Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Craft Room Reshuffle

We got some "new" furniture yesterday thanks to some neighbours who are moving house.

Our new oh-so-practical sofa bed is positively crying out for some new handmade cushions...
Did someone say "summer project"? I think they did. (Note the curtainless window on the right, the curtain rail fell down yesterday! oops)

Most exciting of all our new bits of kit: some new shelves for my crafty gubbins! My old shelves looked like this, though they were starting to overflow a little with recent acquisitions so it will be awesome to have all this space...

Lovely deep wooden shelves that *just* squeezed into the room:And a little white shelf unit which technically is supposed to be being used for utility room stuff - washing powder, vases, that sort of thing - but which is totally getting co-opted to the crafty cause:A mountain of homeless crafting supplies has appeared on the kitchen table:
All other tidying and chores have now been put on hold while I sort out my lovely shelves!

Sunday, 29 March 2009

Scrapbooks

A very lazy weekend, with hot cross buns for tea and hours spent sticking hoarded clippings into assorted scrapbooks.

I've been keeping them since I was at school, they're such a great way to keep images I can't bear to throw away and I love looking back through the old ones at shapes and colours and little details that continue to haunt my visual imagination:

Friday, 27 March 2009

Postal Ups and Downs

Please, everyone, remind me not to go to the Post Office on Fridays! Ugh.

The postie did bring me buttony goodness today though, so I guess they balance each other out (sort of).Cameo buttons! So lovely! Can't wait to sew things with these.

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

News from the Supplies Department

I've been meaning to mention this for ages but have been distracted by so many other things... I've added a couple of new products over in my online shop, hurrah!

Adorable needle baskets - printed card in a retro design, full of sewing needles & a needle threader:And a bright and colourful new bundle of felt squares:One square each of violet, golden yellow, turquoise, pink, bright green, orange, magenta, ruby red, teal and deep pink... all tied up with ribbon. Yum yum.
I've also added a felt squares section over in my Etsy shop for those of you who prefer to shop the Etsy way!