Badgeorama

I've managed to get a lot of sewing done this week. I've been making the most of this amazing weather by doing my sewing outside in the garden. Lots of felt did keep blowing away in the breeze, but I managed to design and make quite a few new badges/brooches. There was even enough sunshine for some nice photos. Take a look...

Dog

Little White Kitten

Black Pig

Bear

Lion

Raccoon

Mouse

Tiger or stripey cat!

All these brooches are available from my brand new Zibbet Shop, which I've just launched, please pop over and take a look. It's a great site as it's easy to sign up for (as a buyer or seller) and doesn't charge listing fees or take commission on sales. 

Does anyone else sell on there? If you do please leave your shop link below, I'd be interested in checking out some other peoples shops, as I don't know many people that sell on there yet. 

Anyway here's hoping this lovely hot sunny weather continues!

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.

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!

Hello from the Minifelts

The minifelts are all really excited about having their own blog and are even more excited to announce that the new website is ready! (I have to admit I'm quite excited too...) They'd love it if you could pop over and have a look - minifelts.com

They couldn't wait to have their photographs taken for the shop. So I lined them up on a white sheet, stuck a huge spotlight on them to compensate for it being gloomy winter, and here they are...

The bunnies were a bit nervous at first about the idea of going off to new homes, to be honest most things seem to scare them, but once I'd explained that they would have lots of adventures with their new owners, they hopped about excitedly.

These tigers are brothers and sisters and are very competitive (as siblings ofter are) Every tiger is unique with it's own individual stripes, which is very useful for telling them apart when they get into trouble. They're favourite food for some reason is frosted flakes...

The cats are very quiet and mysterious, they are always competing to sit on the highest perch, and often appear deep in thought. Perhaps they know something we don't...

These birds are terrible show offs, they're rather proud of their feathers. Mind you they are mightily impressive!

Watch out for more Minifelts coming soon, and if you like the look of any of these they are all in need of a loving new home over at: minifelts.com