Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!

These stunning bottles are fron Sagen Ceramics, check out the shop here.

Printing

Well, my printer is working again, thanks to my clever husband! I found it quite ironic that the first order I had to print was about endurance. The tortoise is exactly how I feel about my business some days - Moving very slowly! Anyway I am very grateful that we didn't have to take the printer all the way to Cape Town and pay a fortune to get it working!

Melt down!

I have had the most disastrous three days. My trusty printer has decided not to work. The key pad is frozen and will not budge! I have had to talk very sweetly to my customers who I must say have been very understanding. My husband (the computer boffin) is in Cape Town at the moment so I will just have to wait patiently and hope that he can work some magic.

I did contact the suppliers, who are in Spain, and they did try to fix it on-line. This was an amazing experience. They connect up to your computer from there and you can watch the cursor moving around on your computer and see exactly what they are doing. It's quite unnerving to me to think that someone so far away is actually moving the cursor on MY machine, here in Hermanus. As fantastic as it was, still no luck in fixing the problem! I live in hope for Friday!

Hearts

I found this pattern for crochet hearts here and couldn't resist making a few. I filled them with lavender from my garden and they make very good pincushions! Then I decided to put one in with each order, seeing as it's getting close to valentines day. Hope my customers enjoy the surprise! After shipping them I did have a wonder about sending plants etc, Not sure it's O.K. with customs?

New design

This is the first sketch for my new design. My best selling tea towel is 'spring leaves' and the second 'stencil floral, so it seems as though people like the foliage theme! I must admit leaves and flowers are my favourite (and easiest) things to draw. I do admire artists who can draw people, animals and man made objects. As for me I will stick to the foliage and flora!

I found these tea towels quite difficult to photograph because the design is big and you need to get the whole thing in to really get the effect. This is extremely difficult when etsy's format is square! Anyway they are in my shop and I may have a second attempt at photos at a later stage. I did have fun setting them up and, of course, I had to eat the biscuits afterwards. I also realized that two of these delicate cups of tea fit into my one extra large mug!

T-shirts

I have been busy doing 'bread and butter' work. Not very interesting but I suppose you can't expect to do things you enjoy ALL the time!

A new year

I haven't given up blogging all together, but have been frantic getting the boys organized for the new academic year! Finally they are both sorted, one starting his grade 10 year and the other starting his BA in Brand Communication (a fancy word for advertising)!Those of you who have teenage children will understand the excitment and TERROR one feels when they finally leave home and venture out on their own. You never feel as if they will be able to cope on their own and are quite put out when they manage just fine without you! I have been busy during the holidays and have some new designs and other exciting things happening but have been a bit distracted. Will post my new design tomorrow!