Love Heart Placemats

A couple of rays of sunshine finally managed to peek through the clouds today after what seems like an eternity of rainy gloom so i rushed outside to capture some nice bright photos of my recent makes.


I had hoped to get them all listed on the various online outlets i'm selling through too, but... the dog went AWOL this afternoon so spent three hours looking for him instead!


Here he is 'blending' with the landscape a couple of weeks ago - now you know why it was so hard to find him! (that and the fact that he can cover a field in about three seconds...!)

Anyway, he showed up waggy tailed in the end and i still managed to get a couple of new listings up on Etsy this evening though so i thought i'd share them with you here for Handmade Monday.


You may recall that i began experimenting with coasters a couple of weeks ago with intentions of progressing onto placemats. Well, here is a set of my finished sheep coasters:

Colourful Sheep Coasters Set of Four

which i think are pretty cute! Here's one with another of my recent listings - i told you i had plans for those mugs!

Coffee Lover Mug Large

And here are my first set of placemats:

Heart Placemats Set of Two

I'm pleased with these too so all's well that ends well! :)


All that remains now is for me to hand you over to the capable hands of Wendy over at 1st Unique Gifts - happy Handmade Monday!


p.s. Next week i expect i will be announcing the winner of The Circle of Love Giveaway - there is still time to enter! (thank you very much to all those that have entered already!) x

Sheep Coasters For Handmade Monday

This weekend i had a little brainwave of what to make with some rather fabulous floral fabric i picked up on a trip into Bath the other day - placemats - what fun! I've never made them before but i'd love to have some fun and funky one's for us at home and i'm thinking they'd make a nice addition to my shop too...


So... i've started experimenting. I decided to start with coasters first (less to waste if it all goes pear shaped!)


I started with this one - i like the sheep design but the boarders didn't turn out quite as i'd hoped!

So i came up with this little one which i think is pretty cute - watch this space... a whole collection may well appear in my shop soon!

I took this with a mug i'd just painted for a customer - a bit of an odd animal combination but hey ho - i like odd!

Now to the matter of the wedding pressie i made for my friend last week... remember - the cushion i showed you a couple of slithers of so as not to spoil the surprise!


Well, she's seen it now and thankfully she loved it :)  So now you can see it too!

I very much enjoyed my first Handmade Monday last week - thank you so much for the friendly welcome! :)


If you have a moment, i would love you to take a look at 'The Circle Of Love Handcrafted Giveaway' i'm planning - there is still time to get involved and it would be wonderful to have some of you lovely and talented Handmade Monday crew on board :) - it should be a fabulous way to get more readers for your blog as well as things like Twitter follows and facebook 'likes' and also some new crafting friends - its all about spreading the love!


I'm off to 1st Unique Gifts now to find out what everyone else has been up to!