Love Is In The Air....

... with Toodle & Binks

This lovely stamp fell on my mat this morning and I was itching to have a play!!!! but I had to wait till the ladies from the knitting club had left, I waited a whole 4hrs!!! i was nearly pulling my hair out LOL I just think is super sweet and like the others great to work with, clean image every time :) If you want your hands on this fabby stamp you can nip over to their blog for details.

Updated Shop Pics

It's been a while since I shared pics of the shop with you so while I was quiet yesterday I snapped away.

This is the main shop floor view from my office, it looks a bit cramped but when you are actually in it's very roomy. The black shelves are the ones my lush hubs too me to Ikea for, they are really great and go up in no time at all. I like them that much I have 5 more for use in the studio as I think I will have to start moving it to get more of a choice of stock for my regulars :)

I've changed my windows for valentines day as well and I am very pleased. I bought the smaller cube unit from Ikea for the window and it have made such a difference, there is more light in the shop and for some reason it look nicer to the eye from the outside.

This is where the old cube unit ended up :) I am soo hoping my craft room will be better organized...... not lightly!!!

I'll leave you with a pic of the flowers my Hubs sent me the other day to cheer me up, he was only home for three day after 2 weeks+ away and I felt really down cause I missed him soo much, ain't he sweet. I'd not a very good pic though, do you like my vase LOL it's something I don't have in the shop so the watering jug had to do :)

Valentines cards

Oh about the Gorjuss post below I've Pre-ordered mine wooooohooooo!! roll on the week of the 23rd :)

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Well I had a really busy day at the shop today, for some reason I got a great amount of cards made. Most of them are quite minimalistic but thats what seems to work in the shop so I need to cater for my market, I do occasionally get to throw in a FAT card as I call them with all the trimmings :)


My Fat Card

Two in the One Night

But I had to share with you Sugar Nellie have said pre orders are being taken at Funky Kits for the Gorjuss Girls on Thursday, the house of sugar is going to be megga busy as sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many peeps have been waiting on these babies they are just yummy, I am still in the process of deciding which print to buy from the Etsy shop:)

What do you do...

... in the car on the way to Ikea???


Me I


String on some heart for the shop window


Cut out some Copic coloured in stamps :) my fave

&


Truly annoy the heck out of hubs!!!!! There isn't any word to describe how much this man hates the "Blue & Yellow Hell" he knows when we are near cause he can "smell the burning flesh" LOL I think the expression on his face says it all. Like many other crafter's hubs he does put up with a lot, he very kindly got up early o'clock to drive 4hrs to Glasgow, let me spend is money on shelving for the shop and a few other bits & then drive another 4hrs home. It is good cause I get those hours just us talking, singing(badly) and just general catching up with each other, I did get in some knitting too so all in all a productive car trip:)

My Babies Missing Tooth!!!

I know it's nothing to do with crafting but I felt really sad when my baby lost her first tooth :( it wasn't that I felt old I just felt a tug at my heart when it happened, silly I know!

I was naughty last week I found a sale on my fav Magnolia stamps wooohooo so I just had to give a few of them a home :) I bought a few more boys as I see to favor the girls more and then this little angel fell into my cart :)

I have had to spend a lot of time stocking up on my jewellery as the Christmas rush had near wiped me out, I found these lush lampwork beads and had to have a play, I did hover have a go at making my own necklace stands, I'm really please with how they turned out, the downside was the card I used I only had 3 bits left :(

Love is in the air over here at the shop xoxoxox the windows are decorated, I've been to Ikea to get more shelving for the ever increasing amount of stock I seem to be getting :) and I am in the middle of making Valentines cards, I thought I had enough from last year but no- thats what I get for not checking before now LOL

My Space

This post is inspired by a thread on http://www.craftsforum.co.uk/ a place i like to hangout, I feel rather ashamed as so many peeps have lovely co-ordinating places to create and i just work in a muddle, in fact the pictures are actually my work space tidy for a change LOL This space is in the shop so i use it for card & jewellery making and my so called scrapbooking- that these days I never get round too :(

If I get a change tomorrow I will take pics of my studio at the bottom of our garden, I share with my Mum, it is still work in progress but usable. Mum does her stained glass there and I have my potters wheel & kilns.

Having fun :)

I haven't had much time to play this week with doing the decorations for our local town hall's Burns Supper. I love these little fairies they are great fun and going down a treat with the kids friends. I'll be off card making for a while as I am way low with my jewellery & unfortunately the card making will have to suffer, well all apart from my fabby design team work!!

