moreglitterplease

I have also discovered the pounce feature on etsy and bought a fab keyring from moreglitterplease. Its a loteria card and has a frog on it. Def time to find out how to upload a photo!

http://www.moreglitterplease.etsy.com/

apart from that a quietish day today. Had a lot of fun with katherine watering the plants and eating jaffa cakes.

couple of enquires about my vintage fabric cushions and another sale - yay.

Just finished putting together a parcel to send off to Texas to a lovely customer. Included some vintage fabric badges as a wee treat as she is a great customer.

new shoes

Katherine's feet have grown half a size in about 6 weeks so I got her new shoes today. She loves them! They are pink with little flowers on the straps. She kept stopping and looking at her feet. She is so funny!

We bought some treats for all the toddlers and mums who are coming to see us tomorrow. It will be great to see all the girls for a catch up.

On the etsy front I have another sale which is fab, more vintage cushion covers. I have listed up some products too on icraft.ca and in my bigcartel shop too. However my latest plan is to start wholesaling and getting my things into shops. My plan is to go through all my back issues of living etc and elle dec and pick out the interiors shops that I think would be good stockists and then contact them for a meeting. Or hopefully my lil sis will do that bit as she is brilliant!

sunday sales

have had a wee flurry of sales on etsy which is nice. Have sold some vintage fabric cushions or 'pillows' as the lovely american customers call them.

apart from that a quiet weekend with lots eating and drinking.

websites and yet more websites

I have finally started to figure out how to edit my blog!

I will be adding some pics soon and have just added a blog counter and managed to cut and paste some fancy html stuff.

The green apple lady is planning to order some badges so I have been digging out all the lovely off cuts of vintage fabrics that I have in the studio and have made some really sweet little badges. I am tempted to list some on etsy but the paypal conversion charge is a killer.

I listed a couple of tea towels on icraft.ca It is a lovely looking website and we'll see what happens. I've all but given up on tuggle.co.uk as I have had so many problems loading items and the site is so slow. I am worried I'll end up with just too many sites but I am pressing on with bigcartel and I want to link to wwwlittlechook.co.uk so my shop has items in £'s for UK buyers.

And lastly I am listing on ebay again and have one lady interested in buying four cushions so we will see.

etsy is still my fav though....

the green apple website

its been re vamped and it is lovely

http://www.the-green-apple.co.uk/

I have sent samples of badges to Mickey today and I hope she decides to stock them. I think the site is fab and I love the fact that she had no retail experience but decided to set up her site anyway.

I used scraps of vintage fabric to make the badges aswell as some vintage imagery with cut out butterflies and dragonfly shapes. And I posted them without takes any photos first.....

It snowed here yesterday too which was exciting. I will put my pics up on flickr tonight.

a very relaxed saturday

we sold our ikea wardrobe doors on ebay and the guy came and collected them today. He was really nice and the studio looks so much more spacious without them leaning against the wall.

I finally decided to sign up for the craft markets in Brixton and Walthamstow so I need to get my t shirt printing stuff organised. Things need ordered and I want to set up a wholesale account with Amercian Apparel. Don't feel I want to use t shirts made by children for a children's range and I like American Apparel stuff.

Katherine has been very chatty today. She is trying lots of words out which is great. I just love watching her grow and develop. She is just lovely. We took her to the park when there was a break in the rain and I felt really happy just walking with my family and blethering about nonsense.

Feeling very tired....

but also very busy trying to promote littlechook and find time to create aswell. Sherrytruitt started a thread on etsy talking about how online promotion actually took up alot of time which leaves less time for creating.

I stayed up late last sat printing my first batch of tea towels. I was using a couple of existing screens aswell as some stencils and it was just great fun to be producing something again at long last.

I listed a couple on etsy and have sold one to my flickr friend, kaylovesvintage who has the most amazing house and lifestyle in holland.

I am really into flickr at the moment and love making new friends there and getting glimpses into other people's lives. My favourite group is definately corners of my home. The amount of beautiful homes out there is inspiring.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21910223@N06/

if I was a publisher I would commission her to do a book because she has great taste and very photogenic cats too which Katherine loves looking at.

Off to pay my council tax bill now and to browse ebay for a dresser for our kitchen (and a church pew, I really really want one for the kitchen.)