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...)

The Move Is Complete!

It's finally happened everyone!

After weeks and weeks and weeks of Bex rabbiting on about moving her work room upstairs the move is finally complete.

No pictures yet but we'll sort some out soon!

Needless to say I'm loving having a door and massive windows (the work room before was just attached to the living room and boxed in by shelves), the StuffedNonsense work train is finally getting going again! Which is good because we have a fair few fairs coming up!...a specific post on them due soon too!

For now we will leave you with some pictures of a possible new product for the StuffedNonsense shelves...

What do you think?

There's a few more designs floating around the sketch book too (if you look closely you can see them in the first picture.)

Right...more sewing is required...

See you soon!

Where We Do What We Do...& A Picture Of Us

 We were asked for some pictures of our studio's for some new advertising...between the both of us we don't have a super snazzy camera so our good friend Vicki (who's rather lovely and talented and who also has the sweetest little boy in the world) came over and took some snaps for us...we thought you might like to see??



This is where I do my machine sewing...Janice...my trusty sewing machine is hidden behind the tower of Giraffes In Scarfs.



This is where I do all of the planning, pattern designing and cutting...(its a bit like a jumble sale but I like it...I know where everything is believe it or not) The pom poms hang down from a light in the conservatory (I put them up for one Chirstmas but got too attatched to them so they are there to stay now.





This is where I keep all of my creature making essentials.

This is where El does the designing and printing of all of our packaging...its often prone to swear words when the printer won't print properly. She got the giant Woody and the balloons from up when she worked in the cinema (we both used to work there dont'cha know...infact our respective other halfs still do!)

And this where El does the sewing...that wonderful creation you see on the desk is Nina...she's a legend in her own right...in fact this part of El's studio is also often prone to swear words...when Nina refuses to sew. The platypus picture (top right) used to be up in our bricks and mortar shop...back in the days.

And here's El's Inspiration board/place where she sticks things up that she likes...the gold cuckoo clock used to hand in the shop too.

And here's us...gross i know but we were assured that people like to know what the people who make things look like...soo this is what me and El look like...Thats me on the right in the blue top and thats El on the right with the Scrabble neclace on. We often (as in at least once a week) get asked if we're sisters...we're not but its kind of funny that people think we like we are.

Right...I think thats enough for today...hope you enjoyed your little tour around our studios.

xxx

P.S. I'm sorry about the unevenly spaced gaps between the pictures and the paragraphs...i've been trying to get the picture to go in the right palces for the last half hour and Bloggers not playing so this is the best I could do.