T-shirts and Tea Towels and Sachets, Oh My!

You were all so nice about the bags I made. Thank you.

Can I show you some of the other bits and bobs I made? I have t-shirts for girls and boys. They are bought from the supermarket or online, then perked up with some motifs. The dog and racing car designs are by Cath Kidston, all the others are mine. My absolute favourite is the Liberty print apple on the teal blue background. The photograph doesn't do the colours justice. If it doesn't sell I will give it to Bella. If it does sell, I will make her one anyway. Angus love the fire engine design and, if a three year old could be said to be dropping hints, he is definitely dropping hints ("My like this one. This one for Angus?").

I made some more tea towels, very quick and easy on simple cotton. Tea towels to be used and washed hundreds of times, to get faded and stained and become part of the kitchen.

Lavender sachets..remember the lavender the kids and I picked from the garden back in October? As planned we dried it and made it into little muslin lavender sachets tied with ribbon. Although next time I suggest "quickly" embroidering seven small bags with a lavender motif, someone please slap me around the head with one of these bags.

And lastly, some mulled wine tea bags. When I make mulled wine I empty a bottle of red wine into a saucepan and add a little sugar, a slice of orange, cloves, star anise and a cinnamon stick. When it's warm I have to strain it with a sieve and always end up spilling some and missing a clove which someone ends up swallowing, so I thought...what about a sort-of spice teabag? Something you can fish out and throw away. So I dried oranges and tied ribbon and hey presto. They smell like Christmas. Maybe I could market them as organic room fragrance and charge double the price? Hmmm...

Endless fun was had with my new letter set. I like the wonky, smudged typewriter effect. John asked me if one of the kids had made the labels. They hadn't.

If you made it to the end then thank you for sitting through that. It is so nice to be able to share my winter craft fair makes with you all. Your support and feedback is worth easily as much as a sale! And coming from a girl who spent her career in retail, that's quite a compliment.