A spangly new look website

Yes folks, due to the number of you that completed my mailing list survey and requested that the front page of my website contain details of new products, special offers etc., your wish is my command !!

Check out my spangly new look website !! I'd love to hear your comments as I'm sure not all of the readers of my blog subscribe to my website mailing list. I am also working on getting a proper credit card payment processing company sorted out so if you're not keen on using either Google Checkout or Paypal (which seems to be causing a few problems at the moment), then you can pay like on most sites, with your credit or debit card. Your payment will be securely processed through one of the major payment processors and is 100% secure. Once this is set up, I will also be able to take payment over the phone - YAY !! That will save a LOT of hassle. Quite a few customers have called and wanted to place orders over the phone recently, which is fine, but they then have to send me a cheque as payment because I didn't have a virtual terminal (technical terms I know!) which then slowed down the dispatch of their orders. So, if you're wanting to pay this way instead ... you can !!

Right - I've had these fab little kits sitting around upstairs for absolutely yonks and had been unable to get a decent photo of the box until now. Finally, I have been able to add them to the website. Button Jewellery Kits by one of my most favourite kit suppliers.

These lovely kits are suitable from age 5 upwards and at just £8 each, are great to get your little ones crafting.

Now, what else? Oh yes, I am discussing with one of the big events organisers the possibility of getting a stand at one of their shows later this year. We're in the final stages of discussions and I am quite hopeful that it will all come off (childcare arrangements permitting of course). So watch this space for an update.

OK, that's it for now. I've got another delivery of stock coming in on Monday which will mean that I am fully stocked on spotty & spiral felt balls, and also the orange felt balls and yellow felt balls, which are completely out of stock at the moment.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend !!

Bumps & Balls !

So this last week has seen my poor little man trip over a chair at school and crack his head on the corner of a table, resulting in rather a lot of blood, a black eye, steri-strips to hold it all together and a very panicky Mummy !

After the terrible tragedy with Natasha Richardson earlier this week, any sort of bump on the head now has me running straight to the Doctors.

I couldn't believe the state of him when I got to the school after that dreaded phonecall to say "there's no need to worry, but your little man has bumped his head and we think he would be better off in the peace and quiet of home for the rest of the day". To walk into the school office and see him sitting there, with an icepack over his eye, his shirt and tie covered in blood, and his poor little tear-stained face nearly had me in tears myself. I know the school didn't want to panic me, but I was honestly expecting to see him sitting there looking rather sheepish with a bit of a bump on his head (as has happened in the past). So to see all that blood and steri-strips holding the wound together was rather a shock to say the least.

But, after a visit to the Doctors and me demanding to see someone there and then as the receptionist very politely informed me that everyone was at lunch (!) , a lovely young Doctor came ambling through reception, took one look at us and took us straight through to be examined. Fortunately, everything appears to be fine although my little man will be sporting a lovely scar for the forseeable future and he was most upset to be told that he couldn't do PE, swimming or play outside at breaktimes for the rest of the week. What a shame, especially as the weather has been so gorgeous this last week !

So, whilst he was "in the peace and quiet of home" for the afternoon, my little man helped me count out buttons and felt balls ! This week I took delivery of :

Lots of lovely new crocheted balls (5 gorgeous colours)

2 designs of embroidered felt balls

and new colours of spiral pom-poms

All of the above are now loaded onto the site ready for you to get your hands on !

The wool roving will be here on Monday if you're waiting for that and I think I forgot to tell you last time that I am now stocking needle felting tools - wooden tools that will hold either a single needle or a group of 4 - both are available for sale now.

And yet another reminder that Friday 27th March will be the last posting day until 22nd April - sorry !!

I'll try and get one more post in next week as I'm expecting delivery of a few more new bits and pieces - but if not, you'll have it all to look forward to at the end of April !!

Byee x