bye for a little while.....

after a few hectic weeks of trying to keep up with homelife....working for myself ...family...etc I realised something has to give...I think this is a familiar theme among most of us these days..

so yesterday when the sun came out...I sat down with a cup of tea and had a think....

not for too long.... just enough to realise that I maybe should have a little break from blogging for a wee while just to give myself some headspace....

and to get my head around this  

and spend some time making and playing and laughing and organising

 I'll be back with a spring in my step soon:)

Happy Friday
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a winner ..........

 first of all a very big thankyou to all who entered the giveaway, thankyou to new likers on facebook too and new followers on here :).....

so after checking and double checking that I had got everyones names in the hat and twice in some cases I am happy to say the winner is .......

well done Debs :)...I'll be in touch x

 

in the holidays I managed to get my posters printed ...featuring Petal in full on vintage sheet loving mode

they will be in the shop soon and the postcards are in the shop now :)

so thats it ...short and sweet ...just like the pancakes we had for tea x

have a lovely week 

xxxxxx

boy stuff.........

by the Teawagon Boys

We thought it would be nice to give you some inspiration for the half term holidays.

So here are some of our ideas which were inspired by the Muppets film which we went to

 see with our dad this weekend.

Here is how we made them

1. design your characters 

2.collect bright coloured felt , pom poms and buttons , stuffing etc

3.cut out shapes ( body and head)

4.  sew the felt together leaving a gap for stuffing

5.sew on details such as eyes or hair

6.push stuffing deep in with rubber end of pencil(not to fat)

7. sew up the gap and finish the details like noses and buttons

all photos by #1

And viola! there you  have your fun cute characters!!!

we thought we might put at least one boy like thing on here and

mum let us loose on her blog : )

we hope you enjoyed our holiday tutorial from the 

Teawagon boys aged ten and nine

have a nice weekend

yay it's a giveaway........

.....last week I promised a little giveaway.....to celebrate a new range that I had been working on...

these are my postcard sets.......one for the boys...

and one  for the girls.......

 

I am so pleased with them, when I went to collect them from the printers I did a little skip back to the car...

they had been in my head for so long it felt good to actually see them for real....and there are posters too...featuring Petal ...which I will show another day....

so onto the giveaway I thought it would be nice to give away a set of three postcards along with....

some lovely vintage wallpaper pieces and a vintage sheet scrap bundle......

boy

girl

 all you have to do is leave a comment and state which set you would prefer - boy or girl 

if you would like 2 chances at being in the hat then you can nip over to facebook and like the littleteawagon page....but be sure to pop back and let me know here (also there are discount codes for my etsy shop over there)

.....I will leave the draw open till 20th Feb 

...and announce the winner soon after :)

lots of luck 

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p.s I can post worldwide so open to all :)

things........

 

making me smile today are .......... loving Pip's pretty prints and florals.....

and then finding that 'Primark' have done their own version :)

very cute...towels...cushions and bedding  ......

 

 

 

 

.. guess who doesn't iron their sheets ;)

 

 

 vintage sheets v bright new spotty ...I can't decide :)

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out comes the blue....again.....

...today found me doing lots of things I shouldn't and not much of what I should...but I had a good excuse, after spending quality time in my little work 'space' I have found a few things needed to be changed..like storage...... so out with the old and in with the new (to me)

.....it wasn't pretty, with its mirrored back and glass drinks shelf but it was just the right size and had everything I needed so I handed over my £25 and squeezed it into the back of the car.....

......and there it sat .....

for about ten minutes!

I had bought white paint for it but before I knew it ...the Thunderbird paint was out again....

...then out came the wallpapers......my favourite sticky back plastic in blue gingham and suddenly 

there it was  :)

I am a bit of a whirling dervish when it comes to painting furniture...no tea on the table...no dog walked ..until it's done... 

are you a nifty swifty painter?

or a deliberator?

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