WOYWW

 I am chuckling to myself today - I think my table is the same as last week but with an extra layer on top!!!!

So - please enjoy a good root around - there's bunting, half made Christmas card collages, a picture  frame waiting to be filled, a sketch book waiting for a cover and some pretty vintage embroidery.

Below is my spare bed covered with goodies ready for the craft fair next week......
Such pretty bits and bobs - fabric collages, cards, brooches, needlefelted pictures, wedding bunting and draught excluders

AND a wonderful selection of gorgeous cushions - some with sequins, some velour with hearts filled with buttons and some great patchwork ones.

 If you live anywhere close enough, why not come and see us at

Marton Village Hall Craft Fair

Saturday 24th November

10am - 4 pm

(About 18 miles from Shrewsbury on the B4386). 

We would love to see you and I am sure there will be lots of lovely things at the fair - perfect Christmas gifts.

Lastly, this beautiful little angel came through my letterbox yesterday - she flew all the way from Jozarty.
Her name is Nitika and she is the angel of precious stones. Won't she just look perfect on my tree this Christmas. She even came with those pretty little ribbons too - I shall put those to good use I am sure!!
Thanks lots Jo. I hope my little angel is winging her way to you today and arrives safely with you soon.

OK folks - thanks for visiting - you are such a nice bunch. I really enjoy popping over to your workdesk to see what you have been up to.

Hope we see you at the craft fair!!
x Jo

Is it a card or a brooch? - WOYWW

Well, I dumfed away with my embellisher and a bag of sari silk waste last week and created these tiny dumflings (another new word Wipso!!) I intended them to be a sort of card topper and I was just going to glue them to a decorated card. Then, as often happens - when I am wide awake at 4 in the morning - I had this brainwave of adding beads and some hand stitching and a little brooch back, thus turning them into rather unusual little brooches.

Then I found some white cards embossed with a curly design and just pinned each brooch onto the centre square. I think I shall pop each one in a tiny jiffy bag and then they will be ready to go onto the shelf in our new blog shop!

If you want to see all the gorgeous goodies that Wipso has been making, then follow the link on the right and head over to Sisters Crafty Creations. We had lots of fun setting it up on Fun Day Monday and just have a few more shelves to fill. We are planning a celebration "Give-away" once we have it all sorted, so do keep popping back to check us out.

Well, she is named Wipso for more reasons than you know - so before she cracks that whip and starts asking where all my little dumflings are - I had better get them sorted out ready for the shelf she has dusted ready!!

Have a great week - and all you lovely card makers out there - do let me know what you think about dumfling brooches on cards.

Just a bit of felting fun.

I didn't want to waste my little experiments, made whilst playing er - practising on my new machine. So I added a few beads and mounted them on cards. I have a box full of little experimenst like these. They always come in useful for birthday and thank you cards.

I still have all my daughter's crafting goodies stacked in boxes here so I just dip into all her lovely stash of fabrics, fancy paper and cards. I hope it takes a long time for her to remember that they are here!!!

Crafty developments!

Our latest craft project is needle felting. This involves using dyed wool rovings and sharp barbed needles to create wool sculptures and pictures. I have seen it at craft exhibitions alongside wet felting which I have dabbled with a little. Recently, whilst surfing the web, I came across a few needle felted items and my interest was stirred! Of course once I shared this with my clever, sewing sister we were off on a journey of discovery. If you have an hour or two to spare and want to see some clever stuff - just google "needle felted sculptures" or "needle felted pictures" and see what the really clever folk are doing!

You will see from my photos that we are just dabbling but its great fun.

Mine are the little pictures which I have mounted on cards so that my daughter can sell them for the charity she works for.

I have sculpted a gerbil and a meerkat but I think I need more practice!!

On the other hand my sister is well away, as you can see from the little animals she has made.

Watch this space for more crafty developments!