New Kindle Cases

Are now in stock and available in more fabrics than you can shake a big pointy stick at.

Navy Dandelion

Forest Fern

Blomma

Aubergine Swirl

Golden Yellow

Chocolate Mimosa

Black and Yellow

And loads more still to come, available in two sizes.

I should point out that they're very well padded so that big pointy stick probably won't do you much good, you might just as well put it down and pop the kettle on instead:)

Folksy Friday - Kick the leaves

In a garden behind my home there is a huge tree.

I've never really bothered to find out what kind of tree it is, but I like it. It's an absolute monster of a tree and it gives my garden some dappled shade in the Summer.

It's also a very easy going tree. If it were a person it would grow old gracefully, embracing the grey hairs and the little lines that are proof that fun was had.

It gives up the ghost of Summer very easily, turning beautiful shades of yellow, orange and red and casting it's leaves lazily in even a slight breeze.

Autumn comes very early in my back garden and Chloe and I can sweep up all the golden leaves only to kick them all over the garden again and we can do this in the blazing afternoon sunshine.

I'm lucky to live in a place where there is still room for trees and gardens to catch the falling leaves. Do you kick the leaves?

Folksy Friday - July Jesters

Woohoo, day 9 and I'm at least managing to keep up with the listings. Hmm, still 22 days to go though, so you'll have to wish me luck.

I'm not alone in challenging myself to list an item every day in July, and I imagine I'm also not the only one with an ever expanding wish list.

Here are some of my favourites ....

Folksy Friday - How many times have I told you, we don't draw on the walls in this house!

Alternative titles considered were:

• It's not a good idea to slide down the banister when it's screwed to the wall.
• Oh your leg's stuck now is it?
• Stop pulling, you're making it worse and can you not scream when your mouth is so close to my ear!
• Paint goes on the paper!, and
• Do schools really need to close for nine whole weeks.

Oh yes, the Summer holidays are here and following what can only be described as weeks and weeks of glorious weather, I'm now preparing myself for nine long weeks of rain chucking it down.

And because one woman can really only be expected to sit through so many mud pie making sessions, it's time to break out the craft kits:)

Folksy Friday - All things wee

or perhaps that should be Wii....

because we finally caved in and bought one:)

Not forgetting the other kind of wee

If I all of a sudden stop posting all together and you can't find hide nor hair of me, please send in reinforcements. I may have become addicted to my Wii. Bring Pepsi and Mars Bars I hear the addiction can be contagious and we will require sustenance:)

Folksy Friday - World Cup Fever

It's here

And there's precious little you can do about it.

Except maybe ...

Treat yourself, because nobody else will:)

Folksy Friday

Having spent a few days locked in an old married couple style argument with our wood lathe, I finally have to admit that I'm not very good at it. I could earn a pretty decent living making hamster bedding, but that's about the height of it I'm afraid.

I could sit here and grumble into my coffee cup at how other people seem to be able to throw hunks of wood into what is basically the biggest and scariest pencil sharpener in the world ever and produce beautiful things, but instead I thought I could just sit back, enjoy my coffee and admire the beauty.

Turned Wood Art Bowl - Lynwood Designs in Wood

Beech Hollow Form - From the Tree

Dip Pen in Kou Wood - Artisan Curiosities

Lily Bowl - Eastfield Woodturning

Ripples - Treecycle

Wedding Goblets - Bodrighy

Now if you could all just pop out to the pet shop this weekend and pick up a hamster or two, I'll be eternally grateful. Great, ta, thanks:)

Even though it is now Saturday and not Friday, I had connection problems yesterday, everything was playing silly buggers and nothing would work so I sent the pc to bed early without 240.

Featured on Folksy Friday

I'm very pleased to have my Sun Blush Scarf included in this week's featured items page on Folksy. I'm particularly pleased because the scarf makes six items featured to date, actually it may be seven I think I'm forgetting one. I was sure my luck in being chosen for features had run out, but at least it tells me I must be doing something right.



It's a shame though that not all items fitting a theme can be chosen and I wanted to add a few of my favourites to the list.

I'm already a big fan of NelliD's work and the proud owner of the first teapot brooch available in yellow. I warned her I would go on about that for years (incidentally it's out of stock in yellow at the mo, so neener neener).

At least you can console yourself with the fact that you can show your love for the rain for one of gorgeous Rainy Day Brooches


And I love Firebird Jewellery's Prairie Rain Necklace. It looks as though it is lit from the inside and actually does look like a raindrop, it's so smooth. I'm normally more a fan of silver, but I must say paired with the gold this really is beautiful. I think it does it more justice than silver could.


I don't know nearly enough about art to tell you why I like this. I just do. It reminds me of days spent in the rain, being caught in the rain at the beach (or waking up in the rain and going to the beach anyway) and water streaked windows and birds flying low and a whole load of other things that I can only recall the memory of rather than any detail. Passion Paintings have a few original canvases currently in stock, though Good Earth Rain Dream is my personal favourite.



All the very best rainy days end with a Rainbow. Again, Glassprimitif is another shop I'm a big fan of and have already given this gorgeous green leaf plate a home, so I know from experience that photographs just can't do these pieces the justice they deserve. They're so much more tactile and have more depth than any photo can convey. You can take my word for it, or you can grab a piece of your very own.



And if you think that rain is a rather dismal choice for a feature, just remember all the wonderful things about the rain, like not having to wash the car, or cut the grass, or water the garden, but you can still go to the beach:)

Folksy Friday - More, Bigger, Fuller, Better

I'm currently experiencing a serious case of the dullsies where fabric is concerned at the minute.

I'm sure we all get it at some point or another but because my local shop is whittling down it's range even more, leaving me no option but to buy the very same fabric that everybody else buys online or the very same fabric that everyone else buys at Ikea, I've been a bit bleurgh about the whole thing lately.

Until I found a new love in tucks, rolled tucks, pintucks, gathers, frills and flouncy bits. It adds so much more depth and texture to an item that can otherwise seem quite flat and samey.

I mean for instance you could have a regular, square cushion, or you could have this one.


Trust me when I tell you that a lot of work and patience went into that cushion. Sewflair marked and pinned and sewed and pressed and marked again and lined up and pinned again and sewed and pressed and rolled and stitched and, look I could go just trust me, tons and tons of work.

I'm a complete sucker for a brooch, it's the one piece of jewellery I wear more often than not.



And this one from Midsummer Stitches is my absolute favourite. It's made of vintage lace, fabric, beads and even the buckle frame. Plus don't you just love the contrast between the delicate little flowers and the sturdiness of the frame surrounding and protecting them?

Speaking of delicate, how much do you love this little capelet?



Proving that knits are most definitely not all about the thick winter woollies, Maggie Cook has an entire range of these beautifully feminine little capelets in stock. Naturally the gorgeous corsages are included too!

Even though it doesn't look it, I'm an incredibly messy cook. Honestly, there's usually a frantic spit and shine preceding all of my foodie photos. And because of that I do need a good apron, I've ruined more clothes than I care to remember without one and absent mindedly wiping a buttery hand on jeans. Handily enough Birgitta Designs happily fills my apron needs and my new penchant for frills...



Would you look at all those ruffles. They're splendid, it's the only word good enough to describe them. Go on, say it out loud... Splendid. It just sounds full doesn't it.

I honestly do believe that I'd be a better cook wearing this apron, I really do. I could invoke the spirit of some totally awesome 50s housewife who could knock out seven course meals all while wrangling five kiddies and not even break a sweat.