A hoot at the craft fair

Firstly, I'd like to say thankyou for all your lovely and supportive comments on the last post! The little Christmas Craft fair was brilliant. I met a lot of fabulous folk and sold a lot of things! I ended up selling out of quite  few bits including the butterfly, dragonfly brooches and the birdhouse hairclip holders! I'm a happy bunny ...albeit a very busy one now as I try to replenish stock before the next fair on Friday..waaah!

Here's a pic of my little dotty pitch..

 The Owl folk all lined up and ready to go!

Also, somewhat randomly in the midst of butterfly and nest making I made this rather funky monster hat for Chloe's daughter to wear to her monster theme birthday party. Her ma has made her a most fabulous tail too! 

 and finally...what to do with this little thingmajig that I've made...?

 Its small, rather twee! and I'm not sure whether to sew it onto something bigger..or make it into a hair clip or brooch? Any ideas....send them on a virtual postcard to the Dotty one!

Take care and wrap up warm (or put your suncream on if your the other side!!)

Love Dotty

xxx

In the midst of crafting chaos!

I've got my first craft stall next Friday, it's a lovely little one held at a lady's house and it sounds like it going to be super Christmassy  with an open fire, lots of Christmas lights and mulled wine!

I am, as usual, in a crazy last minutre crafting frenzy as the dealine approaches...here are some pics of the piles of semi made craft stuff lying around the house!!

There are plenty of nests, eggs, butterfly and dragonfly bodies mid production. I really need to get a move on! Unfortunately both kids were off ill today so the crafting has slowed up somewhat!

I still have about 50 pairs of ears to thread onto elastic. They have taken me a lot longer than I'd planned for...but we live and learn.

Finally, I've just (in a very sketchy fashion) painted a hatstand red. I'll be using it to display my tails...well thats the theory, I'm not too sure how it will all look yet!

Well gotta run now and resume mama duties...and try to sneak a little crafting in too!

Take Care

Love Dotty

xxx

and for no other reason than it made me laugh...here is a picture of my ma's daft cat Stumpy asleep! He must have over heated next to the Aga and attempted to move...but then just gave up!

 p.s aaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh James is destroying my craft room as I write this!! messy messy mess mess!!

Lovely things for little folk

On the crazy night of the full moon I managed to make this little name sign for a new little Mister who arrived last Saturday. I have been making a few stuffed felt letters for friends kids but they are a bit fiddly to do and so I dropped the stuffing and opted for just sewing the letters together.

I also bought him this gorgeous little knitted sleepsuit. Its made by a friends mother in law, who is one super skilled lady.

its hard to get a senses of scale from the photo, but its really dinky for a newborn. I just love the little mittens! Oh how I wish I had the patience to knit :(
I've also been making more of these hairclip holders for friends, they have been quite popular.

but most importantly of all....dun dunnnn duuuunnnnn

................................ we got our xmas tree today, a lovely little potted pine to sit on our window sill.

check out all these crazy little fella's and creatures living on it...

 

 

I bought the Owls today.....they definately suit the dotty bird nest!

Festive greetings to ya'll 

Wishing you lots of merriment indeed!

xxx