My new love.....

I've just bought myself a new camera. There is nothing wrong with my old one a Fujifilm Finepix F70 EXR and I have taken some great family shots, but I just haven't been happy with my product photo's . My new one arrived late yesterday, so today I've been having a little play

Liberty Bunting in Pink

Caths Flowers Bunting

Liberty Bunting Multi Bright

The photo's are completely unedited, which I can not believe, no adjustments, no cropping etc etc

Canon Powershot SX40 HS I loooovveee you!

(I'll be listing the limited edition Liberty buntings later in my Etsy shop!)

Dancing Princess Stitch Along

I am extremely excited to be taking part in my very first Stitch Along designed and organised by the very talented LiliPopo . The idea is based around the fairy story the 12 Dancing Princesses and will take 12 months to complete. I'm going to turn my embroidery patterns into a wall quilt for Poppy's bedroom, it may have pockets for keeping 'stuff' in, but I haven't quite decided yet.

What I have decided upon is the fabrics

Cath Kidston florals

I want to add a splash of colour to her room, which at the moment has white walls, mostly white furniture, a bit of bunting (of course), a hand stitched quilt and lots of toys! 

and I know I want to add lace, buttons

and probably some ribbon

 I also want to theme the embroideries to the month, so here is January's completed embroidery 'Princess Bee', with the addition of some snowflakes ( a bit of artistic licence... eeek I hope that's allowed??)

I'm using linen for all the embroideries, I think this will create a lovely contrast to the florals

So far I'm a happy bunny and I can't wait to stitch the next Princess.  You can follow the progress of those taking part in this Flick group.  Right I'm off now to add mine.

Have a lovely weekend!

Great excitement at LKH HQ

I love gardening and there is nothing better than growing your own.  Sadly I had to give up our allotment last year, when it became obvious that there was not enough hours in the day for growing veg, sewing and being mum.  We did however transfer as many of our fruit plants (strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrant and blackberries) to our small back garden.  We also grow all our salad and tomato crops throughout the summer.

Blackcurrants ripening last summer

My love of gardening was inspired by the television programme Gardeners World.  Last year I visited the late Geoff Hamiltons wonderful Barnsdale gardens, they are truely amazing and if ever you are in Rutland, well worth a visit.

Blossom at Barnsdale Gardens

   But my favourite presenter ever has to be Alan Titchmarsh.  So how happy was I when asked on Sunday night by the lovely Sally from Dorothy and Theodore if I could provide some Jubilee themed bunting for his TV programme 'The Alan Titchmarsh show'.   So here he is with my Tea Party bunting on Wednesday's show, (excuse the photo taken of the tv!)

and here's a close up of the pretty 'kitch' bunting. 

oh and here's another patriotic version of this bunting made for last years Royal Wedding which would be perfect for Jubilee celebrations or the Olympics maybe, what do you think?

Have a lovely weekend!

And the winner is....

Ok the results is in, all the names have gone into a hat and I am delighted to announce that the winner is................ Katherine Norrisluvsmary Grieve many congratulations Katherine!!! Please can you get in touch to claim your prize. Can I just say thank you once again to everyone who entered am I totally overwhelmed by the response and the number of entries. Thank you Thank you Thank you!

500 Like Giveway - NOW CLOSED

Ok then, who's ready for a Giveaway! As you all know I am tickled pink, chuffed and ever so happy to have reached the 500 Like mark on Facebook thank you so much you super people! To celebrate I would like to giveaway one of my brand new Tilda Party in Box

Your box will contain a sweet cake bunting like this one

12 Cupcake Flutter Flags

and a 10 Flag Bunting

HOW TO ENTER

If you would like a chance to win this box, there are 4 (****see update***)  ways you can join in the fun:

1. Leave a comment on this post

2. If you are a follower of my blog or become one, you can leave a second comment

3 & 4. Please like and share the link to this post on Facebook

 ***** UPDATE ******

So I now know you can not see everyone who is sharing the link, so everyone who 'likes' the link relating to this Giveaway will be entered into the draw twice...think that's the fair thing to do xo


I will happily post worldwide so everyone, from everywhere, is welcome to enter!

RULES

I will combine all the entries here on this blog and those names who like and share the post on facebook. The Giveaway will close on Friday 20th Jan 2012 at 9pm (UK time)

& the winner announced shortly afterwards.

