Various tragedies

Finally, a moment of peace! What with the craft fair, the boy starting to walk, a rather stressful few weeks due to various other personal pressures, I feel like I haven't had a chance to sit down and do anything. However, I have been taking part in two lots of 365. Firstly, Crafting 365 sees me taking a photo of my crafting life every day for a year! So far, I'm on day 8, I think, and I have had a number of tragic things happen to the pieces I am working on. I think it would be easier if I showed you:

I coloured the first batch, and then shrunk them before realising that I hadn't punched holes in them!! So, I think then I varnished the second batch, I wasn't quite a careful as I usually am, and it serves me right, really, because the lacquer went totally cloudy and I had to pick it all off with a razorblade. Currently, the roses are in the top of my wardrobe having a little rest. I've put three very thin coats of varnish on them but I'm too scared to use the lacquer again. Grr!

I'm also doing a personal self-portrait 365, which I'll post when I get to a months worth, but you can also check it out on my Flickr stream.

I'm gearing up now for the Christmas rush. I've bought some new gift boxes, packaged loads of stuff up, got my wrapping and tissue supplies sorted. So, when the orders roll in I can get stuff out efficient and quickly :) I'm hoping that the craft fair really does something for my exposure as well. I've got my card in all the goody bags, and I'll be handing more of my cards and promo things out at my stand. I'm so excited!! Photos next week of the preparation for the craft fair.

Where does all my time go?

So, firstly, I thought I would include this fabulous picture of my Summer '08 range of jewellery. It's been colourful, plastic, kitsch and a little bit rock, exactly what I was hoping for from my first collection. Some pieces have flown off in jet planes to new homes, ears, wrists & necks, but a few pieces are still available to purchase here in dollars or here in pounds sterling!

Although I still plan to continue establishing myself as the Shrink Plastic Queen, it's time to move on from Edible and into my winter range, which I plan to preview here, on the 1st of November, just in time for the Craft Fair in Oxford.

So, I hope everyone is keeping nice and toasty warm as the nights get colder, how much do you have having to get up in the morning when the windows are all steamed up and the floor looks a million miles away? I hate getting up, let alone getting up when it feels like the Arctic has invaded my bedroom. This credit crunch business has to stop. All future purchases from twinklyspangle will be going towards keeping my flat warm over winter!