Wednesday 18 September 2013

Hear thee, hear thee. Find me on ye Twitter too!

Bit of a Blog glut happening today...and why not?!
I shared my last post on Twitter, I thought I'd share my Twitter with you!
Follow me (@MiddleBCreative).
It looks like this:


It even matches the blog! What a ponce, I know. Enjoy. Follow me.

The pegs sold!

I've been selling some of my 'handcrafted paper based stuff and things' at the We Made It store in Canterbury (https://www.facebook.com/WeMadeItStore). I have some writing and notelet sets, plus packs of envelopes. On Saturday I put in a pack of magnetic pegs...and they sold the following day!! Yes I'm a little bit excited.
This is a perfect opportunity to tell you all about what I've been making!
Ideas evolved from making some envelopes out of magazines for some 'we'ved moved' cards for my sister, through the inspirations of Pinterest and Etsy, I pursued making them from old atlases sourced from a charity shop and was encouraged to make them in to sets. The idea was to sell on Etsy...but just before I was about to list them a phone call with a word of a local artisans store opening...With only 3 sets made I got to work and bolded started selling the few items I had.
Stock has matured to host a few different items, writing and notelet set , envelope packs, earrings (which aren't paper based, but handmade none-the-less) and peg fridge magnets.
So on to some images and details...

Upcycled Writing Sets



Currently sets are made from 'Atlas of the World' and 'Wild Flowers of the World'.
Each pack contains: x10 sheets A5 FSC certified writing paper, x5 C6 upcycled envelopes, x5 adhesive seals, x5 address lables. £7.50.

Upcycled Envelopes


Envelope packs are currently made from 'Atlas of the World' and 'Wild Flowers of the World'.
Each pack contains: x5 C6 upcycled envelopes, x5 adhesive seals, x5 address lables. £6.50.

Upcycled Notelet Sets 


Notelet Sets are currently only made from 'Wild Flowers of the World'.
Each pack contains: x5 A6 FSC certified cards, x5 C6 upcycled envelopes, x5 adhesive seals, x5 address lables. £7.50.

I've not yet taken a decent picture of the earrings or the magnets, I'll upload them another day!
At the moment they're only for sale in the We Made It shop in Canterbury, but let me know if you think I should get them onto Etsy/Folksy or if you'd like to by them direct from me?

Until next time [Gadget]...I'll leave you with a picture of my tiny shop:

Friday 6 September 2013

Poemtry - unfinished and just discovered

Just found this saved as a draft post on my phone. My poor attempt at poetry (poem-try), from last year, not entirly sure why I sharing, but I'm embracing the blogging...let me apologise now...

Queen Liz has a Jublee,
for me, it's a few days off,
I will quaff, a bev or two,
at a hen do, once amigas three,
we'll happily, send her off,
caps we'll doff, a splendid do,
to bid adieu,

...yer that's it, more about my friend's hen do than the Queen's 'jublee'. Who know there may be more 'poemtry' one day, sorry about that!

September - In season eating

I love innocent smoothies, but more so do I love their newsletter, short and sweet and written like a friend would.
There's always a few links at the bottom to either YouTube sillyness or handy whatsits like this!

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151912138516204&utm_campaign=The+biggest+big+knit+ever%2C+presents+you+actually+want+and+everyday+things+with+faces&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content

I hope this works as I'm blogging from my phone...

Tuesday 3 September 2013

Point 7. Check!

"[Can't] stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball"... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMjgckNlz0)
Ok, so I stayed on the computer and  tinkered with the blog design...at least that's something I've achieved today...now for the actual things I need to do...insert 'eeek' face here.

Back from outerspace...or so it has felt!

Hi Bloggers in the internet ether...
My last blog post was, hmmm...over a year and a half ago (pulls an 'eeek' face). Yes, needless to say I'm a rubbish blogger.
Some may be saying "Why have you come back?", others "What has happened in all this time Middle B?" and the rest may not have even known I was gone or wrote a blog in the first place.
Alow me to tell you about some shizzle (still down with the lingo, don't worry that's not changed).

  1. I am rubbish at remembering to do anything, my blog is definitely one of them.
  2. Some potentially exciting things are possibly afoot (yes uncertain as ever).
  3. 'Middle B Creative' might very well begin to exist as a company (shock face, that's raised eyebrows and ev-er-ry-thing!).
  4. I am drinking a pot of tea to myself having just finished work...yes a paisley teacup and saucer are involved, and I'm stirring it with a 6" ruler, as you do. (see image)
  5. A hell of a lot of shit has happened in the last 6 months and I'm just about ready to think about me and what MY dreams are.
  6. The evenings are getting shorter, only realised last night!
  7. I am going to sort the design of my blog out, new look to marry up the potential business.
  8. I should stop faffing with the tiny details and just do, tweek later...she says having just spend an hour farting with the design for image template for this blog...rar at me.
  9. This blog might actually be a regular thing! (shock horror face).
  10. And finally, as that's enough points for this brief post. I am still in love with cheese!
Fig. 1: Pot of tea to myself (see point 4 above)