First ETSY sale

It has been quite a momentous week for me.  I have at last had my first Etsy sale!! It has taken some amount of work to get to this stage but hopefully things will start moving from now.  I somehow thought that selling online would be really easy but the truth is that there is so much out there that you really have to work hard at getting your products noticed.  I have been creating Treasuries, joining teams, trying to improve my photos all in the hope of getting noticed.  I spent the whole day last Sunday taking photos and redoing my shop image and luckily for me I made 2 sales on Monday.  My two Hush Baby cushions are now on their way to Spain to await the arrival of twins.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/saksandco

The second big thing to happen this week was the completion of our house in France.  It has been a long 5 years and probably more so for my parents who did all the work of rebuilding and turning a dilapidated old barn into a beautiful holiday house.  We have had our first paying guests this week so hopefully all goes well.

A big thank you to Mum & Dad - hopefully you can sit back and enjoy the house now.

http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/p819056

From this - 2006



To this - 2011

A bit of fun

Well it has been a while since I was last on my blog but we were lucky enough to be able to spend the last month in France and there was so much to keep us busy that crafting was the last thing on my mind.  The good news is that we are now home and ready to go again.  A friend had borrowed my sewing machine while I was away so I had to find something different to do when we got back.  Sean's nursery school teacher is going on maternity leave this week so we decided to make her a 'Nappy Cake' which involves no sewing at all and was something easy for the kids to help with.  We glued a cardboard tube onto a cake board and then placed the nappies around it to form the cake tiers.  In between the nappies we put some rolled up onesies, bibs, socks, mittens and a few baby toiletries.  To hide the nappies we used a couple of baby blankets and burp cloths folded and wrapped around the tiers to form the icing on the cake.  To keep it all together we tied ribbon around each tier and a little cuddly toy on the top.  We also popped a little onesie into the top of the cardboard tube to form the candle.  Kids and I had great fun...



How many cakes can you cuddle?



Kirsty determined to get the cuddly toy