itself to bits on the way, what's that all about? Anyway I have an idea to change the cloth for something better soon :-) 

For the day there I made a batch of daisy hearts last week, lots of them! You can see them in the basket in the middle of the table. 

I had an order last week too for a toadstool, which I had fun with.....

and an embroidered Peppa Pig card for a little boys 2nd birthday, he's called Sebastian but is known as Sebbie,

Pleased to say they were loved :-) So that's what I've been busy with for the last week. Oh yes almost forgot, my big brothers birthday is on Wednesday and I thought I'd try something new, a stitched card where you stitch it on the card itself by pricking holes in it. I did this motorbike for him and loved doing this! Just what I needed another craft to cram into my life, like I haven't enough already, lol! 

So that's what I can show you this week, there are a couple of things but they are for a birthday present and can't be revealed yet. 

Well I'm off to try and catch up and everyone's blogs again! Have a great week everyone and don't forget to enter the giveaway :-)

Back and another year older ..........

Hello!

I'm trying to get over the shock of being 40 as of yesterday, I mean who knew that would happen to me! Still I have wine and  chocolate birthday cake to get me over the worst of it so not all bad  :-) I have to say my lovely friends more than make my birthdays brilliant with the fabulous presents I get to open though!  More about them tomorrow as this post would get waaayyy too long otherwise :-) You have to see them though, so much loveliness to show you!

Well lots to show you this week, lets start with the craft fair on Sunday, it was a new one for me at North Shields fishquay and it turned out to be right on the river in what I guess was a warehouse that has been reborn into a big two floor building full of stalls of collectables. One Sunday a month the craft fair joins them for the day. So last week I made some new things for the stall, a new batch of felt flower brooches and some more heart keyrings.

Love making those flowers it's easy to get carried away and make lots of them!

I had a request for a custom order this week for a monkey amigurumi too so here he is, named Banana by his new owner a little boy in the USA even though he hasn't arrived yet!

Hope he's happy in his new home :-)

So back to the fair then, here's my stall complete with new shelves that I'm still very proud of! They turned out to be great for propping up the monster and Norman the gnome as they don't stand on their own and of course a good seat for the fairies and elf too.

Mushroom village

I made a Sunderland owl and a Newcastle owl and thought it best to separate them so they didn't fight!

The fairies on their shelf.

All the flowers on the cake stand,

Basket of keyrings,

and the mushroom tree!

It was great to watch as the huge ferries for Norway and Amsterdam went right past the window too blowing their horns :-)

Next month the fair is themed Spirit of the Sea and is on International Fairy Day so I'm thinking mermaids.


And look what arrived too, my knitted cactus from the fabulous Nicole's giveaway over at her lovely blog! Isn't it fabulous! Thanks Nicole it was a lovely surprise  :-) It now sits on a shelf in my bathroom beside my real cactus and looks fabulous!

Right this post is getting a bit too long to add all the pics of my birthday pressies so I'll be back again tomorrow with pictures of all the fabulous pressies I got from Laura and Steph. I know two posts in two days, what's come over me, lol!

And the winner is.......

Hello everyone and welcome to my new followers too :-) Lovely to meet you!

Today is the end of my latest giveaway  , thanks to everyone for entering. So a reminder of the prize.....

which is two embroidered mushroom decorations, a cute owl amigurumi and a felt heart keyring.  All the names have been put in a bowl and the winner as picked by the boyfriend is.................

KNITTINGGIRL

Congratulations! Send me your details and I'll get them sent off to you, my email is in my profile. 

It's been ami swap week too! Where every month I swap an amigurumi with the lovely Steph, check out her blog to see lots of loveliness :-)  So this months swap was fabulous as ever, Steph sent me this fabulous Mochiland elf and a very cute mini bunny and little rainbow brooch, how sweet! 

and look at the gorgeous card she made me too!!!

How fabulous is that! So I made Steph this granny owl,

I love how this turned out and I'm pleased to say Steph loved it too. I also sent a card and bag of goodies but didn't take a pic of them! Steph did though and you can see them on her blog.  Another fabulous swap thanks Steph! It's always great getting a present each month :-)

So I have a busy week ahead of me, I have a craft fayre next Sunday and a list a mile long of things I want to make for it as well as two Mother's Day cards to get done! I've been making more mushroom decorations like the two in the giveaway. I sold one on Facebook this week, a custom request of a pink door, bunting and a dragonfly on it. Here it is....

I'm working my way through a little pile of them today, they are such fun to embroider as I make them up as I go :-)

Well I better get back to the list, have a great week everyone!

It's time for my giveaway...... GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED

Yoohoo!

I'm back with the prizes finished and ready for my first blogiversary giveaway :-)  So without further ado, tada!!

I was playing around with a new idea for mushrooms at the weekend and loved how flat embroidered ones work for hanging decorations so I'll be making more of these to put in my shop. I am giving the first two I made in my giveaway along with an adorable amigurumi owl and a pretty pink heart keyring too. Here's the mushrooms front and back close up,

While making these I had the idea of making a string of them as bunting and adding the letters of 'HIPPYWITCH' on the roofs instead of spots to put along the front of my stall at fayres :-) I'm halfway through the embroidery on them and them just need to put the fronts and backs together and it's done, look pretty good and I'm loving making more mushrooms! 

