Fairs

Its been a long time since i've updated the blog and i have decided to puss myself and make a new years resolution to update this every week. How rubbish am i but with craft fairs, life and the kids time has overtaken me and  we are now into the week before christmas. I've attended a few craft fairs recently and met some lovely people. We attended a vintage craft fair in liverpool and because this is  quite a distance from where we live i was slighty reluctant but still really excited about attending. To my surprise it was a fantastic lovely relaxing atmosphere and the people who ran the fair were very friendly and welcoming. This has got to be one of the best fairs i have attended for a number of reasons, and to my surprise we sold quite a few items and did a lot of networking. Its interesting to know that by jumping into the deep end you can swim very well. The 2 lovely ladies who ran this event, Ness and louise made me feel very chilled and i felt as though i have known them for a long time. This along with selling many of our products made for a very good day. The only downfall of the day was my sat nat freezing on the way and we ended up in the centre of liverpool (STUPID SAT NAV)
So anyway i will be attending more fairs run by Ness and louise and if you follow me on facebook you will find deatils of their organisation. I will update with details of their next events

Time to get sorted

Its been a while since i blogged so i thought it was about time that i did. It's been a mad few months and now its nearing the end of September everyone is beginning to think about Christmas. AAAArrrrrrhhhhhhhh   Christmas comes around way too fast. This year i need to be organised. I am hoping to try and organise myself to do some craft fairs but i know how hopeless i have been this year and my organisation skills leave a lot to be desired. While typing i am trying to stop my baby from eating the laptop, so as you probably can tell now i have my hands full. I have been experimenting (in my somewhat free time) with crocheting and jewellery so i am hoping to showcase all this too. We have set up a website for our jewellery and so far have had only a small amount of interest. This is mainly due to my lack of promotion. I NEEEEEEEDDDD to get organised.. So my motto for today, yes you've guessed is GET ORGANISED!!!!!!!


Watch this space

Wedding Dress

So here are the pictures of the wedding dress I made for my friend. It took a while but i got there in the end. As you can see my friend is not the traditional bride and choose to have a gold skirt with a maroon bodice (which had sequined flowers on the side). I felt very honoured to make her dress and the final product was well worth waiting for. Considering this was my first wedding dress i am really pleased with the outcome. I've been dressmaking for 20 years now and so far have really concentrated on making for myself and my family so this was a challenge. I really enjoyed making this dress and hopefully it has now given me the confidence to expand my horizons. Let me know what you think, please leave a comment. Oh yes to top it off  realised on the Friday that myself and my 9year old didn't have anything to wear so i made a couple of dresses, and my 16 year old made her own too.

My friends Wedding dress

OK so its been a busy few weeks and i have completely neglected my blog. I have been busy making my best friends wedding dress and although this has been a challenge it has been a pleasure and honour to do so. When we first discussed the ideas it seemed quite an easy task. Having had 20 years sewing experience and have made bridesmaids, carnival and prom dresses in the past i thought it shouldn't be too hard. But after deciding on a design the next task was to get a pattern, material and accessories. So off we went on a dress hunt. In the end we decided on a corset top with a full ruffled skirt. My friend decided she didn't want to be traditional bride so we set about finding the right colour material. After many change of minds we set  on a maroon embroidered corset with a gold taffeta skirt. So the project began. Keep watching for photos and more

The start of the holidays

So here we are at the beginning of the summer holidays. 6 weeks of trying to entertain 5 children and working on my products. As you can imagine our household is a bit manic, but that's the life i chose and i wouldn't change a thing. I might change the arguments when one of my darling daughters fights with her sister because she said she could borrow that top last week but not this week. Each one of my daughters have completely different personalities so trying to amuse them all at the same time and a baby boy (6 months old) is very interesting. Saturday we decided to go to the cinema which again was an interesting scenario because they all had different ideas of what to go and watch. Eventually we decided on the new shrek (which i admit was a good choice. But that was a one off treat. We spent a fortune on just watching the film (that doesn't include eats). Sunday was a lazy day, we just hung around the house, garden and my older ones, computer. Today is a new week and i am considering setting up the tent in the garden so they can play holidays.
Back to work for now but will speak soon.

Prom

Ok so its been a while and for that i'm sorry. I have had a manic few weeks, first i had quite a few orders to sort out then my eldest daughters Prom to finish. So as you can imagin last week was very hectic. My eldest finally finished school so we completed her prom dress to wear last wednesday then fortunatly because she was in the school band she was able to wear her dress again on the thursday night. It was a very emotional week and my baby is no longer a baby anymore. So here is a picture of her in the prom dress. Its my daughters design (off to college to take fashion) and I made it.Lots of sweat and tears went into making the dress.
Today i had sports day and with the lovely british summer it rained. Today was the juniors turn, monday was the infants. My youngest came 2nd in the egg and spoon race and my older daughter came 2nd in the running race. My other daughter is having her sports day ar high school but us oldies are not allowed to watch. I love sports day but its amazing to see how many mums and dads are soooooo competitive. I am now nursing a headache from all the shouting. Its quite funny to watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway enough for now so take care and lots of love

A Busy Week

Wow what a busy week last week was. I did research, orders, normal household duties and made a prom dress. .My oldest daughter has her prom tomorrow night so me being me decided to save money and make it. I must admit now it is finished it looks fab and after tomorrow night I will post pictures. I also spent some of the week trying to develop our range so watch this space. I decided it was about time I entered the modern world so invested in a blackberry.This is my first blog on my phone so here's hoping it works ok. Any way short but sweet I will blog again very soon. Lots of Love