New Crochet Bags and a whole lot more to come!!

Well I thought today as I have a day off work I would stop by and show you a peek at one of our latest products that we have, it has been such a long time since I have blogged that we now have a new range of Linen Cushions, Wooden letters and Lots of different Gift Tags now on sale!

We have decided top stop buying goods from Wholesalers, you know, the stuff that you see in nearly every shop you go into, and concentrate on designing items that you would not find in any High Street store, a few of the items we have we do buy in already made as a blank canvas, but we then print on them to turn them in to something that is unique and very different.

These are made from scratch by us using 100% Linen....

And these are just flying out at the moment, so much that we cant believe how popular they are!!

We have had requests for alternative colours and sizes as well which makes it very exciting doing bespoke orders for customers!!

We are still busy adding new things to our web site but most of our items have been listed on www.andreafays.co.uk if we have talked about something on here that you do not see listed within our store let me know as it may just be a case that we have not got around yet to advertising for sale just yet!

Well as I have a little spare time this afternoon so I am going to get around to visiting some of your blogs, so hopefully catch up with you all later!
andrea
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What is this weather like? And Crochet Coasters!

Yesterday it poured down here and blew an absolute gale, the winds were so strong, in fact it was quite sad as looked what dropped out of the tree in our front garden....



I am not quite sure what to do with it really, I don't know how high up into the tree it was built, poor little mum, all that work in building it for it just to be shattered in seconds, the egg is broken and I can't find any trace of a little baby bird anywhere. Maybe I will just pop it back in to the tree so at least if mum does not come back to it, another birdie may use it next year!

This weather is so typical given that I have had the week off, but it has at least given me the chance to re-build my web site, so that is a bonus! There is not very much stock listed at the moment, but at least the ground work in setting it up has been done. I have also got a few jobs finished which I had started (what seemed like months ago!)and then put back down and never got around to going back to finish them off, I have finally finished these ....





I LOVE them, they are meant to be Coasters, but what a shame it would be to actually use them and then a drop of drink spill on them?! I saw these on The Yvestown Blog

I am going to give the stripy cowl ago next I think, the patterns are so good to follow, especially for a novice crocheter like me!

I also got to tidy our office up, well, office/spare room, we had a Wooden single bed given to us, but I didn't really want a house full of beds in every room upstairs, so I thought that by at least decorating it with all of these cushions it looks more like a sofa/daybed type set up, it is lovely because when the sun is shining (not very often) it beams straight in to this room, so very inviting to lay out on, blimey, imagine someone actually lying on it and making a mess of what I have arranged so precisely, I caught the other half looking intently at it, you can imagine my response can't you! What? you actually want to mess up all of those cushions? Oh No you don't!!!!!



There is a new Dunelm-Mill Shop open in Exeter, I do LOVE this shop, I didn't intend on buying anything when I popped in, I didn't need anything, or so I thought, lol!!
But when I saw this I just had to have it, I was going to make a runner, but when this was reduced to £6.99, I couldn't make it for that sort of money?!




It has three bunches of Beautifully embroidered flowers running down through the centre, makes me happy when ever I look at it!

Oh and I bought this, how pretty is that? Bargain at £4.99 I thought, and would be just ridiculous to leave it hanging there in the shop and not pick it up...



Ah, successful shopping trip I think!!

Well I am back to work on Monday, Boo!!! But at least only four days a week, I plan to concentrate on my Web Site every Thursday on my day off, seeking out new items to bring to my shop, I have some really pretty Vintage Cups and Saucers that I am going to be making some Soya Wax Candles in, so don't forget to keep popping by and having a peek in!

Anyway, at least it isn't raining here at the moment, just blowing a hoolie, so I had better go and make sure my washing is still actually on the line and not in the field somewhere!!

Have a good week-end everyone!

Andrea
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Crochet, Fab Recipes and a Rant!!

Yeah!! The snow has just about all gone, thank goodness! It is nice to see it seeing as we dont have any that often, but when it started to get in my way and I couldn't get out it started to cheese me off a little!

After seeing Sarah' Fab Crochet Squares from Pink-Petal-Designs I decided that I was going to give these little Beauties a go, my other square is still on the increase...slowly!!! But these just so inspired me to take my hook out of one project and get it going on another....



They are by no means as good as Sarah', she got her wool from the USA and it is thicker than our Double Wool, but I am quite pleased with how they are coming along, I try and do at least one each evening...only one? I hear you mutter, but if I try and do it any faster my tension just goes straight out through the window and they look nothing like a square!!! I think that I will keep to the Pretty Pastel Colours, I may do sone plain white ones to mix in with the colours, I can just see it laid on my Sun Lounger in the Long Hot Summer Days that are coming our way this year!! No, I haven't heard that it is going to be a fab summer, I just made that bit up!!



With all of these great ideas that I keep spotting on my travels around Blogland my Wool stash is getting bigger each week, Thanks goodness for the Tesco CK Bags!!

Hubby and I popped into Exeter on Saturday, and look what little Beauty I bought....



It has some fab recipes in it, when I have more time I will post a few on here,



OK, now for the rant......
Do you take your shoes off in your home? Well we do, and so do most people who come to our home, when we go to other peoples homes we too take off our shoes, but you always get the odd one or two dont you who quite bluntly refuse to take off their shoes, even when they can see that we have left our shoes at the door and are walking around bare footed, what is their problem? Are they really that arrogant? Well, in our new house we are having brand spanking new carpets laid through out the whole house, so, shoes in the house are going to be a definate NO NO!! But why is it we feel embarassed IN OUR OWN HOME and feel that we cant ask people to take off their shoes when they come in? Especially when you can see that they are going to make NO attempt to take them off!!!

Well I am having ths sign made for our new house....



And if they do not read it and take notice I am just going to have to take a deep breath and say.......PLEASE READ THIS SIGN!!!

By the way, these fab signs can be bought at Shabby Chic Retro Signs and Plaques

Rant over....I have been bottling that one up for a few weeks!!

Catch up in a day or two!!
Andrea
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We are on the move!!!!!

Well, we knew that we may have been going to move house soon, once we found what we wanted, now we have found it, the perfect little tiny Thatched Cottage down a little lane, yes, small and Rustic it is! But so very cute!

It is smaller than our house at the moment so some furniture has to go, today I have been taking pictures and putting things on good old Ebay, such as this



And this....



Plus more, all starting off at 99p OH MY GOD!!!!

But it has to be done because it quite simply will not fit into the new house!

Well I have managed to do a bit more of my Crochet...



Coming along nicely me thinks, how much more will get done is beyond me with now having to think about getting boxes to pack up all our worldly possessions!

I have added these little Beauties to my collection of niceies on my dresser, yes, the Dresser that has to go!





My son and his girlfriend gave me a Glass and Silver Photograph frame when they came back from holiday last year, and look what sits on the corner of the frame...


Beautiful isn't it? I still haven't put a photo in it yet though, Doh!!

Anyway, better go before hubby walks in the door from work to see me sat here at this laptop once again jabbering on when oh so much to do!!!

Hope you all having a good week!
Andrea
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P.S Thank you to all my new followers for stopping by, I will Def catch up with you all soon, I promise! x