I seem to have a 'thing' for mushroom cottages and I think (in my best psychologist mode) I know why. When I was little I had a plastic Smurf House that was a mushroom cottage and I adored it!! Then when I was 11 my little sister was born and a couple of years later my Mam gave her the Smurf House as I was 'too grown up for it'. Little sis trashed it and covered it in felt tip pen.........I've just about forgiven her now twenty seven years later, lol! 

So to enter the giveaway my usual rules apply, be a follower and leave a comment on this post, I hate rules so that's it :-) The winner will be drawn by the boyfriend out of a hat (or bowl actually) on Sunday the 4th March, good luck everyone!

Speaking of giveaways the wonderful Millefeuilles is having a gorgeous giveaway over one her blog HERE Make sure to drop in and enter that too :-) 

I have made a few things this last week that I can't as yet post about so next time I promise to show you the items made for the Travelling Craft Box and also the goodies I've taken out for myself as it will be posted on it's way again on Friday! 

So I hope you all have a wonderful week, see you at the weekend!

It's my blogiversary!!!

Hello!

Today is my first blogiversary, yay! Who'd have thought when I started out a year ago that anyone would be interested in me and my ramblings :-) I do want to say thank you to all my lovely followers for being there and being wonderful, some are great friends to me and it's all down to this little blog!

Well I'm just popping in today to say that the occasion of my first blogiversary means it's

GIVEAWAY  TIME!!!!!

Now the thing is I haven't quite finished making the prize, Ooooops! So keep watching as the giveaway will start probably Monday .........but maybe Tuesday! Lets say Tuesday to be on the safe side, lol! So see you all then!

Now I'm off to get back to finishing this prize...........

and the winner is.................

Hello!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas Day :-) Mine was perfect, just the two of us and lovely presents (mainly money to spend on what I want which is the best present!)

So today I put all the names in a bowl and got the boyfriend to fish out the winner of my giveaway for Bunty Bunny. The winner is............

MILLEFEUILLES!!

Congratulations! Send me your details and she'll be on her way to you in a few days time :-) 

Thanks to all of you who entered and to my new followers a big hello and welcome to my blog. I'm planning on a giveaway for every 25  followers so watch out for the next one at 75 :-)

Have a lovely rest of the holidays!

love Lori x

I've hit 50 followers which means it's giveaway time

Woohoo!

Thanks so much to all my lovely followers and welcome to my newest ones, it's lovely to know you are out there reading and I'm not just rambling on with no one paying any attention to me :-)

So I said I would have a giveaway for reaching 50 followers so here it is.

Bunty bunny is knitted from a fabulous Debi Birkin pattern and is looking for a home. Hope you love her!

So the rules are simple,

1, you need to be a follower

2, leave me a comment on this thread to enter

............that's it! I hate loads of rules in anything in life! If you want to mention the giveaway on your own blog it would be nice but I don't require it so don't worry about it if you don't want to.

The draw will be done in the age old manner of bits of paper in a bowl with the winner picked by the boyfriend. Entries can be left until midnight on Christmas Day and the winner will be drawn on Boxing Day. A bit of a late Christmas present for someone :-)

Hope you all enter! There are a couple of other fabulous giveaways going on at the moment too from my lovely friends blogs, Cucki's is HERE and Laura's is HERE. Make sure you stop by to say hello and enter them too :-)

I'll be back in a couple of days with some pictures of my Christmas decorations that I've stitched over the years so see you then.  



hugs xx

and the winner is..................

The giveaway is now closed and the winner has been drawn!

Thank you everyone who entered and a big hello to my new followers, lovely to see you :-)

All the names were put into a bowl..............

and my boyfriend was drafted in to make the draw, the winner is.........

Congratulations Cucki! Send me you details and the witch and heart are winging their way to you this week :-) Hope you love them!

I've just seen that Cucki has started a giveaway of her own, HERE. I've entered already, go on over and join in!


I've been making ami's this weekend for my shop. First, on my new Facebook shop page HERE (I'd love you to stop by and visit!) I asked what animal or person you would love to see as an ami, the poll is on my wall so feel free to vote. The first answer was a pig, so I made a pig! Here he is...

I have a vote for a turtle too so that's my next ami :-) I also made a monster, now I need some help here, I have no idea what he should be called so names please! He needs a name before I list him in my shops I think. It's only right!

Last call for giveaway entries!

The giveaway ends tomorrow for the witch amigurumi and the felt heart, the post is HERE.

I'm going to do the draw tomorrow and last call for entering is 5pm here in England.

Good luck everyone!

It's giveaway time!

Hello hello to all my lovely followers :-)

I want to thank you for the lovely comments about my new venture into opening my shop on etsy, it's been really nice to know you support me and like my stuff, so thanks and hugs to you all!

So the giveaway is launched today for reaching 30 followers, although now it's gone up to 32 :-) Hello to my new friends!

So without further ado here's the giveaway prize.....

I made an amigurumi witch this week just for this giveaway. Hope you all love her! I thought that we're near Halloween and I love witches so a witch it is. Also one of my felt heart hangings that I've been making too for etsy.

So I hope you all will enter! Here's the rules, pretty straightforward really, you have to be a follower to enter and leave a message on this post too. That's it! If you want to mention the giveaway on your blog that would be lovely but I don't require it so it's up to you.
The names will be put in a hat and a winner will be drawn by my boyfriend on the  2nd of October so that's two weeks time. Good luck!

Woohoo!

I've hit 30 followers!! Thank you all for being here and listening to my ramblings!

This was my target for my first blog giveaway, I'll be making something for this and will launch the giveaway next weekend so watch this space :-)