Hope everyone is having a lovely (spooky) evening and the pumpkins are holding up well.
This was one I cooked a while ago - stuffed mini pumpkin - very tasty!

Visitors welcome!

It's been a whirlwind weekend with a few lovely surprises I've been waiting to post about!
I couldn't believe it when I opened my e mail on Saturday and found out I had won the October Sew Mama Sew Flickr group $25 gift certificate!!
I never win anything - things like this just don't happen to me!

Then it got even better when I arrived home from work this evening to find a lovely e mail from Beth and Kristin at Sew Mama Sew. They have done a little write up about me and my blog on their site! How cool is that!


So if you are a new visitor here - Welcome !! I hope that you like what you see and will pop by again soon and I would love to hear from you all!

Etsy shop is up and running but is yet to be stocked - fingers crossed it will be soon!

Have a lovely week everyone and thanks again to Beth and Kristin!

How many days til Christmas?

Another week has flown by and all I seem to have heard this week is "How many days are there until Christmas?" Days!! I'm thinking in months!
The Christmas buzz is definitely here, the shops are crammed and mince pies are on the supermarket shelves!
The clocks go back tomorrow as well so we have shorter days and longer nights!! Which makes taking photos very difficult with it getting dark earlier!

Managed to get reasonable photos of my latest two projects:
1. A hanging organiser - sorry still with the pink theme!



2. A cute pincushion cube! How can you not be happy sewing with these little faces looking at you!


These will be available on Etsy when I get round to sorting it out, hoping the beginning of November!!

Nearly forgot - main reason for posting is to announce the winner of the needle book giveaway.
Using a random number selector the winner is NIC!! Congratulations!

(Nic - I can not find an email contact so if you can drop me an email I can arrange sending out to you!!)

DIY day (Giveaway reminder!)

I love being on holiday as I get so much done! Today has been a DIY day, put up some shelves, defrosted the freezer and been busy crafting away.
Today I've finally put more of my ideas into action:
More of my felt heart magnets in production (these were some of the first things I blogged about!)


Cutting ready for lavender felt heart hangers


Cute little magnets - made using my trusty cover button tool!



And since I'm hoping to start selling my goodies this little tag design has been floating around my mind for ages! I had ideas of embellishing them with stitching, ribbons and buttons but in the end I decided simple was better! I'm really pleased with how the first few have turned out!



Since I've been posting a lot this week - reminder if you want to win the needle book leave on comment on that post! Thanks!

See Sparks fly...

On my machine that is! Although it could be from all the fireworks that have been going off this week and it's not even Halloween yet!!
My machine has been busy today coming up with this..


A cute little tote bag with a front pocket. I'm still in my pink phase as you can see. (This one will be available on Etsy or eBay soon)



Have also been prepping for other projects cutting and sewing fabrics. So many ideas running through my head!


Remember any readers of my blog have til this Friday to comment on my previous post with a chance of winning the giveaway!

The dust has gone from the machine!

Finally some completed craft projects! I can't quite believe it myself.
Have dusted off the sewing machine and been trying out a few ideas with some lovely fabric that I received ages ago from Sheree.
As well as a few other goodies ended up making this needle book, first one I have ever made and hadn't intended making it anyway, it just sort of evolved out of scraps of fabric!


I'm fairly pleased with it. One thing I have discovered this afternoon is how self critical I am of my work! Any one else like that?
I think I'm a bit of a perfectionist - stitches have to be right, corners need to be exact!


I am pleased with the needle book but one of the corners is sticking out like a sore thumb although it is only short of 90 degrees!! I do like the way the ribbon has worked out and I do love the striped fabric design and the white felt in the middle and the little hearts ribbon. Oh come to think of it it's not too bad!
I may even make up a batch for Etsy.


Well I've decided to give this one away!
All you need to do is say Hi (or introduce yourselves if your lurking about) and leave a comment letting me know if you are as critical on your own work, or if it's just me in my little mad world!
I'll leave this post open until Friday 26th midnight(BST) then will find a number generator on the Internet to help me find a winner. Good luck!
Off for a cup of tea, still have some of my chocolates left as well, before I get back to my machine.



More photos over at Flickr

WIP

It's a simple as that WIP!
Finally getting back to some actual crafting and have a few projects that I want to get going on!

Reminder

We can all do our bit ...

Monday medicine!

October is definitely in full force!
The cold weather has arrived, the heating has gone on, scarves have reappeared and the nights are getting darker!
Time to cosy up in front of the TV with my Monday medicine!
(Or any day is an excuse for chocolate!)
This yummy gift was just what October had ordered.

As you can see even more changes to my blog!
I keep having visions of new headers and designs that I can do. I have changed the blog name back to CraftyB (as that is the address!) and have left Pink Stitches for the Etsy shop. It's all so confusing - apologies.
Plus I'm learning all this stuff as I go along so it takes me forever to change and modify things!
I'm so indecisive that I'll probably change things around again soon!
Just a short post today as I'm actually going to try and get round to some crafting!!
My sewing machine is gathering dust at the moment - not too good!!

Pink, pink and more pink!

Happy October! Dark nights and woolly jumpers out of the cupboards! I do like a bit of cold weather!


Dare I mention the word pink -
It's only when you actually start looking at one of your favourite things that you realise how much of an obsession it is! Thought I would take a few more pink pics when all I could see around me was pink!!
Here's a few for you pink enthusiasts.


Hopefully I'll have some craft to post about soon!