Looby Crafts Blog Giveaway!

Louise from Looby Crafts is having a 

MASSIVE Handmade Card GIVEAWAY!

There are 15 handmade cards up for grabs, and all you have to do is visit her shop, and leave a comment with your favourite product.

For more information, and to how to enter, 

visit Looby Crafts Blog.

Sprinks xx

Hanging Tags!

My gridwall arrived the other week, ready to display all Sprinkles Beads stock. Only problem was that they had sent me the wrong legs! Well, after numerous emails, and phone calls, I still haven't received the correct legs. but we will get there!

So today, I finished off making my handmade hanging tags, so I could hang all the stock up!

1.  Cutting up lots of strips of white card.

2. Then cut each strip into 10 pieces.

3. Each little strip was then cut out with a snowflake

cutter.

4. And left hundreds of little snowflakes!

5. The little strips were then stapled onto the backs 

of all the bags!

6. Finished result!

All Sprinkles Beads stock hanging on the new

gridwall!

Sprinks xx

Knit, Stitch & Creative Craft Show

Yesterday we nipped off down to Shepton Mallet to the Knit, Stitch & Creative Craft Show. We got there just before 10am when it opened, and joined the queue.

First stop was the cafe for a cup of coffee and cake!

Then we started to have a look around. I did start to get slightly annoyed with some people that had forgotten to bring their manners with them. Pushing and shoving to pick up something that there are hundreds off. There is no need!

I picked up some pink beads and findings for a necklace, bracelet and earring set I am making myself for a wedding on Saturday. Bought from The Southampton Bead Shop and With Love Crafts

Then it was time for dinner. We had brought along our own picnic, and sat outside on the grass.

We went back in and carried looking around. I picked up some gorgeous fat quarters from a lovely lady from Phase Patch Craft in Chippenham, and some quarters from Sunflower Corner Quilting.

The button, two cotton reel and pink swirly leaf quarters are from Phase Patch Craft and the Royal Dolton black, pink and purple flower, and two purple flower quarters are from Sunflower Corner Quilting.

Also picked up this picture fabric strip from Phase Patch Craft

Sprinks xx

It's all about the Sparkle!

Another glorious day!

I was planning on having the morning off to start a new cross stitch, but that didn't happen. Instead we ended up emptying the summer house, hoovering, dusting and cleaning the windows and putting everything back in again!

By then it was dinner time... so i made us a lovely cheesy omelette! Mmmm....

Then checked the post! Hurray, finally my crystals arrived that I have been waiting for since Easter. So I made myself a bracelet for the summer. 

Then onto making some summery, window charms! I had so much fun making them.

I made them in 3 different colours, with 3 different glass drops.

Emerald crystal with 63mm AB crystal glass drop, Crystal with 38x14mm AB crystal glass drop, and Purple Velvet crystal with 63mm AB crystal glass drop. 

I have listed the Emerald window charm on Misi. The other two will be listed in the next few days.

Hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather! 

For now, 

Sprinks xx

Great Advertising.... pass it on!

The next issue of Creative Crafting magazine is going to include a colourful crafters directory with click through links to everyones websites. It's only £2 for a text link with a description and a button straight to your website. Please join in and grab some cheap advertising (the last issue had over 66,000 views in 2 months) and also to support the team that brings you the magazine. Despite rising costs to produce lets aim to keep our free community magazine available.

You can book your slot on the Creative Crafting Website

Please post this on your blogs and twitter about it, pass it on in any way that you can.

Thank you

It's 100!

It's my 100th post! 

What have I been blogging about to make 100! Only seems like 5 minutes ago I was excited about getting my blog back, after it had been hijacked. That was back in February 2009!


How glorious was today?  Sun was out, and it wasn't too hot. I'm not a sun worshiper in any shape or form. I do really prefer the winter months, mainly as it doesn't effect my eczema as much as the heat does. It has already starting flaring up. Backs of knees, stomach, hips, and groin area, but I wasn't going to let today pass without making some summery jewellery and accessories.

So I made this...

Pink Petal Flower Watch Bracelet

and this...

Pink Petal Charm

Both are available at Sprinkles Sparkles on Misi to buy!

Hope you are all enjoying your Easter Eggs as much as I STILL am!

Sprinks xx

Featured!

I have been featured in this gorgeous blog by Shaz from Odd Sox @ The Sock Garden!
The theme is 'Watch It.. it's Folksy Friday'

What a stunning collection of yummy watches!

Mine is the Green Petal Flower ;)

Thank you Shaz!

Sprinks xx

Sprinkles Beads is on MISI!

Yes! That's right!

