The Sunday Post.... Exciting times

Good morning,

Yesterday I travelled up to Lichfield to deliver some of my work to Emporium in Lichfield.It's a lovely gallery filled with lots of lovely designers work from ceramics to painting from textiles to felted dogs! I'm now lucky enough to have some of my work in there too! (yippee)I delivered some large Lichfield stitches, mini stitches, door-scapes and greetings cards.

Emporium Gallery in Lichfield

My mini frames on display in Emporium

My mini frames on display in Emporium

So if you're in area please pop in and have a look. They're a supporter of the Just a Card Campaign too.

Last week I also nipped into the Merchant's House in Marlborough and took a pic of my cards displayed in there <3

Very exciting times. I still have a selection of my old card designs  discounted on my Etsy shop

Happy Father's day to all the Daddies out there hope you have a lovely day.

See you soon

x

The Sunday Post... Plymouth

Good Evening,

This weekend I travelled down to Plymouth to visit the Contemporary Craft Festival at Bovey Tracey. I am lucky enough to have friends that live in Devon so I used it as a good excuse to visit them too! We had such a fun weekend. The craft festival was brilliant. It was FILLED with such talented designer makers(and yummy food). I tried to buy at least a card off the stalls that I loved (in support of the just a card campaign) and have taken away a lot of business cards to make some purchases at a later date!

Then in the evening my friends took me to The Barbican and we ate fish and chips on the harbour side it was a perfect end to a fab day.

Oh and in other (very exciting news) on Friday I also made my first delivery of cards to The Merchant's House in Marlborough they are now stocking a selection of my new designs. I have been told they are out on display so I may have to pop in next week and have a peep (how exciting!). If you're in the area please nip in and have a look!

I also have my old card designs on offer in my Etsy shop so take a look here to grab a bargain!

See you soon

xx

New Card Ranges Coming Soon {The Monday Post}

Hey Hey,

So I missed The Sunday Post yesterday so thought I'd creep in unnoticed and do the Monday post instead!

Last week I received my new card samples back from the printer, they are printed on gorgeous 350 GSM  linen textured board and what's even better they are SQUARE! I love square cards! One of the designs I got a sample of was the Lollipop Roses, it's wonderful to see it printed on such a fab quality card and in the new format.

I've also been busily stitching away on new designs too. A couple of new baby cards and also man card!

As I'm changing my designs I have reduced my current cards on Etsy the were £2.50 now £2 you can snap them up here.... https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MayIDesign

Well that's all for now! Hope you had a good Sunday (cough, Monday!)

See you soon

x

{The Sunday Post} The Merchant's House

This is no ordinary Sunday post, this is a super exciting Sunday post!

I have my first bricks and mortar stockist (Yippee). The wonderful The Merchant's House in Marlborough is stocking my original stitch of the house, prints and coming soon a selection of cards and mini frames.

I have always loved the architecture in Marlborough and now to stock one of my faves is so exciting.

If you're in the area please pop in and take a look it's such a wonderful building so full of character and history and the shop has great gifts too!

Have a lovely bank holiday.

See you soon

xx

The Sunday Post

Good afternoon,

I hope the sun is shining with you today. It is (mostly) here in Wiltshire.

As I worked over the Easter holiday I booked myself 4 cheeky days off this weekend and I'm having a hoot. I have visited some gorgeous places in the Cotswolds including Bibury, Burford and Chipping Sodbury they are all super quaint and literally my dream places!

I have become a bit obsessed with photographing my fave buildings and charming front doors. So much so I've started a separate Instagram account for all the pics you can find me here @_the_little_house_

It's also inspired some new design ideas which I'm spending today cracking on with and having a creative play day:

So watch this space for new designs coming soon.

I also took part in the March meet the maker challenge over on the May I Design Instagram you can catch up here:

Righty that's about it for now, Hopefully catch up with you next weekend.

See you soon

x

Happy Mother's Day

Good morning,

Happy Mother's day to all the Mums out there!

A year ago I gave this card to my Mum a stitch of the family home in Staffordshire. Mum loved it so much she showed it to family and friends and soon I got a couple of commissions to stitch their houses too.

Little did I know that this card would be the start of a my handmade business stitching house and venue portraits.

I would like to say a massive thank you to my Mum, she is not only my best friend but she has always believed in me and encouraged me to chase my dreams. She's an all round good egg!

Have a lovely Sunday everyone

xx

A-Z Pattern Challenge 2016

Good morning,

Every now and again I like to set a little design challenge to get cracking on new work. Last year I did the Spring into Design challenge where I created a design a day for each day in March. You may recognise some of these as card designs in my Etsy shop:

A couple of years a go (before I got into textiles and embroidery) I did an A-Z Challenge. The below pic was taken from a potato print design:

H was for Houses

This year I've decided instead of doing a 'design a day challenge' to do another A-Z challenge and try to complete it during March/April(possibly even May!). I have created a completely random list of prompts that I hope will help spark some ideas:

If you would like to get involved too please do. You can use any medium you like, paint, pencil, digital, photography, collage, textiles the list goes on. I would like to experiment more with mixed media, but we'll see! If you are going to get involved please use the hashtag #AZchallenge just so we can all take a peep at the different designs being created!

Right I'm off to get cracking.

See you soon

x