April Promotion!!

Good Morning!!

On May 17th 2010 we started our little business journey which means next month is our second birthday :) and as it will be around the same time as Mother's Day we thought, why not have a decent promotion/competition.

So this is how it's going to work. For every purchase you make and pay for during the month of April that gives you one entry into the competition. You will have the choice between 2 prizes (I don't have all of the goodies as of yet so I don't have a picture....I'm hoping to have this done by the end of the week or just after Easter).

Also, every week for the month of April we will be holding a market day/sale every Sunday (this weeks sale is part of the Clearance Sale). There will be a minimum of 10 items available at each market day/sale. We are also opening up custom spots for notebooks

Prize Details:

Option 1: For Mum

1 x Signed copy of the new 4 Ingredients book "One Pot One Bowl"
1 x Covered Notebook/Address Book in your choice of fabric plus pen.
1 x Satin Lavender Scented Eye Pillow
Worth: $60.00

Option 2: For Bub

1 x Signed copy of the 4 Ingredients book "Baby Bowl"
1 x Change Mat in your choice of fabric
1 x Matching Tag Blanket or Gee-Raffie
Worth: $60.00

Terms and Conditions:
Purchase/Order must be received between 1st April 2012 and 30th April 2012 and can be made via our website, madeit store or email. Item must be paid in full by 30th April 2012. Any orders received prior to 1st April 2012 are NOT ELIGIBLE. 1 entry will be received for each order made, not on a per item basis. This promotion is not a part of Facebook and is being run separately.

Happy Shopping!!

Em x

Photo of the Week - Week 6

This weeks photo is of my cat whom thinks that she is a human and therefore her food should be served at the breakfast bar. This was snapped this morning of her finishing off the milk from one of the kid's breakfast.

Until Next Time....

Em x

Photo of the Week - Week 5

We visited my fabulous mother in law last Friday down in Swansea, Tasmania. It's one of my favourite places to go and visit and to just unwind. It's such a friendly little town and has an awesome atmosphere that is able to instantly allow me to forget and leave all of the worries and stress that I may hold behind. This week's photo was taken whilst down there.

A lone flower poking it's head through the fence outside the Swansea museum.

Until next time....

Em x

Photo of the Week - Week 4

My favourite subject to takes photo's of is my gorgeous 3 month old baby boy, Charlie. I take photo's of him pretty much everyday to try and capture how he changes from day to day, week to week. To try and capture the personality that is this little miracle that has come into our lives. :)

This weeks photo is one that I took just as Charlie woke up, I was laying on our bed (he still sleeps in our room) waiting very patiently. I shot it with the 55mm-250mm lens so I was laying quite a fair way back on my bed. I didn't mess around with Aperture or Shutter Speed as I'm still learning and playing, so I used the Auto Setting without flash. The only post editing that I've added to this photo is the antique filter that was added through iPhoto. This is one of my favourite photo's that I've taken of our beautiful baby boy thus far.

Charlie - 13 Weeks + 5 Days

Until next time....

Em x

A New Name

Happy Australia Day!!

As mentioned a bit over a week ago, we're undergoing a name change for a few reasons. By the end of March we will be totally renamed at Pikkulapsi (which means Small Child in Finnish and draws upon my family history and heritage).

First and foremost it is because we want to be a bit more unique. When I started up The Little Wise Owl in May 2010, I didn't do a lot of research into the name (my bad! And I've learnt from that lesson!) and my research consisted of....did the domain name exist (nope), did the page name exist on Facebook (nope) therefore it would be okay to use that name! I didn't do an extensive google search, I didn't search the Aust Business Register to see if it had been registered. So off I went on my merry way creating things and promoting myself under the name The Little Wise Owl. Now if you search the Aust Business Registry for Little Wise Owl or The Little Wise Owl, you a number of hits ranging from little owl, little wise, little wise owl, wise owl, little blue owl etc. Let's just say that it's very, very popular to be little, an owl and wise ;) And the google search....well let's just say that there are A LOT!!

A few months into my new business I got a lovely and very polite email from another little wise owl whom was a seller on Madeit and had registered the name little wise owl as a business in Victoria. It was agreed that I could keep doing my little business under the existing name, I needed to just modify it slightly for Madeit in order to avoid confusion for her existing customers and any potential new ones and because at that stage I had no intention of extending further than my Facebook page and my website with an occasional listing on Madeit that worked fine. Every few months I would mention to my partner "I should think of a new name for TLWO..." and I would throw a few ideas at him and he didn't seem entirely impressed by them so we continued on as normal.

