New in the shop..

Lots of fun new stuff in the shop.  Check it out!

AND a handful of old favourites back in stock!

The best part is I have ordered a whole bunch of completely new stock.  It will arrive on my doorstep soon and I'll be uploading into the shop ASAP!

Madeit sale - 25% off STOREWIDE!

With school coming to an end, and Christmas so close that we're all in denial, I've decided to do a 25% off storewide sale in my Madeit shop! 

Pick up an awesome deal this week as a thank you gift for one of your kids school teachers, a great stocking stuffer, or a little pressie for yourself!  

Lots of great things to choose from!

Button Cluster

I've been working on a custom order this week. 

Just another fantastic excuse to indulge in my love of buttons!

This order was put in after a friend discovered one of these Button Cluster Clips in my personal accessory stash - something I just whipped up one day for fun.  

I hope she loves them!

I think I need to make a few more and pop them in the shop.  What do you think?  What colour should I make next?

Zip it, or Button it?

I recently stumbled across two GIGANTOR tubs of buttons at the Thrift Store.  I of course purchased them.  I had no idea what I was going to do with all those buttons.... but I knew I had to have them!  

I've been having fun going through these buttons.  Many of the really special ones have made it into my button collection box.  

I've been brainstorming all the other beautiful things I can make with these buttons.  And I've made a few things already.  

What's funny, is I've made 4 things so far, and the tub of buttons I was using... you can't even notice that I've taken ANY out.  The tub is that huge my friends. 

  

Just think of how long you are going to be looking at button projects now.  Oh dear.. I hope you all like buttons as much as I do, cause you're going to be seeing ALOT of them.

Oh and I have a fascination with zips too.  This is the first successful attempt I've had at incorporating them into a funky accessory.  Many beautiful vintage, unique zips have been wasted in the past.  Hopefully only good things can come about in the future.  Cause lets be honest, I suck at sewing zips into clothing.  I need to find other uses for them.  Did I mention I have a whole tub of zips too?  

I've got flowers coming out of my ears!

A few days ago I was bored.  It doesn't happen often, but when it does, I try and find something new to do.  I've had a Big Shot for a few months now.  Up until this week I had only run paper through it.  I decided it was time to run through something else.  I have tonnes of felt, so it was an easy decision to experiment with some of it.  I used my Flower Folds die, (found on page 160 of current SU catalogue), and ran a piece of felt through the Big Shot.  It cut it out perfectly!  So off I went... before I knew it I had cut out 14 flowers, each flower having 3 different sizes/coloured layers.  I then picked out my matching buttons, and started to sew them all together, and add a clip on the base.  One plus about being sick and stuck in bed on such a beautifully sunny day, is that I can photograph the clips on my bed in the natural light, and lay in bed editing them all and listing them in my Madeit store :)

Oh! And don't forget about the giveaway on my Facebook Page :)  Wouldn't want anyone to miss out winning this...

Project: decorate hair.

As some of you know, I like to make funky, bulky, colourful & different hair accessories.  Slight problem!!  I am bored with my collection of goodies.  Time to source some new inspiration and get a making!! 

Thanks pinterest.  I have put links to each of the images cause I don't have my very own pinterest account yet.  I'm waiting on them to get back to me.  I have been fighting the pinterest urge, and have now given up.

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