WIP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday

Due to being away until Friday I do not have a lot to show that I already haven't started or finished!

A tea pot cosy above in the making.

so my list is:

Finished Quilts 1

Ongoing Quilts 3

Finished small projects 3

Ongoing small projects 1

1 messy sewing room 1

Off to see what everybody else is up to. Kxx

Click on the link on the right hand side...

Time Flies! What a Hoot!

 Nellie the Owl Tea Cozy - SOLD

Honey the Owl Tea Cozy - SOLD

 Sam the Owl Tea Cozy

Lilly the Mouse Coffee Cozy

http://www.etsy.com/shop/blondedesigns

Well time has flown and after taking time out, sewing things for me (dresses and skirts!), I am still trying to restock my Etsy shop before I even start to think about my folksy shop.

At the weekend I made 3 tea cozies and one coffee cozy and have already sold 2 of my owls and and older retro owl in 3 days. You just know when you are onto a good think, problem is I just need to keep up with demand, so it now looks like any other projects can sit unfinished and look to make one tea cozy a night for the next 2 weeks! in hope that I keep getting the sales - oh why didn't I win the lottery.

Anyway hope you are all well and next week I go into hospital for a small op and have the week off, so will be catching up on blogland, with a lot of tea -  can't wait!!

Next week time to rearange the blog and pages and get updated, but in the meantime i'll pop a few more pics of what i have been making over the last couple of months, and get going on a few more tutorials.

Love and Hugs

Karen x

OLLIE THE OWL GOES RETRO

blondedesign

New to blonde designs is Ollie the Owl made with this retro orange and brown upcycled bark cloth fabric. Lined in brown polka dot fabric with a selection for brown felts.

He is looking for a new home!

Kx

MEET OLIVE THE OWL........

Don't be shy olive........

There you are! Hello Olive

It's what's inside that counts......


Made with love...


Add a spot of retro 70's toweling fabric, felt, pink bias binding and cute tiny french floral fabric.
And Olive the Owl Tea Cosy is born..... I had a small dilemma as my tea cosies are normally called Ollie the Owl but after seeing her sit there, I didn't think it right to call her a him!

BLONDEDESIGN

Kx

Gorgeous handmade designer tea cosies for tea pots - - Hunkydory Home

Gorgeous handmade designer tea cosies for tea pots - - Hunkydory Home

Thought I would show you, my black Ollie the Owl tea cosy and pink Olive the Owl coffee cosy have make it on Hunkydory Home website. I feel proud of them sitting there on the page!

They can't have the one off retro Ollies as I would not be able to repeat the orders. So I am looking for another 2 fabrics which I can buy as I need, which are of a retro feel, but need to be as a curtain weight fabric as the lovely dress fabrics around are to flimsy and would not stand up to the job (stand up!- Ha! - Sorry). So if anybody has any ideas C&H fabrics, Laura Ashley....

Kx

The 2nd Generation 'Ollie & Olive'

Meet the 2nd generation of Ollie & Olives, some of them I will sell on line on Etsy & Folksy the others I will be taking to various outlets in Eastbourne, Brighton and Hastings to start selling.

A selection of them will be retro Ollie & Olives as I will be scouring EBay and second hand shops in Eastbourne for that all important 70's fabrics!

FACEBOOK GIVEAWAY

I have been trying to come up with all sorts of ideas on promoting myself, and getting my 'stuff' out there for all to see and buy.

The biggest problem I have is I have many fans and friends but I still need to sell my wares! Could be a number of reasons; my goods are ''extras' not essential items needed within the home / my friend's have not seen or touched some of the items in the 'flesh', so have yet to spend their hard earned cash on a "I want one of those" items / or my stuff is like Marmite you either love it or hate it.

Sooooo to get the word passed on and to promote myself I need to get into peoples homes, put myself on display, and to start off this idea, I will be giving away an Ollie & Olive Egg cosy on 1st March. I will do a give away each month on the 1st of the month, and the prizes should get bigger and better, if my sales get bigger and better!!

To get a chance at winning the egg cosy, go the below link, the name will be drawn from a hat (or something of similar elk), a name from the fans of blonde designs on the face book page will be picked.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blonde-Designs/16996209109#/pages/Blonde-Designs/16996209109

K x

Ollie & Olive

I have finally finished my first family of owls, of which there will be more. Ollie the Owl is a tea cosy, Olive the Owl is a coffee cosy and the kids of which there will I hope be many more are egg cosies.

Now Easter looks like it could be around the corner, it may be time to buy a little eggstra(!) special egg cosy for that little somebody in your life! Just go to my website, where they will come eggtraviantly(!) wrapped. I'm sorry I just had too...........!


There will be more Ollie's & Olive's, as I will be sending one of each of them up to Molly & Lizze's shop in Cheshire, along with a selection of the children.

I am also looking to put them in a shop in Eastbourne called Roots & Boots (short for Local Roots and Wellie Boots!)