Folksy Friday

This week we have had a fair few blue sky days and the garden is beginning to burst forth.

Tiny tête-à-tête daffodils...

Forget-me-nots... 

Bergenia...

The pansies that were revived by liberal sprinkling of ant powder last autumn...

Primroses...

All fairly run-of-the-mill, but so welcome all the same!

So, in spring flower mode, I had a little hunt round Folksy.

I found this lovely choker

From 'Dancing Dragonflies'

This felt auricula brooch

(I adore auriculas, but all of mine seem to have disappeared!)

From 'Lupin Handmade'

And this Spring Garden Charm Bracelet, which I think would be a lovely non-chocolatey Easter present...

From 'Birdie's'

Then I got round to listing something new in my shop! Wonders will never cease!

This week I have been trying to recycle a load of magnets Mr U-t-B brought back from work.  He'd been clearing out old computers, salvaging what was useful, taking other bits to an approved contractor and making sure all the data was destroyed by cutting the metal disks in half.  Here are the magnets, about 40 of them I reckon...

They are amazingly strong, in fact I have to get a screwdriver out to lever them apart!

Anyway, here's what I did with some of them...

Used my 'Clover' small, flower-shaped yo-yo maker, scraps of felt and fabric and vintage buttons to make  flowers...

Created a little felt pocket for the magnet and made a decorative board magnet...

Then I wanted something different, so headed down my 'ooh-I-love-cottages' route, to produce these...

Wisteria and Rose Cottages

...which are now listed on Folksy.

Hope everyone is going to enjoy a blast of sunshine this weekend.  

And just in case you missed it, my giveaway ends this Sunday, the first day of British Summer Time!

Folksy Friday

In an attempt to organise myself into regularly updating my Folksy shop, I thought I'd nominate Fridays as 'Folksy Friday', a day when I share a few lovely finds from there as well as something new I've put in my shop.  But today, I'm failing on the listing front, for one reason AND another, but I'm still going to share some lovelies!

Firstly this...

From Of Life and Lemons

...who also produce this...

Of Life and Lemons

...and many another cool print.

Then I am rather in love with this bunting...

From Peony and Thistle

...who also make this bunting...

From Peony and Thistle

...and many other cute things from rescued books and paper items.

Then, because I just got a new phone (a Blackberry, in an attempt by my family to make me carry and use such a thing...) I was looking for a case for it, but instead stumbled upon this...

From Antelope Designs

...who also make this...

From Antelope Designs

...if you're more of a strawberry kinda gal!

Meanwhile, my shop still has  one 'Beach Huts and Bunting' Needlecase, in case the promise of two weeks of sunshine and warmer weather are making you dream of the seaside...

Used-to-Bees

Thanks to everyone for the encouraging and helpful comments on my seasons of cross-stitch!  I am working my way through autumn now, and then I will carefully be choosing some different colours for the lettering.