Girls with Curls

A bit of a continuation of yesterday. 

More shopper-size totes with pretty drawn girls for today's post.

"Curly-haired Katie"

"Curly-haired Kathy"

Kathy and Katie are sisters. At the moment, they are all alone in the world. They have each other and thats all they need. Although, I am sure they have many more curly-haired relatives who are waiting to love and care for them too.

I can say that with some confidence, as I really enjoyed drawing these girl. There was something relaxing about making waves and circles with the pen, watching each curl appear on the cotton. I could spend hours drawing these girls...

These are the same size as the Red Flower Girl Totes and are also at the shop.

There is just one more bunny to be shared tomorrow and that will be the end of the "What's in the shop" post.

And then I can get started on some new things and ideas...

xo

Red Flowers

A couple of the bigger totes, mentioned at the end of my last post.

I have decide to go with a little theme of my girls to have flowery names and their corsages to match. 

"Rose" Shopper

Rose is a thoughtful girl. She sees happiness and beauty all around.

Her corsage is a very simple rose with pretty stitched edging and a red button in the centre. 

"Poppy" Shopper

Poppy has a young soul. She dreams of childhood games and collecting flowers.

Her poppy corsage has a stitched edging and lots of raised french knot seeds in the centre.

The bags themselves are 36x27 cms, a good shopper size and will hold the chunkiest issue of your favourite magazine. They are made from 100% cotton with a slight wrinkled look, giving a rustic look (which can be seen in the pics if you look closely and I think add to the charm of the girls), and the handles are triple-stitched so nice and strong. All bags can be hand-washed at a low temperature.

Each is drawn by hand, with their name and my scribble of the inside.

More pictures here.

These two girls are at the shop now.

I hope you all are having a lazy end to your weekend. I have a date with a cup of tea and my sewing machine now, but I'll be back tomorrow with more goodies.

xo

New Baked Babies

"Baby cakes"

Soft, little felt cakes with a bow and a tiny dummy bead on top.

Two blue boy cakes and a pink girl one.

That is if you want to be traditional, pink for boys and blue for girls works wonderfully too. 

    

You may remember the first Baby cake, posted here. She was made to say 'hello' a little baby girl called Evie. 

     

These little cuties went up to the shop today, and will be available for £4.95 soon.

As well as the Baby Cakes, the Chocolate Nun Mini Totes, these 'Happy' the Birthday Cake Softies and badges from previous posts are at the shop, along with a couple of other bigger bags and a bunny I haven't posted yet. Pictures of those will appear here over the next couple of days.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

xo

Four World Peace and Chocolate

No, its not a typo or bad grammar, just a bad play on words from me.

Today, I have a little edition of mini totes to share.

Chocolate Nun Mini Totes

Number 1

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A little edition of four, based on the Chocolate Nun tote I made last year. Each one is slightly different, keeping with my idea to make every piece as unique as possible. Each is numbered and signed.

Number 2

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The picture is hand drawn, and is of a nun praying for "World Peace and Chocolate" (which would be very high on my own list of things to pray for).

The scribble has changed a little different from the original. The nun has become a little softer and cuter, and the thought bubbles a little fancier.  

Number 3

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The original Chocolate Nun Mini Tote was made as a 2007 mother's day gift for my Mum. The bag was the perfect size to fit a box of my Mum's favourite chocolates, so the Nun's prayer came true :)

Number 4

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Being a Mini Tote, they are around 22cms square, a rather perfect gift bag size for chocolate (a well tested theory) or for storing bits and bobs around the house (another tested theory, as I used one as a sewing bag.)

They are made for natural coloured, 100% calico and the ink is heat-sealed and washable at low temperatures. I would advise following a 'handmade = handwash' rule.

I will be taking these and some other wares up to Archie and Mabel's sometime soon, and I am very keen on opening a teeny little online shop (once some pesky paperwork is out of the way),

so here or there, they are going to be available soon.

It's exactly 3 months today that I have been blogging and selling. 

That's a quarter of a year already!! (I know you know that, but I like to say it out loud.) And a very happy quarter-year it has been.

Happy Wednesdays to All

xo

Swaps and Lazy Long Weekend

I am lucky enough to get lovely little pieces of art through my door every so often, by taking part in an ATC swap.

This month's theme was "Underwater Wonderland" 

pencil crayon Atc

As you can see Alice is still very much stuck in my head, when I read the word "Wonderland" I just had to do an Alice-inspired card.

The picture here is a little larger than the actual card (on my screen at least).

I love to work quite small, but wished I could have fitted bigger, floppy fake hare ears than the card allowed.

 

Sketch for "Underwater Wonderland" Atc

More of my Atc's and the ones I have received can be found here. 

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I have to confess that I have done hardly any work in the last ten days.

There has been moments of scribbles and stitches, but all in all I have just been enjoying myself with other things.

Last week started with visiting my friend in Cambridge, and this one with a couple of days in Oxford (I will tell you more about that with a 'handmade(ish) by others' post later in the week), and there maybe a trip to London next week too, so I am feeling like a mini traveller at the minute. Mini as all these places are not far from home. 

Tomorrow, I will be back to work....

xo

New Moo!!

My new miniMoo cards arrived at the start of the week.

These little cards are so sweet, I'm so thrilled at how they came out.

The pictures are of:

My latest batch of 'Happy' Cakes

Bunny Number 4 

and of the sketches of:

Flossy Bunny

"Sophie"

"Ollie" 

and Laundry Girl

I also had a couple of test bunny cards made up a couple of weeks ago 

(which I forgot to share, oops!)

I heart Moo

xo

This Bunny has been waiting to see you...

Meet Bunny number 4!

I have given her the little name of "Flo" for now. 

Usually, the bunnys and the rest of my pieces get their names as I work on their faces, but bunny 4 is a little different.

She was made a couple of weeks ago as a custom order of sorts. 

As I sewed, I knew this little bunny had an owner so I decided to let her be named by her. She was to be given as an Easter present, (hence why not posted sooner, I hate to spoil surprise pressies) so is already at her new home and it sounds like she will be in lovely company. 

 

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I have been easing myself back to work today, after my lovely little visit to a penguin-loving friend, by doing a couple of finishing stitches with plans for more tomorrow. It was easier than I ever imagined to step away from the pins and needles, although I'm very happy to be back with them now.

I plan to be back with my usual Friday post so...

see you tomorrow

xo