Competition Time: Christmas Decoration

As Christmas is on the way, this month’s competition has a Christmas theme to it!
You can be in with a chance of winning a set of four suede Christmas Decorations. You can use them to hang on your tree or around your home, or you could use them individually to set off the gift wrap [...]

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Chance would be a fine thing

When I had a proper job in the big smoke before we moved to the countryside, I used to have a one hour commute on the train and tube. It was a real pain some days…the middle of winter could be just as painful as the middle of winter – too many bodies and not [...]

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Grab a cuppa

The nights are drawing in and it’s getting more chilly by the day. I’m even considering putting on the heating in the evenings. Having said all that, that there have been a few days this past week or so that have been absoloutely stunning – cool and crisp with bright blue skies. Weather like this I [...]

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Competition for Creative Types

Occupying children during the school holidays sounds like a daunting task but if your children are creative, then I’m sure it’s a whole lot easier!
How about a competition to ad a little more interest to their creative endeavours? This summer the lovely people at Noolibird are running a drawing competition where your drawing can be turned [...]

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Wrapit all wrapped up

Sadly Wrapit, the wedding list service people, have today announced that they have gone into administration.
I do feel sorry for all of the couples involved that have had so many problems trying ot figure out what’s going on. Planning a wedding can be stressful enough, without having a load of worries about guests that have paid [...]

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Home Grown Talent

It seems that buying a product that has been made in the UK is becoming more and more important these days. The first question that a lot of my customers as is where the product is made and this is because their customers in turn are asking them the same quuestion. There are even some [...]

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Presents in the post

You may have read some previous post with regards to a UK Etsy Swap that I took part in, well my secret summer sant was Lucy of Lucy Jackson Designs.  Much to my delight I was sent three fabulous thank you cards, which will be saved for special thank you notes once the baby has arrived [...]

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Bag Ladies Unite

Vicky Riley makes some really lovely bags, purses and greetings cards and has a great looking website and blog.
Vicky also runs the Handbag Designer/Makers Blog that focuses on designers from the UK. If you’re looking for an individual bag that has been made in the UK then this is a great place to start. If [...]

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Home Sweet Home

Poppy Talk Handmade
Originally uploaded by LittleBlackDuck

This month Little Black Duck are participating in the Poppy Talk Home Sweet Home virtual market.
As the market has only just started I can’t give you any feedback on sales, but if you’re interested in taking a table or even sharing a table with some other creative friends have a [...]

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Fame and fortune – Etsy Best of the Week

Each week a member of staff at Etsy HQ selects their favourite new products from all of the amazing new stuff available for sale on the Etsy site. This week Anda from the Marketing Department at Etsy has been keen enough to spot my newly listed Orange Suede Storage Bag and kind enough to list [...]

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