Hanging Fairies

Hoorah !  I think I have cracked the niggling problem of my text and photos stacking up and not being able to alternate the words and the  images. This is thanks to the lovely Andy Talbot my IT man ( find him on chocolateapple.co.uk ) he can fix any problem and does great web designs too. So he cast his eye over this sticky situation the other day and suggested I composed my post in 'compose' as oppose to 'Edit Html', and to upload all my images first and then jiggle the text around them - which is what I am doing now for anybody else on Blogger who also has this issue.

And so here are a couple of my hanging fairies to go on the tree - they had their first outing at Jo Sweeting's Open House last week end . Sorry no photos on this as I had a camera problem too but will report on the Dragonfly Open House that I have mentioned before which opens on the 6th, 7th, 13th and 14th of December. Anyway am about to press the ' publish post' button so fingers crossed !

A hanging Geisha encased in cellophane. I've mad a lot of these and found men's neckties to be the perfect source of
small pattern that quite often can pass as kimono material !

The Willow pattern china that belonged to my Grandmother always fascinated me - all the little people crossing the bridges, fishing and sailing ... what a lovely starting point for an embroidery and a chance to wallow in blue !

These braids are perfect for when I need some small scale pattern for the Geisha's obi.
I haven't had a chance to use the the figurative one yet but feel it's got that Eastern touch.

New look

I hope I haven't surprised too many of you with this new green look to my blog ! I have just been setting up my etsy shop and Brian convinced me that this was the way to go with my banner on both sites, so no more messing around now, the die is cast . Hope to have the link to etsy up early next week and some stripy fairies will be my first batch of merchandise !