The folksy display in howies

We were in town today shopping for a suit for hubby so we went to carnaby street to have a look at the folksy display in the howies shop and it looks amazing. I really like the way they have displayed Bbel's bracelet and necklace by drawing a figure and arm onto a brown bag. The folksy logo is made out of some distressed chunky wood and it looks really good.

The voting systems is basically stick a gold star beside the one you like best. So if anyone is passing the shop and wants to vote for me that would be ace!

There are more pics on my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlechook/ and in the flickr folksy group http://www.flickr.com/groups/folksy/

Move over etsy - folksy rocks!

My bedroom

Hello bedroom! I have some new pics on flickr including this one of my bedroom. I made lovely new bed cushions made from a vintage butterfly print and a paisley print vintage dress. My crochet blanket came from a charity shop and the lampshade is a Habitat sale purchase made from cork which is a material I really like.

The chest of drawers came from an antique shop in crouch end and is made of victorian pine. It's one of my favs. The fireplace is not orignal and is a horrible fake mahogany. I did read in living etc though that to disguise a not so nice fireplace the surround should be painted the same colour as the walls. As you can see we haven't tried this yet! The walls are a bit distressed looking as I stripped the hideous 80's wallpaper (green textured background with brown roman collums) about a week after we moved in as it was so so so bad!

The show and tell at broadway market last night was a bit of a fiasco due to staff not turning up so everyone waited hours and hours to be seen. I left after 3 1/2 hours as had to get the bus home! Better luck next time....

Craft Friendly Southern Illinois

I was featured on Kat Eyez blog yesterday! http://craftfriendlyso-il.blogspot.com/ She found me on flickr and featured my tea towels, vintage fabric cushions and cards and used the pictures from the Brixton Craft Market on her blog.

I had a look at her lovely blog and flickr pics and found that she is pretty crafty herself and produces lovely applique work on baby clothes, baby booties, bags, coasters etc etc. This is one busy lady! Her items are beautiful and she chooses some fantastic fabrics to work with.

I love the way the internet connects all us crafters, artists and designers.

Vintage Fabric Button Badges

I finally got around to uploading these to my etsy shop. They are made from vintage fabrics using my lovely badge machine. It seems like a fun way to use up off cuts of the fabrics from my cushion covers. I hate wasting lovely vintage fabrics! My photos of the badges are not very good! I think it is because of the plastic film that goes over the badge to protect it. The fabrics do look much nicer without the film but they'd get marked or might not handle rain too well.

I have also added some badges to some of my handmade cards but I am keeping these for craft fairs rather than etsy for now.

Next weekend is the brixton craft market so I am busy preparing for this event. Tomorrow I am going to practice setting up my stall so off to check out the flickr group for craft shows to get some inspiration!

And finally our purses from peppermint designs arrived and they are gorgeous. They even come in a linen bag to protect and store them. Just lovely!

littlechook in the Schmap Guide

One of my flickr photos was chosen to appear in the London Schmap Guide. It's an online guide and covers loads of cities/countries aswell as London.

It's a picture from the first artichokeltd gallery of Hush's work in Carnaby Street. His work is now selling for big money and he was asked by Banksy to appear in a recent show of street art - the 'Cans Festival' which took over a disused tunnel near Waterloo.

http://www.schmap.com/ Seems like a good idea but I find the site is very very slow to load.

Tonight I am trying to do some work on my neglected etsy shop but finding other design blogs far more interesting.

artichokeltd pop up shop

Went to see artichokeltd's latest pop up shop in Earlham Street (in seven dials) today and managed to buy two Prefab prints. Artichokeltd is run buy Pete Matthews and focuses on street art. His pop up shop features limtied editions signed by the artists. Pete is the pioneer of the £1 print which gave Banksy fans a chance to own a print for you've guessed it £1....

His current collection includes work by Prefab, Remi/Roughe, Seamo, Oliver Harud and Jef Aerosol. His website is http://www.artichokeltd.com/ and the prints are available to buy online.

I've put other pics on flickr including one of Katherine in her new role as 'the baby boss'. She had a blast today and then we went to Wagamama for dinner. Perfect end to the day!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlechook/