Sorry for the delay but just a short blog to let you all know that Stanley Arthur Reece was born at 2.54am on 1st January 2011, he weighed 9lb 9oz and is a little belter! Thanks for all your kind comments and cards.
Tracy and Robert
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Our bundle of joy!
Sorry for the delay but just a short blog to let you all know that Stanley Arthur Reece was born at 2.54am on 1st January 2011, he weighed 9lb 9oz and is a little belter! Thanks for all your kind comments and cards.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
An even better excuse....
....for not blogging for ages! Can you guess why? Here is a clue!
photo courtesy of http://www.5thelement.co.nz/
After 5 years of trying we are going to have a baby and so all craft projects (including my blog) have had to take a back seat. Our little one is due on 20th December 2010 although this is the third date I have had so we are not holding our breath!
As you can imagine we are very excited and a little anxious, we have been together for 21 years and so are trying to prepare for the massive change this new life is going to bring.
I hope to see you all at the craft fairs soon (as a customer for the time being) but in the meantime I will be closing the Lavender and Lime site. Anyway off to talk to the big white telephone.......again!
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Craft withdrawal!
I am so fed up with painting, decorating and making curtains that as a treat (?!?!??!) I allowed myself to make some wall art for the new house, I love the way they have turned out.
I am hoping to put them on the website soon, they will retail at £56.99 including postage and packing and as usual you will be able to pick the style, colour and even wording. They come complete with mirror fixings so they can fix flat against the wall.
Saturday, 2 January 2010
New Year...New Me
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A very busy Penmon PointWe have spent Christmas and New Year at Penmon which has just been amazing - unfortunately we don't get anything done, I take the washing up in the vain hope of putting it away and end up staring out to sea in a euphoric trance!!! Gorgeous!
We have decided to rent the cottage out for the foreseeable future and I know some of you were interested in renting it so the URL is http://www.oldcoastguardhouse.co.uk/.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Hopeless - but a great excuse!
If I was following this blog, I would have given up on it a long time ago! It is nearly two months since I last posted anything - hardly what you would call a dynamic site!!! I have had a good excuse though, we moved house on 6th November 2009 and just look at the view from our bedroom......
....we keep having to pinch ourselves! If you would like our new address it is:
1 Old Coastguard House
Penmon Point
Beaumaris
LL58 8RR
Everything is all over the place and I have a Craft Fair this weekend at Chatsworth House - this should be interesting!!! I have made some lovely new things and hopefully I should be putting them on the website soon, incidentally the website will be updated in the next few weeks but please bear with me for a while!
Well, I best sign off and unpack the hundredth box but I think I shall leave you with a picture of our lovely house......
Friday, 28 August 2009
Live, Laugh, Love.......
I love the 'Live, Laugh, Love' philosophy and I find it creeping into many things that I make and my latest creation is no exception. I have painted 5 blocks which, when turned, spell out Live (with a little daisy on the fifth block), Laugh and Love (again with a daisy). I have painted them in different ice cream shades and distressed the letters and block edges for a 'shabby chic' feel. The photograph doesn't do the colours justice really!
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Get a life.....
........I have come to the conclusion that I am getting to be a saddo (if I wasn't already there!) It comes to something when the arrival of a craft book sends you into raptures - the way a night out with your mates or a win on the lottery might have done! I just love the range of books by Tone Finnanger and await each one with eager anticipation, this is her latest and I must say it doesn't disappoint!
Tone makes and designs the 'Tilda' range of products and she is an inspiration, especially if you like all things country and shabby chic! I have managed to make some of her gorgeous little houses, I have even given them names and they will be available on the website very soon - you will even be able to customise them with your own unique name.
Since taking the photo I have added a flower by the door - they look so cute, I just have to make sure I don't do overkill and make hundreds - something I am apt to do when I like a new product!!!!
Saturday, 25 July 2009
Felt terriers, letters and 'home sweet home' signs....
