weekly challenge, but more chatting tbh - part 5!

[lucykate]

ready, steady, go...!

Hi All, back from Cornwall now and after withdrawel symptoms, have finished a new box canvas this afternoon. 'Horsey, Horsey Don't You Stop'. I love this dotty fabric.

Dior - bracelets look fab on the website
Meri - I do like your button thief

I've also blogged today too.

Nice to be back and will catch up with everyone's blogs tomorrow

Hi All, back from Cornwall now and after withdrawel symptoms, have finished a new box canvas this afternoon. 'Horsey, Horsey Don't You Stop'. I love this dotty fabric.

Dior - bracelets look fab on the website
Meri - I do like your button thief

I've also blogged today too.

Nice to be back and will catch up with everyone's blogs tomorrow

Oops, how did that happen ?

Dior- well edone for opening a folksy shop... good luck with it and don't get discouraged as apparently its a slow time for sales on all the sale sites...

tilly- the "horsey" is great.. lovely little "D" bird! .. will check out your blog now..

dior, good idea to try folksy, i'm registered there but haven't put any items in yet, am also registered with big cartel, and also considering trunkt too.

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Well done Dior, that's fab news !

Well done Dior - Is that like the UK equivalent of Etsy (she said, tempted to give it a go also). I just so need to get myself in gear and start trying to sell something rather than just hoarding it!

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Oh my goodness - I've gone & done it !!
I have an Folksy shop too
Under IzzyWizzyBeads.
I'm going to have to get my head round it properly & add some more stuff, work out decent prices (hate doing that) - but at least I now have a space on there!

yay for whizzz, i always get lovely comments about my turquoise bracelet when i wear it you know!

Thanks LK - I guess it's all about confidence. I always think everyone elses stuff is much better than mine!

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whizzz- shop looks fab..

you lot are bad influence though.. I have now registered for folksy though I had no intention to...

and I really should be finishing swap things and I have a painted page to take to the framers.. its a sale though to a friend.. but still a sale .. the pirate owl.... I made M scan it first so I can do prints.. or maybe do something else with pirate owl.. pin badges maybe.

have listed 2 items a print and an original painted page on folksy just to see what its like.. might be over stretching myself a tad but we shall see... right best do some e-mailing and finish my kid swap stuff...

well, today was a good day, it was my only child free day of the summer, ds at nursery, dd at art club! dh made me lunch (which he never does!), got lots of work done, even tidied my sewing room and had a good sort out, went through my bloglines list and was brutal and deleted about 50 , i just can't keep up with them all, unread posts is always nearly 1000! am feeling all organised now

what's everyone else been up to?

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dior - your shop is great - i'm tempted

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dior- the shop looks great... just out of intrest will you be adding a token card to it? I might add a few more pieces to mine... a nother painting or two.. maybe a bracelet or two too... nothing much...

am at etsy and my credit card.. I have a bill of $1.20 or some such and its not accepting payment... I suppose its my card becuse its such a small amount..

DS at nursery today so have to clean whole house, gilve my friend frizbe a break at the comic shop...

post off kid swap parcel... its finished at last..
order beads... eek pesky craft fair the first weekend in Sept. eek eek so not ready for that

sketch ideas for fairy tale swap
sketch ideas for robot swap
paint some pages
stain pages with tea
find some vintage kids books for whizzz to tear up for her tiles
run around like a chicken with tis head cut off
get packing tape and box more books up.. I have lots of books

oh and apparently the solicitor has all the paperwork and will review it today and set date for completion.... whos guess is that it will be for the bank holiday weekend when DH has 10 weddings? (4 are his to photograph or is that 5 anfd the rest he will have to edit for his other photogs.) ... anyway we are getting somewhere ish

Hello folks! I am frantically bag-making at the moment, whenever I can (which is not much, because I can't do anything when the boys are around ). However I have blogged two I have already made and have another two to photograph when I get a second, and another two on the way to completion! I hope to get them into the shop by tomorrow. My plan was to have six, though I'm now thinking eight would be better, but there is no way I will get eight done in time ... sigh

Fingers crossed they sell!

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Can I have some opinions please people. I have got the bails for the scrabble tiles - but now I'm pondering what to thread them on (short necklace length).
options here

Thin black ribbon, 1mm black leather thong, brown flat seude effect, natural coloured cotton thong - argh.

I also have organza ribbon but can never get the ends looking neat enough.

Also do you like the photo idea or do you think a patterened (ie paper) design works better??
Thanks!