Bag Ladies Swap

My parcel finally arrived in the US (suprisingly rather quickly) containing my handmade wristlet I sent as part of the Bag ladies swap over here. I'm glad my partner liked it!


I've already whipped up a few more for Etsy!

Summertime is here!

Apparently!
So the clocks went forward last night and I've managed to change most of them around the house. Yay - an extra hour of light in the evenings. Maybe it will give me a chance to take some decent photos of the stuff I've got ready for Etsy when I get home from work in the evenings.
Busy finishing a couple of things and then time for photos and listings.
One thing I did manage to do yesterday before I lost an hour was set up my shop on DaWanda. Not sure how I'll get on there but will give it a go!



Playing around with new style mini lavender pillows made from lovely soft flannel cotton fabric. Definitely need smell-a-vision here!

It's miserable outside but...

That's great as it means that I've actually managed to get the sewing machine out and see some of my ideas come to life! I've been busy finishing off a couple of projects to be sent to people and then trying to get some items completed for Etsy.

Work in progress:

Hi and Welcome to Pink Stitches - thanks for stopping by.

Here you will be able to view a collection of items hand made in England by Pink Stitches. The collection includes accessories - bags, wristlets, purses, key fobs and items for the home - magnets, cushions, lavendar sachets, aprons.



Pink Stitches also provides a small collection of crafting materials.

Items are available to purchase through Etsy or DaWanda or alternatively by contacting Pink Stitches via email.

This blog is also linked to craftyb.blogspot.com

Spring clean

I felt it was time for a bit of a change so my blog has had a spring clean!

A few new colours, information and a new header. The header took me forever to sort out! Not that clued up on html and changing the template etc so if it looks a bit funny on your computer please let me know. It seems bigger than last time but I can not sort out the photo size without screaming at the computer!!

Now for the crafting adventures:

At the start of the week completed a wristlet for the March Bag Ladies Swap over here. Here's a sneak peek, will show the completed outcome once my swap partner receives it.

Easter may be over but ....

There's still plenty of chocolate around!!


See loads - 12 little creme eggs!
Just in case you're wondering I didn't buy them myself they were a present, honestly!

Although I did buy this little book today from a charity shop.


Some interesting recipes to try out in here including chocolate and courgette loaf!?
Hope everyone had a good Easter!

Rainbow

Look what the postie bought today!
Lots more lovely tissue paper to wrap up my hand made goodies!
All I need to do now is get down to making! Etsy looking very sad at the moment.

How cute!

Thank you to everyone for your kind birthday wishes comments and e mails! It was great to hear from you all.

Sweet Scent

Gorgeous flowers!
My Birthday tomorrow!
Fun weekend with friends! x

Edible creations

No fabric creations round here at the moment but some lovely muffins!!


Pear and Ginger - Yummy!!

Perfect Parcel

How nice it is to get home from work and have some lovely mail lying on the mat!
How cute is this little parcel - and it got even better inside!


I was lucky enough to be a freebie winner over at Sarah's fab blog Paper-and-String


How cute is this - Thank you Sarah!
Even the parcel was cutely decorated!

Boo!!

Scared you with a new post then?

Well I'm not sure where January went, and at the moment the same seems to be happening with February!

Life has been keeping me ultra busy and everytime I've thought lets just do a quick blog update something else has come along! Plus I missed my one year blogiversary!

Anyways hoping to be a little more inspired and things to get back to normal with the blog.

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.....

2 days to go!!!

Finally I've managed to shake off the horrible bug that I had but now that has left me very behind with my Christmas preparations. Very little crafting has gone on around here for about a month!
I managed to squeeze in a few hours of making Christmas cards but that's about it!



(Apologies it was very late and dark when I took these photos!)

Off to take a blogging break over the holiday period. Have a lovely Christmas everyone and catch up in the New Year. x

Aachoo!!

Still feel awful!!
Hoping this nasty bug will soon be gone - only 20 shopping and prepping days til Christmas, and I really couldn't afford to miss last weekend but the thoughts of hitting the shops were the last on my mind!

Not been up to much therefore not much to post about!
Although thought I'd treat you to a pic of my lovely new fabrics that arrived from Sew, Mama, Sew.

**GORGEOUS**

I managed to be sent these lovelies when I won the monthly gift certificate! I also love the little card they sent which has 50 fun things to sew and a cute little button! Thanks guys!

Mountain and valley folds?

Thought I managed to escape the bout of winter colds and flu doing the rounds but oh no!! I feel terrible this morning. I could feel it creeping up on me last night until I could just about breathe!
After having such a good day yesterday I now feel awful!

Most of my do it yourself and craft projects are self taught. Some with success others need a little more practice. This year I've challenged myself to make my own Christmas cards. I've never really done the paper crafting/scrapbooking thing until yesterday. Went on a day course, learnt a lot of tips about using paper in your crafts and made this ...



It's such a cute little tin that I covered with paper and a few other bits and bobs and then made the matching gift card (that's where I learnt about mountain and valley folds - who knew!) The tin will be great for adding a little present or money.
Was hoping to start the Christmas cards today but feel awful so off to get a Lemsip instead!

Where's the craft gone?

The day job has taken over again so very little craft going on around here!
However, a few more button magnets in production and goodies that arrived in the post.



My first purchase through Etsy! Love this fabric and hoping to make some cute Key fobs as Christmas presents!

Getting paper crafty!

I love crafting but I'm more of a fabric, thread kind of a girl than paper and card. I love buying hand crafted cards but have never really given it ago myself.
So in preparation for Christmas I've stocked up on a range of goodies to make handmade cards and tags!


Not sure how they will turn out like but looking forward to messing around and having fun!