Sprinkles Beads is now on MISI.

This evening I opened a new account, and started listing 5 new supplies to the shop. So far we have

• 1 inch headpins
• 2 inch headpins
• Mixed buttons
• Mobile Phone Charm Straps
• Wire guardians

All postage is £1.00 per order, with 20p for each additional item. So it might be best to stock up while you can, all in one go!

Some items that I will be listing are not small, for example bead boards and beading mats. These will have different postage & packaging prices, due to their size.

Might go and list some more items now.. so keep checking all the time to see new stock!

Sprinks xx

Celebrating Easter with new listings!

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter weekend so far!

I have been making a new bracelet watch.
This watch is made from black and grey petals and glass pearls.

It is available on Misi now for more information!

I have also added the Petal PhoneCharms that I blogged about here. They are idea for your mobile phone, DS and even zips!
They are also available on Misi for only £3.50 each! 

Sprinks xx

Creative Crafting Magazine - Easter Edition

Creative Crafting Magazine is OUT NOW! 

This is our 4 issue, with the focus on Easter. 

Check it out here!
Click on the magazine to view it full screen for a better read.

This issue we have two competitions.
1. To win an A5 advert in the next issue of the magazine.
and
2. Win the egg cup candles featured in the candle make, kindly donated by Sweet Scented Soy.

Read the magazine to find out how to enter!

We also welcome 3 new contributors to the magazine
Amy - Amyorangejuice http://www.amyorangejuice.co.uk
Trevor - Trev's Carvings https://sites.google.com/site/tl2sculpture
Dianne - Heartmade Gifts https://www.heartmadegifts.wordpress.com

If you would like to contribute to the next magazine, we will be focusing on Father's Day. So any features, makes, etc will be strongly considered. Please contact sprinks[@]creative-crafting.com

(please remove the [] before sending!)

We also have advertising space available. We are working on our media pack, that will give you all the information you need to know about advertising with us. 

Hope you enjoy the read!

Until next time, 

Sprinks xx

First listing of the week

This evening I was feeling a bit crafty, and came up with these! 

They are made from piller box red, and burgundy glass pearls, with black lucite petals. They hang to 1 inch, and have silver plated earwires.

They are available on MISI at a bargain price!

Tomorrow I will be adding some petal mobile charms, so stay tuned!

Sprinks xx

What! Where?

Since my last post, this week has been all over the place! I feel I have not got anything done, but looking back over it, each day was very busy with something or another.

My sewing machine arrived on Tuesday...

along with lots of free goodies! (see 2 middle images).

On Wednesday I had a play about with my machine, and concentrated on the Creative Crafting Magazine.

On Thursday I went down to see The Crystal Lady, and we had a fabulous time out shopping, eating, giggling about the lift in 'The Range', and going to the best charity shop ever!

On Friday, finishing off some more articles for the magazine.

And Saturday and Sunday, I tried my best to have these free and restful, but ended up sorting out some of my website and also added some new items, like BUTTONS to my Misi store! 

And now we are back to Tuesday! A week gone... just like that!

Just a reminder that the Easter edition of Creative Crafting Magazine is out THIS Thursday, 1st April (no joke!)

Sprinks xx

My new toy!

Here is my new toy!
Although I don't have it just yet, it will be arriving sometime during the week. I had some birthday money, and I didn't want to go spending it on the usual clothes, underwear, the usual things, so I decided on a sewing machine!
It's an investment right?!

Image from 

http://www.gursewingmachines.com/stitchmaster_impression_2000-sewing_machines.htm

I've only ever used a sewing machine once before, and that was about 2 weeks ago. I had completed a cross stitch, and decided it would make a fantastic pin cushion. So, I borrowed my mums sewing machine, set it up very successfully, and gave it a shot! 

It was slightly scary at first. I pressed the foot too hard and the needle on the machine went so fast, I could have lost a finger! But after a little trial and error I got the hang of it, and surprised myself! I really enjoyed it. 

The stitches were a little wibbly wobbly, but I just need more practice. 

Yesterday, while in Reading's Train Station I bought Sew Hip magazine. The bag pattern featured looked like it was made for me, so I bought it. And so, today, I got some old material, (my mums old curtains) and started cutting it up!

Now, here is what I achieved today, in between dinner and tea. 

It's not perfect. 

My cutting out skills are something not to be desired!

The numbered pictures are as follows:
1) Pattern design on the material
2) The two curtain panels
3) The body of the bag cut up
4) All the pieces of the bag cut up
5) All the pieces of the bag, pinned and ready to be sewn up.

