Springtime and Easter

With it being that time of year I’ve been making a few little springtime gifts for friends and family.  


First up were these daffodil brooches, a really easy to follow pattern by the clever Lucy they turned out great.  A bit of spray starch, blocking and a bit of fussing on the back and they were good to go.

On the Spring/Easter theme again I rustled up a few tilda bunny hearts to send to a few of my friends.

These sweet little things were made following a pattern from the Tilda Springtime Gifts book.  I’m quite pleased with how they turned  out.

 

  Happy Easter Friends

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Thanks again everyone for joining in my little giveaway.  I scribbled your names all down and added to you to my little pink bowl.

My beautiful assistant Thomas picked out 

~ drum roll please.....

THE PATCHWORK HEART

Please email me your address and I will send some goodies your way!

Thanks for entering everyone x

Are you enjoying this Easter Break?  I did the 'buy 3 get 11 days off work lark', and I'm so glad I did.  

Trouble is there is so many things I want to do when I'm off that I will be going back to work for a rest.  A few of the things I'm planning craft wise are:

Open my Folksy Shop

Tidy and plant stuff in my garden

Make Two Roman blinds for my kitchen

Revamp my Charity Shop Coffee Table

Make some more cushions

These are besides the usual family things and general life, I thought if I write them down here I will be encouraged to crack on.

Yesterday I made a start on the table;

and the plants;

the rest will happen I'm sure :)

Happy Easter lovely people hope you have a relaxing time.

Check out my chick, courtesy of my lovely LaaLaa.

~ ♥ TTFN ♥ ~

Easter is Coming...

... and with that in mind I picked these little kits up recently and got all stitchy this weekend. Aren't they all bright and happy?
I really enjoy cross stitch, I don't think I would have the stamina for a huge piece but I do enjoy these little kits.

This last one is my favourite, maybe because she is a Fat Chick ;)

These easter ones remined me of some other kits I have stashed away somewhere. Some were finished and some were half done, so I finished them all off(not sure where that little bee came from, she must have been attracted by all the flowers).

I've not got any plans for these perhaps incorporate them into a cushion somehow ~ you just knew I would say cushion didn't you? :)

This weekend I also made a few more teacup candles, they are really sweet and really effective. I made myself one to test them out and I love it, it burns really well and the smell is just beautiful, and as the teacups are all china or glass they also have a glow to them when they are burning.


I have had lots of messages, texts and emails about making these for people and I am toying with the idea of opening a Folksy shop, what do you think?
I have made little commissions for people in the past from things I have made on my blog and only when I received so many enquiries about the candles did it occur to me that I should perhaps dip my toes in Folksy. I will of course make for those of you that have asked, but I might have to give a little more thought to a shop.

Let me know what you think, have you sold on Folksy/Etsy etc?

~ ♥ TTFN ♥ ~

p.s. thank you all so much for your kind words on my last post re. my new hair, you really cheered me up!!