A new shop!

If you've seen me tweeting then you might have realised I have a new shop! It's a Misi shop which stands for Make It Sell It :) As well as the usual things in there like chicken doorstops, chicken gift tags and recycled envelopes I also have some different things available - feel free to stop by and buy things ;)

Cheers chucky egg

Here is the crafty stuff I have been up to today :)

Making thank you cards from the end bits of recycled card that aren't big enough to turn into tags. Cheers chucky egg is a new slogan :)

I made a few!

And I've been busy colouring in some more chickens - waiting to be turn into gift tags.

Food and photographs

Matt has been making lots of food recently and these fajitas are what we had for tea tonight.

He also made normal bread yesterday and this delicious tomato and pepperoni share and tear bread for later in the week. The dough rose so much though that Anya is having some in her packed lunch tomorrow and we are having it tomorrow night too with chilli (which Matt has already cooked) as we had to make 2 loaves.

And the photographs. I gave Anya my camera after taking photos of the food and these are the photos she took. I've included the blurry ones too - well the camera is very heavy for a little girl :)

The man who makes the food!

The gorgeous little sis

Moi

And a photograph I took of the photographer and me.

A new obsession!

I bought these yummy magazines the other day and picked them up this morning - thanks Jo! I have already bought another one off Ebay for the collection :) This is going to turn into an obsession I can tell!

Some new things!

I've been listing things as I have been making them rather than letting them sit in my Flickr account for ages which is what I normally do! Hence the larger number of listings in my shops and posts on here. :)

Some envelopes made from a damaged cross stitch book. I saved the pages that could be saved and turned them into envelopes.

A Habitat catalogue came through the post and rather than throw it straight into the recycling bin I made some envelopes.

And these are the first Christmas things I have made - some great recycled envelopes from cross stitch and knitting patterns!

Don't forget that my tag sale is still on until Monday!

Wanna see some damp?

The corner in our front room had been damp for a while - it had got worse over the past couple of months though and rather than have wallpaper that was falling off then we thought we would rather have dodgy looking walls for a bit!

This is the corner! We bought the house nearly 7 years ago and the people who lived in it before us were bodgeit and crap - or certainly used builders who were! They obviously knew about the damp but rather than fix it they took the route of 'lets cover it up and hope that the new people don't notice' and to be fair we didn't notice for several years.

See that silver bit in the photograph above - it's tin foil. Yes they really did cover the damp wall with tin foil and then put lining paper and the wallpaper over the top. Yes it stopped the damp from coming through for a few years but now our walls are really, really wet and need all the old plaster knocking off and re-doing.

Bloody idiots!!! I could tell tales of all the other dodgy jobs we have found around the house but I won't - not yet anyway! Luckily we have dehumidifiers for our damp cellar (that was our dodgy builder this time!) so we have brought one up to the front room and it is drying the wall out nicely. Luckily we know what the problem is and it is easily fixed :)

That's the trouble with living in a house that is over 110 years old!

My Creative Space......

......is a bit messy today and I haven't actually done anything in it yet due to first days of school and Bumble going to the garage but I'm hoping to finish off lots of gift tags and pack up some envelopes this evening (and possibly before tea if I get a certain husband of mine to cook!)

For more creative spaces head over to Kootoyoo.

Tags!

After reading all the advice given to me yesterday I have decided to put up the prices of my gift tags :) But I will not be putting up the prices until next Monday (7th September) so you have ample opportunity to grab some gifts tags at the lower price. Stock up for Christmas? They can be found here and here. I will also be offering packs of 5 gift tags too as people seem to want that. Also if you buy 4 or more sets then I will throw in an extra set of my choosing for you :)

I also have lots of gift tags that I haven't listed in my shops yet so if you are looking for anything in particular then I might have what you are looking for!

I need some advice!

My product photographs could really be better and I've been spending quite a bit of time over the past few weeks thinking and planning what to do with them to make them better. The light box wasn't really working for the chicken doorstops so I have come up with a few new locations - I would like to to tell me which one (if any) you like.

This is the original one that wasn't working too well :)

This is a boring one but it's a plain wall behind!

I really really like this one (once I've chopped the dead bits off the plant to the right!) but it's not a door and I'm not sure how important it is to show him standing against a door?

And here he is standing against a door - I like this one too although I had to become a contortionist to get the photograph!

Please let me know your views! Also I have been told for a while now (by various people) that I should put up the prices of my gift tags. I'm not so sure but would love to hear what you think. They are currently £1 for a pack of 10 which is US$2 per pack. What would you pay for a pack of 10 handmade gift tags? Please be honest too :)

Wanna see my buns?

Some Bank Holiday baking - why what did you think I meant? ;)