There are times when I have to admit the title of my blog posts are bloody stupid, or plain boring. I never know whether to be witty, or just state the obvious. I suppose with today's I am being a little flippant. Stuff covers everything and well I suppose today is a day about stuff. Anyway, aside from that little quandary I've been tinkering away with the new mini line for my shop and well that's about it if I have to be honest. Well aside from stuff.
Taking my images I got them turned into tiny little pocket mirrors and they arrived during the week. I could easily sell as is, but well that's not very me, where is the touch of the handmade where is well me in it. So I've been making tiny little pouches to go with them. The main bit of its done, I am now sewing them up into recognisable shapes and attaching press fasteners, the latter aspect is going to get old fast and has already been relegated to a job I can do on the train. Probably until I lose the first press stud in transit then it will probably be an at home only job. These are just little ways of being able to take home some of my pieces which generally speaking aren't very portable, namely the clocks. In time there will be further designs made, and some perhaps even specifically for the mirrors, but for the moment in time I had three designs printed:
In person, if I do say so myself they are very cute, especially with the pouches. It will be a bit of a random affair as to which pouch goes with what mirror but that suits my style fine. And each fabric is essentially left overs from previous projects. Nothing, especially not fabric, goes to waste. Part from scrappy bit of thread, knotted threads drive me potty, and life is too short to try and untangle them.
Each mirror is £5.50 each, and as I said comes with a handmade little pouch, might also notice I've had some new labels made up, partly because well it was time for a change and well they look so much nicer than the old lot.
So onto the stuff, I am musing on new pattern ideas, more intriquete ones to sell, time I also got the next free pattern example stitched up. And more interesting to you lot is that I will be doing a bit of a competition with the first pattern. This weeks Want it Wednesday will be temporarily replaced with 'You Will Want this Wednesday'. So keep eyes peeled for that folks! All I will say if you've downloaded the little planet pattern then you'll want to come back.
Anyway, time to get back to stitching pouches, drawing, and listening to TED Talks.
