Autumnal Awesomeness: Dates for the Diary

It's September already, and before we can even do a double blink and a triple wink, it will be Christmas. YIKES!  

August is usually my quietest month of the year, but this year, just as I was preparing for a restful time sitting in the sunshine and eating ice creams, you all went completely bananas and kept me super busy with mucho orders for cherry shoes...

...And dapper chap slugs:

I must just mention, that in between orders galore, I've started on some rather marvellous Christmas-y delights already, which some of my wonderful customers in le shoppe have already had a sneaky peek at. The rest of you, are just gonna have to wait, until the golden harps arrive to finish off the slug de la resistance!

Anyway enough Christmouse talk for now, here are some dates for the diary over the next couple of months...

First off, this Friday (6th Sept) and Friday 20th September, I will be teaching a bunch of lovely peeps how to make these...

  

This Friday's workshop is now all booked up, but there are still a few spaces for the 20th, so book your place now, before they all sell out: Tea and Biscuits Workshop

Then, on Sunday the 6th October, I will be heading up to London to sell my wares at The Crafty Fox Market. I haven't been at any London events to trade for aaaaaaages, so I am looking forward to catching up with all my creative buddies there, and seeing all my fabulous London customers again.

October's workshop will be Halloween themed, so we'll be making leather Mexican skull brooches/keyrings. As October is looking to be pretty busy, we'll just be holding one ghoulish workshop on Friday 18th October... You'll be able to book online later this month- keep your eyeballs peeled (not literally, that would be disgusting) on the website.

At the end of October, I'll be heading back up to London, with my extremely talented and amazingly wonderful sister, Rachel.  We'll be sharing a space, and selling our creations at Made London, One Marylebone, from the 25th to the 27th October.

Here's a peek at what my sister does: 

and her website: http://www.rachellarkins.com/

You can find all the info on Made London here: http://www.madelondon.org/

Soooo, I think that's plenty of lovely dates to pop in the diary for now. I feel exhausted just thinking about it all- I think I need a little sleep!

Busy Bee Lovings 

xx

Thimbles and Big Cats

Everyone who knows me, knows that I have a bit of a penchant for leopard print...


And as I felt it was time to snazz up my blog and stuff, it seemed an injection of leopard print was what it needed. So, now you can see these beauties below, on the right hand side of my blog, to click on and take you to various lovely online destinations:


Now that they have been photographed and uploaded, I'm not entirely sure what to do with them. Some sort of social networking themed necklace for the internet enthusiast, perhaps?

If you like these hearts, you can order your very own here.
If you'd like it personalised, just send me a message.

Anyway, what with all this sewing and spending far too much time looking for 'lost' thimbles, I came across these delights today, for a squid each...


Vintage promotional thimbles. One is News of the World (obviously my favourite Sunday paper), sale exceeds 3.000.000 copies, it says around the other side. The other is Drink Lyons Green Label Tea in lovely bright turquoise.

Amazingness. I love them, and will probably have lost them both down the back of the sofa by the end of next week.

But for now, I have stuck them on the severed hand I blogged about a few weeks back, which is now being used as a pin cushion.


Severed hand pin cushions will be available to buy online soon, just as soon as I've picked up my sewing machine and made some more.

Sooo, I think that is all for now. Two blogs in as many days is a bit much for me!!

Have a super cool weekend.

Big cat lovings

xx