getting up to speed!

Hellloooo! So turns out having two blogs means I actually write less?! so lets get up to speed,

I have been BUSY! Iv not stopped, I have stitched my own finger to a cushion, ended up with 3 'Peppa Pig' plasters on my hand due to lack of concentration AND managed to make 15 t-shirts, 6 cushions, several xmas decorations and started a baby quilt all in 10 days. I'm shattered, I never ever want to sew again (ok maybe just today) but its all worth it, I now have a folksy shop, http://folksy.com/shops/MeMy, I chose Folksy as it is British and more importantly Etsy wouldn't let me have Me & My or any combo of that as my shop name as it was taken (boo!!!) so its their loss, I plan to add 2 new t-shirts to the shop each week, starting it 2 fox tees, then maybe 2 reindeer ones, test the water and see what happens, I also whipped up stock for a local shop in St Albans called rain drops on roses, you can find out more about that on my other blog, www.itsmeandmy.blogspot.com

and now I'm getting ready for boogaloo Craft Fair again, where oh where did October go??

 

 

Mouse decoration can be found on my folksy page, t-shirts are on request and are £12.50, same for cushions and they are £15 per cushion. you can also check out new designs, news and gossip on my facebook page Me&My

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!

 

 

So long Sunday, I didnt notice you had been.

I have very sore fingers, and what is feeling like the beginnings of strain in my arm, perhaps a sign that I type, text and sew too much!in the past 3 days I have hand stitched 11 t-shirt designs, all of them needing to look as neat as the last, I still have 9 to go, plus several toys and tote bags for this Saturdays craft fair, which incidentally is....

 

I have also got around to making my own Fox T-shirt! which I will wear to all my craft fairs from now on :-)

it still needs to be stitched on, but I love the way the colours come through against the grey. and finally, the truth about crafting.....its a VERY messy business, and I am often living surrounded by piles of fabric, thread, cushion inserts, ribbons, pins and needles, and so next week I will HAVE to take a day off to tackle this mountain I have created because I have actually buried half my wardrobe under it!

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!

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?