First Fair of the year and some Fathers day makes

Yesterday I did my first fair of the year. It didn’t start off well as when I arrived I found that they were also holding a car boot sale on the same site as well as the Scarecrow Festival. Had I known that I wouldn’t have agreed to a stall as car boot sales don’t really attract the kind of customer that is willing to pay a fair price for handcrafted goods. Anyway I was told to set up my stall in the field next to Linda who is a lovely soap maker. When I asked about cover they said its ok if it starts to rain you can come under the marquee we are saving for the Mayor!!. Bear in mind the Mayor wasn’t attending till 3pm to announce some competition winners!. After a lot of messing about they finally let us use half of the marquee. In the end I did ok and sold quite a few items but we ended up packing up by 12pm as it was raining quite hard so all the carbooters had gone and with them the customers!. We also got a £10 refund for the stalls which I think was quite fair given we had paid £25 each and the car booters paid £6!!. Anyway here is a pic of my stall….

This Sunday is Fathers Day and last week I was really busy making Fathers Day related orders from my folksy shop and Facebook page. Here’s a few items that may give you some idea’s that you might want to try and make yourself and if not feel free to visit my Folksy shop.

Touching Base

Just i quick post tonight to touch base.  It has been such a busy week.  i have a craft fair on sunday and typically have had a really busy week with lots of orders to make up.  So far this week i have had 20 orders which don't get me wrong is fab but as i have a craft fair to do on sunday it is eating into my stock so i have spent most of the week trying to make up more stock.  Anyway here is a few of the things i have made to replenish my folksy shop stock.

 Meet Maisy the sock mon key.  If you want a copy of the instructions to make your owm just drop me an e-mail to scratchy.cat@hotmail.co.uk

A couple of weeks ago I was approached by the lovely Cara who had spotted my online Folksy shop and liked my wooden keepsakes. She asked if I would be willing to offer a guest giveaway over on her blog where one person will win one of my personalised father day keepsakes. If you want to be in with a chance of winning it pop over to romansthreesixfive and have a peek around her lovely blog and enter the giveaway.  It ends this week so hurry hurry hurry!.

This weekend has been fairly manic (as most weekends tend to be in the Glover house!) It was my best friends birthday on Saturday and my nieces birthday on Sunday. Here’s one the things I made for my niece….

If you want to make your own sock cat visit my old post Here for the tutorial

Half term and a little bit of creativity.

This week is half term so i am off with Miss G.  We have all been to Edinburgh for a long weekend which was a lovely break (apart from the weather!).  Thanks to the lovely Pootle for idea's of what to do and local craft shops.  I didn't manage to sneak to any of the craft shops whilst we were there but i did get to Cath Kidston and buy some lovely fabric.  Because its been half term i haven't had much chance to craft so i only have a few projects to show and they are mainly makes for my Folksy and Facebook shops as i have sold another 8 items in the last few days...

 I bought this as a plain untreated wood frame and sanded it down painted it white and added chipboard embellishments and East of India ribbon and backing card.

 This Grandad frame was also bought as a blank canvas and i have white washed it and sanded it in parts to give a worn effect then added Grandad and mod podged of the letters to make them durable and added a layered chipboard embellishemnt and co-ordinating backing paper.

 I had a number of wooden sheep left over from Easter and spring projects so i thought they would make nice keepsakes for Fathers Day.

 And finally a mobile phone case made using cath kidston Stanley fabric.

Now i'm off out into the garden as its a gorgeous day and lili has a friend coming over.  Have a nice day everyday x

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Emily the sock monkey and a fight with technology

Meet Emily the latest sock monkey i made earlier this week.  I added a little tutu and hat to make her even cuter.  i do love making sock creatures as they are so easy and look quite effective.  If you want a copy of the basic sock monkey tutorial just drop me an e-mail to scratchy.cat@hotmail.co.uk.

Next is an apology for all those who are waiting for a tutorial on my owl cushions.  Technology is challenging me (no surprise there!).  The instructions are all typed and ready to publish it is trying to get the templates loaded into a format that everyone can print off which is proving tricky. Though to be fair i have only had a little play around as i have been a bit manic this week.  Fingers crossed i suss it soon and as soon as i do i'll post about it i promise.