Wild Olive Stitching Club

I've joined the Wild Olive summer stitching club, it starts on the 1st June and I cant wait to get started, I'm off to choose from my fabric offcuts (a great way to use up your stash)

If you join up now its only $5 pop along here for more details x

stitching!

Im really enjoying embroidery stitches at the moment, I got this design as a free printable ages ago and thankfully I still had the page to link back too
I chose yellow, red and teal and all I have to do now is frame it, this is for our bedroom once its finished

This is a free download printable available here

burning organza

I've had a wedding cake topper design in mind for a while, I started practising on the organza flower base, it took me a couple of times to get the burning technique right! These ones I feel are a little too burnt!

Then I finally got use to it so I'm happy with it now

Now onto the next stage in the design!

Glorious Pie

My lovely friend popped over to see me so she joined me and the boys for dinner (as my partner was working away - I suffer with anxiety the most on the first night that he's away so it was lovely to have some company to pass the time away with)
I made my favourite chicken pie from the jamie oliver 30 minute meals

and some chocolate fridge cake from Lorraine Pascales cookbook which she liked 'alot' :)

A good night with good chit chat x

Cat Embroidery

Sometime ago I found a free printable download of a collection of cats, as soon as I saw them I printed them off and knew I wanted to turn it into an embroidery

*sadly I have looked everywhere and cannot find the link to share! so if anyone knows whos this is please let me know so I can link back to them*

I chose teal and lime embroidery thread (I have so many threads so its good to use up my craft stash)

I was going to frame it but then I remembered that I had this extra large wooden hoop so its fits in perfectly

*sadly the only point where I've gone wrong is you can see the interfacing on the back through the fabric, thats because like I said I was going to frame it! I'm sure it will become invisible soon enough*

I really enjoyed this embroidery project, so cant wait to find my next one x

Marie Antoinette

I got this gorgeous book 'Wee Wonderfuls' as for the last few years I've been sketching out a few ideas of dolls so I bought this book for some much needed inspiration and direction

My first make from this book is the pretty embroidered Marie Antoinette

I love how shes turned out

The blog is a truly wonderful read too so do pop by here and have a look 

Shop Dressers

Sometimes its quite difficult to dress the shop up, do you go overboard or keep it clean and simple!
I re did this particular dresser last week and just really loved how it looked and I must say after sharing it on facebook we had a number of sales from it too x

Sunshine

We've had a rare few days of glorious sunshine, its been lovely to come home from my shop, pick the boys up from school and spend some time in the garden
Sitting drinking tea and chilling by the koi pond is a sunny day must

Sewing Machine Cover

I really loved this pillowcase so wanted to keep it for myself rather than turn it into an apron so instead I simply sewed on some velvet ribbon and created a pretty sewing machine cover

*photos taken in the workroom at the back of the shop - very useful indeed to be creative whilst at work*

awol again!

I've taken a good break from all things technological and throughly enjoyed it

I've been busy with my family, busy in our little shop , busy with my own business, our market and much more

Lots of fun updates to do x