A new look to end the year.

A huge thanks to Mavis at Mavis Graphic Designer who has given this blog a fresh fun new look as  the winner of a blog makeover giveaway I won and have managed to update my madeit store with it too.

I am really happy with it, so I just wanted to say thanks Mavis!

PS Feel free to grab my brand new button too!

Thankfully...

they made it safely! After a hairy almost lost at the post office experience, my 6 little dolly gifts made it to their next step in their journey. I can't wait to hear when they are distributed. There is still time to donate a dolly or a softie if you are interested, click on the dolly button for more info.

Meanwhile, it seems I am addicted to dolls, stay tuned for some little gals I have been working on for 3 little ladies I happen to know whom are all turning one in the next few weeks! I do love making a gift, and I am extra excited about these ones....

Giveaway time!

It's time I hopped on the bandwagon! I have been the very lucky recipient of a number of giveaways recently and I have decided it's time to give some karmic goodwill back! However someone with a much broader following base as me has kindly offered to 'host' the giveaway, so go on over to The Clip Cafe for all the details.

Up for grabs is two little drawstring bags, his and hers for little people, if you like. Featuring giraffes and elephants, these bags are lined and big enough for those must have treasure when out and about!

Thanks to The Clip Cafe for doing a little interview with me after the Softie Swap and doing all the actual work on the giveaway! Well, all bar the sewing of the little items you see here that is!

Bullion embroidery bits and pieces, ideas needed!

In my previous life where I had copious amounts of time and patience, I did wool embroidery on baby blankets. Then I ventured into some bullion embroidery, and this was the result. The 4 pics are on one bassinet size woolen blanket piece in each corner, and the plan was to add another 4 designs on each side and one in the middle. I ran out of steam. So now the blanket is a bit sparse as is, so am wondering what I could do with these little panels if I were to cut the blanket up. Dolly blankets? Sew them onto the belly of a little bear? Any ideas graciously considered!

Treasured!

I just noticed something of mine was featured on the madeit blog, in a Christmas treasury, yay! I haven't put pics of them up here yet, feeling it was a bit early for Christmas stuff (!), but it's the 2 green Christmas stockings, bottom left corner, as seen below.

It's nice to see something of mine chosen and the extra publicity doesn't hurt either!

When the time is more appropriate, I'll post the rest of my stockings here, I might wait til at least November, unlike some of the shopping centres....

Finally, Pea Green Boat is online!

Well, sort of.... I have finally made a storefront and managed to actually list something on the madeit site!!

If you have a look you'll see it is the play mat I first posted about here ages ago. In the meantime a very dear friend bought the red one, so I have only the one listed for now, but I have the makings of another two ready to go. Plus about a zillion ideas racing around my head and itching to be created, if only there were more hours in the day! Standby for future updates.... and in the meantime, yay me for finally doing something I have wanted to do for ages.

A new little endeavour!

Welcome to my new blog! I decided to add another blog for my craft interests and creations so that my other, more personal blog didn't get too confused with it's identity! Here I plan to post some pics of my work and things I hope to maybe one day sell online.



So thanks for looking, as always comments are most welcome and appreciated, including constructive criticism, feedback and suggestions! I will post a couple of new things shortly as I had to have something of substance to start this blog off. My time is limited (as is everyones) and my creations can be few and far between so please bear with me!



The banner above is new too and has taken too many countless hours of my time, and a big special thanks goes to my lovely sis who did all the online image editing and background colour and general tidying up so I could pop it into a banner program and put my words in. I hope to use this on my online store too. Oh, and for the life of me I can't get it to sit inside that box up there. Or get rid of the box. It's driving me crazy, so my apologies, it hasn't been overlooked!



So without further ado, here we go.............