Happy New Year friends and thank you for all the lovely festive wishes. I am trying to get myself back into a positive frame of mind and manifest a good year ahead.
A few design jobs have come in already this week to keep me busy and I am using any other free moments to launch a new way of selling my fabric designs. At last we have a great new digital fabric printing company in the UK, it's Woven Monkey and they are about to launch a facility similar to what I had going with Spoonflower. The ability to list your fabric designs and make them available for the public to buy and earn yourself a little commission kickback too.
This will be so much easier than the hassle of ordering from the USA and all the import tax you can get stung with. Of course having bespoke short runs of fabric printed is never cheap but this service is comparable in price to Spoonflower, free delivery for us in the UK and having sampled their service last year it's very good quality printing.
I am currently converting my fabric designs to fit new sizes and I am slowly uploading some of my popular vintage caravan designs onto a selling page.
New designs I create will be going straight onto this website too. The service will be going live some time later in January, it's very exciting and I'm looking forward to seeing how it takes off.
https://www.wovenmonkey.com/
October is nearly done, it started quite positive but tailed off when I got a horrible cold last week and so I'm just trying to get back to normal this week. It was one of the worst colds I'd had for a few years because for 2 days my temperature was hot and cold within minutes and I couldn't regulate a steady comfort level in this house so being in bed was the best place.
Not like me at all, I couldn't even be bothered to pick up a crochet hook, all the coughing was giving me a constant headache so I was good for nothing.
What made this so annoying was the week before I'd had a binge of juicing to combat signs of feeling generally run down. We had a full day of no solid food just veggie juices which I planned into a Saturday so that we could stay in and if we felt weak or a bit rough with the lack of sugar etc we could just sweat it out.
I had a wonderful mix of veggie juice 'meals' with the odd bit of fruit in too and I found these milk bottles in Lakeland which were perfect for making a big batch and storing it in for the 24hrs. I survived the day albeit a bit weak and a bit peckish by the evening but hopefully it boosted me with vitamins.
During the cold I made a more citrus and spinach based juice (below).
Early in the month I did this little embroidery for a birthday card.
Still beseiged by huge spiders which I hate so I bought this from Lakeland, not sure if it has made any effect as the house seems to be beyond warding spiders away from cracks and crevices but it's worth a try.
And talking pests, we are having a bad year with mice here and it's just adding to the feelings of miserableness I have. I know on the scale of it life could be worse but it gets me down at this time of year and now the days are short I'm feeling pretty much can't be bothered with most things.
I bought this light bulb to add much needed good light for working and hoped it might cheer me up a bit to get back to crafting.
It's a fabulous eco bulb and gives me equivalent of 150w and not a bad price at £5.99.
Anyway, still with a cough and sniffling I've done a few gentle crafty things, I found some things lying around and fabric printed them, shells and doilly.
Ah, the stress free joy of something simple! Of course all the time I've not been doing anything my mind has been racing away coming up with new ideas of things I want to make and getting myself frustrated at my lack of energy for it.
Sorry anyone reading for having a moan, hope to have some nice new crafty pics soon.
