Clutter City Birthday Spring Soiree!

Am so hoping to get a stall at the Spring Soiree Market - hopefully will know in a couple of weeks.

http://cluttercity.norwichartscentre.org.uk/

In anticipation I have started making changes to the design of my stall, still going with the vintage tea party theme but slightly revamped!

New Profile on Folksy

http://www.folksy.com/users/mamphii

I have mastered the art of HTML with the Hilary Haptree's helpful hints on Folksy. It was very time consuming to paragraph. head, make bold text etc but it does make my Profile look more professional.

Here is a link to her hints
http://blog.folksy.com/2010/07/26/shop-front-improve-your-shop-bio-content-and-layout#more-10402

New Rings on Folksy

I have had a great day. It was a bit of an early start - Scott got up at 6 to get down to Heathrow to fly up to Scotland for a gig. My son & I went to the cinema to see "Gnomeo & Juliet" - it was pretty good. Ashley Jensen's character, the water-spouting frog was very funny and Cole has been reciting the lines " your love is doomed, your love is dead!!" all day. We had a lovely lunch and then wandered home. We found a frog on the pavement and it was about to jump into the busy road but a kind woman donned her gloves and threw it back on to the grass in front of the church.

I then had chance to make some rings whilst Cole played with his Playmobil and Lego.

Here are some of my creations. The buttons are sewn together with silver thread. The main buttons are circa 1960s moulded plastic buttons.

I'm now in the process of making quite a few more in anticipation of having a stall at ClutterCity

My Button Store

This week I have been having a sort through my many hundreds of buttons, sorting them by colour into old-fashioned sweetie jars. I hadn't realised quite how many buttons I had. I have been kindly given so many over the last few months. Plus I have received about 5 packages of vintage buttons in the post this week. I just can't get enough!!

button sweetie jars

vintage plastic buttons

Vintage Pendants & Rings

I have been working on some new ideas over the last couple of weeks. I had taken delivery of some more buttons from my favourite ebay seller and have been mixing antique gold with navy and burgundy.

I have worn my navy & gold pendant this weekend and really love it and the ring I hardly take off!

1940s gold spiral button on large pearl flower button

in burgundy 

an elegant cocktail ring

in burgundy too

Vintage Lipstick reviews Mamphii rings

http://www.youtube.com/vintagelipstick#p/u/1/X4txhyph2dQ

Katie aka Vintage Lipstick is a 14 year old girl who has set up her own YouTube Channel and blog. She has 500 subscribers to her YT channel and reviews make-up and beauty products. She contacted me because she liked my designs and so she has reviewed 2 of my rings and gave them good reviews.

All good! x

Make A Cushion Workshop

http://www.makeplacenorwich.co.uk/page/1

I have booked myself onto a workshop at The Make Place in Norwich. I have walked past the window on numerous occasions always promising to go in and learn how to use my sewing machine but have always felt a bit embarrassed and put it off. Well, at the weekend, whilst going to have a nose around the Aladdin's Cave that is Loose's, I plucked up the courage and went in. I have enrolled onto a cushion-making morning workshop later this month. Maybe I'll be able to dust off my sewing machine and get it working at long last!