Thank you for all your encouraging comments on yesterday's post! You are all very kind, and have got me excited about doing some more fabric designs. I hope to offer some up on Spoonflower soon, so I'll keep you posted on that. I've been getting into the band Beach House lately, do you know them?…

A while ago I wrote about a fabric design course I was taking, and at the end of year we received our finished fabrics in the mail, all the way from Spoonflower in the USA. The course was taught by my friend Karuna, who is a clever textile designer originally from London. She offers short…

I made this birthday gift for a friend who has just bought a house with a big garden, and is about to get started with planting things. It's just a simple drawstring bag with a plant applique, and inside I put a vintage gardening fork, some seed-raising trays and a set of seeds from our…

So far this summer, I've been spending most of the time keeping children busy and fed and entertained. You know how it is. And there has also been some time with my sunhat on, digging around in the garden. The progress on that front is that we have a couple of new and large garden…

Here are some more of the things I made last year- these were finished between June and December. I certainly had a lot of fun in my workroom in 2010! But now I must have a thorough clean-up in there – I'm a truly untidy worker. I've decided though, that rather than being less messy, I…

things i made jan-june 2010, originally uploaded by tiny happy. I've been thinking about 2010, and how it was quite a busy one and somewhat stressful at times. But, looking through my flickr account (which I use as a kind of record of my projects) I see that a lot of that said busy-ness took…

Happy New Year to you, dear blog-readers. It's been a lovely long summer holiday here so far, with the days passing by in a blur of sunshine, sea-swimming, reading, seeing friends and eating berries. And lots of other foods, too, of course, because that's what a summertime Christmas seems to be all about, at our…