The weather here this week is so miserable, wet and overcast and generally grey. I quite like autumn, the crispness of the air, digging out all my winter clothes and blankets, and all the fantastic changes in nature. But boy, do I miss the light - especially when I have new things waiting to be photographed!
This weekend I finished some new mask designs and snapped a rubbish in-progress shot in the gloomy daylight:
Mice masks! Wolf masks! Swan masks! (plus essential crafting supplies - a nice bar of chocolate).
I'm so excited to get these listed in my shops after having rough sketches of them them scribbled in my "things to make" notebooks for so very long. Fingers crossed we have some lovely autumn sunshine soon.
All the tags have been made from scrap card, offcuts of giftwrap and other papers too nice to just throw away. I do like a nice bit of thrifty crafting, and I always need lots of tags and mini cards to use when sending out my orders.
The book tells the tale of Tom and Stephanie's adventurous year as wardens of the remote Cape Clear Island Bird Observatory, with bird watching a-plenty as well as tales of community life and the trials of raising a new baby in primitive conditions through a harsh winter. It's illustrated with drawings and photographs plus some really lovely prints by Robert Gillmor.
I'm really pleased to have these back in my shop, and especially delighted that my boyfriend has offered to add "custom felt colour picker" to his role as "postal assistant." He's even (willingly!) sacrificed one of his bookcases to the felt cause:
Mmm... so much lovely colour!