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Rag Dollies!!!

Its been a while since I mentioned my rag dolls. I love making these and would like to make a few more. The dresses and aprons are just a delight to create.  I cant make any more until there is some space so these girls have been reduced from £49 down to £35. Now, these lovely ladies are not teeny dolls but a whopping 27 inches tall.    I want to make some boy ones too. What do you think?

Here is each one on their own. Click on the pic to take you to the listing. Don't forget either that these are completely unique in their design and come with the unique hang tag with their name and date of birth which is the day they were finished, but can be changed to a specific date, such as a birthday for gifts. What doll collector wouldn't love one of these?

Maisie

Jessica

Peggy

Lucy

Shop of The Week, Rebecca's Emporium

This  weeks craftbritannia shop of the week is Rebecca's Emporium.  Here you will find some really unique felted items. Be they creatures or unusual jewellery they are super duper cuuuuute.

Here are my picks for the week, but you can read her interview on the craftbritannia blog here, and visit her entire etsy shop here.  Or each pic should take you to the item.

This one is sold but I loved it so much I had to include it. I reckon Rebecca would love to make another don't you?

Ooooh a lovely award!  I have been awarded this honour from the delightful Ruby Mole of Moley Makes  This is a first for me and my little blog. So huge thanks to Ruby, xx

The rules are

• Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog
• Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you
• Copy and paste the blog award on your blog
• Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve to be noticed (see below)
• Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

Now I also am going to nominate 5 bloggers from my lil ole reading list.  If you don`t do awards or the like, that`s fine . Its all fun and don`t  worry at all. If you guys do, hope you enjoy it.  

Deepa at http://lazygiraffeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ who is a jewellery designer with some fantastic food blogs
Chloe at  http://cariadclay.blogspot.co.uk/. This lady makes gorgeous ceramics
Safia at http://honeybumblecustomdyed.blogspot.co.uk/ just the photography alone is worth a visit
Dorien at http://madebydo.blogspot.co.uk/ fantastic crochet
Dotty at http://dottybluebird.blogspot.co.uk/ for all manner of craft wonders

Do pop along and visit them. I am now going to let them know about this.

Shop of The Week, Katiedidonline

This weeks craftbritannia shop of the week is Katiedidonline.  The strapline is 'upcycled kitchen and home goods.  This exciting shop is full of delightful non granny aprons, coasters, baby bibs and bunting.  I also found some cutely packaged scrap packs. What a fabulous gift idea for sewing friends.
This shop is actually full of things that would make great gifts.  Here are my picks but do pop along to The Craftbritannia Blog for an in depth interview with the lady herself and please go have a browse of her Etsy shop as there is so much more than I have shown you here.

Flowers

Short and sweet post today. I week or 2 ago I was lucky enough to receive a beautiful bouquet of flowers. I actually forgot to take a photo of them believe it or not. On their demise, I realised i really liked having fresh flowers in the house so went on  a hunt in the garden to come up with a replacement. This is what I came up with. I think I shall add some cutting type flowers to the garden this year as I am loving the whole floristry thing at the mo, even if I am not up to professional standards.  I do have one tip. Apologies if you know this. Years ago a friend did floristry and passed onto me that to replace that little sachet of feed when you either change the water or pick your own. Add a tiniest drop of bleach to the water to guard against smelly water and a bit (about half a teaspoon or so depending on your vase) of sugar to feed the flowers. It does seem to work.

Its The Little Things

Isn't it funny, how the smallest changes can make such a difference.  I inherited this futon from a boys room and put it in my sewing room, as my it wasn't wanted in there but I thought we should have a spare sleeping arrangement of some sort (OH wanted to get rid! The very idea!). It is actually really comfortable for both sleeping and sitting. The thing is , I just hated how it looked. It really jarred with my pretty lilac and cream look in there.

 So, I spotted this lovely duvet set on the Grattan website. What luck, it totally reflects the feel in my sewing room and teddy seems happy too. I now have a beautiful sofa by day and a spare bed ready to go at a minutes notice. Ok I have to pull a pillow out of the airing cupboard, but you get my drift. I can't decide whether I like the front down hiding my truck   packaging underneath.

 Or tucked in and looking more sofa like. Either way, its a great improvement on the denim homage to boyness that it was.  I must tidy up the little piles I still have to find a home for that are quite evident in these pictures.