365 / 78 - satisfying tasks and a secret revealed

Last night my crafting tasks were deeply, deeply satisfying as I got to Actually Finish Some Things instead of just doing odd bits of works in progress. Here are the things I have finished (along with some things I almost finished)...... a batch of teacup pins, a batch of plush birdies and also some apple pips pins.

Ah, it is so wonderful lining all those finished things up in a row like that (mildly obsessive? moi? surely not).

Today I have been busy with blogging tasks - I am still very behind on updating the UK Etsy Sellers blog, but I have at least now brought the shop guides up to date... They still need a bit of work as I need to give a description of contents for many of the shops, but I've done some of them at least and all the empty shops have been removed and the new shops added (thanks to the sterling work of Kezzaroo updating the UK Etsy sellers list every month).

I have also been uploading photos to my flickr, of the secret item I made way back on day 39 of this crafting 365 project. It's a felt version of a comic strip creature? character? monster? not sure what to call him, but he is called Space Owl:
Today has also included a memorable trip to the post office (after which I realised I had been undercharged! I actually got to send a free parcel, it was rather marvellous), talks with my landlord about plumbers (our boiler and water tank and so forth may need replacing - doom!), and a lovely tea-break catching up on Storque articles wherein I spotted my moustache pins in a cute set of spy-related items in one of their How-To pieces, hurrah!

Crafting 365 / 36 - Round like a circle in a spiral...

... like a wheel within a wheel... That song has been going round my head like crazy as I've been finishing off my current project. Circle after circle, round and round, stitching, stitching, stitching. After a big final push and several ribbon-based tangles, I have finally finished it! the biggest mobile I have ever made (and possibly one of the largest things I have ever made, too).... proper photos another time but here it is in a big heap:
Hurrah!

In other news, my moustache obsession continues apace as I have been listening to Hercule Poirot mysteries on the radio (tis Agatha Christie month on BBC7, you know) and I have treated myself to this little beauty of a t-shirt from the lovely John Allison:
It seamlessly combines my moustache-madness and my crazy love of all things tea related making it therefore perhaps the perfect t-shirt for me. The tea love has also driven me to purchase this little treasure from Seaurchin:
(she is making it into a brooch for me). How darling is that? I love the thought of wearing it with one of my "I love tea" badges (I always say about those that they are "declaring my political allegiance") and I think it will look mighty spiffy on my winter sweaters :)

Crafting 365 / 24 - a finished mobile! woohoo!

This morning has again been one for photos - not as good light as yesterday but perfectly serviceable. I did have to drag my kitchen table all the way across the room to sit next to the window in order to take some of my pictures as my windowsill was insufficiently large. I currently cannot reach my oven, but it was worth it to be able to take photos of this which I finished last night:
Ah, it is so satisfying finishing those! They always look so different, and the colours are just YUM, I cannot stop taking pictures of them. Close-up shot:
I have also been taking pictures of some ornaments ready to list (lots of little birds) and two sets of map notecards that I made a few days ago but hadn't sorted into packs yet. Here they all are on the kitchen table:

Oh, and yesterday was a rather good supplies day as I popped into work to say hello on my way to the Post Office and my lovely boss had brought in another bag of assorted wool (her brother runs a charity shop and they find it hard to sell) to donate to my Big Knit hat project. Lots of lovely colours now, I shall be able to knit some very stylish little stripey numbers when I eventually get started on this! Tucking the new balls of wool away in my crafting cupboard, I was thinking how really I need a nice bag to put my knitting in... which I realised would be an excellent excuse to treat myself to this - so practical! so crafty! so awesome!
Is it bad to want to learn to crochet just to make it okay to buy that bag?