That is as far as I got today-  I'm going to leave it there until my new toy arrives!

There maybe a domestic goddess in me somewhere yet!

Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.
Sprinks xxx

It was my birthday!

It was my birthday on Monday, and I turned the grand old age of er.... 26! I had a lovely day, spending the morning in Matalan, TX Maxx, and Pound Stretcher, then in the afternoon I made a mobile phone charm, for myself, while having numerous amounts of cups of tea as people dropped in with their gifts!

So, what did I get?
1. Pink TV! It's actually nicer than it sounds!
2. Hello Kitty Pen
3. Long black cardy
4. Cross stitch book
5. Choccies!
6. New jewellery pliers
7. Compartment box
8. Gorgeous embroidery skeins - from Anna, The Crystal Lady
9. This bunny - from Diane, Peggy's Knits - CUTE!

On Tuesday all these buttons arrived! 

And got sorted out into their colours

They are all bagged up into 25g mixes, and will soon be available on Sprinkles Beads. I will let you know when!

Sprinks xx

It was like loosing my Teddy Bear!

You know that horrible, sickening feeling you get in your stomach when you loose something? That's how I felt today.

We woke up to no Internet!

I was intending to spend the day researching into finding more craft fairs, and updating my site, but noooo. It was 5pm by the time it came back on. So according to the last Twitter feed post that was 2:58am, that's 14 hours downtime! No emails, no chatting, no 'work'! It was like loosing my Teddy Bear!

I cannot believe how much I rely on the internet, just for basic chores, like checking my bank balance, looking at Radio Times site for program times, ordering food from Tescos.

Instead I spent the day doing an entire cross stitch for my mum to give to her on Mother's Day, finally watching Marley & Me (it was hard holding back those tears!), washing up, watching the Big Bang Theory, and more Bones, playing on the Wii, and generally having fun! I've certainly become one of many casualties to spending too much time on-line, and that needs to change! One thing that won't change, mind you, is my morning MSN chats to Anna - The Crystal Lady!

Hope you are all well.
Sprinks xx

Creative Connections has a new face!

On Sunday, myself and Anna decided on a face lift for Creative Connections Network. We set to work yesterday, (Monday), and now can reveal the new look!

Anna, The Crystal Lady, has made the new CC banner! How fabulous is it! (see top of page), and I got to work on fiddling with the CSS code.

There are some new features that have been added:

• You can now upload your own videos
• New photo slide-show on main page to 'show off' everyone's creations.
• Congratulate your fellow crafters on their birthday with the new Birthdays section
• View up and coming events- and add to them too!
• Attend 'chat' events. I am hosting the first one in the beginning of April, though no confirmed date or time yet.

So please, pop on over and check it out, sign up, and get networking!

http://creative-connections.ning.com/

Visit Creative Connections

My Box of Goodies

After tracking down my parcel from a certain delivery company that I'm not going to mention, it arrived today!
My little box of supplies!

Some of the items are going to be put on Sprinkles Beads, and the rest are for me! Mmmmm.........

Have a great weekend!

Sprinks xx

A little mess, for pretty things!

Today I got my ribbons and felt pieces out

made rather a bit of a mess...

...made some packaging...

...and added on the final product...

.... Voila!

Pretty Flower Ribbon Brooches!

Sprinks xx

Sunshine Award

A very special 'Thank you' to Daisy from The Seven Seas for my Sunshine Award!

The sunshine award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspires others in the blogging world.
The rules for accepting the award are as followers

• Place the logo within your blog or post
• Pass the award on to 12 bloggers
• Link the nominees within the post
• Let the nominees know they have received the award by commenting on their blog
• Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award

Now it's my go to pass on the award to 12 blogs that I enjoy!

So here is the list of the lucky people!

The Crystal Lady

A little Madam Salami magick!
Scrap Happy Lou

joyknitt

Lily Whites

Little Book Of Misi

Little Scruffs miniature Bears

MISI - Make It Sell It

Misi Slimathon 2010

The Adventures of the Ninja Jedi and Baby Dynamite

Jean's Blog

JoolzKay

The Black Rose

These gorgeous roses arrived in the post yesterday

and today two of them got turned into these gorgeous bookmarks!

The roses are made from polymer clay, and are absoulty stunning!

The bookmark on the left is the Forest Rose Bookmarks, made from green, black, red and brown glass pearls, and the bookmark on the right is the Love Rose Bookmark, and is made from red and black glass pearls. Both are hung on silver plate squiggle bookmarks measuring 3.5 inches.

They are available at Sprinkles Sparkles Online!

Also added are some bag charms from £2.50!

Sprinks xx