Friday FREEBIE - Dotty about dots

Good morning all……….only few more hours and then it’s the weekend!

I am really looking forward to the weekend…………

one of my NEW ranges for Christmas has not turned out great in pre-production samples

;-( so feeling down……….
….do I re-design it?
or bin it?

decisions, decisions my brain hurts.

What makes me Happy? – Giving away my ribbons….

We know you all love our dots, dotty about dots……
….well we have 6 new designs being launched next week

all on our fantastic sheer ribbon like these ones here.

……………….but with a difference.

and you can also have some of our happy faces

and some more dots…..

So if you would like to be one of the first crafters to get your hands of these new ribbons, simply leave us a comment on our main blog click here

That’s made me feel so much better – giving away lots of ribbon.

Happy weekend.

Ladybird dots

Hello everyone, 

We are launching another NEW ribbon today.

We have been asked for this ribbon for ages, to make ladybirds.
The manufacture does not carry it as a stock colour, so we had it printed just for you  hair clip makers.
Red grosgrain ribbon with black Swiss dots.
We now have oodles and oodles of the ribbon, you can find it here

 

Same price as all our other Swiss dot ribbons 3mts for £1 or any 6 colours for £5

I told Miss Mollie that I was making Ladybirds and I needed someone to photograph them with.
I gather she drove Rachie mad about coming up to see auntie Ali, “auntie Ali needs me mummy”.

Look she wore her ladybird outfit, just for me.

I love this photo, you can tell we were having fun.

New ribbon - happy little faces

Hello everyone, I am back from my hols.

We had a delivery of NEW ribbons while we were away.

These little pansies come with a story……

I love going to garden centres, very often on a Sunday.
Where they serve afternoon tea!

My favourite place to go, is what I call the “sick bay”……..
…..where all the plants look so sad and are crying out for a home.

Back in the spring I found this massive tray of pansies, they were really sick,
Tony said they were dead, they looked that bad.
But they were only 50p reduced from £10 – I also love bargains!

I got the sad pansies home and planted them out in my tubs,
I gave them plenty of water and lots of TLC.

They have been absolutely wonderful all summer,
their little faces greet me every time I open the back door.
Big smiles on their faces, dancing in the breeze.

I produced this ribbon for me…………..it makes me feel happy and puts a smile on my face.

If you would like to share in the delight of these Pansies you can find the ribbon here

Thanks for stopping by and reading the rambles of a self confessed ribbonholic……..

New Look

Oooooh, Oooooh I can tell you…..

 

We have a NEW website

 

 

It is very white, very clean and fresh…………….we have been working on it for a while.
We pressed the button and went live last night.

 

We have re-designed our logo, so a complete re-branding to bring us up to scratch.
We hope you will enjoy the new website you can find it here

 

This is a 5th generation website.

We launched our very first website on 3 March 2001

It was a page website, like a book.

Have a great day.

Thank you letters

It is that time of year again, saying thank you to the teachers.
Sure you can go out and buy all sorts of things with “Thank you Teacher”……
….BUT I may be wrong………surely that is not what it is all about.
The gift should come from the child. But what do I know I am not a mum.

Here is an idea that came from Mollie,
Made by Mollie, for her two teachers.

Mollie and I had a wonderful hour together, we sorted through the buttons. 
Mollie picked the buttons she liked. I did tie the bows for her.
Mollie is only 5, it is amazing what a year at school has done for her.

Buttons can be found here and the Thank you ribbon is from our NEW Wedding Owl collection here.

Have a great day

AWOL

Morning everyone, what a beautiful morning it is here in Dorset.

You may have noticed that I have been rather quiet of late,
you may even say I went AWOL!

I have been away with the fairies – oh and the reindeer.

The designing of our NEW Christmas ranges has taken up all my time.
We are really excited over them…….we have………..

……...you didn’t really think I would tell you.

But what I can do is this……..

offer a voucher for this weeks Friday FREEBIE.

Spend it on basics like

plain grosgrain or………

buttons or……..

our EXCLUSIVE ribbons or

hold out until the launch of our 2014 New Christmas ranges.

What would you do? Click over to our main blog here and leave me a comment with your thoughts.

Huge thanks to those of you that left us a comment, we really do appreciate the time you give us.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, think of me shivering with the snow and icicles around me!!!

Hello wednesday - too many candles

Hello wednesday everyone.

I love those sweeties

until I became allergic to chocolate.  Boo hoo.

So this year for my birthday my sisters made me this.

It was a joint family effort.
Bev made the cake……then Mollie and Rachie iced it.

Rachie said Mollie had so much fun with the sprinkles!

So also said there was no enough room on the cake for all my candles.  What a cheek!!!

But that is what I designed this ribbon for.  Find it here.

Have a great day.