Folksy Friday

This week's big thank you (for adding Ellie's Treasures as a favourite shop) goes to the following wonderful Folksy people:

Pavlova's Art Loft - fabulous acrylic poppy painting.
Pussy Galore Sock Cats and Kittens - adorable Olivia the proud and smiley sock cat.
Zennith Zark - summery necklace (currently in a sale - grab a bargain).
noodleBubble - pretty hand-embroidered egg cosy.
Chakra-Shack - lovely Haematite necklace.
teasemade - seriously cute owl brooch.

As always, click on the picture to go directly to the relevant shop.

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Brooches and hairslides

Continuing with my brooch making enjoyment and having run out of cat and dog face buttons for the time being, I found a flower shaped template just begging to be used. Using felt, home tie-dyed t-shirt fabric, a flower shaped button and a selection of seed beads I came up with this pretty little flower brooch. It's the perfect size for wearing on clothes this summer, or even to brighten up your accessories like your handbag or perhaps a belt. It's available in my shop at Folksy and Dreamaid.

I made another just for my daughter Katie, and she found a new use for it - a fashionable flower hair decoration (although you'd have to be careful with not to hurt yourself with the pin). Used with a hairgrip to keep it securely in place, I think it looks really attractive.

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Folksy Friday

Following on from last week, my next six Folksy shops to feature in my Folksy Friday picks are:

Sue Wright Handknits - pretty flower cushion
Claire Rose Designs - gorgeous pink tote bag
Glitterysah - lugs warmer
Harvey Crafty Cards - "Love is in the air" card
Creative Knits - little knitted cat family
Wood Jewellery - delightful swift necklace

Thanks to you all for adding Ellie's Treasures as a favourite shop.

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New shop on Dreamaid

I recently opened a shop on Dreamaid having heard about it through fellow sellers on Folksy. By buying through Dreamaid, 5% of the purchase price from each of my items is donated to those in poorer countries who need help selling their crafts locally.

Dreamaid started in May, 2009 and has recently become a better known name through it's television documentaries broadcast to show people exactly how they operate to help others.

The buying and selling site has products "from 23 countries, Dreamers from 55 countries and visitors from 125 countries" (source: Dreamaid). How fabulous that we have a fast growing community of sellers of hand crafted goods willing to sell on-line and help others at the same time.

Since joining Dreamaid I have listed a few of my items picked from my Folksy shop. This gives the buyer the choice of where to purchase and whether they'd like a percentage of the purchase price to be donated to a worthy cause.

Two items in particular seem to be catching people's eye over at Dreamaid:


My pretty floral Patchy Pockets has appeared on Dreamaid's front page and has also been tweeted by Dreamaid as "so cute (that) we just had to show everyone".


My cute pussy cat heart brooch has been nominated for the jewellery top ten picks.

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Folksy Friday

I'm back and have certainly missed taking part in the last couple of Folksy Fridays.

I've decided, as a thank you to those fellow Folksters that have added Ellie's Treasures as a favourite shop, to pick a selection of gorgeous items from their shops. I'll continue to do this each week until I've run out of shops!

This week I'm chosen goodies from Pants and Paper, Stitcher Scribbler, Molly Moo, Handmade - from the heart, Helen Jane's Designs and Niche Handmade.

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An oven pad for my Mum

A little while ago, when visiting my parents, my Mum mentioned that she'd like a new oven pad for the kitchen - her only other request being that it was mint in colour.

I went away mentally picking through my huge bag (and now under-bed drawers) of materials and could only come up with one lot of mint green in all that fabulous collection! When I got home and had a rummage I was proved right, I did only possess one pastel green piece of material and I'd used some for a Patchy Pockets. Luckily I had enough left to make the oven pad, with scraps of other pastel materials, buttons and little hearts and beads to make up a teapot on one side and a cupcake on the other.

I gave her the finished pad this week and she was thrilled with it. Here's some piccies for you:





I've had a two week break from making goodies for my shops as I was concentrating on making this for my Mum. The break has done me good actually, and I'm feeling ready to get sewing and making once again. It was lovely to find the "sales fairy" drop by my way a few times in April - gave me a really boost I must say. Watch out, new items will be listed on Folksy, Zibbet and in my Facebook Shop very, very soon!

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Lovely birthday goodies ...

I celebrated my birthday on Friday and I was a very, very lucky lady receiving some fabulous presents (and I have more to come over the weekend too). Some of them came from the wonderful sellers at Folksy - chosen from my ever growing "favourites" list. Take a peek:


This gorgeous doggy handbag caught my eye recently when I was looking for dog items for my Folksy Friday picks. I promptly added it to my list of favourites and was chuffed to bits to have it as a present from my in-laws.


This photo really doesn't do this stunning picture justice. It's been put together beautifully with its different textures, felt hearts, silk background and darling little house. There's several to choose from and I found it very difficult to choose just one!


Never used to go for orange, not sure why (I think it reminded me of the family kitchen when I was growing up LOL!!). This chunky hat is the most gorgeous burnt orange colour and is sooooo warm. I can say this in all honesty as the weather has turned extremely cold (and very wet) and this hat has kept my head warm and dry far better than my old fleece one (and it's far more stylish too).


Isn't this just lovely? The moongazing hare pendant - what more can I say. I saw it, again when adding items for a Folksy Friday, and fell in love with it; it has a magical feel to it and it's really "me".

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