From down under

Woohoo i brought a Rosieok teddy a few weeks ago and today he arrived! meet brooklyn :D the super cuddely rabbit bear! i love him to pieces, he's had so much love already today and i'm no where near done! Rosie pays such close attention to detail, brooklyn came beautifully wrapped with a selection of cards with care instructions, information about rosie and a tiny amigurumi berry which i have attatched to my keys with a bunch of beads (in brooklyn's arm) I'm soooo happy with him!
This is me and brooklyn in my room at my parents house :D
Also as if recieving this wasn't cool enough, i also got a delivery yesterday from tongue tied jewellery. I brought a goody bag and a pack of beads, which meant i had the joy of opening a stash of way cute jewellery, beads and patches, and all the tools i need to create my own earrings etc :D it's like an early christmas!
yayyyy xx

away again

well today i'm back off to my internet-less flat so i wont be posting again for a while :( i still have loads of stuff to stick on etsy but i'm promising by the next time i come back here i'll have all the photo's ready! and i will be selling some of my beautiful little gift tags made from amy butler designer paper :) all lovely lovely stuff. Well now stay posted :)
ness xx

dullety dull

well it's been a pretty un-eventfull week this week. All i've done is go to work and paint my bathroom. However i did have a very cool plus side, in that my 'gift tag stamper' arrived last saturday, so i can now make hundreds of uber cool gift tags :) which is awsome as i have a huge stash of designer paper at home just gagging to be made into something beautiful. So my current plan is to make a load of gift tags from my designer paper to put up on etsy :) unfortunately, i am in dire need of a new digital camera, as mine lives for a maximum of 10 minutes on fresh batteries. This means that untill i've saved up enough for a new camera, i can't get up any decent pictures of any of my creations for a while :( which also has stopped me being able to put my sock monsters up on etsy.
Oh and i got some great news 2 weeks ago aswell which i forgot to mention, i got straight distinctions in my college course which means i have a firm acceptance into uni :D go me!

at last!

yesterday i spent the ENTIRE day sewing sock monsters, and i'm not exaggerating either! i had a mini break to cook dinner and walk the dog, but other than that, 10am to 11pm i was sewing! however i did manage to finish all 12 of my colour sock monsters :D have a little look hehe

as soon as i get individual pics they will be up on etsy :)

etsy!

I am now at etsy! click the link!
i haven't got anything really in the shop yet, i don't have a credit card and i'm abit nervy about paying stuff out on my mums, so i daren't sell too much untill i give her some cash!
but still!! --------------------->

once you sock you just can't stop

ok so i said i'd sew a couple of faces today, but no, i stitched ALL the little faces this morning, and attatched them to their bodies, now i just need to make the bodies and this mini army is almost complete :) aren't they sweet? the felt looks a little tatty on some at the moment but don't forget this will all be stitched down once they are all stuffed and cuddely :)

preparation is key!

A war is amongst us...their troops are re-building....everyday their numbers multiply with no hint of stopping soon, can we defeat them? NEVER! The time of the sock monster is NOW!!
anyway..... today i have woken up with the worst eczema on my hands i have had in years, why? because last night i decided to use up every scrap of fleece i had left, to felt a face for every single sock i had to be made into a sock monster, how many socks is that? well here's a cropped example Like i said, an army is rising. Anyway i found myself, after making 20 little felt blobs for the sock monsters faces, i had a little fleece left over, so i went into further obsessive felting and made yet more felted blobs!
Tomorrow i'll probably start embroidering some little socky faces, and with all of those socks i should be entertained for the next month! but just incase i get abit bored, i also started shredding up all of my unwanted fabric, to make more balls of 'rag wool' so i can create ANOTHER rag bag, ooo how i love them. So far i only have 2 balls of shredded fabric but i'm working on a couple more :)

Hopefully i will have a huge stash of hand made goodies in the next month or so, and as soon as i get an etsy sellers account i hope that all of my creations find new homes :) Stay posted
xxx