Fast forward to 2012 and the situation has changed slightly. Due to Facebook changes and there not being as much activity through my little page anymore (despite following the helpful advice passed on by various business pages, I've struggled with trying to get my posts to appear in news feeds and I feel like we've been disappearing along with a lot of other of my own favourite businesses whom I only keep up with these days by looking at the list that I've created with all of them safely tucked away on!) Anyway I've decided to try a new way to market myself and the products that I make with listing more items on Madeit and attending Markets etc. and eventually down the track I may like to register my business name. And there are no businesses registered in Australia under the name Pikkulapsi! YET!!

It is a gamble to create a new page, a huge one! I currently have 2170-ish likers on The Little Wise Owl, I've got a bit under 80 that have come across already to the new page. But I feel like it is a journey that I have to make in order to recreate my little business, I was feeling very stagnated and uninspired for most of last year but I do feel reinvigorated again and that my creativity has returned!

Anyway enough of my ramble, these are just a few of my reasons for starting again and renaming. Yes it is slightly crazy, yes it's a huge gamble but hey...let's see where this journey takes us!!

As such, I would love it if you would "like" our new page. You can find us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/Pikkulapsi.Designs 

Until Next Time....


Em x

Photo of the Week - Week 3

I'm a bit late with last week's photo. After such a busy lead up to last weekends market and being absolutely buggered afterwards, I honestly had no energy left and fell asleep at 8pm that evening!

As this is more about photo's and less about words....here's this week's photo (well last weeks!)

My gorgeous baby boy was 12 weeks old and I couldn't resist playing around with the camera and taking this photo.

Until next time....

Em x

Ps. I'm working on a blog to better explain the reason behind our name change and our plans for the next few months.

Photo of the Week - Week 2

Good Afternoon!

This week has been a busy week with the three munchkins. I also received a new camera from my lovely partner as a joint Birthday/Anniversary/Christmas and Valentines Day present. We normally don't give each other gifts or we give each other small gifts on these occasions as invariably throughout the year we find ourselves wanting something "big" that would be outside the normal budget so we lump them all together. Mine was a new Canon EOS 600D :D :D

I've been wanting an EOS for a number of years but I never took the plunge as my existing camera (Canon S5 IS) was adequate for my needs and I couldn't justify spending money on a more expensive camera. I normally always have a camera on me whether it's the camera in my iPhone or my little Canon Ixus 95 IS (yes I am a bit of a brand devotee to Canon cameras!)

Anyway, I'm beginning a new journey with my EOS. I've only been messing around a little bit with it thus far but I'm hoping to get to know it better by just experimenting with it, I could read the manual but where's the fun in that? ;). The beauty of sticking with the same brand of camera is that a lot of the same options/functions carry through all models so I had a fairly good idea of what the presets would do etc. I've never really played with Aperture or Shutter Speed before but that is something that I'm going to experiment with from now on.

As this post is meant to be more about photo's and less about words, without further ado, here is my photo for this week.

Master H in all of his cheekiness.

This is a photo of my middle child, Master H and I feel that it captures his cheekiness beautifully. It was also the first photo I took on the new camera straight out of the box! This photo has been edited to remove a few remnants of food from his face and also he was really wrinkly around the eyes as he always scrunches his eyes up when you take pictures of his! So yes my son has now been photoshopped to remove these!!

Anyway until next time!

Em x

Photo of the Week

Earlier this week I posted that my Project Life kit arrived and that I would be posting a photo that I'd taken each week. Well my dad came to visit over the Christmas/New Year period for two weeks. My dad lives in WA and he visits us in little old Tassie once every 2 years at Christmas time, so he met grandchild number 3 for the first time this Christmas.

The photo that I've selected is one that was taken on his last day here as he was having last cuddles with Bubba C. It makes me think that if you hand any man a baby that they all go gaga to make them laugh, smile and not cry!!

Until next time....

Em x

My Project Life Kit (finally) Arrived!!!!

