Etsy
Making stuff can be hard-going at times, it can be difficult to judge just how good your stuff is in any subjective way, and if it’s not any good, well, what’s the point! Of course family and friends can tell you that what you’ve been making is “super”, “smashing”, or even, “great” yet you’ll always [...]
I’ve spent a large part of the day scanning and enhancing some cigarette cards that we have and after much to-ing and fro-ing between Picnik and Photoshop I’ve managed to remove most of the signs of age from this set of Dickens Characters. These cigarette cards were collected, we presume, by Alasdair’s Grandma in 1912 [...]
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Firstly, there are now felt brooches in the shop. Each one of these is entirely handsewn by me and available for a bargain price. I made my first Inchies this week too and am excited by the results. The first set is for the A, B, C, D, E, F Inchie swap on ATCsforall and [...]
I know, it’s a strange title for a showcase but there’s a very good reason for it. On Sunday we will be starting our first family holiday and the first holiday Alasdair and I have had together since our honeymoon in 2001. 8 years is far too long to wait for a holiday, wouldn’t you [...]
There was excitement yesterday as we discovered via CraftCult that the little rose pink and cream felt bird sculpture had been featured on the front page of Etsy. This is a coveted position to hold and we are very grateful to AmandaSainsbury for including us in her treasury. The items in this treasury are: (1) [...]
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in the shop now
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It’s an ever present topic of conversation amongst artists and craftspeople…how much to price our products for. Here I hope to shed some light on the journey that has lead us to increase our prices today to what we consider to be a fair price for the time and effort expended on creating our products. [...]
This weekend heralds the start of springtime and better weather for those of us in the northern hemisphere, finally! Already this week in Scotland we have seen some fantastic sunny days and even good teperatures. For me the best thing about spring, apart of the obvious better weather, is the appearance of lambs in the [...]
I see that Alasdair has promised a completed demonic papier mache sculpture…and it’s well worth waiting for. In the meantime I want to share our fantastic news of the week, which is that we had our very first sale at our Etsy shop this week…here it is all waiting to be sent out. It was [...]
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