2019 Calendars - Last Few Remaining!

With 2019 nearly upon us, now is the time to snap up one of my last remaining calendars for next year!

12 of my felt art pictures in print with a whole calendar page to write on. Makes a great postable gift as well. 

2019 Wall Calendar £12 inc UK p+p

I've had such a busy time since the Handmade Show at Perth in November (which was wonderful as usual!)

Not much time for making pictures but I have made this pussy cat sitting on a wall.

'Cat on The Wall' £98 Framed

I have had him printed onto cushions and canvases as well and as a cotton bag.

Cushions £40          Canvas Print £20

Cotton Bags £14.95

The bags are great, heavier duty than your average cotton tote with a different image on each side. They wash well and iron flat and have good, sturdy long handles too.

Other designs include these two below.

I mentioned my new tins in my last blog post but since then I have added another design in the square shape and two small round ones as well. 

The little round tins are great for pins, stitch markers, buttons, beads or sweeties.

I have also made some up as gift sets with other items all of which you can see here .

Also flying out the door this month are these Harris Tweed bird brooches.

Brooches £14

And my wee sheepies are continuing to be popular and have now gone off in flock formation to some new stockists!

You can find a small selection at 

The Woolly Brew in Pittenweem, 

Sealy MacWheely in Kirkintilloch. 

The Yarn Cake in Glasgow and 

The Dancing Light Gallery near West Linton.

I have tried to make lots of my shiny textile jewellery available online as well but it is soooo difficult to photograph and the light is terrible at this time of year.

You can see what's in stock by following these links.

Earrings £18.50

Pendants £26

I am very much looking forward to the next few weeks as I have a rather exciting new toy arriving which will help me with my felt making and hopefully help me to create more pictures! I'll keep you up to date with what's new and I hope everyone has a lovely time as we go through the darkest part of the year. I like to fill this time with cosy fires, candle light, family, friends, music and nice walks on crisp and frosty days!

♥

Summer So Far

We are nearly two weeks into our school holidays here and we have been having such wonderful weather for a change! We have been busy visiting family and making the most of the good weather here at home as well. I picked these sweet peas from my Dad's garden last week and they have been filling the cottage with their heady scent which I find so uplifting and relaxing at the same time.

My daughter and I went to visit my Auntie and Uncle last week and we had a very enjoyable couple of days going for walks by the river and generally relaxing.

I found this little hut quite enchanting nestled into the woods, surrounded by wild flowers.

The River Feugh

We had a little swim in here one morning. Not as cold as the sea off Iona last month but very invigorating all the same! I have happy childhood memories of playing in this river with my brothers and cousins during the long summer holidays and I like to think that my children will have happy memories of time spent here too.

Back at the end of June we went to Ceres Highland Games, the oldest free games in Scotland.

Lots of colour among the competitors.

I enjoy some aspects of the games but took myself off round the village after a while as I had spotted an interesting little shop called, Hand Made Home. Just my kind of place!

Set in a tiny cottage, Hand Made Home offers a variety of new and vintage items for sale as well as hand painted furniture and made to order curtains and blinds.

I really enjoyed chatting to owner Sarah about all things handmade.

The shop layout is constantly changing as the furniture sells and new pieces are painted up for display. 

My daughter chose a cute little sewing kit for a summer project which we are saving for a rainy day. There is so much paddling pool fun to be had at the moment that sitting still learning how to do blanket stitch will have to wait.

To keep up with what's new from Sarah at Hand Made Home, you can find her on Facebook here.

Of course the beautiful weather brings with it glorious sunsets!

The clouds here looked so like merino fibres laid out ready for making into felt!

So with all this going on and children to entertain, I have not had as much time to make things. I did make these new sheep wrist cuff bracelets at the end of last month. They are very time consuming though and so they cost a bit more than my usual ones.

Sheep Cuff Bracelets £20

Available here

I have also made some new textile heart pendants.

New earrings will be in stock in August.

So everything is ticking along at rather a laid back pace here. Normal service will resume mid August. 

I hope you are all having a great summer!

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New For September

New cards are back in stock in both my Etsy and Folksy shops.

 

 

There are many designs to choose from including this new Apple Tree and Sheep design.

 



All cards are £2.50 each with a discount on the sets of  four or six.

 

 

Also new this week are these two landscape pieces.

They both come framed at £55

 



 

Although these pieces feature the same little cottage, the difference is in the background felt. I have added a lot more texture and different fibres into the landscape making each piece even more unique.

 



 

Both are available in my Etsy shop now.

 

I have also listed a few new boxes on Etsy.

This little box features beautiful purple Harris Tweed that I bought straight from the weavers shed on Lewis. It is such a gorgeous colour. I have complimented it with my own handmade felt in toning shades.

 

 

Also new are these two little sheep boxes.

 

 

 

All the wee boxes are £25 and can be found here.

 

 

And as the season turns, I thought I'd add a few more apple trees to the collection.

 

 

Sheep Pendants £20 including Gift Box

Harris Tweedy Creations!

Lots of Tweedy goings on here this week!

You may remember the originals of these that I made back in April. Well they all went off to the gift shop Room 15 at 15 Stafford Street in Oban last weekend but I have had some printed into cards!

Washing Day

£2.50

Harbour Houses and Boat

£2.50

Set Sail For Sunset

£2.50

Home For Supper

£2.50

Harbour Houses, Boat and Fish

£2.50

Set of Four

£8

Island and Gulls

£2.50

These 12x12cm cards look great framed. This Island and Gulls design is really making me want to go back the Hebrides, especially when the sun is out here and I start day dreaming about all the amazing colours of tweed I could get my hands on!

The cards are all now available in my Etsy shop here

I'm hoping to get time to work on some more originals and make them available online too.

I can also make to order.

And here is something new and exciting and just a little bit cute.....

What's in the box? What's in the box?

A super cute hand knitted sheep!

This is a 'Baby Baa', hand knitted here in Scotland by Lynne Seaton of My Baboo.

I've been a big fan of Lynne's work for a long time and when I was toying with the idea of felting little sheep to go inside my boxes, I remembered a photo I'd seen on Facebook of some of Lynne's Baby Baa's that were off to be sold through a shop in Edinburgh.

Since my attempts at felting sheep were a bit disasterous (they just looked like big eyeballs!), I contacted Lynne and we agreed on a little collaboration.

So this is the first of my boxes available with it's resident Baby Baa.

£35

Lynne uses beautiful Scottish wool for her knits which go so well with the tweed used in the construction of the boxes.

Just click the photo if you would like to go to the listing.

More coming soon.

I also have these other boxes available in my Etsy shop as well.

£30

£25

And of course the cow's wanted in on the action.

This one has sold but there may be more soon.

No wee coo's hiding in here but a great place to stash your Highland Toffees!