World domination edges ever closer to Through The Round Window! Not one, but two mentions in the Blogosphere. First came this nice little nod from I Love Handmade followed closely by this beautiful photo on Peonies & Polaroids. That totally made my day. She is so ludicrously talented, stylish, funny, eloquent, generally-all-round-sorted and (here comes the really painful bit) only 24.
And stuff has been selling! My Items You've Sold page at Folksy is looking pretty impressive!
Random people are e-mailing me just to say they like my work! Isn't that nice of them!
Anyway, I'll stop now. Next week will probably be really quiet and I'll wonder what the hell I'm actually doing all over again. But for now I shall head towards the weekend in a little bubble of contentment.
Oh, and I've listed a couple more birds in the shop. I was pleased with the way this picture turned out.
Just a quick picture of my lightbox last night with a few bits and bobs in progress.
The cottage is a bit of an experiment - the jury's still out as to whether it's pretty cool or pretty naff. Might be better in brighter colours methinks. Then there's a few more birds, and at the bottom is a bit of galvanised steel wire that I was playing with. I am really liking using this wire to add a bit of extra detail to the finished pieces (like the heart speech bubble on the birds).
The following images will look horribly blurry. Blogger does not like red, or orange, or pink. Happily, Folksy does, so you can view these pictures of the first batch of Valentine's offerings (without feeling like you've had one sweet sherry too many) over there.
It was nice to use up the last remaining bits of kiln-flattened orange glass left over from the Folksy Upcycled competition (I used it for the mittens and bobble hat) - alas the pictures don't do it justice...it's like Lucozade in glass form! It makes you feel full of health and vitality just looking at it!
Then there's this gorgeous Alphabet Flash Card set by Lisa De John that small daughter received for Christmas (she is desperate to keep up with her older sister on all things, reading being no exception) All the cards are a delight (some of the animals are rather curious - Narwhal anyone?) but my favourite is this fox-in-the-snow (where do you go to find something you can eat? - oblique Belle and Sebastian reference. Sorry, i'll stop ponceing around now...) They're available from a little bookshop I know
A friend of mine recently introduced me to a great Czech children's animation - maybe it's massively famous and I'm late to the party, but anyway, it's called Little Mole and it's so beautifully animated and designed. I love finding good stuff for the kids to watch - makes me feel a bit less guilty about their tv consumption. There's plenty of episodes to see on Youtube, but this one seemed most apt.
Lastly, I had such an amazing find the other day. A beautiful hand-knitted Fairisle cardigan in jolly Norwegian red, white and navy. With such cute buttons (not seen in picture alas). For £1.25. Swoooon. I think Isla looks possibly more adorable than I've ever seen her when she wears it. Especially when she falls asleep on her teddy while I'm cooking tea. (Older daughter is faking, rather convincingly). So taken with it was I, that I turned up at the Womens Institute cake-jam-and-knitted-goodies stall on Saturday (a weekly event in my town) and pleaded whether anyone knew who might have made it....between us we tracked down the author and so now I am in the process of buying some yarn for a larger one to be made for Nelly. I will be furnishing you with the photos of the matching cardies in due course. I'm sure you're all on the edges of your seats.
(P.S. Can I apologise for being a bit absent lately. Loads going on, including building work, which means the electricity is a bit on/off. Thanks to everyone who's popped by and commented - and I'm looking forward to catching up on my favourite blogs properly as soon as it's all sorted)
To think, at the end of this decade, I'll be the mother of two teenage girls. Very scary. Especially considering the last decade went by so fast.
Anyway, I have little to post, as I've been just stepping back from all things work/blog/twitterish the last two weeks and concentrating on families and festivities. And I feel much the better for it. But it's nice to be back in the swing of things again.
So here's my list of intentions for the year to come:
Make more things. Draw more. Write more. Read more. Buy a new computer. A really nice one. Overhaul website. Actually that is so urgently urgent I don't know why I'm not doing it right now. Phone distant friends more often. Have more fun.
