Embroidered Originals
Blog URL http://www.thecottageindustry.blogspot.com
Located Leven, Fife United Kingdom
The daily goings on at our little cottage industry.
Latest Blog Posts
- Just saying sorry on Nov 4, 2009
Bear with me - I've not had a minute to put anything on here lately. We're pushing through our Christmas shop orders at a rate of up to 8 a day. The end is almost in sight and normal life will be resumed soon.Not that I'm complaining! We are so glad...
- Crafts for Christmas on Oct 27, 2009 in SECC Crafts for Christmas
That was last weekend, so if you weren't there you've missed it!The venue was the SECC in Glasgow for 4 days. We shared the exhibition centre with Hobbycrafts running concurrently with us, and also a Girly Pampering sort of fair in another hall on th...
- Marathon Make on Oct 17, 2009
Not the running kind of marathon.I'm just giving my left hand a rest for a minute or two. It's funny that although I'm right handed, when I spend a long time making cards, it's my left hand which gets sore. I think it has all the work of holding the...
- Burano on Oct 14, 2009 in Burano Venice lace
Well I said this blog would be about COLOUR!! These amazing houses are part of the fishing island of Burano, just to the north of Venice and a half hour boat ride away across the lagoon. It was a misty sort of morning, quite atmospheric but we weren'...
- Venice on Oct 11, 2009
Here are one or two more holiday pics of Venice. Selected from the hundreds on my little point and shoot camera. I haven't looked at the ones on Bob's yet. (They will have me in them, so I won't embarrass myself here!) The first of this batch is how...
- Arrivederchi....Venice on Oct 8, 2009
If it seemed that nothing much was happening here over the past week, it's because no-one was home. We were away having a break in Venice. It's a place we've been aiming to get to for years, and finally we grabbed a few days off and ...We stayed in a...
- Peru, not Scotland on Sep 29, 2009 in Peru Andes
So, what's been happening at the cottage industry since I last blogged? Truthfully not a lot apart from work, work, work.It's been a case of head down and get on with it, as we're galloping towards Christmas and our stockists have been clamouring for...
