Lilley's handcrafted lovelies

Oxford Handm@de...

...so yesterday I found myself (with two very enthusiastic and incredibly amazing helpers) doing my first ever craft fair!  It was fantastic, busy beyond anything I had imagined and we met lots of wonderful people.

Not only that we got to hang out in our favourite city with some of our favourite friends!

Unfortunately there were various battery problems, one being on both of our mobile phones, meaning we were un-contactable for a whole 24 hours!  Crazy times! The other being that despite charging my camera yesterday morning I somehow managed to leave it turned on in my bag!  So we have very few pictures of the wonderful event, but I'm sure there will be lots popping up over the internet in the next few days anyway.

It really was great fun and very much worth the very tired mama and baby we have here today...at least the baby will probably sleep all day, meaning I can get on with catching up on all the various jobs that need doing.

For those of you in the Cambridge area you should head down to the fair there this coming weekend, I have no doubt it will be just as fab!

Off to Oxford...

...we're off to Oxford to see lovely friends, probably eat lovely food, take in lovely architecture and be at this lovely fair selling my wares...

  Come and say 'hello' if you live nearby...there will be lots of lovely crafters there for you to see, promise!

I wanted to add a beautiful picture of Oxford here-but I don't appear to have any! How on earth I lived for someone as photographic as Oxford for 4 years and not take any pictures of that scenery I don't know! I'll try to take some this weekend and show you on Monday!

 

Crafting 107/365...

...chunky rainbow buttons...

Black Friday - Cyber Monday Etsy Sale...

Starting tomorrow and running until Monday I'll be offering FREE shipping on all items in my two etsy shops in honour of Black Friday and Cyber Monday  Click the pictures below to visit my shops.  

 

All shipping prices have already been reduced to zero!

There are lots of other shops taking part and offering free shipping throughout the weekend, just use the search term etsyfreeshipping over on etsy to see them all. 

Here are a few of my favourites...

ClareBears

ThreeRedApples

AliBaliJewellery

Urbanknit

I hope you all have a lovely weekend...and get some of that christmas shopping out of the way! 

xxx

Crafting 106/365...

...ninja keyrings...

I discovered that I had quite unexpectedly run out of these little fellas, so last night I found myself stocking them up.

They will of course be appearing in the shops this afternoon (and don't forget you can buy one get one free in my etsy store today! See this post for details) and accompanying me to handm@de Oxford this weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers, and happy Thursday to everyone else. xxx

Crafting 105/365...

...loveheart rings... 

Crafting 104/365...

...an army of traditional black clothed weapon ninjas...

...plus...

...ninjas drinking tea...

I only currently have 4 of these, I'll add one to my etsy and folksy shops this afternoon and the other 2 will be accompanying me to handm@de Oxford this Sunday. 

*******Tea drinking ninjas are listed for sale now...here and here*******

I won...

...feltmeupdesigns was running a special competition this week, which involved retweeting a tweet! You can see explanation of this here.  The winner was the person who tweeted the 500th time...and guess what?! It was me!!

I'm so so excited...I hardly ever win anything!  Plus I've had my eye on her tweets (the felted kind, not the twitter kind-oh how very confusing!) for quite some time now!  

I only won yesterday, but the postman must have been super speedy as my package arrived this morning.

So here he is my little robin...

peeping out of his box...

standing proud on top of my (rather ailing) aloe vera plant...

and not only was I greeted by this lovely little red breast, I also received a whole host of other goodies...

I am particularly excited about this little notebook - I had this in my etsy favourites for some time - and now I have my very own, in my hands not just to admire on a computer screen!

A massive thank you to Mel...you can see her many shops selling beautiful beautiful treasures by clicking the links below.

felt me up designs

ink me up

feltanomicon 

Crafting 103/365...

...yet more glow in the dark buttons...

Still busy working hard to get stock together for upcoming craft fairs!! Feels like I'm swimming in buttons over here!!

Crafting 102/365...

...rainbow buttons of various shapes and sizes...

Including bears, stars, leaves/tears, flowers and hearts.

Been super busy here getting ready for Handm@de Oxford next weekend (a week today in fact!) and getting  a little nervous as it will be my first ever fair!!! If any of you seasoned craft fair attendees have any wonderful tips I would love love love to hear them! 

Happy Sunday xx