Little Beauties!!

I am in love with these fabby little babies :) They are a download from a site in the Sates( I'll find link and add later sorry) they where available in rubba but I wanted to play straight away- as you do! It's weird to explain but they are great to colour in and easy peasy, I can see me playing with these a lot so I hope they release more designs as I'll buy them all :) They sentiment on the card is from the wonderful Elzybells range it just went perfect with the faeries, she is to damn clever that girl LOL

You're so Tweet!!

In between customer orders I had a chance to play with some more fabby Toodle & Binks stamps they are just the best!!

I've got a few things to share, some super uber sweet faeries & my Tilda & Edwin obsession has expanded again :) I'll be stuck in the shop making valentines cards tomorrow- I love it!!

Oh if your into knitting and are near pop ito the shop tomorrow between 10.30-12.30 for the knitting club, I'm lovin it so far I've completed two pair of fingerless gloves, a camera case for my camcorder & currently working on two blankets for the Feed The Children charity :) very productive but as always not in the ways that I should be like sorting website LOL

My Boy

Two posts in the one evening I know but I need to get this down, my handsome but above is very ill and I know I'll be stressing over the next two weeks until he gets his scan and we find out how bad his problems are. He is called Teal'c and will be 8 next month and is totally camera shy, I am nit kidding!!!the middle pic was him actually barking at me for shoving the camera in his face LOL He is old I know but up until a few months he was still bounding about like a little puppy and then he just went down hill and things have just got bad in a scary way :(

The vet found a tumor, a swollen pancreas, bladder problems and his heart murmur has got that bad they may not be able to put him in for an op to get the tumor removed, so it's not looking good for my baby.

Sorry I just wanted to get this off my chest, thanx for listeming Ger xxx

Cards at last!!!

Don't ask!!! this was a request from a customer LOL

My new lush stamp from sugar nellie :) I am waiting to pre order their new babies this week

I just lurve these beauties, I am actually thinking I should add more to my ever expanding collection, have to do it soon as hubs is away and I don't have to hide the parcels LOL

I haven't managed on here lately as I've been sooo busy in the shop, I've had soooo much stock arrive which is great but not when you have to mark it all off, price and find a home for it all. I think I am just about fit to burst and if I get any more craft stuff in I'll have to head into the Crafters Gallery LOL

I have also been battling mentally with my other hobby-eating!!! I just lurve food :) :) oh yes but as you can imagine after to kids, eating what I like and letting my exercise basically grind to a sharp halt, I have decided to get back in control. I am two weeks into it and so far going great, for the first time I actually feel I am in control for a change, I am not doing anything major just cutting out junk sun-thur and pleasing myself Frid & Sat without going overboard. My biggest achievement has been, now don't laugh, I have managed to walk around for two weeks with a few chocolate bars in my bag without being tempted!!! This is something quite major for me and my secret I think about what I'm going to eat, ask if I really need it & then ask if I want to stay a lardy arse LOL that is it :)

I forgot about this little baby so thought I'd pop it on, it's been a while since I've been on I really don't know where the time goes, this year I am going to try make a better effort to blog as I have been sadly lacking LOL

Hope Christmas was everything you hoped it would be and you all have a wonderful 2009!!!

Little Edwin

I haven't managed to get my photos uploaded onto the puter but I thought I'd share little Edwin, I can safely say I'm in love he is such a cutie

Getting Sorted

Had a few orders to get through the past few weeks and I can finally see the might at the end of the tunnel I think! I'll have to get my beading head back on as I am seriously running out of stock the only problem is I have an itch to be creative when i should really just be productive, it never comes along when you want it too LOL

I have really reached the end of these babies too, only two to go :) I do love making them though apart from all the sanding LOL the letter 'N' has been covered in Swarovski's & looking stunning in real life.

Hope you are all getting ready for the big day I can't wait!!! not that we are up to anything flashy or the kids are getting anything huge but I am closing the shop for a couple of weeks and it is just going to be a great family time for us all. Best of all we are heading down to York for a week of exploring down that neck of the woods and a much needed and really looking forward visit to Hubby's Aunt & Uncle in Manchester, only 18 days to go!!!

hAnglar & stAnglar Request

I am not proud and I am going to beg on my knees if I need too!!!! Does anyone have any of these wonderful stamps for sale????

Or

Would anyone like to do a stamped image swap for some I really really really want to have a play with these beauties & you can't buy them in the UK :( they should really make a sign for my 2 yr old hissi fit but a sad face will have to do LOL

Thought I'd share a couple more Chrimbo creations :)