Prize raffle tickets

Morning everyone, hope you are well and having fun.  We like fun at Crafty Ribbons.

We would like to invite you to our Summer Fete.......................

It starts on Monday, we have lots of ribbon and button games, creations all around the Summer Fete theme. 
The design team girls have joined in so we have lots of inspiration for you.

Now a Summer Fete would not be the same without a raffle. 

Ooooh lots of prizes to be won...........how would you like to spend £30 on our website, how many goodies could you cram into your basket?

Here is how to get your ticket

Leave a comment here on this post and we will write your name on a blue ticket.
This will give you one ticket...........
.........but you can also get another ticket by leaving a comment on our blogger blog here,
and we will put your name on a pink ticket.
That will give you two tickets.

  We will put all the tickets together and pick 3 on next Friday morning. 

Ooooh how exciting!!

Have a fab weekend, I am off to LEGOLAND on Saturday, not sure Tony is as excited as me!!

Hello wednesday - tinsel skirt

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

Ok  - this project may not be for everyone.................but with the school holidays upon us...........

Sydney was in the warehouse yesterday helping us to move ribbons into our SALE area (more about that later).  She had been taking arm fulls of ribbon rolls from one end of the warehouse to the other, but she then disappeared.  We thought she had got bored and gone to watch a DVD.  I found her on the floor playing with a big roll of tinsel ribbon...............I do mean BIG roll!

She had made herself a skirt and headress.  What fun.  A length of ribbon to go around the waist and then just knot other ribbons onto it.  Bev tells me she wore it all afternoon and wanted to wear it to bed!

You can find Syd's Tinsel in our.....................

 

................YEP! A Christmas SALE of some awesome ribbon.  Find them all HERE.  Go get your ribbons girls - I need to clear the shelves!!! Bet you can not guess why? Tee hee.

Bev has also been super busy since her return from holiday.  Looking through her holiday snaps she decided she needed some fun ribbon colours to compliment her photos for her scrapbook pages. So............................................

Find Bev's NEW Summer explosion of colour here  17mtrs of explosive ribbon colours, all for only £5.00.

One last thing before I go, we have add a further 25% discount on all items in our Ribbon Sale

BUT...............this 25% discount will expire on Monday 19th August at Midnight. Find the SALE ribbons here

So why not make yourselves a cuppa and have a good old rummage in our SALE - remember when they are gone they are gone for ever!!

Hello wednesday - back with buttons

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

Hi everyone, it has been a while.  I hope you are all well and enjoying the summer.  Tony and I had a fantastic holiday, the weather was just perfect.  Loads of awesome food, lots of walking and some wonderful places visited.  It was rather a shock to come back to the stock take.  But that was completed with Bev's high level of efficiency and went off without a hitch.

It has been a couple of busy weeks since we arrived back.  We have had another attempt at re-arranging our warehouse.  Moving shelves and units is not the easiest thing to do when they are filled to the top with new ribbon.  Far too heavy to move loaded, so you remove the ribbon.....ummmmm where do you put it.....move the shelves and then re-stock with the ribbons.  All sounds so simple when I dream up the idea, but in practice something rather different, oh well it all looks good now.

Our loading bay is now larger, to allow for the exhibition stand to be returned from shows and laid out, rather then trying to re-stock around the warehouse.  All the exhibition stock is in the same area, no more hunting required!  It looks really good, we have even started planning the new stand layout for the Exeter show which is towards the end of September and we are still in August!!!!

I have not been able to do much crafting, although my fingers have been busy.  I have been after a new design software program for ages, but I have been rather unsure whether I would be able to use it.  Not much computer confidence in me, all self taught by trial and error.  Anyway I took the plunge last week....................I think my head was going to explode, I could not work the damn thing.  Zillions of tutorial videos later, I cracked it......yeah...........I am so pleased.  Pleased because it will mean improvements at CR but also pleased with myself.....I did it.

Back to Hello Wednesday - I made this brooch for my holiday.  I had a new top and I wanted something to match it.

It hit the spot, looked fab on.  I used a selection of buttons from Cream and our exclusive Nile colour way Basics 2 Go button range. I also added one of the Keep Calm ribbons, but just the Sew On bit- a little different I thought.

So many new things planned, lots of deliveries expected....oooh so exciting.

All the family are away on holiday, I am in charge of 4 rabbits, 2 cats, a huge fish tank full of fish with lots of babies. and two houses.  Wish me luck, I have had to set alarms on my phone to remind me to feed the animals!!! Not my forte.

Low button stocks

Look what someone has been making while I was on holiday

I think our stocks of buttons has gone down a bit!

Hello wednesday - just add buttons

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

Hats.
Love them or hate them.

Thought about jazzing them up with buttons?

Looks like Mollie loves them - she wouldn't wear this hat until the buttons were added.

We used a selection of buttons from our Basics 2 Go range here
What fun.

 None of us are looking forward to the next 4 days, sickness has been banned.
Stock taking yuk! Wish us luck.

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WAREHOUSE CLOSED for stock taking 
Thursday 25th and Friday 26th JULY
NO ORDERS WILL BE DESPATCHED ON THESE TWO DAYS****************

Hello wednesday - lots and lots of chocolate

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

Sydney had her 8th birthday party a week early so that Tony and I could attend (we are still away ).
As a thank you I said I would make her birthday cake.
What did she want as a cake?.............................lots and lots of chocolate was her reply.

I think this hit the spot!

I must tell you - Syds party was on the hottest Saturday so far this year, the 5th July.
It was boiling hot, we had to transport the cake to the party.
Talk about a nightmare.
I put the cake in my foot well. 
Tony had the AC up so high, I told Syd I got frost bite on my toes!

This is the easiest cake I have ever made.  Does not even matter what the sponge cake looks like!

Victoria sponge, filled with jam.
Buttercream with extra milk added to make it slightly thinner then normal.
Lightly cover sides and top of cake with buttercream.
Add 2 fingers of Kit Kat at a time to sides of cake.

Tie ribbon around the Kit Kats I used 35mm satin here
Turquoise is Sydney's favourite colour

Fill the top the cake with M&M's and Smarties

Simple!

Syd loved it and her friends thought it was wicked.
I got an order for two more cakes!

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WAREHOUSE CLOSED for stock taking 
Thursday 25th and Friday 26th JULY
NO ORDERS WILL BE DESPATCHED ON THESE TWO DAYS
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Syd's day

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SYDNEY

8 today.

I believe this is the first photo I shared of Sydney - March 2009 she was only 3.
We had spent the afternoon crafting together making the flowers for Bev.

Sydney and I still craft as much as we can together.
It made me very proud to see she was wearing her button necklace to her Birthday party.

Have a great day Sydney, sorry to be missing your special day.

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 I do not normally tell you when I go away, I just make sure I have lots of posts lined up.
But...............

This time I am away for TWO WHOLE weeks, all together!
A HOLIDAY - not away for shows.
Tony and I sneaked away last week.

I have a couple of Hello Wednesday for you, otherwise I will see you after our stock take!

Have a great time

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WAREHOUSE CLOSED for stock taking 
Thursday 25th and Friday 26th JULY
NO ORDERS WILL BE DESPATCHED ON THESE TWO DAYS****************