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I’ve been doing Folksy Friday for a while now and I really like Folksy and what it is growing into. I’ve also started getting involved with UK Handmade which is very exciting and very inspiring. There’s nothing more motivating that meeting and building relationships with people with like interests. Especially when you’re a work-from-home mum [...]

I wanted a gocco machine for ages and I got one two years ago. I think I’ve used it once. Mainly, in all fairness, because I don’t have access to an old-school carbon copier. But it’s still one of my favourite things and finding a way to use it more often is definitely up there [...]

This week my Folksy Friday is over on the Folksy blog! So it’s a proper Folksy Friday this week. I found some lovely things that people were making from old books.

This week’s Folksy Friday is dedicated to the Kitty Kat as we’ve decided, although we are probably a tad delusional, that these are our baby’s first words. It is true that he makes the same noises that sound very vaguely like ‘kitty kat’ everytime he sees one of our cats. I’ll have to show him [...]

Nine months ago today, the very best moment of my life happened at 2.47 in the afternoon. So this week for Folksy Friday it’s all about George:

George and the Dragons from Hole in My Pocket
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King George by Alice Gabb
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George from The Snail Emporium
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George, Hand Embroidered Brooch from Bird & Bridge
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George Bear Plushie from Dotty Daisies

I’m not the most patient person so it’s been quite hard telling myself that building up a business from scratch is not going to happen overnight. The biggest problem being that when I set up as a freelance graphic designer, it did literally happen overnight. There were a few dry spots, but for the most [...]

So the theme of this week’s Folksy Friday is ‘Festival’ in honour of Ben & Jerry’s Sundae on the Common which is happening this weekend on Clapham Common. We’re going tomorrow for the first time with child.  This is more of a family-friendly festival, or used to be, so the theme is more bunting (I [...]

n. – The quality or state of cohering, especially a logical, orderly, and aesthetically consistent relationship of parts.
Yes I need some of this. This is what’s missing, it’s so obvious when I look at the collections of designers who have it. Here’s who’s inspiring me to be more coherent:
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Charlotte Macey Textiles:
Beautiful linen homewares with [...]

I’m hoping to keep up with this every week. This is my second one so that’s a roll for me. This week’s theme is ‘hungry’ because I’m hungry:g

Hungry Bear Plate from James Ward
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Chocolate Cake Coin Purse from Dinky Daisy
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Alice in Wonderland ‘Eat Me’ Cake Toppers by Crafty Pagan Designs
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Apple and Pear Card [...]

Only 8+ months late, but I finally made curtains for the baby’s room. Yes they are a bit too short and there are quite a few mistakes, but at least they’re made and up. He still woke up at 5.30am (we had curtains before but not black-out ones) but he went more quickly back to [...]