Say Hello to my New Shop!

After much tinkering, my brand new shop is finally finished!

As I mentioned last week, the new shop will be replacing the shop pages which are currently part of my website. The old shop is still live but it will be vanishing quite soon, once I get a change to update all my links and attend to all the other bits and bobs on my "website update" to do list.

When I've (eventually) got everything sorted, my website will be slimmed down to just a few pages about me and my work with pages that link to my shop, and to my blog, etc. If you prefer shopping via Etsy, Folksy or DaWanda don't worry! My shops there will all be remaining open :)

With perfect timing, all 65 of my felt colours are now back in stock after a few weeks of being sold out... so all my felt colour packs and "pick your own" colours are in stock in my new felt squares section. Most of my craft supplies are back in stock too, hurrah!

To help celebrate the launch of my shiny new shop, you can get 15% off orders of £15 or more, with the code NEWSHOP. Just enter the code when prompted during the checkout process and the discount should be applied automatically when you update your cart.This offer will run until the end of May, and excludes shipping.  

Click here to visit my new shop!

A Surprise Parcel

A lovely lady who won some felt in a giveaway on my blog sent me a surprise gift as a "thankyou" a few weeks ago... a pretty quilted bag, decorated with some of the felt she won:

The design was inspired by the pretty tape I use to seal all my parcels. There were many oohs over it when I  opened the parcel.

The bag is totally gorgeous and perfect for storing & carrying my "in progress" knitting.

 

 Such a lovely thing to get in the post!

Pretty Nostalgic

Have you heard about Pretty Nostalgic yet?

It's a lovely new independent magazine, published in the UK, with a love for all things vintage. According to their website....

"Petty Nostalgic is a bi-monthly home and lifestyle magazine that celebrates vintage, traditional and sustainable ways of living. We passionately support independent British producers and love seeking out unique, eclectic homes and meeting people who love life and live by their own rules. The magazine is packed with inspiration to help make your house a home, to fill your kitchen with homegrown and foraged food, to inspire you to reuse and upcycle and to make every day an adventure. It is a handbook for creative, curious and resourceful folk who yearn for a simple, stylish and sustainable lifestyle."

I love the motto on the cover of the first issue: Spend wisely, Waste less, Appreciate more.

I got sent a contributor copy as one of my photos is included in a lovely A-Z of haberdashery:

Those vintage threads belonged to my grandmother :)

It's lovely to see them in such a nice magazine alongside so many pretty photos and illustrations...

Pretty Nostalgic is available to buy online, or from these independent stockists.

Look what I've been working on...

... a snazzy new shop! Here's a screengrab of the "flower brooches" section:

This new shop will be replacing the shop pages which are currently part of my website. They've served me well over the past couple of years, and it will suck to lose all the links to the old pages, but it's definitely time to upgrade to something a bit fancier.

I love the layout of the new shop, & how each product will have its own product page for the first time... and hopefully it'll be a lot more user-friendly (for me, and for you!) and a lot less buggy than my website has been over the past few months!

It's still very much a work in progress, but I'm hoping to devote lots of hours to it this week to get it finished asap. I'll be sure to blog about it when it's done so you can all go take a look :)