Winner * Winner * Winner... of Pip Lincolne's gorgeous new book

 It is Sunday... and i was just about to walk the dog....

then i thought, i shall draw this GIVEAWAY Winner now, or it will never happen!

 So: *drum rrroooolllllll*

It is YOU Joanne - http://rosedahlia.blogspot.com/ - from this place here

and Jo has 2 sons and a daughter and has been finding the time to do some very cool Christmas Crafting.

She shames us that she can find the time! Please go and see her amazing knitted NOEL letters. I am in awe of her talents.

I do not *know* Jo so it all Legit. like. But i know her now :)

Well Done my Lovely and i do wish everyone could win it though.

 And i thought i would stuff this little lot in to show you something new and wacky i made t'other week...

 It is a felt 'Paper Chain'

and i find it so amusing that my business is actually called PaperFish,

there is very VERY little to do with paper in anything i do....

Even my paperchain is felt!

This was hugely time consuming and it took me around 2 hours to complete a piece of chain barely over 2 metres long. Tcha, but it was very satisfying!

I might try some more colourways and styles.

Ya know, i have so much more to talk to you all about.

2012 is going to be so big for me. So special. i can just feel it!

And i am so grateful that people pop in, read for a bit, enter the giveaways and like sharing all this stuff too. ThankU xxx

me! in "Mollie Makes" Magazine...

 so, yeh!

I am in this Month's Christmassy Mollie Makes

There is something about the ego that loves a gentle massage and my ego is no exception.

My mum was showing the checkout operator in Sainsburys....

but i would have done the same

(if i were a real person who went to real shops and had a real life)

 My name in glorious red & white... yes, i know there are lots of other lovely crafters in here too,

just let me have my moment?

 It was a Scandi theme so everything had to be in red / white / blue type colours...

my Gingerbread Boy... ooooohhh, looking good there Fella!!

 I'll be honest, it isn't my strength really - tutorials and magazine work etc...

i am a less 'planned' type of a lady... design, make, move on - that is me.

 So, that something i did, was captured in still life, for a moment... that is pretty good for me.

A moment.

ssshhhhhh

i can look away - and when i turn back, i am still there. Stopped for a moment in time.

Catalogued. Tresured.

This issue of Mollie Makes is superbly inspiring.... of course :)

I shall be drawing the WINNER of our Book competition very soon, next day or so.

Keep your eyes on teh prize for your name (maybe)

anf your eyes on the shop for these cute Christmas mini Buttons.

me....

in Mollie Makes!!....

Mini-things...

 I spent ages doing up an old Dolls House once.

My dad gave me a tall work bench in his garage... actually that bench is now my studio cutting table.

But buying and making the miniature items to go in the Dolls House, was really the best bit.

 And i think that is the joy i find in making my NeedleBooks.

I like the technical solution to a problem: using the Eyelets and Bookring to secure the pages.

But really i like the mini-scene on the front of each design.

 I enjoy the colours and the trims and the spotty tags...

Putting the colours together and working out what looks pretty.

It's just aesthetics.

 Anyhow.

Sunday was quiet (SmallFish wasn't here)

so i sewed NeedleBooks. I walked the dog (several times. He has too much energy for One with such short legs) and i did some gardening - you can't even call it 'weeding' as these weeds pulled ME!

Hewwwge buggers.

I sold my car - and will soon have no transport.

I popped the new NeedleBooks into the http://www.paperfish.etsy.com/ shop

and they will be there until somebody who likes Mini-things, decides they'd like a NeedleBook like what i make.

That is that.