Pictorial Review...

 The chat still isn't flowing, so here's some more pictures of the last week or so.

We went to Bristol and I brought this fella, he's made by the lady behind mmm biscuits and I have called him Basil...because I am an almost 26 year old who still has to give everything a name.

This part of the studio wall is dedicated to my new collection...which is titles 'metal things to hang on the wall next to my light switch'

A close up of Basil's face...which i think is quite lovely.

Newly thrifted vintage fabric...i'm thinking i'll make a limited run of plush from it...especially the horse....but not the clown...he's creepy.

my computer desk chair...which used to be in a hairdressers...until they threw it out and I picked it up off the street.

I brought some new sandals and i like them a lot. Today I wore them with socks...which I have heard is a big no no...nevertheless I did it.

An 8.30 shot of the sewing desk...I was busy sewing up a full series of Weirdy Beardy's...which i delivered today.

Here are said Weirdy Beardy's...with their brains hanging out because I hadn't sewn them up when I took the picture.

I have decided to cover the two tone floor boards in the studio with lots of different rugs, so i was quite pleased to score this animal hyde rug (i think it was some sort of long haired creature...perhaps a goat) in the charity shop. Normally fur is a big no no to me (i once handed back a lady her fur coat when i worked in a cloak room because I couldn't bare to touch it) but I'm fairly sure this is a by-product, meaning the animal wasn't killed purely for its fur. My apologies if me purchasing the rug offends anyone.

Our ever increasing collection of pictures above our bed. The far right and far left pictures were given to us by a dear friend and I love them. He recently went to the hadron collider for an interesting project.

StuffedNonsense will be making baby mobile's soon, here's the first mock up..I like it a lot.

Work in progress shot.

 That's all for this week, if you haven't done allready...take a look at our facebook page...we pop by there quite alot these days.

xxx

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Big succulents...most of mine are tiny compared to these.

In an attempt to be more organised and (ahem) professional I spent a large portion of my week sifting through the scrap basket and cutting out Human Bean body fabric...the idea being that when we get an order the whole process will be more stream lined as half the work is done in advance...fingers crossed.

I finally finished my 'light shade' for the studio, I'm fairly sure it looks like it belongs in a 5year old's bedroom but I like it so they you are. (the crochet flowers were provided by the talented Vicki from Lilley Stitches.)

This picture sits on my computer desk and always makes me smile without fail. It's of me and Arthur (he's the one with the beard) when we went to Brighton a few weeks back...happy happy memories.

This is the print in the background of the previous picture, I treated myself to it last week, it's supposed to go in our bedroom but it seems to have gotten waylaid. LesChosesImprimees is full of lovely things...perhaps you should take a look?

We get an Abel&Cole vegetable box delivered every week, this week they sent us an abundance of Cherry Tomatoes so we made Brushetta for lunch...it really was quite delicious!

That's all for now guys...still not feeling terrifically chatty, I'm off to tweak the Grizzly Geoff pattern a little bit.

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These guys have been sentenced to the wicker basket until I list them on Etsy and Folksy.

Coffee break during a supply buying mission...note the delicious lemon yoghurt cake.

Noticed these ridiculously large meringue's whilst grabbing a coffee before going to see Simon Garfield talk about his book Just My Type.

...which you can see five books in from the grumpy looking owl.

And he signed it for me...he said that Bex was the most interesting name he had to sign yet...

Gorgeous mini cooper-esque vintage car parked down one of Cheltenhams leafy streets.

After another literature festival event we went to a bar which  had these lovely labels on their bottle of tonics.

I'll be back soon with some pictures of Human Bean Christmas decorations...until then I'm off to apply Savlon to my damaged sewing finger! (a slither of rather sharp metal got stuck in it...ouch!)

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I found this plastic wolf and 25p whilst sweeping up at work.

El made this rather good pineapple cushion/plush for a friends birthday.

Appealing barrells waiting to be taken away.