I've been waiting very patiently since September (when I pre-ordered it) for my Project Life kit to arrive and today it finally has! I ordered the Cobalt Edition from Craft House (they're the Project Life distributor for Aust & NZ and are located in NZ) and they put together a kit with everything that they suggest you need to complete it (retailed $165 NZ) and thus far I am very impressed with what I've received :)

This is my first glimpse of Project Life and I'm going to do it as a weekly family memory keeping tool. My daughter (aged 6) is starting to become more and more interested in art and craft so I'm going to put this together with her as a mother-daughter bonding exercise as now since the baby has come along I feel as though she may be feeling a little left out at the moment as I'm answering his every demand and whim!

This year I'm also completing my own personal 366 days of photo's which I'm uploading some to my personal profile on Facebook and others are going into my own personal photo journal (something which I did a few years ago and it was very therapeutic during a very demanding and trying time as it gave me a chance to have an outlet and to do something just for me). I've always had a passion for photography but over the past few years my photography skills have been limited to special occasions and product photo's! It is nice to be looking at the world through a camera lens again. From time to time I will upload what I've down with my Project Life layouts etc. and once a week I'm thinking of uploading a photo that I've taken that week that I want to share. I think that a photo can be just as artistic or as expressive as a painting or drawing (both of which skills I lack!).

I've also been playing around with a few programs that I have found on the Mac App Store, some of them are quite cheap and I'm planning a post on them very shortly! I do own Photoshop CS5 (my partner designs websites for work so he uses it for that) but my Photoshop skills are very limited to the basic basic basic functions so I've sought out some more user friendly programs that don't require having completed a degree in graphic design!

I would love it if you're doing Project Life this year and are blogging about it to leave your link in the comments section so I can see what you're doing as well! :)

Until Next Time....

Em x

Hello 2012!! A New Year, A New Start, A New Journey

Goodbye 2011. Hello 2012!!

2011 was both the worst year and one of the best

years of my life. It was a very challenging year and I feel like I've learnt a lot from the bad bits and those bad bits have made me a better person because I got through them! I've also learnt that I have limits, I'm not a superwoman and I need to be more organised in order to avoid stressing myself out. So my new years resolution is to be more organised and to stop being so hard on myself. I do set the bar too high a lot of

the time and then I get very disappointed when I don't achieve my goals.

But enough about me....back to TLWO.

There are lots of new things happening at TLWO this year, I'm planning on getting out and about to a few markets (totally stepping out of our comfort zone!) I'm also going to be developing our product ranges further and experimenting with different fabrics, designs, embellishments etc. ;) I have a few things laid out on my cutting table and these things are making me feel very excited and it's been a long time since I've felt excitement about something that I'm creating (my Mojo/Sewjo/Creatojo got lost in 2011 and it's nice to have it back!).

I have been working on some new hair accessories, notebook covers and a new design for our change mats. Our change mats will still be released with the pocket so you can stash your nappies, wipes etc and have it on the go but I'm also making one for the nappy bag which doesn't have the pocket and one which you can put on your change table at home. So our change mats will come in 3 different sizes/styles. I'm also developing a geeky line...more on this at a later date as I'm still sourcing some bits and pieces that I need....this has me SUPER excited! Our tag blankets are also having a design overhaul to make them a bit more interesting and to tickle the senses of the little ones. I am however discontinuing the play quilts purely because I require a larger sized piece of fabric and batting and at times this does prevent me from being able to make 1 or 2 change mats in the same fabric.

Also in 2012 we will be focusing more on listing items for sale through our website and madeit store plus our market appearances, there will be less Facebook sales due to lack of interest from the last few that we've held. I'm not sure if that's due to Facebook hiding my sale posts or if it's a case of people's news feed being bombarded with sales from pages or perhaps my products simply don't strike a chord with you guys anymore (I'm being more positive in 2012 so I will assume that it's due to option A and B!)

As for this blog, I'm going to take it on a new journey and it will be more than just information about our new products but I'm hoping to include other bits and pieces, recipes, maybe a few tutorials, and other bibs and bobs that I think may interest you!

Well I think that I've written enough for the first day of the year. I hope that everybody had a pleasant NYE and that there aren't too many sore heads today!!

Until next time....

Em x

Renovations + Time for a break...

Me - 33 Weeks Pregnant

Hello! :D

It's been quite sometime since my last blog post, about 8 months it seems. Wow....a lot has happened in that 8 month period!
As most of you know (I have been yabbering on about it for the past 8 months!) we're expecting our baby boy in 3 weeks and also we're starting to renovate our kitchen/house today! Yep....great time to do it, I know....36 weeks pregnant and all! So bubba may just make an appearance earlier than expected! Which reminds me, I really should pack that hospital bag!!

