Crafting 365 / 45 & 46 - moustaches again

Blergh. I am ill, and it is rubbish.

The day before yesterday I guess it was creeping up on me as I was super-tired and spent most of my day curled up on the sofa listening to the radio (crime & thrillers on BBC7, excellent stuff) whilst sewing some moustaches. Then yesterday I had to go back to bed and spent 90% of my day asleep in a big nest of blankets. I did get up in the late afternoon to put the finishing touches to the moustaches so that they could get parcelled up and posted by my long-suffering boyfriend (he really hates going to the Post Office).

Here are the moustaches just before they went into their jiffy bag...
... they're destined for a kids birthday party, apparently. I love the idea of a room full of 8 year olds all with moustaches! Makes me smile rather a lot.

Also excellent and smile-inducing: I was featured on Cuteable today! :D
It is a really lovely feature, I am very chuffed indeed.

I'm going back to bed now though... zzz...

Crafting 365 / 44 - some knitting and some more moustache-related fun

It is starting to get very dark here in the evenings so sewing anything dark is right out. I managed to get two brown moustaches finished & labelled before the light went but the rest of the moustaches had to wait...

Instead I turned my attention to my bag of knitting and made a few more little hats. I'm rather slow at knitting them so I only managed three last night, but as I've been knitting one or two at the end of each evening the pile is gradually growing. Here are the 20 I've knitted so far, along with those 2 moustaches:
So far there have been no knitting disasters, though a few of the hats are a little irregular and one time I forgot to change the colour over so the stripes are Not Quite Right. I'm tucking them all away in a brown paper bag once I've knitted them, ready and waiting to get stitched together & pompommed at a later date. It is very satisfying making a new mark on the tally (I can never remember how many I've done otherwise) and I do love to make stripey things.

In other news, my cloud-themed treasury was on the Etsy front page last night, hurrah! I missed it as I was tucked up in bed but you can take a peek at it here - I'm really pleased that several of the people I featured sold stuff, excellent items one and all.

Also, the lovely Brooke has been taking some more self-portraits with her moustache... the second one is particularly excellent, I think (a moustache eye-patch! genius). She also has a teeny thumbnail of herself modelling the moustache included in her new banner over in her Etsy shop which made me smile rather a lot! Hurrah for moustaches! :)

Crafting 365 / 43 - news from the moustache factory

My kitchen table is currently a moustache factory. It looks like this:
As you can see, I have finished the batch of moustache cards (they are currently getting a bit of a pressing under a big pile of hardbacks to make sure they flatten properly). Last night I also cut out LOTS of moustache-shaped pieces of felt in order to make LOTS of moustache disguises. I have a custom order for 10 of them, and shall be making another 10 just to restock. Lots of black, lots of brown. I had a very dull shopping expedition for supplies yesterday afternoon - black elastic, black felt, black thread. I did find some rather exciting navy blue felt though which I've not seen before. Ah, such exciting times.

Oh, and my giant mobile got blogged by the lovely Tamara of blockpartypress ... her son is currently covered in hives, poor boy, and so she featured lots of lumpy, bumpy, spotty Etsy things on her blog! Such a cute idea & chatting about inspiration she pointed out another fun thing she'd been inspired by - an interestingly shaped drop of milk. Awesome.

Crafting 365 / 42 - moustache cards in progress

Not much craftiness going on last night, unfortunately. Rather a bit of grumpiness instead. In the middle of my slightly grumpy evening though I checked my email and lo! The lovely Knithappens had sent me a message suggesting I add this gorgeous photo to my moustache listing:... naturally I gave it pride of place! I love that photo so much, it is just so sweet and funny. I am going to be changing all the photos round lots I think, they all make me smile so much :)

Logging into Etsy to reply, I was rather delighted to discover that I (well, some of my bird ornaments) was (were) on the front page! Hurrah! Cue happy dance and much less grumpiness! So I managed to get a few little felt moustaches embroidered ... here they are waiting to get glued onto their cards to become, yes you guess it, moustache cards: