My new teapot

Today I wanted to share my love of my beautiful new teapot...

ahhhhhhh... isn’t it pretty!!!

It was a surprise gift from my parents and is specially for making green and white tea. If you dont know, I'm a huge fan of green tea, so I can’t wait to try it out. In the mean time I’m more than happy for it to just sit there looking as lovely as it does!

Very Belated Thanks

About a month or so ago (possibly longer) I was the lucky recipient of a fab giveaway. I am deeply ashamed to say that in my blogging funk I didn’t blog about (sorry sue!).

So, very belatedly, but with the same amount of excitement as when I first recieved it,  here's what I won... this awesome selvedge cuff made by Sue at Laniappe!

 

Cute isnt it! My favourite side is the one shown below with all the pinks. You can even read ‘yummy cupcakes’ on one bit. I bet that print rocked!

Plus it came wrapped with a little note on some very cute button writing paper!

If you are inspired by the cuff (and why wouldnt you be), take a look at the entire chair that Sue covered in selvedge. Its awesome!

Anyway thanks again Sue. I love it!

Catching Up with my Creative Space

After my rather extended hiatus, I have decided to throw myself back in the deep end with a new craft. Stamp carving…of sorts.

I have been needing a name stamp for labels and things for a while, but haven’t found one I have been happy with. So when I stumbled upon a fab little craft shop in Winchester at the weekend, I decided to get all the bits I needed to make my own.

This linoleum stuff is newer and softer than the stuff you used to be able to get (apparently) and it cuts like butter.

I tried a couple of different approaches. The first was this one.

I used some letter stamps I had to create the outline of the text but it was very fiddly and ended up looking much more like an Asian print than I had anticipated. The ‘S’ is a bit wonky unfortunately. But its kind of okay.

The second one I did in about a minute.

I was just trying out one of the fatter blades and in truth I didn’t think it was going to any good, and it is a bit wobbly, but actually I think it might be my favourite! What do you reckon?

In a bid to get back into the swing of things I'm joining back in with Our Creative Spaces. Have a look, its always well worth a visit!

AWOL

Slightly shame facedly, I’m sneaking back onto my blog after, oh, about…7 weeks away!!???!!!

I’d love to say that I’d been on a fantastic holiday, or just enjoying the British summer, but sadly there has been no sign of either. I have just been tired...really, REALLY, tired, and really not in the mood to make much of anything ... with even less inclination to blog about it (sadly).

Still, I’m back – kind of...  I have plans to be back anyway, and I guess that’s better than nothing!

I am also still holding out hope that something approximating a summer reaches us soon (hence today’s rather wistful picture that I took two years ago in a very dried out Greenwich park – ahhh, for a few dreamy hot summer days like that one!). A glimmer of hope poked its way through the clouds yesterday so I am keeping my fingers crossed.