Daily Listing

Today is my third listing over on the Folksy daily listing challenge, and so far I'm having a great time. Today I've listed the first item from our new Spring / Summer clothes collection.

I've just taught my self machine embroidery so this is something a little different from me, but I have to say I'm quite pleased with it and my little boy is loving his new t-shirt.

2nd Folksy daily listing

Heres the second of my listings in the daily listing challenge over on Folksy. This toy box is hand painted with multi coloured butterflies and personalised with a child's name.

Folksy Listing Challenge

I've decided a need a challenge for February so I'vedecided to join the daily listing challenge over on Folksy. For those of you who don't know this is a challenge to add an item to your shop everyday throughout February.

My first listing is this cute cherry gift set consisting of little cherry shoes and a babygro. I love cherries and this little set just puts a smile on my face. The gift set is currently available to buy in our Folksy and Etsy shop and will soon be added to our own website.

New Products

You may notice that this weeks new products all have a bird theme, I think I'm a bit obsessed at the moment especiallywith owls. At the moment I'm also enjoying working with pattern whether its delicate papers of bold printed fabrics.

Added to my website this

week are an owl sleepsuit ( blue version coming soon for the boys) and a beautiful bird body suit. Both are hand sewn using the applique method.

When I finally managed to put the sewing machine away I managed to create a cute door sign to go with the popular owl clock, available for sale separately or as this cute gift set.

All items are available for sale on my With Hugs and Kisses website

This weeks I've got a little carried away with the girls, next week I promise to come up with some things for the boys.

Handmade Halloween

This year after much thought my little boy decided he wanted to be a pirate for Halloween, much improved on the cow he inshisted on being last year. And my baby he probably didn't want to but got no choice he just had to be a pumpkin. This year I was determined to make the costumes myself and get my little boy involved as much as possible.

A week before Halloween we headed to the local fabric shop and came back with a mountain of fabric, not all for Halloween i have to admit. the fabric shop has to be my favourite place in the world i could spend all day there. I made a simple black waist coat with a little pirate badge sewn to the front. the t-shirt was a cheapy that we then painted with black fabric paint.

The bandanna was made from an old pattern i head in the cupboard. the sword was cut from card, painted and covered in foil. an old pair of trousers a few scraps of fabric and there

we have it a pirate.

The pumpkin outfit was made from a simple trouser pattern, the hat two pieces of fabric sewn together and some felt leaves added. The vest was sewn and a cute face appliqued to the front and worn over a stripy orange t-shirt.

I think they both looked very cute.

Cooking's not my strong point, but we did manage some spider cakes, and some gloppy goop.

The pumpkin of cause is sat on the front door, its not the best pumpkin as i left it to the last minute and all the best ones had gone. this is my second attempt the first was much better but that got dropped on the floor and smashed every where so this was a bit of a rush job. Not too bad tho for my first year at pumpkin carving. I've seen some amazing pumpkins around this year, next year I promise to put much more effort in.

A few ghosts for the front room, and there we have it

Happy Halloween!

Hope you all had a lovely Halloween, any pumpkin recipes greatly appreciated

New Products

This weeks new products are these two cute gift sets featuring children's favoritenursery rhymes The Owl and the Pussy Cat and Humpty Dumpty.

Each gift set consists of a beautifully hand-painted clock, door sign and greeting card.

The clock measures approximately 23cm / 9 inches and requires 1 AA battery.

The door sign measures 28 cm x 15cm / 11 x 6 inches. Each door sign is personalized with a child's name, making it extra special and unique for them.

The card is left blank so you can write your own message, making it perfect for any occasion from a Birthday to a New baby gift.

Both our new gift sets are available for sale on our With Hugs and Kisses website and our Etsy shop

New Product

This weeks new product is this cute pink owl clock. I have been asked by a number of people if it would be possible to make the blue owl clock in pink, so here it is, perfect for a little girl .

This beautiful clock is made from a collage of high quality plain and patterned papers and given a protective coating. The clock is made from wood and contains a Quartz mechanism. The clock requires 1 AA battery.

• To celebrate the launch of our newest clock the first five people to purchase the clock from our With Hugs and Kisses website will also receive a FREE matching door sign.