Sometimes I just can't get going and the creative juices are suffering a drought! I did manage to make two felt terriers today, inspired by the Allsorts blog and a lovely pattern by Jennie B Harris. I only made mine in 2D but Jennies look great with a gusset. The picture doesn't do them justice - I have made them in my favourite colours of the moment - pink and green!
I used to make these for the craft fairs many moons ago but for some reason I stopped. If I remember rightly they were a good seller, I used to make them with buttons and small ribbons attached but this was my favourite with a small 'star' design, I sometimes attach small jewels in the centre, you can always email me at enquiries@lavenderandlime.com if you would like a price.
And last but not least, I love my new 'Home Sweet Home' signs and even better I have made them from the usually discarded inners of my 'hollow hearts' both can be seen at www.lavenderandlime.com and with all my products they can be customised to suit your every need.
Perhaps the loveliest place on earth?
Every now and then you visit a place and it does something to you, Rob and I are like that with two places, Pennan off the Eastern coast of Scotland (the setting for Local Hero) and Penmon Point which is a headland off Anglesey. The latter is beautiful and when you have paid the £2.00 toll you can spend forever just looking out to sea or over to Puffin Island, the Great Orme or to the right, the Snowdonian Mountain Range - where else would you get all those views rolled into one. My dream is to live here one day and have a little craft shed, I have got it all worked out in my head and there is a house for sale so watch this space......
Sunday, 19 July 2009
Tidy workroom......errrmmm...tidy mind?
I am always intrigued when I see these fabulous work spaces in magazines and on craft sites and I marvel at how tidy they keep them, well I thought I would share mine! This is after three (?!?) hours of sorting and tidying which gives you an idea of the 'before' picture! I love the idea of a floor to ceiling storage area and a plush carpet but in theory if you are creating, this is not possible and so I shall be content with my paint splattered floor, the bits of thread that I seem to bring with me everywhere I go and the smell of lavender that pervades our home (the latter is not a chore!).
I love the calm before the storm ie just before a Craft Fair when all my baskets are full and labelled and ready to go, I store them all in our spare room and often just pop in to take a look - I really need to get out more!!! But, seriously, I believe that if you spend so much time creating then that is the reward, being able to see your things nicely displayed and (hopefully!) flying off the shelves.
Me at Dobbies, Southport with a black rooster through my head!
If you would like to order anything you see on my blog, you can always visit my website at:
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Stockton Heath Arts Festival
What a great festival, after an initially shaky start it was the perfect venue to show off my goods and people were ready to buy too which is always a plus! Surrounded by lovely people, the very sociable Catherine and Rachel to my left and the wonderful Wendy Massey over to the right - it always makes these venues when you are with great people.
The festival was very well organised too, I believe the organisers also do an event at Christmas - put me down for that!!!
The festival was very well organised too, I believe the organisers also do an event at Christmas - put me down for that!!!
There was someone taking lots of photos so I will post them here (if I can get permission) when they are available!
Monday, 29 June 2009
Exhausted...but happy!
Phew!!! What a tiring week! First the Cheshire Show and then a day off followed by three days at the Capesthorne Balloon Festival. I sold out of all my best lines at both shows! It was hard work but made a lot easier by the fact that I had my lovely friends Joan, Terry, Wendy and Margaret next to me - it made the quiet times very bearable.
Wendy makes the most wonderful personalised canvasses, my favourite is a stork carrying a baby which can be customised with baby's name, birth weight and date of birth but as she is so talented I think you could have anything you wanted. I am hoping she will put some of her lovely designs on my web site so watch this space! Wendy's website is http://www.1stUniqueGifts.co.uk/ and you can order her wonderful canvasses on line.
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Phew....no rest for the wicked!
Sorry for the long time between postings - I don't know where the time goes! Well I do, what with supplying three new shops and trying to hold down a part time job, life is pretty hectic. Well, what have I been up to? I have been making lots of lovely new things for my next craft fair which is at the Cheshire Show, like these lovely bunnies, filled with a fresh linen scent they have a little tail and are too lovely to hide away in a drawer.
