April DUST craft swap

I signed up for the DUST April craft swap and found out yesterday that I have been partnered with Dell from DELicious Designz. She has two girls, 8 and 10, which great! The girls have suggested they would like a blue monkey and a purple giraffe. Off to the drawing board!

Del's resin jewlery is lovely, and I love the Alice themed pendants. This is my first swap, I hope she will be happy. I might sneak something in for her also, shhhh dont tell.

The new butterfly's in the shop still haven't had a proper photo shoot! You cant really see the wings but its enough to get the idea. After much prompting from Meagan the very girly pink
butterfly was born. People seem to really like the boggley eyes so Im trying to encorporate them more.

On a Literary note, I have finished almost all my Chaucer reading, and Im moving on to Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida soon. I hope everyone has a relaxing and safe easter weekend, and think of me snowed under school work and mid-season sale dramas at work!

WIP Wednesday on Friday

I couldnt wait til next Wednesday to post the new pics of my tattoo, and as technically I didnt get home till very early Thursday morning, I couldnt have posted on Wednesday anyway. And at 1.00am when you haven't eaten and youve been stuck with millions of little needles the last thing you want to do is take photos.

The lighting was terrible today, I tried to take some photos of the butterfly finger puppet I made last night but they didn't turn out. Hopefully the clouds disappear tomorrow. The new butterfly is in honour of my second etsy sale! A little green boggeldy eyed frog on his way to America somewhere.
I got totally ripped off at the post office, so I really made no money whatsoever on that particular sale, henceforth I shall never go to that post office again. Lesson learnt.

All in all its been a great week. I'm on top of my schoolwork so that makes me happiest of all. 1.5 tests completed and 400 words to go on my essay, and only a billion more Chaucer chapters to read! All very modest goals for the weekend I think.

First Etsy sale and WIP Wednesday

When I woke up this morning, I had a strange email from paypal saying someone had given me money. Initially I thought it was spam, but, lo and behold, my first etsy sale! So two little finger puppets are now on their way to New Caladonia, USA!
In honour of my first sale, here are some more finger puppets, Mr Buzzy Bee!

WIP wednesday, Im working on a blanket I found at ravelry, a freeform 'pattern'. For some reason the colours have come up bad in the photo, but its nice to use some of the odd balls in my stash. The dirty blue one is actually a lovely turquoise



What an exciting morning! I feel a little sad about sending off my little creations. My sister is sure its not worth it, and Im sure they take me longer to make than I realise and perhaps I have under-valued them, but for now Im happy, and especially happy that other people like them too!

Now, to stop procrastinating and begin my study for the day...

New puppets

A month between posts, a new record! Its been a busy month, and about to get busier with Uni starting in March.

Ive been coming up with some new finger puppets, see below the frog, octopus and shark. Im working on creating sets to sell them in with themes which kids will like. An underwater creature theme for the octopus and the shark, and a garden theme for the frog, with maybe a bee, butterflies and a bird? Or Insects? Im not sure. These ones will be up on Etsy soon, sold individually. A few more weeks should see the sets go up.





I made the hand model with plaster and disposable gloves. It has a few air bubbles and inconsistencies, but I quite like it, and it serves the job well. No having to pester my family for a 'hand'. Lol, sorry, I can't resist a good pun.

Easter gifts are well underway. The pattern I'm working with is by Tamie Snow from Roxy Craft, you can find the free pattern here