Wednesday 25 January 2012

Today's theme: the home

This morning I felt a bit like this in my brain.. squashed. So, despite planning today as being a 'uni work' day, I decided it had to at least start off being a tidying day. This morning I hoovered and mopped and ciffed and fixed and washed and shook and plumped and folded and rearranged... and finally I was satisfied. The clutter has become neat piles, most notably the fabric which was previously stuffed into a bag - it now has a shelf to itself! All my creative things now have a space for themselves rather than being strewn about the room and after a cup of tea I felt my brain relax a little :] Then I remembered receiving a change of address note from a relative - so, feeling happier, I decided to make her a new home card. I'm quite chuffed with it - I almost want to keep it and frame it I like it so much - my best creations are often the most spontaneous ones! For the photograph as reference I may make another to sell in my etsy shop (click here to visit!) when I finally get round to buying more posh card.

Monday 9 January 2012

Happy New Year.. and I'm already a month ahead of myself!

Happy New Year to you all, I hope everyone had an enjoyable festive period. Despite urgently needing to do more revision for forthcoming exams I'm taking a wee time out to post on here. Just as I took a wee time out the other afternoon to play with some tea and paper and make some cards.

Etsy had been sending me e-mails about Valentines related things (already?!) so I had a go at making some cards. I've only made three cards to put on Etsy before and non of them have sold. However, after putting two new ones up online last night.. one of them has sold!

Here it is, an 'I Love You Forever' Valentine (or just because) card, made using tea stained paper and some stamps I got given last Christmas. I faffed about with the printer and normal paper to get the 'i' and 'you' printing aligned properly and eventually this was the result! Don't tell the buyer, but under the 'Love' there is also an 'i' and there is a 'you' under the 'Forever'... Don't look at me like that - ok, ok, it was meant to read 'I Love You' but I got the printing wrong so edited it slightly. It was my last card and I didn't want to waste it - these things are expensive you know! In total I received £3.11 (including money towards postage) after all the various fees (PayPal charge currency conversion fees don't you know.. I didn't, boo) and postage and packing costs I'm left with .. wait for it .. 29p. In fact, minus that because that probably doesn't cover the cost of ink, the card, envelope and the cellophane envelope.

Aaaaaannyway. It was fun to make and I liked the finished result. For me it was all about seeing if I could make a card that someone else would want to pay for - and I did! So I'm happy. And I upped my postage prices :]