Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Experiments with colour
I'm working on some new sparkly flowers at the moment, and am having lots of fun playing with colour combinations... mmm... lovely colours...
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Little Hats for the Big Knit
The Big Knit is back! I've made a start on this year's collection of little hats...
I've been knitting these for so many years now it's starting to feel like a crafty tradition. I've only knitted two little hats so far, but have plans for many more... and lots of the ladies at my knitting group are knitting them too, and they're all much speedier knitters than me! Hopefully we'll end up with a veritable mountain of little hats to donate to the campaign.
I've been knitting these for so many years now it's starting to feel like a crafty tradition. I've only knitted two little hats so far, but have plans for many more... and lots of the ladies at my knitting group are knitting them too, and they're all much speedier knitters than me! Hopefully we'll end up with a veritable mountain of little hats to donate to the campaign.
Monday, 5 July 2010
Teatowel Addiction
My name is Laura, and I'm a handmade teatowel addict.
It's sad but true, one of my very favourite things to treat myself to is a nice teatowel from Etsy... I'm building up quite a stash of them:
(Including designs from Skinny laMinx, Mr.PS, Showpony, Flowerpress and Abigail*Ryan)
Honestly I don't think I need to buy another teatowel as long as I live, but keep adding designs like this and this and this to my wishlist...
Are there any other tea towel addicts out there? What do you like to treat yourself to on Etsy?
(Including designs from Skinny laMinx, Mr.PS, Showpony, Flowerpress and Abigail*Ryan)
Honestly I don't think I need to buy another teatowel as long as I live, but keep adding designs like this and this and this to my wishlist...
Are there any other tea towel addicts out there? What do you like to treat yourself to on Etsy?
Sunday, 4 July 2010
New Packaging
One of my projects for the summer is to finally get packaging sorted for all my designs. At the moment I wrap everything in tissue paper, and just add a thankyou note and a business card to the parcel but have long dreamed of having "proper" packaging.
I ummed and aahed about the best option, weighing up the need to present things "professionally", protect my pieces in the mail, and to avoid creating lots of waste or raising my postage costs. In the end I settled on reusable grip-seal bags, with an info card inside + a bit of bubblewrap for the brooches to help protect the clasps in transit... and for larger items (like my masks) I'm working on matching swing tags.
I'm pretty happy with how it looks, though I had been swearing at my printer quite a lot this week! It prints perfectly on white card but really doesn't like the coloured stuff so until I can find a brand of card it will print on without smudging (and wasting loads of sheets of card in the process) I'm going to have to stick with white. Oh well.
I ummed and aahed about the best option, weighing up the need to present things "professionally", protect my pieces in the mail, and to avoid creating lots of waste or raising my postage costs. In the end I settled on reusable grip-seal bags, with an info card inside + a bit of bubblewrap for the brooches to help protect the clasps in transit... and for larger items (like my masks) I'm working on matching swing tags.
I'm pretty happy with how it looks, though I had been swearing at my printer quite a lot this week! It prints perfectly on white card but really doesn't like the coloured stuff so until I can find a brand of card it will print on without smudging (and wasting loads of sheets of card in the process) I'm going to have to stick with white. Oh well.
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