Shhhhh! Listen Santa's Coming.......

Happy Christmas Everybody!!

Last minute table setting.........

Take the number of required baubles off the Christmas Tree

1 pack of blue tack

Torn paper

1 Pen

Blue tack the bauble upside down to the table, write names on torn paper, and slot into the hoop at the top.

See you in 4 days, off to Norfolk for 2 days and Essex for 2 days.

Kx

Inside Crochet Magazine - Featured!

My Owl Buttons!!

One of my new years resolutions for 2010 was to get something I make and sell into one of the craft magazines, and I always leave everything to the last minute and so my wish was granted in the last hour (of few!), OK so only my buttons, but buttons all the same! This is inside Crochet magazine, the sister mag to sew hip, and last night attempted for the second time to crochet with appalling results! but now all I need to do is find how many of the other resolutions I made, and how many need to follow me into 2011.

Kx

Finally.....

 Mums Christmas Present.

My mum was moaning about when reading in bed she gets cold (she can read for hours), and wearing a dressing gown in bed is uncomfortable and bulky, so last month when I picked up a sewing mag (can't remember which one), there was a free sewing jacket,trousers and dress pattern, and adapting the jacket slightly as you can't put pleats in fleece, the modern super soft cozy bed jacket was born, finished with my handmade spotty bias binding and button, for cuteness.

 My Owl Buttons!!

One of my new years resolutions for 2010 was to get something I make and sell into one of the craft magazines, and I always leave everything to the last minute and so my wish was granted in the last hour (of few!), OK so only my buttons, but buttons all the same! This is inside Crochet magazine, the sister mag to sew hip, and last night attempted for the second time to crochet with appalling results!  but now all I need to do is find how many of the other resolutions I made, and how many need to follow me into 2011.

 Bed jacket polka dot button

Bed Jacket Cuff

Happy Sunday!

Kx

Rudolph Red - Folksy Friday

Folksy Friday. Enjoy! Kx

All I want for Christmas

No! Not one of those short arm quilters,

you know a long arm quilter!

But I don't have a spare few thousand pounds....

 Roberts Radio for my sewing room, but still verging on £200...

One red Pashley British Bike, with a basket, sigh! no change from £550.00

So I'll make do with a bottle of bubbly, some cute flannel PJ bottoms, new slippers and an open fire.

Kx

Lollipop Candy Cane Pincushions

 Giant Candy Cane Pincushions

Packaged like edible giant lollipops! Felt swirls edged in polka dot bias binding, backed in felt secured with cute ribbons. Available at the moment in bubblegum pink, sour lemon and cherry red.

Perfect to sit in your pen pot, 7" tall and approx 3" wide, make great presents.

And can always be used for child's shop play!

Felt from paperandstring on folksy
http://www.folksy.com/shops/paperandstring

Available in my blondesbackyard shops

Cherry Red Lollipop 

 Sour Lemon Lollipop

Bubblegum Pink Lollipop

Kx

Wishing on a White Christmas - FOLKSY

Wishing on a White Christmas




Go on treat yourself, not others, you know you want to....



Sometimes I wish (although I shouldn't waste a wish) I could have to homes one full of colour the other all white and creams, where I wear white linen trousers a slinky white top, I am 2 stone lighter has a healthy suntan, and chocolate doesn't drop on my lap, and wine wine doesn't stain.These are just a small collection of folksy's whites and creams.

Happy Friday, and don't forget treat yourself.
Kx

p.s click on the picture to go to the Folksy shop.

Mmmm Scrummy Bias Bindings

I have been waiting for these to drop through the post,

and finally have my fix of spotty bias bindings!

Following a long search for the best in scummy bias bindings, I now want to stock every colour and type possible (a binding geek in the making!).

Watch this space for my next lot of gingham coming soon and some super college stripes!

All for sale in my blondesbackyard shops on folksy and etsy.

Get your colour fix now, just scroll  down........

Kxx

Let it Snow Let it Snow

I know I know, by the weekend we will be sick of snow, but for now it remains pretty, the air is so silent, and all we can hope for is everybody bored at home on thier computers finding things to buy on folksy & Etsy!

So I can't get into work, and have a list of things to sew, and the bright light from the snow means I may just get a couple of photos taken!

Kx

New Packaging.......

 I got bored with my plain luggage tags for my bias binding, buttons & pincushions in my blondesbackyard shop, so using my blog header, played around on photoshop and a ream of white card later, I now am happy happy happy with my new image coming through.

It may give me the boot up the backside to get packs organised and go to shops that are likely to want to stock this type of supply items, giving them a discount, reommended selling price and see what happens.........

Thats on the new year list!

Kx