.....cyber monday madness......

...feeling a little weary from all your online shopping today?

....well come on over to

my place

....take a little rest from all the hustle and bustle...

...and indulge in a little childhood nostalgia....

....i know my little friends will be happy to see you...

X

ready my deer.......

hurrah......at last....

.....after many hours of backbreaking stitching and thinking and crafting.....

......i do believe i have completed my herd of deer ready to set them free into the land of etsy.......

....it seems silly but i am rather fond of this little gang.....

.....and will be sad to hear their little hooves clip clopping away........

......i even have a slight favourite over the others ..... which one do you like best?

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.....etsy update.....

...thank you so much for all your well wishes....

...the vanilla squirrel is back on form

....and has been busy stitching...

....new hanging lavender owls...

..made from vintage blankets

...and decorated with vintage doilies

and ribbons...

(those little beaks are leather and they hang from suede thongs!)

....joining them in my newly updated

etsy shop...

....are a few other woodland friends...

...do take a peek...

....and join me for some chocolate cake!

X

p.s.....hate to say it but c*******s has started creeping in

....the badgers are just too excited already!

.....coffee with the girls..,...

...and a quick catch-up!

....so the sun came out to play at last...

...and i have been very busy...

....having coffee...

 ...lots of work-related meetings of course..

 ...just relocated to local coffee establishments...! 

....and i have been 

watching and waiting for this bud

to burst outside my kitchen window...

...come on sunshine!

...inspired by a darling dolly coat

given to me by miss daisy

that fitted my deers perfectly...

...i decided they all needed one...

..and set to work...

...so once she was fitted and finished...

....i delivered her and some other

squirrel makes to the lovely

Ruby Rockcake

who is so kindly stocking my wares...

ruby is in Lyme Regis...

..so poor me had to spend the day there...

(more coffee...2 cups..oh and lunch too)

....such a chore....

(so beautiful on the beach today!)

..and look at these poor lovelies..

...being sold by the beach...

....very hard for me to walk on by!

...but i did...

...because i have lots of new lovely girls

already just listed in 

my etsy shop

...kiki the kokeshi...

...gertie the geisha...

..and pretty polly the polish poupee...

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...so you see i have been busy..

..just that i'm running on caffeine!

X

.....deer sisters.....

...i have had some time over the holidays 

to do some stitching.... 

...introducing my deer sisters...

...one in pink and one in blue...

...each with ditsy floral ears..

...a signature bow...

...and little felt shoes...

...at the end of their long stripy sock legs!

i have just listed them in my etsy shop

here

do pop in and say hello!

X

sweet serendipity...

..isn't it strange how sometimes

things just work out?

meet mabel....

we met by chance in my favourite antiques centre

 in honiton last week..

..for some strange reason my husband now thinks that everything i buy is for my new etsy shop(yeah right)

it's an excellent theory...

he just forgot to factor in his wife's

  love/need/want issues....!

(...i loved her face

..i needed to rescue her

...and i wanted to keep her!)

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mabel is a jointed soft-bodied 1940s dolly...

..but something was bothering me..

..it was the dress..

..pretty but a bit too big..

...not quite right....

(here comes the serendipity bit)

remember my dolly knits?

ah ha...i had a lightbulb moment...!

so with a little dress alteration

(retro laura ashley leg o' mutton sleeves removed....)

it was meant to be.

i wonder who the other knits will belong to?

..so the sun was shining...

...the birds were singing(squawking?)

..and what treasure should i find next???

a beautiful hand painted bowl 

with flying bluebirds...

(£2 again....serendipitous indeed)

oh and another keeper i'm afraid darling....

..and as if i hadn't had enough lucky strikes...

...i have had this little deer for a while...

he's very unusual as he looks like he's been carved from wood..

..but actually he is made of a celluloid sort of plastic..

...well would you believe it??!?

..i found him a friend!

whatever next?

and they all lived happily ever after...

with me!

x

p.s just put my badgers and a few new items in my etsy shop...

do pop by!

...hello deer....

...having been totally swept up

in the 'woodland critter mania'

that is sweeping the country....

....this is my latest make..

...and this was one of those things

that just had to come home with me.....

...oh deer oh deer oh deer.

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