miss marie's miscellany

Winners and Christmassy thoughts

Happy announcements today, the 2 winners of the giveaway are;

Petit Filoux, who has won the red rose corsage and Miss Folies who won the star garland. I'm sorry everyone who left their name couldn't win something,but thank you for stopping by and saying hello. I will be emailing the 2 winners to get their postal addresses so their parcels can be sent off soon.

This time last year, I did a post every day in December, an Advent calendar of posting. I have missed the deadline for doing that this year, so I will do some festive posts when I can throughout the next few weeks. To get started, here's a lovely photo I took in the garden a couple of days ago, nice and cheery to get everyone in the Christmas mood!

 

November collage

November has been busy and I haven't had much time for relaxing. But I looked back over the photos I've taken, and there certainly has been lots of crochet going on, and I also had my first craft fair experience. The month started with some rainy stormy weather, which turned into lovely autumnal cold and sunny days and now we are covered in snow!

NB - Stars garland and red flower corsage giveaway results later today - so there's still time to leave a comment  at the end of this post to stake your claim on either of them!

Blue sky day

It has been lovely here in Glasgow today, my favourite kind of winter weather, cold and sunny. 

The sky hasn't been this beautiful colour for some time

The sun makes all this snow look lovely

And the snow is a perfect background for some new crochet items :-)

A little reminder about the giveaway I posted about a few days ago, you still have time to get your name into the hat before Wednesday. I've had lots of visitors over the last few days, but everyone is being very shy!! 

 

 

The snow has arrived

Up till now we seemed to have been getting off lightly weather-wise in Glasgow, it's just been cold. Not a drop of the white stuff. But it snowed a bit yesterday and a bit more during the night, and a lot this morning.

I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get to work later :-( .......but it is very pretty :-)

Edited at 2pm to add; work has been cancelled, hurray, and there has been loads more snow falling, so I may just go out and build a snowman to celebrate!

 

Etsy shop and giveaways!

I have news, which I'm excited about; I have opened an Etsy shop.  I'm spending so much of my free time making things, and enjoying doing so, that it seems a good idea to try to sell some of them. I thought long and hard about taking this big step, it feels quite scary to put one's wares on show so publicly, but I have had lots of encouragement from family and friends, and it feels like a good time to take the plunge. My things did pretty well at the craft fair last week, which was a good way of gauging if I'm on the right track; I made about £85, and have been asked to make another 7 things on commission, which is very heartening. There is a link to my Etsy shop on the sidebar on the right, please come and have a look round and tell me what you think; there are some of my makings there which I've already revealed on here, and there will be some new ones too in the coming weeks. I would welcome your feedback and thoughts, and tell all your friends too!! 

To celebrate this I'm going to have a giveaway! Well, 2 giveaways , really........I have a star garland,

and a flower corsage in a lovely deep red colour

to give to 2 lucky winners. Just leave a comment after this post and say which of the two you would prefer to receive, stars or flower, and your name will be put into the hat. I will reveal the winners next week on Wednesday, 1st of December. Good luck :-)

 

 

Craft fair crochet

Well, tomorrow is the big day, my first attempt at selling my crochet wares at a small craft fair; unfortunately, I can't go as I'm working, but my lovingly crafted goods have been delivered to a trusted fellow seller, who I think may buy several items herself! I will let you have a peek at what I made; something someone said to me about gifts for Christmas inspired me to use a heart motif and to make a string of them which you could hang on the wall as I have, or on a door or even on the Christmas tree. I made some in bright red and dusky pink, both are good 'heart' colours :-)

I made some single hearts too, in either red or gold, perfect for the Christmas tree.

I've also tried some different combinations of star colours; green and red with a lone white star

and red and white; I think this is my favourite, it look so festive and cheery.

And here are all my flower corsages, looking pretty together

I finished these off with a nice crocheted backing and a proper brooch clasp, so they will stay put and look fresh.

I wish I had had a little more time to make a few more things, but I'm pleased with what has been sent to the fair, so cross your fingers for me for a few happy buyers.......I'll let you know how it goes :-)

Today I......

stood by the sea at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month

and remembered.............

Today I have.......

finished my stars and made them into a garland

What do you think? They have certainly cheered up this house on a wild stormy day.

I made a chain using all 3 colours with a 6mm hook, nice and chunky, and slipstitched the stars to it.

I will be making some more of these for the craft fair I'm selling my things at next week, and possibly one for me to keep too!

 

Today I am......

making Christmas decorations.

know it's only the 8th of November, but there's no time like the present for being ahead of oneself!

October collage

This month; autumn arrived with all its beautiful colours, plus its changeable weather; I crocheted with pink and blue and a touch of romance; I went to my friend's wedding; a garden project ( a little peek is in this collage for you to wonder about!); new friends; lots to be happy about and much to look forward to :-)