books, bags, labels, buttons

A glimpse for you of what I've been doing. There's been a bit of French printing going on as you can see. There's been a lot of stuff put in bags...(for protection in transit and for display). Cloth pieces such as pillows, pockets and wrapping cloths won't be going in bags.......but for travelling they will be wrapped in white acid free tissue and bubble wrap.

The little thread cards with the labels tied on with ribbon......they will very shortly have coloured thread wrapped on them for my workshops...pink and green to be precise. 

Next on my ''to do''  list is exactly that, thread wrapping.....

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the same pocket but this time with labels...

My labels arrived yesterday, early afternoon. Remember my labels? I said they were going to be printed with a phrase, a sentence that was relevant to me and the person without the internet who I was making this wrapping cloth for? And if you know her then mums the word!! shhhhh.....

(for the embroider, embellish create girls you have a video about these, check your e mails)

Anyway, back to labels. I am making this cloth for my Aunt but in actual fact she is more like my sister, we are very close in age. My Father was 21 when she was born and then I wasn't too far behind her. I come from a male dominated line...I have 3 brothers, no sisters. My dad was one of 3 brothers and no sisters to my Aunt, my mum only had brothers. Although I have lots of Aunts by marriage, this cloth is for my only birth Aunt....my one and only true Aunty.......did you keep up? It's something I call her, I address her cards that way at Christmas and Birthdays....we understand.

She doesn't have internet but her kids are all over facebook.....I am really hoping this can be kept quiet. Wish me luck!

labels.....

Look at my amazing new labels courtesy of AnnaWell they weren't free but you know what I mean. I'm sorry to tell you though that I think she has shut up shop but you can always sign up to be notified when she opens again. These are already spoken for, three christmas presents sorted and ticked off my list now, only about fifty more to go!! If you like these there are some in the shop. They don't have the new labels on but I can easily remedy that.  

I managed to get to the show yesterday too, courtesy of my good friend who acted as chauffer for the day. I spent a little bit, oh well o.k. I spent quite a lot but I think I've been a good girl this year and I deserve it. This beautiful fabric with birds I just couldn't resist. I won't use it in my work but I have visions of it becoming ''something'' for my bedroom in the future and look at that selvedge. It makes me drool, well worth the money just for the gorgeous selvedge.

I also bought lace, white lace and more fabric, bottom picture. The floral piece was also too enticing to ignore, for some reason it reminds me of when I was a little girl. So far I have no firm plans for any of this, truth be told I have merely spent hours fondling it!!

In addition to all this embroidery gorgeousness I bought myself a very pretty, detailed  framed stitched picture depicting the fairy tale the Princess and the Pea. I maintain that I too would sense a pea in my bed under 20 matresses, being an actual princess and everything! That is going in my bedroom too and I promise to show you soon.