Rainbow Crafts!

Come on now folks.....let's face it, it's November and that means Christmas is looming. Most people should be starting to (if they haven't already) look for the perfect gift.

Do you know anyone who loves knitting? Hand made stitch markers are in stock NOW!

Love hand made unique Jewellery? Plenty in stock!!!

Forever on the mobile? Like unique accessories??? Have a look at the Bag / Phone Charms in stock NOW!!!

Got a special teeny person in your life? Check out my hand made Taggle blankets! Just gorgeous for little ones to snuggle up to!

Go on.....Take a wander over...... http://www.misi.co.uk/store_info.php?domain=www.rainbow-crafts

All items in the store are unique and hand made by me!

Getting My Act Together.....

.......Hello all!!! I'm back at the blog! Only taken me since March to get my act sorted with it but once again I am feeling inclined to really get my teeth into something and make a huge show off that I am here and I am proud of what I do!!!

To kick it off I have re-vamped the blog! Hope you like it!!!

Pull up a chair, get comfy and have a good look round! Lots of pictures to browse, links to look at and much more. Including my waffling if you can bear it!!!

A New Look.....

......I fancied a change so I have altered the background of my blog! A fresh start as it were and I promise to try not to neglect it so much!

Where have I been???

A very extremely belated Happy New Year to anyone who reads this or stumbles across it!!!

To answer my question, Where have I been??? It was an immensely chaotic end to last year which saw me recovering from an operation to remove my gall bladder that I had NO idea I had a problem with! That was late November, before I knew it christmas was upon us! Then I went to Plymouth to see the new year in with my new man and his family while my tribe spent some time with their father!

On a personal front the seperation from my husband has all settled down, I'm in a new relationship and very happy. My divorce will soon be finalised and other than him seeing our children etc I will be very glad to close that chapter of my life.

Crafting wise I have been very slow and not done masses since I completed the cats. I am as you can see still plugging away at the huge list on the left! I am determined to get some longer term projects finished and show some piccies! I have LOTS of new ideas and inspiration for projects and a rather large ever growing stash of yarns of all varieties to plough through!!!

On a link front, please do browse my *Links We Like* section, Sarah Barnard's writing blog has been altered a bit and a new link. Rainbow Crafts is a new store that I myself run selling my hand made stitch markers and so on!

The finished cats.....

The finished cats for my friends nieces. We shall be taking them with us when we go down to Plymouth for new year.

Jasmine's Cat

After completing the Margaret Sherry cat Purr-Pendicular for my friend, he asked if I could do 2 for his 2 nieces, different designs. So I hunted ebay and got 2 of her Calendar cats, September for Jasmine and January for Freyja. Here is the September Cat for Jasmine, it took me approximately 2 weeks to complete from start to finish. We will be giving them to his Nieces when we go to visit them for New year! The only editing I did to the design was to add on Jasmine's Name and Date of Birth, I just used some of the left over threads from the kit so it contrasted well with the design. Next to do is January's cat for Freyja!

First Cables!

I'm so pleased with how these are coming out! They are Evangeline long gloves, I'm using some wool I got from Krafty Koala (see links!), It'a aran weight and colour is called Midnight Lightening. I'm really thrilled with the effect the wool has, the white flash is so far spiralling round the glove! These will be fingerless gloves that go from hand to just before the elbow! I was dubious about making them as I have never knitted anything cabled but as you can see so far so good!