As my house has temporarily been turned into a building site and I don't have an office any longer (as part of the renovations it is being turned into a temporary bedroom and eventually will become the new bathroom and the old bathroom will be a 4th bedroom - our current bathroom is HUGE!) I'm taking this all as a big sign that now is the time to take a break from TLWO and focus on getting ready for the baby, not yelling at builders, plasterers, electricians etc.!! I've already removed all stock availability from our website, I will leave a few items up on madeit and if I feel inspired I may add a few new items every now and then. I'm hoping to make a reappearance at some stage towards the end of November/early December ready for Christmas and then I may take another short break, we shall see how we're travelling and if Bubba is easily settled into a routine that works well with my eldest 2 kids!!

Thank you so much for your support this year, I will most certainly be posting pictures of our new addition to the family when he arrives and I will be lurking around ready for a chat/whinge!! :D

Until next time....

Em x

New FB Settings - You don't need to "re-like" pages under your business profile in order to tag!

Okay so a few things have changed in FB land today for business pages. Finally we can get notifications! Now I've noticed a vast number of businesses saying that they have to "re-like" pages in order to tag....well no you don't. There is a way around it...check out the pics below. :)

Click on Edit Page on the top right hand corner of your business page.

Make sure the box is ticked which says: Always comment and post on your page as "insert business name" even when using Facebook as "insert personal profile page name".

Tag as normal.....(just a bit of cheap advertising for another group that I'm part of...hehe)

And hey presto! The tag comes up as it always did and all this time I was signed in under my personal profile not my business one.....so need to run around "reliking" pages under your business page unless you want to separate your news feeds or you want to comment on somebody's page with your business page name. :)

I hope this has helped!!

Until next time.....(I promise this will be the last blog for today!)

Em x

Ps. All the pages you previously "liked" aren't lost, they are attached to your personal profile ;)

Recipe: Low GI Muesli

As part of our Low GI diet I make homemade muesli for us. It's simple and quick to make AND my kids LOVE it!

This recipe is based around a similar recipe which is found in The Low GI Family Cookbook by Foster-Powell, K. et al.

Ingredients:

3 cups rolled oats (not quick cook oats)

2 cups Special K

1/2 cup unprocessed oat bran

1/3 cup apple juice (I use an organic/unsweetened version - I have also used an apple/strawberry juice blend from Preshafruit which is quite nice)

2 tbsp honey

1/2 tsp cinnamon

mixed dried fruit/nuts (I don't put nuts in my muesli because I have young children and they will be eating it. I normally include a mixture of dried paw paw, pineapple, coconut and apricots but it depends on what I have in the cupboard at the time).

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 160 C, line oven trays with baking paper (I normally need 2 oven trays for this recipe).

2. Combine dry ingredients (rolled oats, Special K, oat bran and any nuts you're going to use etc.) in a large bowl.

3. Combine the apple juice, honey and cinnamon in a saucepan and stir over medium heat until combined. Bring this mixture to a simmer, pour over dry ingredients and stir to combine.

4. Spread the mixture evenly over the lined trays and place in oven for 30-35 minutes or until mixture is golden brown and the Special K flakes need to be crunchy not soggy, stir twice during cooking.

5. Remove from oven and allow to cool on the tray. Once cool add dried fruit to mixture and serve with reduced fat milk and yoghurt if desired (my children love vanilla yoghurt on their muesli).

The muesli can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a month (if it lasts that long!!)

Enjoy!!

Em x

PCOS + Low GI

Last year I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and as a result of that we went hunting for information on how to manage it as the side effects from it include weight gain, fertility issues and being at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes (for more info. on PCOS click here). As a result of our research we came across some information that by following a Low GI diet that it would help manage the symptoms and hopefully result in weight loss etc. (for more info. on what the Glycemic Index is, click here).

