Christmas puddings.

Next on my list to make, is Christmas puddings! After I finished the last of my Christmas tree's last night I cut out the Christmas pudding shapes ready to be sewn together tonight! I also added on the embellishments so that it would save me time when I went to finish them tonight; some little miniature star buttons in Christmas colours of red and green, and red thin silk polka dot ribbon to hang them from, a ribbon I feel has a certain Christmas feel about it!

I am about to start sewing them together now!

More Christmas tress.

And so I have finally listed the last of my Christmas tree's! There are two sets, one with 4 decorated Christmas tree's.

One of these has also been listed individually! And then there is also a set of three!

One of these has also been listed individually!

All four listings can be found in my shop and also keep checking back because I have lots of Christmas themed stuffs to add over the next couple of weeks!



Facebook.

A quick reminder that I also have a Facebook page for my handmade creations, Tea Lady Designs Facebook . I only recently started it, and with 18 likes on the page I would love to have some more! I also have plans for once I reach 50 likes I would like to do a giveaway competition!

So please if you have the time, head over and like my Facebook page and feel free to pass on the link to your friends! :)

Glorious crowns.

Whilst browsing Etsy a few weeks back I came across a seller who sold felt cut outs. Now, everything I have made so far as been cut by hand to the desired shape. But I saw these and thought to myself, 'I could use them for so many things!' So I bought three packs of 10 (at only 80p a pack) of these bright, cheerful and colourful crowns.

But now I have them, it seems I have no idea what to do with them...

So I guess this post is a cry for help!

Help!
Help!

I need suggestions!

If you can suggest any ways to put these bright and cheerful crowns to use then please comment below and let me know! Because I am currently baffalled!



Christmas is coming.

Over the past few days I have been working on getting some Christmas stock into my shop. So of course, the first stage was buying Christmas themed materials!

I raided Cal's stock and got some pretty ribbons, Christmas colour themed buttons, metallic bells and also some more felt some of which I cut into Christmas shapes ready to be turned into decorated Christmas tree's to be used as tree decorations or general Christmas ornaments.

I decided to decorate each tree differently. A set of five is decorated with sequins, ribbon and a metallic bell.

I have decorated these with peacock coloured sequins, another set of three Christmas tree's is decorated similar but with lilac sequins and a set of 4 is currently being worked on and decorated with the red and green buttons.

I am enjoying making these Christmas decorations and have a few more Christmas themed ideas in the pipelines, so keep checking back here and also my Etsy shop to see what I make next!

I will also post photos here of the other sets of Christmas trees once I have taken them and listed them in my Etsy shop!



More scattered button felt brooches.

Over the weekend I made three more scattered button felt brooches. For a more detailed post about how I make these scattered button brooches you can look at my previous post here

I made them in the same way I made my other scattered button felt brooches. I selected three shades of felt per theme in select colours. This time we have blues, yellows and reds. The buttons were all then picked to fit each colour theme!

Just as with the other scattered button brooches, I really enjoyed making these. They are fun to make; deciding which coloured felts best suit, which colours go together, which buttons would look right and fit. 

I think this red one is my favourite of the three new ones. I have a real thing for autumn colours at the moment, it makes me excited for autumn nights, Bonfire night, Halloween, so I love the warm colours of the felt and buttons!

All three of these scattered button brooches are now available in my Etsy shop to buy : www.etsy.com/shops/tealadydesigns

As well as the other colour themed scattered button brooches I made last week!

Hope you like them as much as I do...

Getting the word out

Today I am mainly concentrating on promoting my handmade creations!

I am using more teams on the Etsy website. I started two teams myself:

http://www.etsy.com/teams/10317/student-sellers 
Student sellers which is a team for anyone selling, making and crafting who is also a student, whether it be School, College or University! No matter where in the World you are from!

http://www.etsy.com/teams/10420/uk-felt-obsessors
A team for people in the UK who love and use felt! This seems to be a slow starter but I will spend some time on it today. I hope more people join, it would be mad to know more people in the UK who like working with felt as much as I do!

I also use the following teams:

http://www.etsy.com/teams/7428/uk-cake-eaters-and-chat-team
This is the team I most often chat on!
http://www.etsy.com/teams/10356/shop-help
http://www.etsy.com/teams/5127/european-street-team-est
http://www.etsy.com/teams/7332/etsys-uk-ireland-seller-support-team
http://www.etsy.com/teams/9551/promote-your-shop-on-the-steady-hand
http://www.etsy.com/teams/8815/pretty-midlands
http://www.etsy.com/teams/10274/tea-and-sympathy
http://www.etsy.com/teams/8148/who-loves-felt

Today I have also made a Facebook page for my handmade creations!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tea-Lady-Designs/271549469529930

I will also be spending some time on Twitter today
@tealadydesigns

Scattered button brooches

This week I have made three new items for my Etsy shop : www.etsy.com/people/tealadydesigns

Three brooches in different colour themes using buttons scattered over the felt to make an eye catching, unique brooch.

I started off by selecting three different shades of felt for each brooch. Each brooch has a colour theme. There is pinks which uses three different shades of pink felt, blues with a dark pink to spice it up and browns with a rustic feel. I then selected an array of different colour buttons along the same colour themes to be added in a scatter affect on each brooch.

I then cut the felt to shape by hand in three different sizes of the same shape for each brooch so that the felt would be layered when sewn together. I started off by taking the top layer of felt and using an embroidery thread in the colour theme of that brooch, sewing on each button with no particular pattern, just scattering them on to create the desired effect.

Once the buttons were sewn on I attached the brooch back pin to the back of the last layer of felt, through to the second to ensure it was tightly secured. This was attached using black cotton thread. Once this was done I could start to attach the different layers together. I used embroidery threads in colours around each colour theme, using a running stitch to attach each layer of felt to the other.

I really enjoyed making these brooches and I am looking forward to making more in various colour themes and different shapes. I get to use two of my favourite materials, felt and buttons, in one go to create a cute, unique and eye catching brooch.