As I have mentioned before I am now a felt addict & use a lot of my felt beads in my jewellery creations but today I am wanting to tell you about a very talented friend I have met through Flickr who also uses felt & other fibers to make the most gorgeous pieces of art work , Aileen Clarke came across my page one day & left me a wee note , which I am very glad she did as her beautiful work inspires me to try new techniques out & try to incorporate them in to my jewellery. Aileen is a very busy work at home Mum of Two kids who has worked hard to build up a successful cottage industry over the last couple of years, I am going to have to meet up with her for a coffee one day to discuss business tactics as with my two kids I never seem to have any time to myself to build up any sort of business at all, so Aileen if you are reading this do you have any tips for me ? The photo above is one of Aileen's creations called Aziba as you can see it is a beautiful mix of different colors & textures , this is just one of the many pieces she has created, Aileen also makes gorgeous cards with fused fiber motifs on them & Beautiful sea scape's which I must admit are my favorite as every time I see one it reminds me of my holidays by the sea when I was a child. If you go & have a look in Aileen's Etsy shop you will see she has a little soft spot for hearts, one of her best sellers is a gorgeous fused fiber heart decoration which looks amazing, At the moment in Aileen's Etsy shop she is also selling a beautiful fused fabric bird which has lots of beautiful detail on it . What else can I say about her work ? You are just going to have to go & visit her to see what you think for yourself , I am sure you will see something you like. http://www.aileenclarkecrafts.etsy.com/

I did start of well with my New Years Resolution but once I tell you about how great my Birthday went you will realize I have had other things on my mind!. It all started about a 2 weeks ago I started to get a little pain in what I thought at the time was Ear ache, I know ear ache is really sore but by I would be able to cope with that , then as the days passed the pain started to get worse & I realized it was tooth ache, I have never experienced a pain like it!. By the time it came to my Birthday last Thursday I was walking about with a hot water bottle stuck to my cheek & biting every ones head off, I was that bad every time I walked into a room where my children were the would automatically run out screaming so I did not have a very good Birthday lots of gorgeous prezzies but a mega sore face, mouth, head & Ear!. Friday came & I finally gave in realizing it was not going to go away I thought I would phone up my Dentist to get some help, then I found out my lovely Dentist no longer took NHS patients, after lots of swearing & phone calls I eventually found a willing Dentist to save me but not until Monday afternoon. After LOTS & LOTS of pain killers Monday finally came & I was even smiling even though I knew I was going to probably get a filling (boy was I wrong). I arrived at the Dentist at 12:15 & got taken straight away, got asked all the usual health questions then I got some X-rays taken all was going fine then she told me that my Wisdom Tooth on the bottom that was not even completely through was to come out!. I thought she would give me some painkillers & an appointment for the Hospital where I have been told that is where I would have to go if my wisdom teeth were to come out. But I was so wrong she disappeared for a minute & came back with the senior Dentist, He told me it was causing me to much pain (REALLY) & it had to come out NOW, this was at 12:30 so 7 shots of that yucky tasting numbing stuff a lot of screaming from me & a very worried looking young Dentist (which really never helped me)I was finished with a very numb swelling face, burst lip & shaking like one of those hairless dogs on a snowing day, I finally managed to get out of the surgery after getting talked into another appointment next week to get a filling (So looking forward to that!)got back into the safety of my Mum's car white as sheet at 1:45, Mum goes to me are you felling OK I just burst out crying & told her what had happened she said come on we will take you home for a cup of tea (which I burned my self while trying to drink with a numb face). I honestly thought I would go get it sorted & come out felling great, I was so wrong . I am still in pain not as bad as yesterday but at least I am managing to get some work done, doped up too the eyeballs on strong pain killers but I suppose it is getting better don't think I will be making that appointment next week though

Well as one of my resolutions is to keep my blogs updated I thought I better start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year & I hope you all had a good Christmas. I have blown one of my other resolutions already as it was very hard to keep, it was to post a new item in my shop everyday, I have not posted anything as yet because I have became addicted to felting. I went & bought a needle felting kit a couple of weeks back now I just cant stop!. You would not believe how therapeutic needle felting is (except when you stab your fingers), it is great if you have something or someone on your mind who has upset you, you get your needle and felt & start stabbing the felt with the needle, in no time at all you have a beautiful felted ball. Once I have finally made my light box I will get back to posting new items on Etsy as the weather here is dreadful for taking photos. I have posted a photo here of one of my new felted bracelets, what do you think?.

After my experience of shopping today I swear I will Never put another foot in my local town center until after this Christmas shopping Mayhem is finshed! It was completely mad I was getting shoved in every direction & the amount of times I havebeen ran into with a buggy is ridicules, I really think there is a group of people with buggy's meeting up every weekend discussing how many people they can upset by running into them, nipping their heals & blocking isles so no one can get passed! don't get me wrong I am a Mother of two so I understand how difficult shopping is at this time of year with your kids in a buggy but if I did accidentally run into someone I apologised!. I lost count of how many buggy's got shoved in to the backs of my poor ankles and did I get an apology! Did I hell! as you have probably read I am not a happy bunny!. Well that is my rant over with just had to let of some steam before I go and max out my credit card shopping on-line! Back with my shopping update soon!.

Hi everyone this is just a little bit about me & my shop on Etsy so let me start my shop is called Trinket Tree at the moment I make handcrafted Jewellery, Accessories & Light Catchers, that doesnt mean to say it will stay that way though!. I am finding it really hard to compete on Etsy with the Jewellery side of it as there is thousands of other sellers out their selling Jewellery as well as me, some I would say are more talented than myself even though I have been making it for years there is still a lot for me to learn & as I make everything at my workbench in the corner of the Kitchen I am a bit limited to what I can do especially with my two young children running about. I tend to stick to beads & keep my little blow torch hidden from my kids but hopefully after the holidays I will be back on track & back at my bench at college melting metal!. Just ran of the track there a little bit, anyway I am always trying some sort of craft out, I am not very good at sitting watching the telly mind you I am always stuck in front of the monitor! Click on in and have a look at what I have to offer! My specials at the moment are Buy 1 get 1 Free on all my Christmas decorations! I have FREE shipping on everything to the UK & my Sale section is new & updated all the time!. Well that is the business side done so I will see what I can come across for the next post!.