The return of Mudmeddling

Well hello there.  I am back at last from what has turned out to be a nine month break from this blog and shop.  What was supposed to be a two month break became rather a lot longer, ooooops!

So what's been going here over the last nine months?  Well our second daughter Phoebe arrived on the last day of November 2010 just as a snow blizzard hit Kent and brought the county to a near standstill.  The ten minute drive to the local hospital took over two hours, most of which was spent stuck on the motorway whilst in labour.  Fortunately we made it in time and I didn't become the local "Woman Gives Birth on Motorway" headline :)

What followed was an exhausting (and cold) few months and by Spring I was enjoying motherhood and being an at-home-mum so much that before I knew it summer had arrived!  But now with September fast approaching my thoughts are turning to my favourite time of year - autumn and winter!  And with those seasons comes Halloween and Christmas of course - perfect for witches, wizards, ghosts, santas and elves, just the things to fill my shop with :)


So today I have re-opened both my Etsy and Folksy shops and I have a brand new web address too!  If you are a follower of my blog you will need to change it to www.mud-meddling.blogspot.com (my previous address didn't have the hyphen).  You can also access my blog from www.mudmeddling.co.uk.... pretty good, huh?

I have plenty of old favourites to list, such as my spooky sparkly ghosts...

and cute toadstools...

Plus there's a few new items on the way too...

So watch this space for updates and ramblings from me...it's good to be back!

Ali
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My first order

My first order on Folksy came in this week.  Somebody purchased a pair of my little toadstool ornaments...

I was keen to get my packaging just right, I personally love to recieve things beautifully wrapped.  I experimented with hole punching some newspaper using my flower punch...

It proved very time consuming!  So I may have to limit this idea to small orders like this one.  But it did look really pretty as a bad of flowers for my buyer's toadstools...

I parceled everything up in a little cardboard box and made a tag to attach, then I tied it all together with jute string. I love brown paper parcels with string...

Voila!  Packaging MudMeddling style :)

I really hope she likes it!

Fairy experiments #2

More fairy creations going on here at mudmeddling this week - a couple more fairy doors...

Unfortunately I messed these up somewhat, I rolled the clay out too thinly and they buckled slightly when they dried.  I should  have a) made the clay slightly thicker, and b) weighed them down slightly when drying the underside.  Still, a useful learning process.

And what good is a fairy door without a toadstool or two?

I can't decide if I prefer small or big spots...

But it was a lot of fun playing around with photographing them in the morning sun...

I'll definitely be making more of these to add to the shop/s so keep your eyes peeled.

More fairy experimentations tomorrow...