I like tea. Can you tell? The square brooches remind me a little of the medals on Jim'll Fix It. Hmm... Here's my whole workbox from the evening, along with discs cut out ready to make "I love tea" badges in colours other than pink - much as I like pink, I think I may need a break from it after sewing that lot together!
The butterflies look quite delicious paired together, though the soft cream they're sewn onto is looking rather yellow in some of the photos. The paleness of this is more accurate, and you can better see the detail of the stitching:
I'm really really pleased to have an "I Like Your Shoes" finished and ready for the shop, they have been lying in my work-in-progress box for many months (eight!) because all that embroidery seemed so off-putting but in actual fact it's proving very relaxing... I do need to remember to add the ankle detailing on the rest though as I've missed it off this one (oops!). All the other detailing is there though, and I think it looks rather lovely:
As ever, I am in awe of Askey's illustration skills and seriously in love with that grey, white and turquoise colour combination. Just lush. Once I've finished the batch of "shoe pictures" as I've been calling them, there will be no more made in this design, making it a strictly limited edition of 11 (5 blue & grey, 5 orange & brown, plus 1 owned by Askey herself).
The finished two are ACEOs (3.5 by 2.5 inches)....
... and the larger unfinished one is postcard sized (4 by 6 inches). They're backed with plain white felt with a little name tape "signature" (old embroidered name tapes from when I was in primary school!), like this:
I love the look of the butterflies on the cream felt (it's meant to look like creamy parchment paper), and I'm itching to make lots more of these and to do larger pieces with lots of different butterflies all "mounted" together.
My house is in no way as stylish as their setting, but the lushness of the poster will help me in the style stakes I think! It fits in just perfectly with my British wildlife obsession, the illustrations are darling, the printing crisp, and the colour truly delicious. Seriously speedy shipping, too, and only $36. Highly recommended!
Naturally, I had to go make a cup of tea after taking those pictures! Continuing with the tea theme, check out this adorable card in Kate Wilson's shop:
Only $8 for so much cuteness! How could you resist it? Also, Heidi Burton's lovely cards (including her "you're just my cup of tea" card) have a new home: Making Strangers; and did you know that you can buy a teatowel with the ever-relevant slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On"? I am starting to build up a collection of stylish teatowels to replace my fraying old ones so am rather tempted by a Keep Calm one, but I feel it might look rather naff to have a teatowel that matches a poster on our kitchen wall...
Funny how you can make something and think you're going out on some weird limb (I was absolutely convinced I was going to have to give my initial batch of moustaches away to unamused relations because they'd never sell) then they become popular and start turning up everywhere! You type "mustache" into Etsy's search nowadays and the results are huge, and there seem to be quite a few moustache disguises around too... My own moustaches now have their very own section in my shop and will soon be joined by beards, glasses and an assortment of other useful disguises - I've even secured a model for them all, I don't think he really knows what he's letting himself in for, but he owes me a favour, hehe...
