Too miserable for photos!

The weather is so dull and miserable that I can not get any good photos of what I am busy making!

Here are a few from when the sun was shining. I have decided to make a batch of items and then place them on Etsy all in one go. This gives me something to aim for in terms of completion.
Busy making:
1. Cute lavender sachets/mini pillows (I did a bit of a test run with these. Lavender is still fresh and sweet smelling after several months!)
2. Hanging lavender felt hearts. These go great in the airing cupboard!
3. Felt heart magnets.


Hoping for some sunshine soon to take some decent photos!
Thanks to everyone who has left comments over the past few days - Karyn, Muralimanohar, Vanessa (thanks for the labels site!), Clare and Jennifer. I don't have email addresses for all of you but thanks for stopping by and Hi!

Spots and stripes

That what my latest creation consists of!
A make up, wash bag, general hold anything kind of zippered bag. It's also nice and roomy!
I had fun making this and am really pleased with the outcome. I was originally going to make one with a cute applique design on the front using different fabric, but my patient couldn't hold out and I wanted to see the finished outcome so went with this combination of fabrics.




Thinking now I need some "Pink Stitches" fabric labels and I might make these and alternatives for my Etsy shop. What do you think?

Busy, busy, busy!

At last the sewing machine has seen daylight!
I've had a lovely afternoon trying out a couple of things.
I'm really pleased with my new little zippered bag using a pattern from "Sew Pretty Homestyle". I'm loving that book!
Only thing - it is now pitch black outside so the photos look terrible! Hope for a bit of sunshine tomorrow so I can take some decent photos so check back then!

It took a bit of time

At last I have my first PINK STITCHES Etsy sell!
It was only for one of my cover button tools but at least that's a start. I only have a couple of items in the shop but have not had much success. Not sure whether it's the price of items, that I'm based in the UK and a lot of buyers are based in the US? Or numerous other reasons that I can think of!
I am hoping to add a few other items to the shop, so we will just have to wait and see how it goes. Fingers crossed.

Visiting from?

One of my problems of not spending as much time as I would like actually in front of my sewing machine or coming up with new projects is partly down to the daily readings of all the fab crafts blogs out there. I dare not say how many of them are saved in my favorites!
I found it really interesting the other day when I managed to find out through Crafty Blogs UK where my some of my readers come from. The UK, US, Canada, Israel, Portugal. I find it fascinating!
So if you're out there and you have yet to leave a comment I would love to hear from regular or new readers from all around the world!

(Image from Wildgoose education resources)

Gorgeous reads

There are so many lovely craft books out there at the moment and I was lucky to receive some fab ones at Christmas. I have been wanting these for ages but just had to control myself from a spending splurge and get them as gifts.

I know probably most of you have had these books for a while, but if you haven't you've got to get them.

Plans for the weekend - going to try and squeeze some time in to start making some of the lovely projects!

Arrrrgggghhhh!!!

That's the one and only word (well there are a few other select words that are far to rude for here!) that have come out of my mouth over the past few days!
So much for me wanting to post more regularly - as well as human viruses my computer went and got one! Not at all fun!!

Anyways thanks for the lovely comments on the previous post and sorry I have not emailed you all back. I do hope to get busy with my blog soon and as usual have loads of ideas floating around in my head that need to be put into practice.

I just need to get going now! Avoiding all viruses - human and computer!

Happy 2008!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful start to the New Year!

I am hoping to get back to regular posting soon but for now a trip down memory lane and some of the things I got up to in 2007.....