This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. We hereby release Facebook of any liability 

This Giveaway is now closed

Ok lovely people that's it, thank you sooooooooo much for all your lovely comments and likes...I am thrilled.  Back soon with the winners name xo

 

And the winner is........

Thank you to everyone for entering my Giveaway and I'm delighted to announce that the winner is:

Lakota [Faith Hope and Charity Shopping] said...
Lovely! I'd like to enter please.

Congratulations and I'm sorry that everyone can't win, but I'm happy to say there will be a new Giveway soon, so please do check back often!

Roll up Roll up I'm delighed to announce .....

Can you see me smiling, it's the biggest happiest smile ever.......... I can't quite believe it but I'm chuffed to pieces to announce that my :

Etsy Sales are at 303

and my

Facebook Likes are at 100

So I would like to announce that it is time for a

GIVEAWAY

as promised!!!!!

Up for grabs for the lucky winner are 2 Buntings

Each bunting has 7 double sided flags, each flag is backed with the same gorgeous fabric, which means that they can be hung across rooms, your garden etc and will look delightful from behind too!

The first bunting is a lovely timeless combination of spots, dots and ginghams in aqua, green and red

and the second a mix of candy coloured Cath Kidston pastels

The winner, as all Little Kitten Homemade customers do, will receive their buntings, wrapped up in tissue and tied up with string!

HOW TO ENTER

If you would like a chance to win both of these pretty buntings, there are 3 ways you can join in the fun:

1. Leave a comment on this post

2. If you are a follower or become one, you can leave a second comment

3. Please visit me on Facebook and "LIKE" my Page (Using your personal page not your Fan Page as it won't count). Leave a comment on my wall and then return here to tell me you did so by leaving your third comment under this blog post. If you have already "LIKED" my page leave a comment on my wall and return back here and tell me you have done so :)

I will happily post worldwide so everyone, from everywhere, is welcome to enter!

RULES

Strictly a maximum of three comments per person and I must be able to contact you through your comment. The Giveaway will close on Tuesday 28th June 2011 & the winner announced shortly afterwards

UPDATE - Tuesday 28th June 2011 - This Giveway is now closed. Thank you to everyone for entering!!

GOOD LUCK!

Remember this.....

This was the field behind our house back in April, thankfully the yellow rape has long gone and thankfully with it our Hay fever!

This is how it looks this morning, lush and green and sprinkled with Red Poppies, what a delight!

On the home front, hopefully (everything is crossed and I hope that I am not tempting fate!!!) Andy should be home Sunday evening, so that means we have 2 more go to beds to go, hooray

LKH has been as busy as ever and my little hands have been sewing lots of pretty hand appliques for Custom Orders and my Sewing Machine has been sewing at full speed putting them all together. I did however spend a couple of hours to tidy LKH Headquarters (and yes it really did take that long) I am not quite sure how it happened but it had got into a dreadful muddle. I like my fabrics to be in a certain order and they were all over the place, buttons were in the wrong place and I had lots of lovely new fabrics to put away so enough was enough.

Here's a little peek of where the action happens

Just one of the run of shelves I have stacked full of lovely fabric and my Felt Rainbow

To the right of this I have, just some of my bias binding rolls. In the top Ikea storage box and the one directly below are my ribbons and trims, sorted by colour and type. The retro sewing basket has patchwork squares and hexie's waiting patiently to be sewn together ( one day! ) The other Wooden Box has just some of my embroidery threads. My main stock of those are stored in the chest of drawers below

in plastic boxes, in colour order. I won't show you exactly how many I have, but believe me it's a lot!

On the other side of the room ( which is not big! ) I have yet more fabric and in the White Chest of drawers and the Printers Block Chest which you can see more of here , I store pre cut Bunting Triangles

Call me sad, but sometimes I just sit and look at my fabric


and this is my trusty sewing machine, which has sewn many a mile. It sits on a table top, that Andy built for me in a bay window, so I have lots of light. It's where I cut out, take my photo's, wrap and pack and I should do my accounts (eeekk, must get up caught up on those)

and as for what Bunting do I have, well I must confess to have a changeover every now and then, but currently it is gorgeous Mini Bunting in Liberty Blues.

I hope you like the little tour :)

Update on the GIVEAWAY

1 more sale in my Etsy Shop and 3 more Facebook fans to go

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!