Peacock Clock Mini Wall Clock

Another clock finished today, and I must say I rather love the outcome! I haven't stitched a Peacock feather in so long it was nice to do. 

Perhaps the feather will make a bit of a return this year?

This beauty has just been listed and available for purchase here.

Post & Peacock Feathers

I have been stitching I promise, though this seems to be turning into a weekly, if not fortnightly confession. What I have failed to do is post about it or actually finish the projects enough to list them. Although one of the projects is something I mentioned previously and can now show it because the recipient has now got it. As you can see I have stitched a little figure taken from an illustration by Heidi Burton a very talented illustrator and a friend of mine. I have always loved the picture on the postcard and had been itching to stitch it and finally pulled my finger out and did it. That is the result. Not wanting to keep it I sent it on its way to the lovely lady who drew it. Sometimes I don't often know what to do with the embroidery, i,e. the end product. I wonder if they need to be practical as I do like to combine the two, but in this case a tiny picture for a tiny person seemed the logical solution. However, I have combined practical with beautiful embroidery by designing another clock. 

Peacock feather clock that it is nearly completed, just need to get it mounted up in the frame fix the mechanism and add the final finishing details. Hopefully my camera will behave long enough to allow me to photograph it. Fingers crossed. The feather itself is stitched in hand dyed varigated cotton thread, highlighted with gold thread and a Swarovski Crystal.

In other things there is something nice about getting things in the post. This week was quite a good week for that, I received a wonderful package of goodies from Lupin a nice gesture after I managed to send her a metro that featured one of her lovely handmade felt brooches in for their Christmas shopping edition. I also received a lush Japanese hand embroidery book on flowers I ordered as a treat for me the New Year and for getting a pay rise. 

Have you purchased anything nice lately? Or received anything nice in the post?

Doing a little bit of what I love....

Coming life from my little kitchen. Something rather satisfying about cooking isn't there? I have been finding that it's highly enjoyable of late, perhaps not so much during the week, but at the weekend I find it rather pleasant coming up with something nice to eat, perhaps something that will even last me throughout the week. The meatloaf week was testament to that. But yes anyway I am in my kitchen cooking a one pot meal effort, Honey & Mustard Chicken anyone? I also baked some scones. I love scones and I hadn't had any in ages so I found my cheese and chive scone recipe that I posted up here....though now I come to find it I can't. Anyway will locate later. 


I am still here and I am still stitching. I have my little store up as I announced last week, and have been adding the odd new line to the sale area go and check it out. Today I added....

There are a further two colours in these sets as well I added turquoise and hot pink, you might remember them though? They are items I made back when I first opened my Etsy store back in 2006 and whilst they never sold I took them off and never did anything with them. So I decided to take some more pictures and list them as a set rather than individually, and each set is a bargain £12.50. It's not that I want to get shot of them, but really its time to move on. It was a phase I enjoyed but I don't think I'll return to. 


So if you have a spare few minutes go and have a look. Other things I have been doing is stitching, I have a WIP piece from before Christmas that I am finishing off, it's like a mini art quilt is the best way to describe it and I made something for a friend of mine which I'll be posting to her tomorrow though she doesn't know anything about it...so I look forward to seeing what she thinks of it. I'll post something up about it once I know she's seen it


What have you been working on?

Happy New Year - Sale & Hiccups

 Happy New Year everybody!

I hope your all well and starting to get back into the swing of life? I am please to say that I have survived the Christmas season and now getting into the swing of things, though not without a few hiccups along the way, though before I explain that I am pleased to announce that my Etsy store is now back open, and not only that to make way for new stock and to tidy things up a little bit (nothing like a spot of cleaning) I have many items that are now half price. I am slowly adding bits to the sale section but do go and have a little look! 

Now the minor hiccup is one that isn't such a massive problem and isn't necessarily the end of the world, but is a pain in the neck, is that my lovely desktop computer just before Christmas decided to die on me. Needless to say I was not a happy bunny. It's not the end of it though but it is an expense I could really do without, I don't get the whole extended warranty cover still don't think it would have solved the issue I have with Packard Bells customer service department. Anyway in theory my files etc are still on the hard drive as it was the Motherboard that pegged it. So to cut a long story short it needs to be looked at by the manufacturer and well it's not been easy. Customer service it seems still isn't PC manufacturer's forte and that will be the last time I buy a Packard Bell computer. 

In the meantime I have a little new shiny notebook, it's not ideal and cannot handle a mass load which is why I have decided not to upload new items to my store till my other computer is sorted out. If though it appears it could be sometime till that is sorted, then I have some alternative ways of getting round it. So watch this space!