Gorgeous pearl cottons (which unfortunately had to be left behind due to insufficient funds, I think I may regret it for the rest of my life.)

Giraffe in a Scarf, they will all look like this I think.



Feeling distinctly down in the dumps today and have not a lot of confidence in StuffedNonsense's work...only temporary I'm sure.

Don't forget the give away...if you fancy it.

xxx

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I like coffee a lot.

An interesting article on Jack Hudson's illustrations, in the recent Oh Comely (which is apparently now kept in the pregnancy section of my local W H Smith...Oh Comely is not about having babies...so I am confused by this).

Embroidery on a favourite grey dress (psssst...I did it myself.)

A stick forest drawn whilst battling the boredom of a day shift.

A nice label found in a pair of even nicer shoes... unfortunately they were not Arthur's size...but he liked them, and would have brought them if they were in his size.

A fabulous 100% silk blouse covered in brown elephants, which I couldn't leave the charity shop without...even though it wasn't my size and is in fact a good 5 sizes to big for me...(maybe I should take a leaf out of Arthurs book?)

The reflection of my spectacles taken whilst having another coffee (I told you I like coffee.)

New Christmas decorations...moustached shaped ones. What do you think?

More moustaches.

Pictorial Review No. 3

Hello lovelies!

Its been a busy busy week...what with a Craft Fair to attend and lots of extra hours at the day job (due to an awesome music weekend.)

So with out further ado...

In the run up to the craft fair I had sewing on/with me at all times...these Warm Thoughts were given their eyes during a coffee and crumpet break at a lovely cafe called Moochoos (I'm a regular customer there. If your local please pop in and say hello to the gent who runs it...the coffee is great and the cakes are wonderful!)

Another current obsession of mine...putting succulents into china cups (I'm concerned I may have posted this picture before...my apologies if I have)

Dust Bunnies.

Crabbittz and Little April tags waiting to be attached.

A tiny gap in sewing meant I could do a bit of work on the printing tray that Arthur brought me...I'm going to stick some lovely scraps of Sanna Annuka wrapping paper (which I've been saving up for ages) into some of the bigger spaces to break up the brown.

Yes dear readers...believe it or not that's a picture of one half of StuffedNonsense (can you see me?...I'm the one behind the suitcase...with a gormless grin on my face)

And here is a picture of the other half of StuffedNonsense...El. Being the highly organised duo that we are we were still cutting business cards by the time the craft fair started.

New Stuff...we thought we would make the Human Beans big...they come in a brown kraft shoe box which have Human Bean stamped on them.

And here are the more traditional sized ones.

This lovely lady was our neighbour. I was super pleased that she was next to us because I discovered her work a few weeks back and sent her a rather embarrassing email saying how awesome I thought her stuff was and how I was pleased that she was based in Cheltenham like us. It was lovely to meet her in person and have a good old chinwag about trying to go it on your own. Her name is Megan Alice and she's the talented lady behind Megan Alice England....click on her name and follow the link to her website and shop...do it!....you wont be disappointed.

Whilst your over on her website please buy me the coral coloured purse you can see in the back of this picture...thank you.

There were lots of classic cars at the craft fair.

It wasn't an official Craft Fair it was called Cheltenhams Midsummer Fiesta.

unfortunately for us crafty types people weren't really expecting wondrous hand made items and as a result were reluctant to a)look properly and b)part with their hard earned money.

It was also a bit awkward as there were a few charity and religious stalls handing out leaflets which kind of put people off looking closely because they thought we were going to try and preach/get money of off them.

everyone deserves a stall and what not...I just think it could have been better organised i.e. having all of the hand made stalls together and all of the charity stalls together...does that makes sense? (oh dear...I hope that doesn't come across as a rant)

How much would we give for a Moris Minor Traveller?...(the answer is a lot)

One of our last customers of the day didn't have any shoes on...it made me chuckle when I saw his feet...so I took a picture of it.

Right, i'm off for an early night...

My apologies if the rant half way through this post annoyed anyone

xx