our snowy house

our snowy househttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phatsheeptextiles/3285921494/, originally uploaded by Phatsheep Textiles.

Heres what we've been living with for the past week, lots of lovely snow well it was lovely to begin with but when your car gets stuck in the drive and you can't get anywhere easily the novelty wears off quickly... still it has all gone now and I'm a bit sad.

So I was very excited to get my swap parcel from the handmade button swap sent to me by the very talented incywincystitches (I will post up some nice pictures here of the lovely buttons and goodies I received once we actually get enough daylight to take a pic that will do it justice!), and also to discover today that I was one of the 10 winners of Skinnylaminx's valentine giveaway and this lovely tea towel and card are going to be arriving in the mail soon, lucky me :)

Its Swap Time..Sign up here for the PhatSheep Handmade Button Swap

Anyone fancy taking part? I’ve never organized a swap before and as I have a BIG love for buttons of all shapes and sizes I thought this would be a fun swap to set up. Here are the swap rules:

Each person will make for their swap partner a set of 6 co-ordinating or themed buttons, sizes can vary.
The buttons can be made in any-way you choose with whatever material you like, only rule is they must be useable by the recipient so please bear this in mind when you are being creative!

Also include something handmade which features/uses a handmade button (this doesn’t have to match the set you are already sending your swap partner but can if you like).

As with all swaps please feel free to include some random extras but it is not necessary.


I’m thinking January 25th for the sign up deadline and February 14th (romantic Eh?) for the Post out deadline. I’ll keep you updated here if there are any changes to these dates. To sign up please leave a comment below and e-mail me with your postal adress. I’ll be back in touch with you partners details after the 25th Jan.

Also a BIG thankyou to everyone who took the time to vote for my fabric over at Spoonflower, I'm currently in a very respectable 2nd place, so we will have to wait and see what happens in the next 24 hours!