November Sparks

I've finally joined the Folksy monthly listing club where we list a new item every day. I'm not sure if I'll be able to keep up with it all, but I'm going to give it a go.

Today I listed some tiny, individual mince-pie plates - perfect for the children to leave out for Father Christmas on Christmas Eve.

Everyone is working so hard filling their shops, that I thought I would show you some of my fellow November Sparks listers.

You can buy this beautiful snowy scene at Sprinkles.

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This gorgeous winter hat can be found at All the cute things shop.

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aww - this is such a sweet little house decoration from Leanne Woods designs.

Anyway - that's it for today as I'm a bit useless at puttng piccies on my blog - it's taking me forever!

More to come soon xxx

This really made me smile : )

I won a competition over on Indiesmiles a few weeks ago and I just picked up my prizes from the post office.

Look at my beatiful cat fridge magnet and butterfly wooden collage plaque from Linda.

http://www.lindagj.etsy.com/

They have travelled all the way from America and turned up so beautifully packaged it was really exciting to open them.

The cat is made from papier-mache and clay and is a tribute to Linda's dearly departed cat 'Peanut'. It's really cute and has little metal angel wings and a halo.

The butterfly wall plaque - is made from wood and covered in paper collage with a hand cut butterfly adornment on the front.

They have both brightened up my day - so thankyou Linda x

Angus arrived!

Today, the postman brought me a lovely surprise!

I had an interesting looking parcel delivered and as I opened it, a classy looking black box fell out all wrapped with a purple bow - gorgeous.

As I tentatively opened the bow and took the lid off the box, peeping from his little home of purple tissue paper, a wire Angus looked up at me!

He was a purple wire scottie dog brooch made by the very clever Emma Cressey (whose shop can be found here: http://www.folksy.com/shops/Emma1985

I had won one of her fabulous giveaways - isn't he gorgeous?

I'm going to put him on my handbag so he can go for a nice long walkies everyday!

sprinkles on the top?

Today, I needed to take some photographs of my new cupcake plates, so obviously I needed some cupcakes to put in them.

I spent the afternoon making delicious chocolate cupcakes from a simple recipe found in my local weekend newspaper.

The recipe required two eggs and that was all I had left after my boys had earlier made their egg sculptures of different historical figures for school tomorrow. Biggest d_p made a model of Houdini and littlest d_P made a model of Macbeth. I am hoping that neither of their egg models befalls a nasty accident like poor old Humpty as we've no eggs left to make replacements!

The ultimate in decadence - individual cupcake plates!

To be listed on my Folksy site later tonight.

The icing was a little runny but they managed to get through the photoshoot OK until my two hungry little monsters snaffled the lot!

I think there may be one left for my supper *lick lips* yum!

Owls on Folksy

Following on from my owl giveaway last week, I thought that I would present you with some of my favourite owl items on Folksy.

Mysterious Night Owl coaster from Superfumi

http://www.folksy.com/items/176322

I love this it reminds me of Plop - the owl who was afraid of the dark!

I also love this teacosy by Jacksknits

http://www.folksy.com/items/322289

This owl pendant is beautiful - I love the contrasting patterns. This is from Tula Moon

http://www.folksy.com/items/262149

I love this little rubber stamp by Skull and Cross Buns

http://www.folksy.com/items/317801

Finally - look at this lovely mug by Laura-Kate draws

http://www.folksy.com/items/295445

Owl Pendant blog giveaway!

Just because I love owls so much and I've got some new owl buttons listed on my Folksy shop, I thought I'd do a blog giveaway of one of my owl pendants.

If you like owls too and want to win this necklace, just start following my blog and tell me a fact about owls, a joke about owls or even why you like owls too!



I'll pick my favourite comment next Sunday afternoon - good luck x

A lazy Saturday afternoon!

Mr dottery potter took the smallest dp fishing today and eldest dp was happy to amuse himself so I had an afternoon of peace and quiet.

I was able to spend it in the studio rolling slabs and creating some new bits and bobs without any stress and no cries of "Mum" echoing from room to room!

I did have to take time out to break up a few rabbit fights in the garden, so decided to only let them out one by one and put them on a timer - after an hour 'ding' and then change over!

Well that was the ideal version of events - I'll spare you the details of me chasing them around, under the trampoline, through the dog poo etc!

So I got to work, made loads of new buttons, rolled out two new tiles, made a bird hanging ornament and some new pendants.

Here they are in their raw stage.

There are also a few top secret things going on but I'm keeping them under wraps for now!

Hope you all had a lovely saturday x