Planning Maternity Leave and a Sale ::

I'm starting to plan my maternity leave, though I have no date officially set in stone yet, I'm thinking probably end of July beginning of August to coincide with Milo's summer holidays.  We're going to be away a far bit during the holidays and I really wanted to have plenty of time to spend with Milo, enjoying each others company.  As any parent who works from home knows, I'm sure, trying to work when you have little ones around, never really goes as well as you might have hoped.

So I shall be closing up my little etsy shop in around 5-6 weeks, until then I'm offering 30% off across the store with coupon code HELLOBABY.  I'll most likely be away until well into 2015 so if you want to stock up on ninjas for christmas, lovehearts for valentines or buttons for your own crafty needs now's the time to do it!
Also if you're not already an etsy member, sign up using this link to get a £5 gift voucher!

I'll still be blogging and around social medias during that time, but I won't be doing any 'proper' work. My maternity leave allowance will take me up until May 2015, but I don't know how I'll feel about not working all that time, it's possible I'll come back early and my sister has mentioned minding my shop for a bit for me, maybe over the christmas season, but at the moment that all seems too far away in the future to think much about, especially whilst the important task of delivering a baby into the world awaits.

Crafting 31/365...

...more ninjas...

Crafting 30/365...

...ninjas in various states of completion...

Crafting 29/365...

...citrus shades of ninja earrings...

...and a few black...

Crafting 26/365...

...ninja's with nunchucks...

Crafting 25/365

...eyeless, armless, weaponless, work in progress ninjas...

Crafting 24/365...

...throwing star ninjas...

Crafting 23/365...

...ninja earrings...

Crafting 22/365...

...ninja keyrings...

Crafting 19/365...

...yellow and blue ninjas...

Crafting 18/365

...buttons...

...and ninjas...

Crafting 15/365...

...more ninjas...

Crafting 14/365

...Ninjas...

Another custom order and a few extra flower ninja keyrings for the shop. xx

Crafting 4/365...

...miniature ninjas...These are like the ninjas I made for earrings, but just simple companions. They will be available in my shop sometime soon, but at today is just to dark and cloudy to take any good pictures.

Happy Valentines...

These little ninjas have a little message for you...

I made this lot up yesterday, I've been meaning to make more ninjas of differing colours for some time, and my plan is to make batches of each colour individually, so with valentines lingering I went for red first! Not sure what today's colour will be....will let you know tomorrow!!

For now here are some more pictures of the luscious red companions.

As always they will be for sale in all three of my shops (etsy folksy dawanda) at some point today.

Happy Valentines xxx

New Ninjas...

I was pretty lazy most of yesterday, I did venture out into the very soggy, wet slush, to purchase some craft supplies and a few baby bits from charity shops, but after that I mostly did nothing!! So by the evening I was feeling pretty guilty and set my mind on some new ninjas for the shops.

I made a ninja keyring a while back, and it sold pretty quickly, then the customer who bought the first asked me to make her another for a friend, so I thought it was about time I made up some more.

Here they are...

And then something completely new that I've never made (well not with ninjas anyway).

Earrings...

They'll be for sale in all three of my shops later on today and hope to make some more ninjas of varying types later on today. xx

Valentine Ninjas...

I had to share these photos with a batch of Valentine Ninjas I knocked up a week or so ago, with the help of my lovely man.

Now available in my shop.

xxx

Becoming a Ninja factory...

That's certainly what my front room felt like yesterday as I spread out all my newly purchased supplies and begun making a mammoth amount of ninjas! I even went out in the rain especially to buy those supplies! It was not at all nice...and I'm absolutely certain that cars were deliberately speeding up to go super fast through those many puddles that soaked me from head to toe! I thought people were supposed to be nicer to pregnant women, obviously not me! Anyway it was all worth it as this is what I returned home with...

And here is just some what I produced...

I absolutely adore seeing them all lined up like that! Once they've been photographed they all live on a shelf in our lounge, all the rest of my crafts are neatly put away in boxes, but the ninjas get pride of place on full display until they sell and travel away to distant lands!

Talking of which, got some parcels to pack up. Have a lovely Wednesday xx

Errr...yet more ninjas...

Sorry to be so predictable...I will try to be more varied in the future I promise. But I did make some more ninjas yesterday and these are super special festive ones...with their own candy canes and everything!

I also made some new colourful ones...including a brand new colour altogether...purple!

Otherwise it really was just a lazy Sunday as promised...mostly just knitting. A blanket for the baby, I'll show you pictures tomorrow!

Happy 1st of Dec, I don't have an advent calender but I wish I did! And don't forget...today is the last day for...

Buy one, get one FREE in the shop

So pop along today if there was anything you had in mind for Christmas gifts!

xxx

Why more ninjas of course...

Seeing as the buy one get one free sale in my shop has quite depleted my stock of ninjas quite substantially, yesterday I made a few more...

Not as many as I'd have liked as I'm running very short on polymer clay, I didn't make it to the craft shop yesterday and unfortunately it's closed today, however I'm going to do my best to create what I can with what I have left though!

I also made this little man, who I love...

He doesn't have a weapon as I was a little bit worried that if were going to thrown around in handbags and pockets amongst a whole load of keys the sword/nunchucks/throwing star might not do all that much to defend him in the end! But I'm quite happy about his simplicity. I'll see how in fares in the shop, but hopefully I'll be making more in the future.

I hope that everyone has had a lovely weekend...think I'm going to have a lovely lazy Sunday here.

xx