Little Multi-Coloured Houses...

Hello...

My trip to the hospital was all fine...our little one is measuring almost bang of target for his dates and is estimated to weigh almost 5lb already, which is wonderful...he is however still breech and the sonographer didn't seem too convinced that he's going to manage to find his way into the right position in time. Which is a bit of a worry, but I'm not going to give up on jumping around on my ball thing and getting down on all fours in an attempt to encourage him!!

I didn't post yesterday as I was kept very busy all day building a wardrobe! Exciting indeed! But it had to be done as we do really have far too many clothes...I guess it's one of the problems in working for a fashion retailer...but it's done now and today we get to build the cot and make a lovely little home for our baby!

I did squeeze a little crafting into the day and stitched up these little houses...

They are a variation on the ones I did here...but in different colours as Johnny keeps on insisting I do. I actually very much like them indeed.

They are a little bit crumpled in these photos but will be making their way into an embroidery hoop and once up and running into my new shop. I hope to have enough time this week to build up lots of stock so that I can get it open by next weekend...fingers crossed.

Happy Sunday I hope you all have lovely relaxing days. xx

Lilley Stitches....

Hello...
I just wanted to quickly share with you some stitching I did for the banner and avatar for my new shop.

I'm off into the lovely sunshine to make my way to the hospital for my last scan....that means the last time I see the baby until he is really here in the flesh!!

xx

New Buttons and Beads...

Today I am mostly cleaning and tidying...not quite sure how it happened but I just woke up with an urge to do it...and haven't stopped...well not until now. I thought I'd take a quick break, sip on some raspberry leaf tea and share with you some pictures of the beads and buttons I made yesterday.

I needed some black and white buttons to go inside the black and white corsages I have been making so thought I might as well knock out a whole batch of them. Unfortunately I seemed to have had my pregnant brain on yesterday, and not until I removed them from the oven did I notice that I managed to forget to put holes in the black with white heart buttons....making not very useful buttons at all. Not really sure what will become of them now...any ideas?

So I best get back to my nesting/spring cleaning before I lose interest in the venture!!

Happy Thursday x

Some completed corsages...

An update on yesterdays flowers...some of them at least...have now become corsages, ready to adorn a coat, a bag, a scarf...well anything you like really.

And, although not ready and open just yet I'm also in the process of setting up my new shop, LilleyStitches, I'm very excited about this new venture indeed.

I don't feel like I need to sacrifice my time spent on my other shops either because my making of buttons, beads, ninjas and the like mostly happens during the day when my beloved is at work whereas crochet and embroidery very much tends to be a sat on the sofa in the evening kind of endeavour.

And on that note I am off to make some buttons. xx

Flowers...

After a bit of a panicked trip to the hospital yesterday morning (everything was OK in the end) and a very bad nights sleep, I really didn't feel up to much, so I spent most (well maybe all) of the rest of the day under a blanket on the sofa doing some crochet.

And I whipped up these little lovelies...

I'm going to turn them all into corsages, in various colour combinations. After much pondering on the subject I also think I'm going to open a new etsy shop. I love all the colourfulness and silliness of the polymer clay objects I produce, but also really want to be able to produce nice high quality pieces of embroidery and crochet, although I do still do this at the moment, I'm not sure it really fits in with the rest of the items in my store. I find it quite difficult to get items to sit well amongst each other and think perhaps it's time to open a different more sophisticated (maybe) store as well.

I know it's going to be difficult to run and promote 2 separate stores, especially as I'm already selling on Folksy and dawanda as well, but I think it will be worth it in the end.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

Happy Tuesday xx

Baby things....

As I have no craftiness of my own to share today and we went and purchased our pram yesterday I can't help but think about baby things...so I thought I'd share with you some of my favourites on etsy at the moment.

Set of Three Sweater Balls

By handmadepretties

algiers, 1932
By tollipop

The Adam

By BabyThingsByJessica

Happy Monday xxx

Cupcakes...

I'm so glad that Bethany from CherryRiot got in touch with me last week about some custom work she wanted, because what she wanted was cupcakes. It's been such a long time since I made cupcakes of the pretend variety and I really really enjoyed it and I just love seeing them all lined up together.

I made a few extras for myself which I will be turning into rings and broaches and adding to my shop this afternoon.

Other than that I think a lazy Sunday will probably be on the cards, maybe including a little bit of pram shopping and baby room organizing.

Happy lazy Sundays to you all xx