Handmade 8th August, Custard Factory

I meant to get this post up at the beginning of the week, but oh well...
Saturday was great - most of us were outside and the fresh air was lovely! Some new people were there, including Harriet and her lovely screenprints and Isabel from Betty Who? with a gorgeous selection of dresses (one of which I tried on,check it out here, along with other pics from the day).
I brought my spinning wheel and spent the afternoon spinning plarn for Fran's market bag.
I made a tiny cupcake in the morning, with help from my fellow stall holders - thanks for the beads(sprinkles) Sarah, and for the thread to sew them in, Isabel.


It was snapped up immediately by Fran and placed amongst the edible mini cupcakes.

I'll be there again tomorrow, I'm bringing some edible cakes this week too. And I have made two rather special tiny crochet brooches this week that will be amongst the range also.

Do come along and support all things Handmade! Hope to see you there! :)

WEBSITE IS GO!

It's running - YEAY! Just need to add more products, but that's a job for another day, I need some sleep before the Handmade Market in Birmingham tomorrow. :)

C.O.W last Saturday...

What a great day!! Not many people braved the rain or the onslaught of photographers working on their portfolios, but I had a blast. I met some lovely people and had a really good day.

Here are some photos from the day...

My table (with a great light box!)

Cupcakes at the front, Francine and her mother's wonderful creations in the back

Lovely Lisa Olson with her beautiful collection, check out her blog

I'm looking forward to Saturday (8th August). Come along and have a look at what the Handmade Market has to offer... :)

Website Hitch

I'm having a little more trouble with the website than I envisaged... the site is mostly working but I can't seem to fix some little things like the shipping and things like that. I'll have to ask my website magician to do some magic on it. Hopefully it should be running tomorrow...

COW - August 1st

So I have officially booked a place at the Handmade Saturday Market at the Custard Factory on August 1st.

Here is the flyer:

It's all very exciting!! I can't wait!! I'm going to bring my drop spindle along for some plarn spinning demos. :)

Recently...

So I have left the 9 to 5 job (or rather 10 t0 6), in favour of a maker's life. I am re-jigging the website - with a lot of help - and getting everything ready for handmade fairs and markets. It's all quite exciting!
Unfortunately, I have been hit with a bad cold - so haven't been able to do as much as I had hoped, but I'm taking it easy today, hoping to get better as soon as possible. :)

Darwin - coral & crochet!

So I'm off to run workshops in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge tomorrow. It's on Darwin, coral and crochet.
I'm super excited to be able to go and run it, I really feel like I'm getting back to where I should be with craft and craft educating.
I will post photos when I get back, but until then you can find more information here.

Internet Malfunction

Don't you just hate it when you rely on something and then it breaks! I have had no internet access since my last post due to some unknown malfunction that either BT or Virgin may have fixed, or it may have just started to work again, as abruptly as it stopped in the first place. Needless to say I was slightly annoyed at the timing - having just spent a good portion of time getting the bones of my website into a reasonable condition. I had spent an afternoon setting up a mini studio and photographing items for the gallery and new exciting things for sale (with the help of Lightborne - Thank you!), but then had no way of putting these lovely things in webspace.
I plan on getting the majority up and going over the next couple of days...

One good thing did come out of being cut off from the virtual world, I have made a lot more this week. It was great to get back to being solely creative.
I am a maker!

website changes...

So I have spent the best part of the afternoon changing the shop area of my website around. It will have a whole new feel to it, once I have uploaded it!! It's almost there. Be patient dear people, it will materialise. :)

Crazy few months

If I have any regular visitors to Peeko, you might have noticed the lack of activity over the last few months. Things have been hectic, and I would love to say that it was Peeko keeping me occupied, but unfortunately not. My other job - the one that gives me a sustainable income - has taken over my life. There is just so much to think about and until very recently I was allowing it to take up almost every waking moment.
But not anymore...
I have realised that without my crafty side I start to go a little crazy. Being crafty, crocheting, spinning, and now beading gives me such a sense of achievement... (I'm starting to ramble a little...) There is nothing better than coming home from a hard day in the other job, and making something to help me relax.

So that is my new plan, I'm going to try to get back to making, and being happier. I aim to make something everyday, be it large or small, and all shall be balanced again... hopefully. :)