Tomte / Tomten... warning: could be addictive!

 Some of you will be thinking "what the foolhardiness is Tomte all about?"

Some of you will be saying "oooohhh i love the Tomten!"

Think: Gnomes, Scandinavia, Nordic, small Elven folk

If you like the Moomins and the such - you'll love this colourway / this theme.

 I have just ordered this: The Tomten - Astrid Lindgren; Hardcover

She wrote Pippi Langstrumpf

and so begins yet another brief obsession.

I am going to try and dress in these colours over the Winter and fully embrace my inner Scandinavian.

**wish i had the long blonde hair and even longer legs**

Think of me in my mock Pine Cabin, as the snow gently falls, wearing my knitted Reindeer jumper

"yurder hooden janksisit faaa"

And my home thus decorated in Red, Grey & White

 NOT content with yet another Button Wreath in, yet another amazing colourway...

i decide to make myself a matching Button Bouquet for the Sitting Room.

 EEeeeeek - i was terribly happy with myself about this :)

*rosy glow*

Displaying my bouquet took a few minutes of titivating.

I had no vase small enough so i used a vintage Milk Bottle and pushed it full of matching Felt balls...

 And finished it with some snowy pom-pom trim and a big red bell.

It really is the simple things that colour a lady happy

see: http://afteralltheworldisabeautifulplace.blogspot.com/

and you'll see what  mean...

 The Balls, i have been selling in a Tomte set for a long time

http://bigfish.etsy.com/

and i do intend to make a matching garland with some of these - if i don't sell out already

*sigh*

i know it looks like i spent all day messing about in tomte world today

but i did do other things too....

 x x x

Felt Ball Bracelets

 Cute!

I added nothing to mine other than the fuzzy balls themselves.

You could add buttons and decoration and big balls with small...

but i was dying to just the smallest ones.

 I have worn the grape / navy / white ones so much already

adds a bit of colour and fun to the school run clothing.

I am going to do a post later on our AMAZING Craft Cafe Hallowe'en fun but wanted to just show you these briefly.

I also have some news to talk to you about -

and i am planning on some workshops next year doing the odd fun class in balls n beads and other such loveliness.

My head is a-cracked with ideas and beginnings and ends and all sorts, but i thought i'd share these photos with you before i discussed all that....

later x



Shrinking Balls... and other Ball News....

 I know, I know - another 'post' i am bombarding you with shop nonsense.

But the felt balls are shrinking / have shrunk!

Listen though - these are cute, right? Teeny Tiny Felt balls... approx 1cm

*WANT TO MAKE A BRACELET NOW*

 At this moment i am only selling them in a bag of 100 - with 10 each of 10 colours.

Super super happy to see these. LUFF-LY

i will get around to breaking them into 10s of each colour... soon (ish)

 Even bigger news than that tho...

my 'rescued' dog played with a toy (a ball) for the first time since i got him!

We had a little play and he chewed it without looking at it like it might chew him back....

 That IS my dog in the background, and not a cheap inadequate draught excluder.

Oh he is such a lovely boy.

I used to coo over my Baby Girl like this but now school have stolen her and i think that is terribly unfair.

A great deal of Balls today.

The FATTIES are here.... *new felt balls*

I know, i know.... i AM up to my eyeballs still in paint and packing boxes and i cannot find anything and i am stressed and i have run out of savings to buy furniture -  -  - my friends, it's allllll good.

I have FAT BALLS!

The very most totally grrrrrr thing about moving house though, is i have no time (or place) right now, to play with my new supplies. I have so many fabulous ideas for my *new* fat friends. I am itching to play with them. 2cm across and such amazing colourways.

New stock - packs available in the http:// BigFish.etsy.com shop and in the new UK shop LovePaperFish.com as soon as it is open (mid Sept at the latest ready for Xmas)

THIS IS THE AUTUMN PACK  x40balls

WINTER  x40 balls

SPRING  x30 balls

SUMMER  x40 balls

and these POMPOM BALLS - just soooo cute.

I literally have a basket full of them that i keep running my fingers through - i want to M A K E stuff!

Want to Play?

Balls of Colour....

I am currently salvaging all my photos from the old computer and attempting to re-organise them in my *new* PC (easier for many Others than it is for me!)
So.... in place of a scintilating new crafty post.... i give you my 3cm great balls of colour.

Fat Cherry Pie - 3 shades of red:

Winter Rabbits - grey, black and white:

The 50 piece multi-colour pack:

Club Tropicana (for the 80's generation):

Spring Fling:

It is Tuesday again... Let's PARTY!

Sultry me in the very salubrious photography studio, also used as a bathroom. (i hope you can't see up my nose there?) Please note, *NEW* cardie. I rather like my sripey little Thrift find.

Loving this photo ... i want it made into postacards (puts on list of things to do....) pretty pretty pinks and lilacs and yumminess... I am such a *girl* but i make no apologies for that.

Also a good shot ... I am literally on fire today!!! If only i could get ALL the balls in focus :(
New supplies - i tll you, they can inspire you in so many ways x

I call the above balls - "Mouldy Fruit" x


Nice piccy. A supplier sent me this 'ready made' ... listen, it is pretty and all that BUT my etsy customers can do a bit more than that with their balls! Just posted the photo to show you my great new top again and because i just love colour!!!!