Reproduced by kind permission of my friends Rachel and Catherine at Fingertip Interiors, these fabric gift tags look great on bottles of wine or any gift. Check out Catherine and Rachel's lovely products at http://fingertipinteriors.com/ 
I can't resist hearts - I just love them, small and compact like these lavender filled hearts or big and cuddly like these primitive style hearts, I love the fleece material, it feels lovely.
Anyway we are off to Bruges soon (second time lucky) so best get on and finish the millions of jobs I have started!!!
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Cranage Hall - Craft fair
Not the best fair I have ever done, in fact it was the worst but hey! who said we were in it for the money? Just as well really! It was great to see some of the other 'crafters' though. I was pleased with
my stall and the new products went down really well. I am at Haydock Park this week and I have booked a 12' table in the hope that this may help, my table
s until now have always been 8' and most of that is a return and people don't walk down the return part, I'll let you know how that goes!
s until now have always been 8' and most of that is a return and people don't walk down the return part, I'll let you know how that goes!
Saturday, 7 March 2009
On the eve of the fair....
....tomorrow is my first fair of the year and, despite the fact that I have been working flat out for weeks, I am still convinced that I haven't got enough stock - ever the optimist! I have lots of new items from felt spectacle cases, catnip cushions, Kath Kidston fragranced cushions, bags of lavender and rose and some lovely chicken 'hangies, I will take lots of photos and post them tomorrow. I am looking forward to getting some feedback from the customers (good or bad!) and seeing some of the lovely crafters that I met last year. The picture is some wooden lettering that I make with butterfly and dragonfly adornments. Well I shall get on and check my bag for the last time!Lizzy's tip: Don't spend money on expensive bags of filling from craft stores, I buy the pillows/cushions from my local £1.00 shop - they are ideal!
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Belgium, Schmelgium!!!!!
Well. we didn't make it to Belgium - I came down with the Dreaded Lurgy the night before and we decided not to go - we were both so disappointed , especially as it was our anniversary but we have decided to go again in a few weeks when I am better. I have spent the time thinking of new ideas and I have come up with this Lighthouse Pillow, the quote reads, "At the bottom of the lighthouse is darkness" - Rob thinks this is a pessimistic quote but I think the opposite a
pplies? I have also been busy making hair slides and brooches for my next craft fair, which is fast approaching, and updating Gilby the Terrier by adding a 'coat' and a flower - I think they look so much better? I have put some organic French lavender in them and so they should help drift you off to sleep - aaaahhhhhh!
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Off to Bruges....
.....we are off to Bruges tomorrow for a few days as it was our twentieth anniversary on Wednesday - can't wait! Some friends have recommended Bruges and say we may even get some lovely fabric - poor Rob he doesn't know what he is letting himself in for! I am taking the Blackberry and so I can still reply to any of your comments/queries from the website http://www.lavenderandlime.com/
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Handmade French style signs
I have been very busy this week, I have made fifteen of these for the craft fairs (with the help of my lovely husband) all ready for my first fair in March. They will be available on the website from mid-March and the colour, phrase and style can all be dictated by you, keep a look out on our website for them www.lavenderandlime.com. I have yet to price them but I think they will retail at about £8.50 each.
Adorable quote cushions
These are my latest project, a little cushion with a quote/phrase on, I just love them and they can be made in any colour/fabric or with any quote you desire, they can even come with lavender. I have tried to show you a selection and they will be available on the web mid to end of March and at the craft fairs from early March.
Sunday, 8 February 2009
French Vintage Key Holders
These are very popular at the fairs, they are a 'shabby chic' key holder and have 'vintage' French advertisements on them. I rub them back for that 'aged' look, I love making them as they look authentic.I am working on some 'quote' cushions at the moment (so new I am not sure what to call them yet), I have found this fabulous fabric that you can print on to and then sew with, it is a little thin (like muslin) but I find attaching iron on interfacing helps, I will post a picture when I have done some. I am also working on some signs - ideally 'shabby chic' style with popular phrases on, I am working on one for the Craft Fair for Mother's Day, again I will post a picture when I have done them.
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