Me&My Rudolf

Traditionally Christmas comes but once a year, but in Me&My 's case Christmas started TODAY! here is a sneak peek at Me&My Rudolf collection.What do you think? Festive enough?

 

 

 

Tree decorations are hand stitched felt, stuffed with toy grade stuffing, and are £4 each, Sweaters are fleece lined, hand applique and £20 each (+P&P) available from MeMy Folksy shop as of next week, or message via here for more details/comissions/sizes

S xx

whats going on here then??

Wow,
So its been 6 days since I last wrote a blog post, where does the time go? one minute I'm relaxing after an uneventful craft fair pondering what to do next, 3 days later I'm up to my eyes in orders and running around London trying to source a particular shade of cotton! this is the crazy world of self employment! well I'm not complaining, I would work every hour I have for myself rather then work for anyone else, and I'm lucky enough to do a job I love, so no, I'm not complaining.

Updates on where you can Shop for Me&My-
I'm now on Folksy @MeMy 
In now stocked in Raindrops on Roses In St Albans
and of cause you can always buy direct from my facebook page - facebook.com/JustSinead
and I'm always happy for commissions!
hope your all enjoying your weekend, I'm off to applique 20 t-shirts!

 

 

hmm....

Hello! So it turns out I now have two blogs...how did that happen?this time last year I didn't even know what a blog was! Still not entirely sure I do now, but now that my hobby has turned in to a proper business  I felt I should have a blog dedicated just to that, my new blog is...itsmeandmy.blogspot.com  BUT I will still post on here too! So whats been happening? Well as usual I have left everything to the last minute, I have a craft fair on Saturday, and only just started making stock a few days ago!Oh sure I thought about making it last week, even the week before, but I started making a quilt instead,reading other peoples blogs, watching TV and generally procrastinating enough to prevent me from actually doing any real work! So deadline day is here, and Iv spent this week sewing EVERY single spare hour I have had!I have a partner who has some kind of bug, this is a man who never ever gets sick, so I cant really expect him to  help out with the cooking, cleaning and toddler entertaining as he can just about crawl out of bed for a shower right now....oh well, being your own boss comes with its own problems the upside is that I have been to 'work' all week in PJ's..awesome! ALSO something that really bothers me, why oh why does spell check on a BLOG not recognise the work BLOG!!?? anyways, you can find me here this weekend, if our local please pop along!

These two little critters will be for sale there!Along with a few t-shirts, toys and other decorations....

Slightly Sodden Sunday

Here is a rough version of a new design, I seem to be very in to pairs of animals this season, Spring was all about Foxes and Squirrels, well Winter is all about Mice, Deer and Robins keeping each other company.... 

 

 

Urghh! the weather has finally decided to give up any hope of a summer and it seems to of totally by passed Autumn and jumped in to winter, I usually love Autumn, being an October baby I get to have a birthday, Halloween and Guy Fawkes night all in the space of a few weeks, but this was before I moved to the countryside!and its a shock to the system, its bloody FREEZING! I'm getting some serious sewing time too as I have no reason to want to go out side, So count down to Birthdays, and Christams has begun!

Just checking in....

 

 

I should be sewing....I should be cutting up fabric and drawing designs, but instead I'm wrapping my head round things like VAT, Tax, Limited companies, creating a folksy shop, working on launching a website with a brother that happens to live 1000's of miles away on Shanghai!keeping on top of the ever present chores, remembering to feed, clothe and talk to my son.....I have a lot to do!everything is a learning curve, and Iv worked and sacrificed to get my business off the ground, to its time to power on, now...where did I put my pinking shears!

 

 

From now till Christmas.....

So, it look like I wont be seeing much day light between now and Christmas, I'm suddenly very very very busy! (I'm not complaining) but true to form I am yet again chasing deadline rather then kicking back and relaxing safe in the knowledge I'm ahead! My son starting nursery was meant to be an opportunity for me to have some office hours, where I could dive in to a pile of fabric for a few hours and be productive, instead I have watched many episodes of 'Teen Mom' on MTV (something I have never even watched before) and clock watched until I have to pick him up, not only am I now looking at a fabric explosion in my craft corner, BUT I am also fully booked up until Christmas with Craft fairs AND stocking for retailers, not to mention my stupidly ambitious idea of trying to pitch at a baby trade show next spring....I am a one woman sweat shop.So If I suvive the next few weeks....

You can catch me selling my hard made wares at the following events.....

SATURDAYS
OCT 6th
NOV 3rd
DEC 1st
 https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Vintage-Tea-Party-and-Gift-Fair-first-Saturday-of-every-month/188067171224344

 

 

 

 

SUNDAYS
OCT 28th
(possibley more to follow)
https://www.facebook.com/TheAbbeyMarket


AND you can BUY my stock from October onwards at in ST ALBANS at.....

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/RaindropsOnRosesStAlbans

woo hoo its a Thursday post!

Hi! Just a quick post of a new design,

This one was a real tough one, as I already designed a cushion with this motif a few months back that I loved, and the pink/green combo worked well on the clean simple white drill cotton backing, so finding a tee in the right colour was hard, and I took a bit of a gamble with blue, but I like it, I may try a green tee with a mauve circle background or even go back to white  what do you think? ...but for now I'm cutting out teeny tiny felt robins to to turn into Xmas decorations...my pile of unfinished work just keeps getting longer!

 

 

 

Its a Super stitching Sunday!

Morning!, So I found myself up past midnight last night finishing off two of my A/W designs, once I get something in my head its impossible to stop until I see it translated into something real, I have two more designs to finish up then its all about stitching up a load of tees ready for retail!

what do you think?

 

 

changes.....

Hi there,

So there has been a few changes in the world of Just Sinead, first and foremost I have been super busy designing my Winter range and also stream lining the products I want to sell, the direction I want to take my business and how I can fit it all around my 'proper job' of full time parent! phew! So.... firstly the name, 'Just Sinead'. when I first decided to plunge into the world of craft fairs I totally over looked the fact that I would need a name! it was only when I was asked what I was called that I realised I wasn't really going to sell anything buy shrugging and saying 'oh its just some stuff I knocked up in my spare time' so I literally ran every name I liked into my computer to see if it already existed and yep turns out pretty much everything I liked was already out there somewhere doing business! damn them! So Just Sinead was born out of desperation and too much coffee... but now I'm more confident, I know where I want to take my 'Brand' I have to look at what will work long term, so once I have my website up and running the new trading name (which I have already let slip on facebook, will be unveiled) There also fantastic news on the horizon, in the shape of expanding where you can buy my products, having settled on focusing on children's apparel and decor for kids rooms I am able to set in motion being STOCKED in several retailers! its all hush hush right now...but there will be news soon on the wheres and whens....I'm beyond excited. I already have one amazing baby in the shape of my son, but this tiny business, that has kept me sane through the craziness of parenthood, unemployment, moving and generally having to be a grown up is blossoming into something I'm  excited to be creating...now all I need is an assistant who would work for biscuits and cuppas!

S xx