British Cream Tea : Delicious British Felt Food Sculpture

My mad week!!!

This has been a mad week in more ways than one!!

I have made new items, been featured on blogs, almost reached 400 etsy hearts, bought two domain names, designed a new website, been featured on quite a few treasuries and sold 4 items ;D

Oh and Toby had his 3rd round of injections *sob*

So this is a kind of catch up post!!

Above is a set of 8 cola bottles.

oooo Vanilla Slice ;)

Cornish Pasty

Bacon Butty

and the first in a new line of badges...this one is a cola bottle ;)

This week I was kindly featured on the blogs of 3 etsy sellers...

Fellow UK etsian BigBlueBed who makes the most amazing weaved Dorset buttons (click the image to read the article) and described me as a "wonderful genius" and says I make her salivate (thanks Blue ;D)...

GrooveyCrafts for her weekly etsy interview feature (again click the image to read) and her description of my shop as the "perfect shop for Christmas stocking fillers"  that "trigger the conversation for hours on what that item meant to that person and how funny it was", which is what I hope my work does...

and Ottoman, who makes the most amazing moss and felt creations...some of which have now migrated onto my Christmas list!!  In this she refers to my shop as "utterly charming" *beam*(again...click!!)

I am also completing another interview for a feature next week so watch this space ;D

Oh and whilst doing a google search for my shop name I came up with this link (click the image...you know the drill!!) which is about Blackpool football but crazily, and somewhat  magically, contains a review and link to my Blackpool Rock...and an article on "I Like"

And finally I would like to thank my two lovely buyers, one on Folksy and one on Etsy, who truly made my week by buying two pieces each :D

Cornish Pasty

I love Cornish pasties...they remind me of picnics and outdoor lunches by the sea...

The pasty originally evolved to meet the needs of Cornish tin mining. A hearty meal wrapped in a pastry casing made for a very practical lunch (or "croust" , as they used to call it) down in the dark and damp tunnels of the mine. Some mines even built huge ovens on the surface to keep the miner's pasties hot until it was time to eat.

Tradition has it that the original pasties contained meat and vegetables in one end and jam or fruit in the other end, in order to give the hard-working men 'two courses'.

In my mind this pasty contains beef and potato with little slices of onion!!

Perfect with Branston pickle :D

Gift Guide and new food!!

I discovered yesterday morning that my cornetto is in the children's gift guide on Etsy. Etsy describes them as "hand picked by Etsy staff from hundreds of thousands of items available".

So happy ;D

I have also done quite a bit of new work this week...

Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese Volauvant (part of a new series I think!)

Scotch Egg

Pink Party Ring with White Squiggles and
Yellow Party Ring with Pink Squiggles (The last one coming soon...)

Sausage Rolls

I decided to diversify...that treats included picnic food!!

I love sausage rolls. They may be slightly nasty and, yes, you never really know what is in them...but they are yummy, moorish and go with lemonade and a picnic basket like nothing else out there ;)

I am really pleased how this turned out...and Billy tried to eat it. Bless!

Next stop...scotch eggs...watch this space...