A Rather Busy Thursday.

 Hello dearest followers. Sorry for the small gap in communications,we had a few craft fairs and Easter to struggle through but we're back  in fine form.

We spent all day yesterday re-stocking our Etsy and Folksy shops. The both of us morphed into some sort of crazy efficient team...El took the Photos and I listed the items, as a result the Etsy shop shelves are groaning under the sheer weight of handmade wonders...The Folksy shop needs a bit more work but there's the weekend for that...right?

Anyways, El took some snaps of my studio in between product photos

This is Clyde, he's a good friends dog that I look after 3/4 times a week...he doesn't normally look this sad.

His favourite place to sit is on the lap of the person who's using the computer (he's not fussy as to who's using the computer...as long as they have a lap) He's quite the internet whiz dont'cha know.

Please excuse the grubby light switch, there was a sticker on it when we first moved in and it's left it's mark.

You can see my wall of bird in the background here...and unfortunately you can see me in a rather grubby day off from work outfit.

Jars of stuff...buttons, scrabble tokens, ribbons, fuzzy felts etc

Did I mention I collect Playmobil figures?...it's a growing to be a genuine issue.

This one is my favourite.

And this is the view from my studio window. There's been some crazy weather in the U.K. at the moment and Cheltenham has been no exception, we've had some rather beautiful clouds hanging around...these ones are no exception!

 Rightio, that's all for now, I'm off to go for a coffee before work.

 (I'll do a proper post on all the new items over the weekend...maybe a little discount offer too...)

Grizzly Geoffs

So we're only a little bit late introducing you guys to these but....lets face it...if we were on time it would be weird.

This, ladies & gentlemen, is a Grizzly Geoff.

They're super dooper new to the StuffedNonsense studio and came about thanks to a rather quiet shift at the day job.

They have a 'loose' back story which we're currently fine tuning but the base of is...

'This is a Grizzly Geoff. He lives behinds your bins and only comes out when it's late; when he thinks the coast is clear he rustles around the bins looking for tasty scraps. He know's that eating from bins isn't the healthiest or most socially acceptable of habits but nonetheless he continues to do so.'

That's right...he's in his pants...Y Front pants to be precise.

He sports a rather handsome beard... similar to that of his name sake 'Geoff from Byker Grove' (I've just spent the last 15 minutes trying to find a suitable link so you can all wonder in the delight of Geoff's beard but can't find a suitable one...so you will just have to take my word for it.)

He has a hand embroidered belly button and some hand embroidered chest hair.

And the beards come in a variety of shades...but for some reason my favourite is the one in the first 3 photos.


So...what do you think? we're quite taken with them, but then we both like beards.Fingers crossed they will be up on the etsy and folksy shop by the 21st...but there is a Tax Return to try and squeeze in around that time too so we won't make any promises.

Your comments are, as always, appreciated!

xx

Wow! What A Couple of Days!

Boy oh boy have we been busy the last few days!

The eagled eyed 'folksters' of you will all ready know that we have been made one of the four featured sellers on folksy for the next two weeks! It such an honour! Folksy was the first ever place that El and I started to sell StuffedNonsense from and to be recognised by the people in charge is awesome. So, thankyou Folksy, may you keep spreading the hand made love for a very long time!

Thanks to being a featured seller we've had quite a flurry of orders

to wrap up and post out, which is fun because it means i get to play with the tissue paper and pretty tape...

(psssst....we've even had a trade enquiry through the feature...but we're trying to keep quiet about it incase it all goes wrong).

So, thats about it around these parts...we've been wondering around with big giddy smiles on our faces and sewing up a storm.

I hope to be back tomorrow with a more informative and interesting post...as apposed to this jumble of words.

P.S....Look who i'm looking after...he's called Clyde and he

s come to stay at my house for a little while and tomorrow i'm going to look after him at his house! how exciting!

(my apologies for the blurry photo but Clyde was too concerned about killing the tennis ball to pose for a photo.)

Roll up! Roll Up!

I've just finished a rather hefty listing session on our Folksy and Etsy shops.

You can now find new Crabbittz, Human Beans, Dust Bunnies and Dust Bunnie key rings...(before you go any further i apologise for lots of pictures and links...if they all work it will be a miracle...if they don't work and you want to see our shops just search StuffedNonsense on Folksy and StuffedNonsenseUK on Etsy.)

Theodoric the Crabbittz is on Etsy.

Eldrida the Crabbittz is up on Etsy.

Bardolf the Crabbittz is on Etsy.

This little fellow is on etsy.

This little blue chap is on Folksy.

This lovely lady is up on Etsy. (I think she's my favourite human bean to date)

This collared gentlemen is on Folksy.

This lady is keeping the two boys company in the Folksy shop.

This lady is on Etsy.

Dust Bunnie Keyrings are on etsy (hopfully they will be up on folksy by tomorrow)

Normal Dust Bunnies are now up on Etsy (and as above, should be on folksy by tomorrow)

Right...i have laptop shaped eyes after staring at the screen fro three hours, im going to cook some food and go to a lindyhop lesson!...how exciting

We're Not Very Good At This...

Dear followers i'm soo terribly sorry to all of you for being unbelievably rubbish at keeping everything up to date.

The last month has been at times really rather hard and upsetting for us and at other times it has been truly amazing.

Soo...shall we start with the hard stuff (i'll hold your hand if you hold my hand...deal?)Right...around a year and a half ago myself and Arthur ,my partner, (i know that sounds silly but after over six years together boy friend doesn't really seem to cut it does it?) found out that his dad was terminally ill with a brain tumour. He held on for much longer then we thought but last week he past away peacefully in his sleep. He was terribly ill and to see him suffering as much as he was was heart breaking. Whilst it is terribly sad that he has gone, in some ways it is a relief to know that he can now rest without any pain.

I was in two minds as to if i should write about this here but as its one of the main reasons as to why things have been so quiet around here. The whole family is holding up OK and right now we are just piecing everything back together again...trying to get back to normality.

Its not all been sad this month though.

On the 3rd of April we had a stall at the first ever Norwood Feast.

It went soo well, we had an awful lot of fun (even if we did get lost) and we even sold out of some stuff!

We also put the finishing touches on our first order from The Maisonette (i've literally just finished sellotaping the address onto the box!)

AND...

Yesterday we were at the second Crafty Fox Pop Up Market at The Dogstar in Brixton. It was an awful lot of fun and we met lots of lovely people. I had no choice but to be frugal with my purchases ( thanks to my pitiful bank balance) so i left with this really lovely wooden wren brooch

I brought it from Fabric Nation...it took me ages to make my choice (i had to go and get arthur to come and help me!)

and the lovely El and John brought me this awesome bear print from seventy tree..

i love that the picture is made up of the word 'bear' written over and over again.

In other good news i've spent the last two and a half hours listing items on our folksy shop and also on our etsy shop...have a gander if you like.

Well...i imagine that things will still be a bit quiet around here for a bit longer....we've still got some fixing to do...but rest assured i'll be back on full cylinders soon.