Before the diagnosis, I was very bloated and uncomfortable, so bloated to the point that I had numerous people presume that I was pregnant and ask me when I was due and the worst part about that was that we were trying to conceive a baby. There were even a couple of occasions when we believed that we were pregnant because my period went missing for a few months which had only ever happened when I had been pregnant previously, otherwise I had a regular, normal cycle each month. We believe that the PCOS was always there but I hadn't had any issues with fertility etc. until I suddenly started gaining weight last year and that weight gain has kicked it into motion, like flicking a switch I guess. My weight had always been fairly steady and I was able to get back to the size I was prior to falling pregnant in both cases. We're hoping that if I can reverse the process and lose some weight that it might mean things will go back to normal and we may have success in conceiving that baby. Hence the exercise regime and diet ;)

When following the Low GI diet, I feel less lethargic, less bloated and overall much healthier. When I've eaten crappy foods I can tell that my body is not happy with it because I feel unhealthy and bloated within a matter of hours. It has been a battle to change the eating habits of my family (particularly my partner who loves white bread and thinks that some of the meals that I cook taste TOO healthy!) but by just substituting things in our diet it's not a huge dramatic change (for example, I use honey instead of sugar, wholemeal flour instead of white and put rolled oats in my muffins). Just making sure that we're consuming less processed sugars (which is hard for somebody like myself whom has a sweet tooth!), and eating more fruit and vegetables, more whole grains etc. Anyway, I will be adding posts from time to time of Low GI healthy recipes of things that I make that my family enjoy and I hope that you and your family will enjoy them too!

Until next time....

Em x

P.S. If you're after some more information about Low GI and PCOS drop me an email and I can pass on some of the information that I have gathered.

Double Ouch: Exercise and Sunburn!

As part of this being a new year (yes I'm a month late....I know...BUT....at Xmas time I was sure that we were still back in June so I've caught up a little bit!), I've decided to try and do some exercise (well some is better than the none that I've been doing for been doing for quite some time!) and eat less crappy foods in the hope that I can lose some weight! I'm not overweight by any means but I am approx. 6kg heavier than what I was at this time last year and my BMI is currently 25 which is on the brink of the healthy to overweight range.

So what I've done is enlisted a friend from my day job to come with me once a week and to help hold myself accountable, no excuses to not exercise! Yesterday was our first walk and it was fair 4km with uphills and downhills through the scenic Cataract Gorge. Yesterday was a pleasant 22-23 degrees and it was overcast and just raining on and off whilst we were walking. I coped with the walk quite well, I wasn't overly tired at the end of it but I could feel the burn in my leg muscles so I must've done some good, pain is good, right?! The pain in my legs and knees didn't get much worse, it was a dull ache for the most of last night....However, my shoulders, arms and chest....well.....they are a nice shade of pink at the moment and a bit tender to touch. It appears that even though it was overcast and there was no sun....I still managed to get sunburnt and didn't even consider that I may need sunscreen! So yesterday I made the discovery that one should always slip, slop and slap during the summer regardless of the weather! I obviously wasn't paying too much attention to the ad campaigns in my youth....

On that note....I'm off to apply some more aloe vera to my sunburn and to start getting ready for tonight's sale!

Until next time...

Em x

Photo of the Day {POTD}

So I'm taking a leaf out of Miss Tara's book from TeeLee Blue and Mum-ments and posting a photo of the day, I didn't take this photo today, it was taken about 18 months ago (But I did take the photo...so only cheating a tiny bit!) and I was crawling around in my front garden (in my dressing gown - the neighbours must've thought I'd finally got bonkers!) to try and get the perfect shot of my cat Lily (she is very skittish and camera shy), the photo was taken through some plants to get the blurred effect around the edges and the only editing is some simple cropping of the picture.

Anyway....enjoy! :)

Em x

New Year, New Beginnings.....

Well we're already a month into 2011 (honestly where does time go these days!) and I'm busy getting ready for my daughter to return back to school (Tas schools return mid-Feb as we only have a 3 term school year) for her first year of being there full time! Eeek! I swear that it was only yesterday that she was a baby!

At the moment there are quite a few changes going on with The Little Wise Owl (TLWO), the biggest one is that we've had a whole new logo design implemented thanks to the lovely Nicole from LBM Designs. She has also changed the look of our blog so it all matches in. :) Behind the scenes my office/sewing room/shoebox (my bathroom is bigger than my office!) is having an overhaul....my lovely fiance has been busy sanding/varnishing the floorboards and painting. He has painted 2/4 walls atm....here is a sneak peek at the feature walls (for those of whom don't know already - I LOVE the colour purple, this shade is called Dr Who...which is quite cool because I'm also a bit of a Dr Who fan too....) Oh....and whilst the picture if rather boring.....It is virtually impossible to take a picture of my office because it is so small! But it's MY space so size really doesn't matter.....right? ;)

I have quite a few other ideas/plans in the works that I hope to share with you really soon. ;)

On that note...I will leave you with an image of some gorgeous fabric that arrived today that you may see on a creation very, very soon.....can you guess what the creation will be? ;)

Until next time.....

