I won!

I few weeks ago I entered a fantastic giveaway on Titchables blog and I won! This is the first giveaway I've ever won and I was thrilled as the prize consisted of all these lovely goodies:

I love it all and it arrived so beautifully packaged. The covered buttons are so cute and the red ribbon was perfect for finishing off this hanging bunny. It has a secret pocket/pouch sewn onto the back for storing notes, money, keys or anything you like in!

Part of the prize was also free shipping on my next order so I treated myself to a few other supplies from Titchables Shop

I just love the bright polka dot ribbon, I'll definitely be using that for some of the keyrings I'm making at the moment. I also bought some more brooch pins to make another batch of badges with and some zips, despite having never sewn a zip in before I thought I'd have a go at using these to make some little purses/pouches in the shape of some of my Minifelt designs. I'll let you know how that goes!

Anyway a big thank you to Titchabes for the giveaway, I'd definitely recommend checking out their Shop and fantastic blog.

Easter Bunnies

With Easter fast approaching I thought I'd offer FREE UK SHIPPING on all the bunnies in my Folksy Shop to celebrate, so make sure you get your Easter bunnies quick!

There are more bunnies available from my Website. I am also happy to custom make you a Minifelt Bunny in any colour you'd like, so please feel free to drop me an email.

Surprise holidays are the best

Last week my lovely boyfriend whisked me away on a surprise trip to Oxford, as a late Christmas present. I had no idea about it what so ever, I thought we were heading up to stay with his mum on the Wirral. I didn't even suspect anything when we were driving down country lanes past fields of sheep, instead of speeding along the motorway!

Anyway we were driving through this little village called Stanton St John just outside Oxford, with me saying "wouldn't it be nice to live somewhere like this?" He then pulls into the pub carpark and says "well let's stay here for a few days!" He'd arranged for us to stay in a lovely little cottage just down the road. It was really quirky, had loads of antique ornaments and furniture, plus a jacuzzi and a really good curry house near by! Although the "period" style decoration wasn't all to our taste (especially the very scary giant baby painting in the bedroom), it was so much more fun than staying in a boring hotel! Oxford was also lovely and definitely worth a visit if you haven't been there before.

I managed to take a few photos of the cottage before my camera battery died...

I really liked this piece of furniture in the kitchen, it had loads of little draws each with various useful items in, such as knives and forks, thought it'd be really good for storing sewing stuff in, you could have a draw for buttons and one for fabric etc... Definitely need something like this to help me be more organised!

Here's the Minifelts filling out their postcards that they got on a visit to the fantastic Ashmolean museum. No idea how they managed to gatecrash our holiday, those Minifelts are very sneaky...

 They were especially excited when they heard the cottage was called the Burrows, and was sort of underground, they also approved greatly of the number of rabbit themed ornaments they discovered.

Snow adventures

Finally there's snow on the Isle of Wight, and lots of it. The minifelts were very excited as they have never seen snow before. My boyfriend, my dad and I decided to build a snowman, and a couple of other little helpers managed to sneak along too...

A good hour later we had removed most of the snow from the drive, and the road and pavement outside the house. We'd also fallen over several times, "accidently" tipped snow over each others heads and ruined several pairs of gloves but we did produce this in the process...

Not exactly a classic snowman, for some reason his head started to look like it had a parka hood on, so we made him a little fishing rod and turned him into an eskimo!

After all that we needed to go inside for a nice cup of tea and a lie down.

Well some of us did...

Christmas Eve!

Ooooh it's Christmas Eve! Been really busy over the past few weeks, made a couple of sales on the website, and finally got round to opening my Folksy shop which you can check out HERE and has these new additions for sale.


At the moment I'm back home visiting my parents on the Isle of Wight, feeling a bit lonely as the Minifelts have all gone on a roadtrip to Newcastle for Christmas. Where hopefully they will be having their photographs taken with a fancy camera.


I couldn't resist taking a few craft materials home with me, so have attempted a couple of projects. Firstly I found a free bird template HERE on the Spool website, which I didn't end up following but inspired me to make a bird mobile, it's still a work in progress at the moment so will share some photos once it's finished.

I also attempted to use my mums sewing machine to make a giant Minifelt bunny, or rather a Megafelt. I haven't used a sewing machine since highschool, so it didn't quite go to plan... Think I need to practise on something a bit easier first, so I finished it off by hand. It needs a name, any suggestions?



Right I'm off to eat some mince pies and watch some terrible Christmas telly.
Merry Christmas from me and the Minifelts!