November 11th, 2011
If you’ve not seen Judith Brown’s jewellery before, then please go check out her website now! She combines fine silver and coloured wires with vintage haberdashery items to make unique pieces of jewellery with an intricacy and delicacy reminiscent of lace.
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November 5th, 2011
Do you think it’s possible for me to get 2000 Facebook fans by the end of the year? Maybe I should aim for 2011? I’d love to achieve this task, but not sure how to go about it to be honest as I’ve had a steady rise in my fan-base all year but it’s kind of come to standstill – but maybe that’s because I’ve been offline for the past few months.
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November 5th, 2011
Yay – I have a new stockist! Milomade is going international indeed. Kreatelier all the way over in Rhode Island, USA, now stock a range of Milomade Notecards and Milomade Notecard Gift Sets.
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November 4th, 2011
And not in a good way. We installed this stove ages ago but it’s hardly been used as I’ve not been in my studio to use it as we’re still renovating the ground floor of the house. We did light it earlier this year and had problems with smoke blowing back into the room. So we called the chimney guy in and replaced the cowl on the chimney with one that would create more draw and this worked perfectly.
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November 4th, 2011
I just saw this video on Facebook – it’s amazing!
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November 4th, 2011
What are you doing on Saturday the 12th November? Nothing? Why not come along to the Eric Liddell Centre on Morningside Road in Edinburgh and do some Christmas shopping? Milomade will holding a stall at this event and selling lots of lovely handmade goodies.
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November 4th, 2011
I’m pleased to announce that my button flower brooches are back. Recently after several wholesale orders I ran out of my little cream buttons and could no longer make these brooches until I found a new source of buttons. The last stash of millions lasted me for three years and I got those from a haberdashery that was closing down and selling them off in bulk online. I’ve not found a huge source of buttons again, but have acquired a few different small batches that will keep me going for a while.
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November 4th, 2011
I recently discovered the blog of Eric Barclay and thought I’d share it with you. He’s a very talented illustrator as can be seen from his website and I really like his style, but if you explore his blog you’ll find that he’s also rather good at making stuff from odds and ends – and you know how much I love recycling!
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November 3rd, 2011
We’ve been wanting to get our garden sorted for years but never really got going with it fully. When we first moved in we had to remove a thick layer of bark chippings and under that we discovered a 3″ layer of red gravel that took an age to remove and bag up – got rid of more than 40 bags on Freecycle! We then laid a square patio foundation and built a greenhouse on top of it, but the rest of the garden got neglected and we’ve been staring at mounds of mud and weeds for years! That all changed last month…
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November 3rd, 2011
I’ve written a few posts over the years about my struggle to conceive and become a mum and a while ago I wrote a ‘Catching Up‘ post where I announced my first and very brief pregnancy. It was a very distressing time and I thank you for all your support and lovely messages and emails.
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November 3rd, 2011
We had a lovely day out the other day, despite setting off in the pouring rain. We drove up to Perth to visit The Burning Question to look at wood burning stoves as we need one for our lounge. I recently re-designed their website so it was lovely to go up and meet them in person and get their expert advice.
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November 1st, 2011
I’m preparing for a couple of craft fairs (details coming soon) at the moment and decided to have a go at making some Festive decorations by recycling some drinks cans I’ve been collecting. I found this tutorial the other day and thought I could adapt it to me own needs. So here goes…
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November 1st, 2011
This is a really sweet tutorial from Sara over at Craft Snob and I might try it out as I got my hands on a few bargains at ASDA recently. They were selling off old stock for less than 50p and I managed to get some of these bendy hairclips – I don’t know the proper name for them. I’ve never used them to make accessories with so this might get me started.
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