Em x

Update

Good (Early) Morning!!

Just a quick update.....

Internet Issues:

We are still experiencing internet issues, Telstra have put a work order in to have the ADSL codes (that should never have been removed) put back on the line, they assure us that it is at the top of the list but it may take up to a week to be fixed! Anyway, in the meantime I have limited access to the internet through my iPad during the day (I can check in on our Facebook page and answer e-mails) and of an evening/early morning I can log on with my laptop by tethering it to my fiance's iPhone. Because of how expensive data is on the iPhone, I've been told that I'm not allowed to upload any pictures until our internet is restored which means that the sale that we were in the middle of....is temporarily postponed! You can still purchase items that are already in the sale album.

Custom Orders:

I am still accepting custom orders as I've been left with a vast amount of time on my hands due to limited internet access (who knew it consumed so much time!), cutoff date for custom orders if you require them by Christmas is December 14th!! If you want to place a custom order just send me an email to thelittlewiseowl@me.com and let me know what you're after!!

Destash Sales:

I was also planning a destash sale but this has also been postponed, we may hold off on this one until the new year but I'm sure it will be fairly huge by then! I'm also going to be holding destash sales on a different FB page called My Little Fabric Addiction. So pop on over, click "Like" and check out what we have in store. I will also be uploading some items to Craftumi but first dibs will be available on FB! :)

Postage Times:

I am also only posting 2 to 3 times/week at the moment. We are sharing a car at the moment because mine is having airbag issues and I'm not comfortable driving it until that has been fixed. As a result of that, I'm sharing a car with my fiance which means I'm limited in when I can get to the post office etc. I'm going to mostly be using prepaid satchels/envelopes/stamps in the interim because then I can just wander down the road and pop them in the post box. If you require something registered just be aware that I may not be able to get to the post office for a few days.

Thanks so much for your continued support! We are almost to 1300 likers, I never dreamed that we would have such a huge fanbase when we started out in May. Fingers crossed all our technical difficulties go away soon!

Until next time.....

Em x :)

A little competition....

Hello!

Well we've come a long way in such a short period of time, almost 300 likers! So what I want to do, is to have a little competition to see if we can reach and exceed the 300 mark. Starting now and ending when we reach 300, the person who refers the most people will have the option to purchase a change mat for $5 (this will cover postage costs) or a hairbow for $2 (once again to cover postage costs). Because of Facebook's competition rules, this can't be a giveaway.
I'm going to make up 2 change mats and 2 hairbows that the winner will be able to choose from. I will get these pictures uploaded to the wall tomorrow sometime.
Thank you so much for your support!

Em xxx

PS. Don't forget to tell the people whom you refer to write on the wall and say who sent them!!

Wow! 200 Fans - Must be time to Celebrate! :)

Good Morning!

Wow! 200 fans! Thanks so much for your support everybody! It’s hard to believe that in a month that we have come so far!
I think that this gives us a reason to celebrate So how about a sale? The sale will happen on Friday night 18/6 from 7.30pm. I’ll upload an album sometime through Friday so you can have a sneak peek. The sale will run from Friday night until Monday night 21/6.

I’ve had a lot of new materials arriving in the post lately and still more to come. I’ve just ordered some fabric to make some Princess themed play mats. I can’t wait until it arrives!! Our change mats are also going to have a slight design change and will include a layer of PUL to make them waterproof, I’m just waiting for the PUL to arrive. It should be here any day now! I’ve also got a few new ideas in the making, just trying to work out a few kinks and hopefully I will be able to share them with you soon!

We’ve been a bit quiet the past few weeks because it’s been school holidays here in Tassie but my eldest went back to school this morning so I’m ready to get back to it and start creating bows and other bits and pieces.

Our website is almost finished. My partner has unfortunately come down with the flu and has been having issues with his asthma so that has set us back a little bit. Fingers crossed it will be ready to go live in a few weeks or so.

Don’t forget that I can do custom orders! I’ve just finished a custom order of “Cupcake Cloths” for The Cupcake Fairy. Check out the picture below.















This blogging caper is hard work! Better get back to the sewing machine!

Until next time.

Em x