Wednesday 28 May 2014

Is it summer yet?

So I've had a busy few weeks one part of that has been finally updating my folksy shop https://beta.folksy.com/shops/EskdaleGifts I'm very excited and have worked really hard on my items, including the lavender scented felt babushka hanging, felt phone covers and crochet necklaces and bunting which can be seen below. 







If you get a chance I'd love to here some feed back on my shop; what do you think of my prices, to high/low? What items do you like or if you have any suggestions on how to improve existing items?  Would you like to commission me to make something? Also I'm not to proud to except fair criticism.  So please if you can email me at Jo.eskdale@icloud.com or add a comment under this post.  Thank you in advance :-)

So it's back to the rainy, grey weather although we did have a few days of energising sun, it was beautiful.  As those of you who read either my twitter account or Facebook page will know I enjoyed the heat to the full sitting in my summer house my dad made with recycled and second hand material I was able to get lots of work done well watching my pup Santa get chased by the neighbours demon cat Millie and Silky and Shiloh the tortoises eat grass.  Also watching various other wildlife has been fun including a pair of confident little Robins who I've named Freddie and Frieda who like to get up close, wonder if I'll be seeing some babies soon? I've become quite attached to seeing the little birdies everyday :-) Hopefully the sun returns soon and I can see more of them, I've yet to get a picture of them both together or the pair of blue tits that keep visiting - I've become quite the bird watcher!

Santa and Millie

Silky and Shiloh

Freddie, or is it Frieda???

Cheeky selfie of me enjoying the rays

My much loved recycled summer house, also known as 'The Library' or 'The Whitehouse'!

















Friday 16 May 2014

Feel Good Friday

Hey all hope your enjoying the sun I'm about to go outside, sit in my summer house and do some work :-)

To start your weekend off early on a positive note here is today's Feel Good Friday quote from the marvellous Mr Roald Dahl:


Tuesday 6 May 2014

My week in pictures...

As I've started using Facebook and Twitter (ahem...@EskdaleGifts) this last week to show random pictures I thought I'd give you a quick update here. :)

Twitter is starting to make more sense, slightly but I did get a great retweet from @nickitrench author of some of my favourite crochet books and the original designer of my teddies below:

A beautiful rainbow to make you feel better after a particularly rainy afternoon:

A beautiful mini Santa pup I ordered from 'I Love Crafting' on Facebook and gave to my mum as a gift - she insisted!


A trip back to my old school to help celebrate its 92nd birthday, I've definately missed this art building:

And for the last few I'll make this quick; ready to design my own tape measure cover, experimenting making bath bombs with my class, one sulky dog and sis after my mum left for her girly break in Benidorm (I also envy her the sunshine), a day in the garden watching these spining decorations, instead of pulling weeds, a nice walk, a lovely thank you and a cure all in the form of a giant cup of tea! :)









Enjoy you week, Jo xXx 















Friday 2 May 2014

Feel Good Friday

I'm on the ball today; been up for a while, ready to do a work out then onto coursework, also gonna add a sneaky manicure in :)

To start the weekend on a good note here's today's Feel Good Friday Quote :)