Busy with custom orders :-) and I won another blog award!

Hello everyone! Good to see a couple of new followers too, welcome :-)

So I'll start with the blog award!

Thanks very much Rhona over at Tangled Threads for passing this on to me :-)  

It comes with four rules,

1. Choose five up-and-coming blogs (with fewer than 200 followers) to award the Liebster to.
2. Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them.
3. Post the award on your blog. List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites. Leave comments on their blogs so they know about the award.
4. Share five random facts about yourself that people don't know about you. 

so I pass this on to........

 Steph at Show and Tell

Laura at Cute Crocheted Creations

Helen at Stitchydragon Creates

Literary Ladybug's Blog of Goodness

Chris at My Crafting Stitching Corner

Now for the random facts about me :-) 

1. I smile at everybody in the street, usually they smile back but I do get a few funny looks, lol! I don't care, I'm happy! 

2. I'm a big kid and buy cartoon DVD's all the time, my latest ones are Looney Tunes, The Flumps, Mr Men and Chorlton and the Wheelies. Which reminds me, does anyone else remember Chorlton and the Wheelies? It's my all time favourite and no one else seems to remember it! I have no children they are all just for me :-) 

3. Likewise my house is stuffed with cuddly toys (again, big kid!) 

4. I hate fudge.

5. I used to get the words wrong to Jingle Bells when I was little, my Mam taped it and had the proof that I would sing 'oh what find in a nishu rind in a one horse open sleigh' instead of 'oh what fun is it to ride.....

Is that random enough :-) 

So for the custom makes this week, I had an Easter cake band to stitch and I've been working on it on and off for a couple of weeks, it's finished!! 

I also had a request for two octopus felt keyrings...........that had me thinking how can I fit eight tentacles onto something the size of a keyring. I came up with the idea of four on the front and four on the back and a gusset bit in the middle. It worked really well and they even stand up!

Now I'm busy making a 3D cross stitch thatched cottage, again an order, which is fun! Love making unusual things and figuring out odd ones!  I have a little cottage naming challenge on my facebook page at the moment too if anyone wants to make a suggestion, the best one  on Saturday will win a hanging mushroom :-) You can leave your suggestions HERE 

Lots and lots of new things!

Hello again and a big welcome to my new followers :-) Lovely to see you!

Well this has been a very busy week! I had a craft fayre on Sunday and lots to get done in time for it. I'm pleased to say I made it and everything was ready to go. It was at the seaside in a building which is across the road from the beach and Sunday was wonderful, sunny and warm. Made a change from last month when it was snowy and ******* freezing!! The weather seemed to bring people out and they were spending, yippee! I had a great day :-) I have to admit it was busy and I forgot to take a pic of my stall as promised with the new bunting on it, ooops sorry! I will remember next month, promise!

So here's some of the new things I had made for the fayre,

Lots of mushrooms :-) All are embroidered front and back like this.....

Also Easter bunnies with teeny pom-pom tails, I only have one of these left after Sunday and chicks too..

Also two Mother's Day cards ready and delivered to my Mam and MIL already for Sunday :-)

It's my parents golden wedding anniversary on Saturday and I stitched them a sampler a few weeks ago, I gave them the sampler today and they loved it I'm pleased to say, here it is all framed up and the card I made to go with it too. I stitched the centre of the sampler for the card so it matched perfectly, I love how they turned out :-)

Also a card for my nephew's birthday this week,

I have crammed in a lot in a week everything but the sampler was made in a week! I never seem to notice how much I've made until it's actually on here in front of me, lol! There's also a new toadstool cottage which I stitched while at the craft fayre, it's nice to sit and make all day while sitting there :-)

I have some news but as I want to make sure everything is set in stone before I let on you'll just have to wait and see........... Sorry to tease you like that but I'm quite excited about it!

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!

Finished bunting and the travelling craft box goodies!

Hello everyone and welcome to my new followers :-)

Been a busy week this week as my boyfriend was off work on holiday so my routine was thrown right off! Tried to keep organised and make time to get things made but it can be a bit tricky when you're also trying to get taken out and spoilt too :-)

The travelling craft box is now with Kayla so I can now show what I made for the box and what goodies I kept too!

These are the gorgeous things I kept...

The gorgeous biscornu box charm (which is on my bag now), lovely bookmark and button heart by Kerry and the pretty pincushion and ami heart and monster by Laura All lovely treasures that were tough to choose from the box of loveliness :-)

To replace them I added these....

a cute baby octopus ami, felt heart, crochet flower brooch, stitched bookmark, 3D birdhouse and cupcake keyring. Can't wait for the box to come back my way again :-)

I finished off the mushroom bunting too for my stall, that was fun to make! I made each mushroom with different embroidery details of flowers, bushes, butterflies and flags. I think this will look pretty hanging on the front of the stall.

I got my ami today from the monthly swap that I do with the lovely Steph but she doesn't have mine yet as I'm posting tomorrow so in the next post at the weekend I'll be showing them :-)

Lots to get done this week then, busy stitching an Easter cake band for an order and I have a lot of small things planned too for the next fair in a couple of weeks so I have lists to wade through!

Oh if you haven't already entered my giveaway you have until Sunday, see the previous post!

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...........

Lots of lovely post :-)

Hi everyone!

Wonderful post week this week for me :-) Firstly a surprise parcel from the lovely Steph, she sent me a super cute little choco chunk  with a cute pocket that has a little heart keyring , isn't that adorable!

There was other goodies like gorgeous pink beads, some lovely incense sticks and shells from the beach as well as lovely charms. A gorgoeus  parcel, I love everything :-)

Yesterday I got another parcel! This was a swap I did with  Cara over at the Dotty One blog. She sent me two gorgeous fused glass necklaces, I've pinched these photos off her blog as the weather has been so dark here mine were just rubbish! Hope you don't mind!

They were in this gorgeous little pretty bag,

Also this gorgeous little cat ami, now you must know I love cats :-)

and I was thrilled to get one of her fabulous felt strawberries!! I love these so much!!!

So I had sent a starfish, crab and baby octopus as I knew she loves the sea and diving,

a cross stitched ornament,

 
and a cow card as well as she likes cows :-)

A fabulous swap!! Thanks so much to Cara, love everything you sent me and it made me very smiley :-)

Today was the third good post day of the week as the Travelling Craft box arrived, YIPPEE!!  This has been started by Laura and I received it from Kerry today. The idea is it's a box of handmade lovely stuff and you get to take as many items as you like from the box as long as you put the same number of items made by yourself back in, simple. Well it's a lovely box of pretty things and this will be tough to pick, I think I have decided on six things but that may change before I send it on it's way in a couple of weeks! I have a couple of things left to make for it, it's a great idea :-)

Here's the box when I opened it

I'm not allowed to show you what I make for it until it arrives at it's next stop with Kayla and then I'll show what I'm keeping too.

Oh yes, and this was the box ten seconds later.......

Poppy can't pass a box without getting in it! She jumped in checked it out and picked her choice from the box before I got to! The ami heart made by Laura has been carted around the house, loved to bits and totally claimed by her so that's one of my choices, lol!

Hope everyone has a great week!