The theme is FOOD !

I think I must be hungry, as all I was finding today whilst going through the November Sparks listings were food related items. Lots of quite yummy looking cup cakes and some hot chillies too.
The thing that made me laugh the most was the reindeer food. I suppose the little blighters need some encouragement to land! Anyhow, enjoy the finds and dash off and buy some! If you are looking for some non-food related stuff, go and have a peek at my shop

Kitties

I realised it has been a while since the stars of the show featured on my blog so I thought it would be nice to post a few photos of them today. They have been up to a bit of mischief over the last few weeks.

They have taken a dislike to my blackout blinds and try to unroll them in the middle of the night and then fall of the window sill! Goodness me, the noise 4 and a half kilo of cat makes when it hits the ground...Oh it might have been me hitting the roof in fright!

My oriental does object to me spending time on the computer and wanders over my laptop in an apparently casual saunter and ALWAYS manages to wander onto my OFF button. It happens too often to be accidental.

The ginger kitten who started out as Satsuma has been renamed as he is one of the greediest cats I know. He is now known as Fat Sumo. I swear he grows another set of legs when I try to stop him pouncing on the other cats food dish. He breaks into the wardrobe where I keep the cat food pouches and rips them open. He is a scandalous glutton!

Anyway that's enough of that, here are a few photos to show their better side and hopefully it will make you smile

Photos? Yes ok here I am. Do I look handsome? I know I do!

And no, he is not helping me with the laundry!

"I thought you said -Dinner-"

Having a cat nap.

Summer is over, but still there are butterflies!

Looking through the Folksy forum I spotted quite a few butterflies and decided to do a quick blog while it is quiet in the house. Hope you like them, I think they are lovely!

November Sparks

I thought I would do a blog on all the lovely "heart" items in the November listing club, however Stars and Scars beat me to it. You can have a look at those too here
So I'm without a theme so I decided to go for the beautiful items that are not connected in any other way than that they are November Sparks on Folksy!

Here we go:

And from me my listing from today, a cute pair of felt earrings.

Hope you like my choices and rush off to buy them... They all make great presents and of course are far more special than mass produced ones!

Ocktober Folk Fest for Men

I looked back over my blog posts and realised that most of the items I featured were for the girls. I realise that we often find getting presents for men rather more difficult so I decided to see what the October Folk Festers had to offer for the blokes we care about. It turned out to be quite a few lovely things:

These scooters are great, I'm sure there will be a few Scrubs lovers who'd like a nice scooter print to dream over like JD does!

A lovely warm scarf, maybe for a Dr Who fan in your life?

A wine stopper for The last of the summer wine? Well at least for your connoiseur.

Bend it like Beckham fans might like to keep their tickets and signed t-shirts in here.

A beautiful pair of cuff links to dress your man up like James Bond.....

And your Top Gear maniac may dream over this beautiful grille

All of which makes me realise I have nothing yet to offer the men..... Shame on me, I will endeavour to put this right asap. Please feel free to comment on what kind of things you men would like and I'll see if there is anything I can provide in my shop. But please keep it clean!!!
May be a notebook would be something you'd like but what kind of designs would you like, geometric or abstracts or maybe cars? Please let me know, it may spark me off to do a whole new range of things. Surely it has to be better than socks or toiletries.....

Knitted and crocheted wanna-haves!

I wasn't planning to do a blog today, but I saw all these lovely woollies and just had to! There is absolute no reason to be cold this winter with this abundance of gorgeous hats, scarves and gloves about! I was looking at some mass produced hats and scarf sets today and they were £17. Boring and expensive for something you see every other person wearing. Therefore my motto is:

Get something from Folksy!

And I have something knitted in my shop too, not a scarf or hat but nice nevertheless.

Beautiful pendants!

Having visitors at the moment means I have not had time to make anything new for my shop, so no new October Folk Fest listing from me at the moment. However, other people have been very busy, so have a feast on these beauties.





As you can see very varied but all very, very nice. If you want to buy ( and I'm sure you do!) just click on the photo and you will be whisked away to the respective shops.

And lastly one of my own pendant necklaces from Astrid's Garden.

Well I think you have plenty of choice here, but of course you can browse through the various shops to look for more delectable items. Enjoy!

Look at these pretty things!

As I have visitors coming this week and my house is a tip, I won't have too much time to do much blogging, so I thought I would show a few of the October Folk Fest brilliant items tonight.

I absolutely love this Keepsake box, the elephant on it is so cute. I'm sure there would be many girls who'd like it and I bet you they are not all little!

These funky rings are adorable, so fresh and unusual. Shame I'm a total butterfingers when it comes to rings, I even keep mislaying my wedding ring otherwise I would have got one. Sure there are others who'd like them!

Gorgeous glass panel, in a beautiful colour. Go on cheer up that window as outside becomes gloomier ( the Indian Summer won't last you know!)

Want to scare someone? These spider earrings are smashing but not for the arachnofobic! But if you don't mind spiders, go get them, there lovely.

These pretty little buttons can transform anything from a bag to a coat. Pop over to the shop and cheer yourself up with one of these cuties!

And this is my absolute favourite, what a brilliant gift, flowers but not flowers. Pretty but truly useful. You can't go wrong. Pop over to the shop as there are more colour options.

And lastly one of my own pretties from Astrid's Garden. Hope you like them, I think they are pretty cute.

First week of the October Folk Fest

Another month another challenge. Yes I am mad, I have joined another monthly listing club. This one is called the October Folk Fest. I haven't had a lot of time to blog or do anything really as I have been playing taxi for the kids and unexpectedly Granny sitting! Granny sitting means listening to the same story several times a day and rescuing little kids from being overloaded on schooling ( granny loves teaching!), making loads of cups of tea and generally shouting as gran switches off her hearing aid as we are so noisy! Of course at the same time we are trying to put a new ceiling in our kitchen and everything there is upside down so I'm shattered and not hugely creative. Nevertheless I have managed to make a few things and today I also want to showcase a few of my fellow October Folk festers.

So here we go look at these beauties:





So you can find all these lovely goodies by clicking on the picture an you will be whisked to their respective shops. But don't rush off yet, have a look at some of the things Astrid's Garden has to offer.