Cards

New baby cards :) All handmade, and hand stitched. £2 each

Will be going up in the shop later on. The cupcake gadget case is already in there :)

EDIT: Cards are in the shop now!

A funny kind of day!

Yesterday morning, Louie and I went to Tiny Talk. Louie just loves it, he loves the signing, the dancing, Heather, the half a biscuit he gets at the end! 

When we got home, the weather turned! It had been threatening to rain all morning, but my gosh, it came down! Our very flat garden was all puddley, and I got thoroughly soaked when I dashed out to rescue Bertie the Wheelybug from the flood!

So we retreated indoors, snuggled up on the sofa, and little Louie had a lovely sleep :) Which let me get on with some making!

I managed to sneak away upstairs,  pinched the iron to prep for some projects. I managed to get the all the prep done for a gadget case that I can make at our craft group, the Saturday Stitchers, today. Hopefully I will be able to get it finished and show you all some pictures later on!

Then when Louie woke up, we all piled into the kitchen and made fairy cakes. Louie did the mixing, Nana broke the eggs and I sieved the flour. Louie helped put the cases in the patty tins too.

Then the sun came out! And it looked so promising that we put the washing on the line, and it stayed nice and got dry.

 For tea, we had 'Creating a Good Life' Garden Vegetable Burgers. It is very rare that we have such a convenience food, but after Laura received an abundance of them for her Vegan and Vegetarian Society, she asked if we wanted to take any home.
I must say, they were delicious! Nana didn't like them so much as they had peppers in them, and she has a big aversion to peppers, but even she said they were lovely. It made a nice change for us anyway.

 Whilst Louie was asleep in the afternoon, and after he had gone to bed, I managed to get this little Owl phone case finished, and updated into the shop. The previous Owl case had sold (woo, first sale!) so it needed replacing. This one is slightly smaller and will fit a smaller, medium sized phone.

 And I also sat and stitched this whilst Louie was not sleeping. A little business card holder made from felt. Will carry about 20 business cards. This will be going up in my shop possibly later on today.

 And I got to work on this gorgeous phone case. I love this fabric, it is from the Gone With the Wind collection from Melly and Me. It has blue, pink and green dandelions and bubbles all over it and I am in love with it. I have ordered some more fabric to make a skirt for my holiday, as I just adore it so much.
This one I will be keeping for myself though, as there are two little faults with it. The elastic for the button is a little short causing it to pull slightly, and I missed one of the hems when finishing the top, so although it is now stitched, it is not the quality that I can sell on.
Not to worry though, as I can use it myself, especially as I am so in love with the pattern!

Oh and it is lined with a beautiful blue geometric floral pattern, which complements it perfectly. I will work on a duplicate and get one up in the shop soon.

Hopefully this week I can work on getting some greetings cards made too.

Busy Bee!

I'm sorry that I haven't been blogging as regularly of late. Mr Bee seems to have developed some naughty sleeping habits, which keeps him awake until gone 9pm every night!

Trying to fit in crafting and everything else in that time is getting a bit hectic!

I have however managed to get a few pretties finished! Today I have run up a cute little drawstring bag. I don't have a purpose for it at the moment, but it might get put away for Christmas. I can always personalise it for a littlie!

Yesterday I finished this cute little birdie gadget case. I think the template (from Mollie Makes) is just so sweet, that I want to use it all the time. It does make for a lovely gadget case. This time I experimented with a little flap and fastening. We will see how that goes.

Yesterday, I also made a gadget case as a gift for our friend Jules. It is her birthday today, and she stayed over night, so she certainly deserved a gift! She chose the colours and theme she wanted, and had a pale pink gadget case with a bright pink owl on it! It is very Jules!

Hopefully, I will get much more crafted and ready :) Don't forget to visit my shop at The Bee Hive @ Folksy or add my new Facebook page!

The Bee Hive

I am really trying to get my Folksy shop up and running :)
I now have three items in my shop, and am making things at a rate of 1 every two days. I don't get much time to dedicate but each evening I am trying to do a bit to get some stock in there :)

At the moment it is just the phone cases, but hopefully next week I will have some variety up, if there is anything you would like to see, let me know!

You can go to my Folksy shop here, and you will always see the button on the left which will direct you there too.

The Bee Hive @ Folksy

So last weekend I joked about holding my own craft stall but then got thinking about how it would be awesome to have a stall! So I started making stuff, and today I finished setting up my very own Folksy shop!

My first item has gone up for sale today, it is a grey phone case with a blue hot air balloon on it :)

Click on the photo to go to the shop :)