Harrogate home and gift trade show

Well at long last I am writing about our show in harrogate a couple of weeks back, it was our first ever Trade show and went really well considering the current climate we are in.
Lots of people stopped by and gave us their details and took our brochure, and we met some really nice people who gave us some brilliant advice.

Doing your first Trade show is always quite a challenge and we had a lot to learn, we were really happy to take some real constructive advice from many potential clients and were really grateful.

Also want to thank the people that placed orders with us we will soon get you on our stockists lists so thank you so much.

I think Davinder wondered what I was up to When I started making this bird house for our display, but he loved it when he saw the finished thing!! just a bit of fun to show off our prints plus you may have noticed there are a lot of birds in our collection so it all ties in really.

We Spent a bit of time putting together press packs and added little bows and vintage button and our lovely sticker on a cute print trimmed luggage tag, inside we images and our postcard along with a cd for magazines to freely use our images to promote us in their publication, lets hope it worked!!

We had quite a few to do !!!!

Our empty stand when we arrived

Davinder putting up our framed cards

The all important bird house in the corner!! no its not for sale!!!

We needed somewhere to hide all our paper work and this Ikea draw worked well since its cheap and cheerful!! we thought we would brighten it up with our prints to hide the horrible plastic sections.

I need to thank my Dad for helping us make these handy stands for our cushions.

Being half way through pregnancy I was glad for the chair!!!

If You are interested in any of our products to sell or purchase please go to our website

http://www.mypoppetpetite.com/

You will also find a link to our online shop.

Happy shopping!!!!

exciting new press

So excited to get our first major press mention in this lovely publication of BBC Homes and Antique Magazine, its such a beautiful issue and well worth a purchase with lots of inspiring pages to browse as well as showing our fab patchwork cushion.

We will be shoeing this at the Harrogate Home and Gift fair next week and really hope it builds up some interest in our other products.

Go to the link below if your interested in purchasing this cushion from not on the high street.

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/mypoppetpetite/product/vintage-patchwork-cushion

Thanks for looking.

Just thought you might like to see our advert for my poppet petite as we prepare to show at the 

Harrogate home and gift trade fair we are hope that this is going to be a really fruitful time for us with

lots of fantastic orders at the show, if your in the area pop in and visit our stand in Hall E stand E 14.

Traditional English Patchwork

 Picked up one of my old on going projects, I started this so long ago but its one of those things you can dip in and out of, take away with you, or just work at it in front of a good movie.
The thing with this kind of patchwork is you can't use a sewing machine you have to work by hand but as it begins to grow you get a great sense of achievement as it comes together.

Thought you would enjoy looking at these lovely colours I've put together, not sure what its going to be I'm just going to keep going till I feel like finishing.

Love seeing all my pieces stacked up like this

You can use any fabric try using up old and new, I've even used some of Naomi's old dresses.

Mollie Makes

If you have not seen it check out this fab new Magazine called Mollie Makes it really is probably the best craft magazine I have seen and lets face it there is a lot of rubbish out there.
http://www.molliemakes.com/
It has beautiful projects, wonderful inspiring features about designers and makers and is totally worth the £4.99 price but I think I will be tempted by the subscription offer!!!
At last a tasteful craft magazine....well done mollie makes!!!

creative girl

Just thought I would up date you a little on my creative daughter Naomi this term at school she has been doing many topics one of them being pirates and another space travel, along with many other things.
Take a look..........................

Easter egg competition

Fabulous Easter bonnet competion

pretty girl

Pirate Treasure Map, first try at water colours!!

Pirate dress up day

Alien dress up day

looking alien ish !

Dolls

When We were exhibiting at country Living spring fair, I tried my hardest to look around other stalls without my purse, since temptation was so great and there is so much to see.
I did however have a little spend at the stall of Laura Long her work is so nice she knits these amazing little dolls dresses them and displays them in box frames they are just adorable.
So whilst visiting her stand I discovered she had created these dolls into really beautiful kits for girls to dress up.
I bought one for my Naomi but secretly I'm excited to get making with her, bring on the Easter holidays !!!

Check out her website http://www.lauralong.co.uk/index.htm

I love this little Red Riding hood character so cute.

I bought this book and its lovely

seeing these dolls made me think about all the other cute dolls Naomi has round her room some made by me some by my Gran and some made from a little help from me along with other lovely dolls she has.

I made this rag doll for Naomi one christmas, she has a pretty cotton dress and a white cotton and lace pinafore, with pin tucks on the edge it was a pleasure to make and sits nicely on her bed.

I Found this Doll kit at My Mums house she made me one or two of these kits from clothkits when I was young but this was one that got away. I made it up for Naomi and it really is easy to do and looks delightful on her bed.

To My suprise I discovered you can still buy this kit from the company which was revived a few years back and its sold as a original but it still makes me happy to know mine is a true original.

Check out all the kits and fabric they do. http://www.clothkits.co.uk/index.php

 I just had to include this doll in my list as it was made by my Gran who is no longer with us, my Gran was a keen knitter and fund raiser for her local church and made so many of these cute cinderella dolls along with many other characters. Its lovely to know that there are many dolls like this that she made I will treasure this one.

So you get the idea you turn the doll round and she becomes poor cinderella who can't go to the ball, then she transforms into cinderella in her beautiful dress. so much fun !!! 

Thank You Gran. xx

Ok So I can include a couple of bought dolls these are both from America from the most amazing girls dream shop. Davinder my husband bought me the first one they are characters from history and they come with a story book . this one is Nellie and she came to America from Ireland, I was so taken by them since they cover history as well as being a beautiful doll to play with girls in America love them, and I think they are a healthy change from all the horrible dolls that are out there.

My Dads Cousins who live in Illinois sent us the baby doll from the same place for Naomi when she was born and as you can imagine I was so thrilled to receive it. it also looked like her.

If you ever visit New York you really must visit this shop it really is a girls dream.

Check out the website if your a doll fan http://www.americangirl.com/index.php

this was a kit from Monsoon we had loads of fun making it on Naomi's toy sewing machine
we did add a few extra bits and Mummy did need to help quite a bit.

 Naomi has this cushion in her bedroom I made it out of a mixture of vintage and new fabrics it was a really fun project to put together and you can just anything you like.

 Love this Russion Doll as do my children and any other children that visit this one is meant to tell a story with the different pictures across the front each hand painted.

country Living Spring Fair

Well we had a great time at the country Living Spring fair and met so many nice people.
We want to thank everyone that stopped by our stand and chatted with us and showed interest, your enthusiasm was great and really encouraged us, being that it was our very first time at country Living.
We hope all of you that purchased from us will enjoy the products for years to come especially those that bought my embroidered keep sake pieces.
Our area was also full of lovely neighbours which made the whole event much more fun so thank you to all of you exhibitors both seasoned and new, you made Davinder and I feel most welcome.

Here are some links to our lovely neighbours who were at the country Living Fair..............
http://www.butterfly-blue.co.uk/Home.html

http://www.sundaebest.co.uk/

http://www.graceandfavourhome.com/

http://www.ahomespunhome.co.uk/

Check out all these lovely people there work and products were great.