Vanished without a trace!

I did not mean to be away so long but I have an excuse, I have had 5 craft stalls at varying location days and duration, which has meant a lot of sewing and arranging child care what with me & hubbo splitting up. I have also joined NOTHS and I really pleased with the results so far, I do realise it is the busiest time of the year for them but I am pleased with the variety of goods been purchased and the number of orders I am getting. My best seller so far is the Reindeer dust which pictured below and followed closely by my personal favourites the Tea Cup candles.

We also had the news that Keswick got flooded in all the recent rain. Luckily been a 2nd floor apartment we did not get flooded, but unfortunately the 2 ground floor flats were wiped out. Also our cleaner and family got flooded so for the interim they are using the flat up until New Year, when after they have got a house for 6 months until there has dried out and been done up.

Any way I must dash as I am at work, so I guess I should be working. Before I go I don't know if anyone has done this, but my little dear received a message from Santa from here and she thought it was magical, she had tears in her eyes. All that they ask is a few details plus one photo of your child and voila a truly magical thing.

Hope to be back soon

How cute is this!

My little dear has always put some reindeer dust out on Christmas Eve for Rudolf and his friends. It was always provided by her Pre-school, but now that she has gone to big school the responsibility has fallen on my shoulders. As the labels says its magic stuff!

All that it is is porridge oats with glitter, not very imaginative but little dear appreciates the sentiment it part of her ritual along with putting out a Gin & Tonic and kit kat for Santa!

If anyone else is in need of some Reindeer Dust let me know I am selling it at £1.50 and this includes postage.

The best bit!

I had a order from my nail lady to make her Christmas gifts to her customers, apparently last year she had an idea in her head what she wanted to buy and how she wanted her gifts to look, but she struggled with time and in the end spent far too much cash. So I showed her my tissue holder/lavender bag gift sets and how they looked all gift wrapped and she jumped at the chance the only decision she had to make was what to put on the label(not Best Teacher as the picture shows) and what Cath Kidston fabric design she wanted!

5o gift sets later all complete, I handed them over on Tuesday morning and she was over the moon. She thought they looked gorgeous and all she had to do was write on the label.

So one happy customer!

Tea cup love!

What do you do when you want to get rid of the smell of a curry brewing in the slow cooker, you make vanilla teacup candles. I love going into charity shops and spotty gorgeous vintage teacups & saucers! As I suspect many of you do!

These beauties will be going into my NOTHS shop if it ever gets approved.

My favourite one is this yellow one, I only have this one and one left to make up so I have to make a tough decision soon!

A different kind of fair!

I was child free yesterday and my sister was attending a wedding show so after a phone call requesting lunch as she was starving, I made a short trek down the road to Hodsock Priory to provide refreshments. I don't know how the fair was for her as unlike my shows it does not provide instant results but the vibe felt good!

What's in your stash!

I have an idea mulling around in my head and I need your help. I buy some of my basic sewing supplies e.g cording, seam binding, bias binding from a lady on my local market and she supplies it in bulk e.g 30 metre rolls. I also obviously go through a hell of a lot of white guttermans cotton. There are probably also a lot of items you do the same but I want to know what they are and how you get them e.g do you buy from a wholesale haberdashery, from your local sewing shop in small amounts or from some where like Dunelm Mill.

Please let me know as you have probably guessed my idea it to start supplying it.

Thank you

Long time no see!

Well what can I say, it is now October and I feel like I have been away for ages (well I have). There has been so much going on, well my last post was full of happenings and plans, but they all went up in smoke. Me & hubbo have split up, no drama attached just we were both unhappy with each other and it took the possibility of a new house to realise we were probably just covering over the cracks. We are still friends and we are trying to move on.

Anyway onwards and upwards!

Got loads going on, craft fairs, joining Not On The High Street, Little dear starting school, sorting out a mortgage, decorating the house. So hopefully I will have lots to blog about over the next few weeks.

I have joined Twitter, its great!