Bring On The Trumpets....

Soooo....(late as usual) we have the give away winner...

I carefully wrote out all the entries onto some paper, folded them up and placed them all in my lovely black bowler-ish hat....

(see isn't it lovely??)
And then i picked out one lucky winner.....

Congratulations Beth from The Linen Cat....I'm rather chuffed that it was this lovely lady that won because i have followed her blog from the beginning of my blogging adventure, and every time she makes something i fall a little bit in love with which ever item she's made. Please go and have a look at her blog because the things she makes are truly wondrous!.

Right, i shall return tomorrow with pictures of the result of all of the manic sewing i have been doing.

xxx

We Havn't Forgotten...

We will announce the giveaway winner tomorrow, once we have recovered from our ridiculously long Sunday shifts (one of these days the two of us wont work in the service industry and so our Sundays will be free for carbooting and reading Sunday papers....until then we will pipe down and carry on with our 10+ shifts.)

Speak to you tomorrow!

xx

Look What I Got..

For the princely sum of £2 (and quite a few peculiar looks from passers by, whilst 'wheeling' this wonder home)....

Isn't it wonderful?? To some it may seem like a horribly tacky old tea trolley, but to me it is a wonderful retro solution to the impending storage crisis about to arise with the on set of frantic Christmas sewing. You see my sewing desk was getting to be a mess with various projects awaiting completion, but with this wheeled wonder i can carefully stack the half finished projects into neat piles and kid myself that by shifting them around and neatly stacking them i am actually getting closer to completing them.Also my jars of buttons and knitting needles look cute on top....i wish i could crochet...if i could i would make some of these like the talented Tif...

Another 'essential' purchase on this recuperative trip to the charity shop (i was sick at the weekend) was this lovely tartan coat...

Well...i was supposed to start work on the dustbunnies at 12...and its rather past that now!
Speak Soon..
xxx

Aren't Mums and Charity Shops Great?....

Even better if your mum volunteers in a charity shop and brings woolly wonders such as these when she visits!... I almost cried when she handed them over! and as a bonus she washed them so they smell of 'home'! There is now a definite need for a blanket box in the house!

And when she brought these exceptional flannelet sheets out I'm not ashamed to say that i did actually cried! They are soo soft.

Other wondrous items rescued from dusty charity shop shelves include....

A lovely brown horse shaped glass aftershave bottle, its an Avon one, i find it quite amusing that you would of had to take off its head to get any smell out (i imagine the smell would have been akin to Old Spice...or something like)
A fantastic old Kodak Camera with the orignal case.
A grumpy looking owl money box which i find appealing despite it looking quite naff....but in a good way.

Rightio, that's all for tonight....don't forget the giveaway!

xxx

We Think Its About Time.....

We had a give away....don't you???

If you would like to bag yourself a little collection of StuffedNonsense loveliness all you've got to do is leave us a comment telling us whether you prefer the Crabbittz in their new dark brown winter skin or their stripey winter skin...we're torn between the two so need your help!!
We will leave the give away open until next Thursday and then we will pick a name out of the hat (if there's anyone who enters!) You can get another entry if you blog about it too, just head back here and let us know that you've done it...make sense??
Right....onto the Crabbittz....

So here's the lovely brown woolly fabric, its a lot darker than the normal fabric, we've had to have a switch around because we cant get hold of the old stuff!! Out of the two its the most similar in texture.

And here's the stripey version, which is similar in colour (well similar-ish) but not very alike in texture.....

And here they are all together...in a crinkle....which is definitely the scientific name for a group of Crabbittz....FACT.

Sooo, there you go, hopefully some peeps will enter and then we can send out a package of wonderfulness to one lucky StuffedNonsense fan (said package will include a Crabbittz...of course)
Ready...
Steady....
Go....
xx

Give Bex One and A Half Days & What Do You Get??

Lots & Lots & Lots of Jewellery...We found the plastic vintage animal tokens in a charity shop a few days back, but its taken us a while to get cracking on them. I'm a little bit taken with the bird ones. We also made some more scrabble necklaces and earrings and also some vintage button bracelets.They are all to go to MADE Cirencester so we couldn't put them out on the shop so we decorated one of our shelves with them.
Then i played around with some manila gift tags and came up with some new packaging ideas.

Lots of the Jewellery is now up on the folksy shop...i think that's a good few days work...don't you?
xxx

Posted by Bex.

We Rather Like Rob Ryan And His Work...

We're sure that many of you savvy people out there all ready know about this man and the wonderful things he does with paper and scissors (and probably a craft knife and other sharp cutting things); but we thought we would just mention him here....because we rather like what he does....

So, onto some pictures for y'all!

(photo taken from stellab1's flickr stream)

Wonderful plates with his designs on....

(taken from UtilityDesigns flickr stream)

(picture taken from stellab1's flickr stream)

(photo taken from Suzy Que's Flickr Stream)

He also has a lovely blog!!

Well, its been a terribly long week with far to many boring day job hours and no where near enough fun StuffedNonsense hours. Tomorrow's plans include not making a cup of coffee for a single customer, making some button jewellery and also making some Scrabble necklaces.

Hopefully the camera will be remembered and I'll take some pictures for you!

Sleep Tight.

xx