Photo opportunity

Today was a gorgeous sunny day and as much as I was planning to sew I just had to seize the chance of the strong enough light to do some indoor photography.

It was about time I revamped some of my shop pictures, my previous ones of the black evening purses were just not good enough to show them properly. So instead of choosing a fancy background, props or plain white paper that makes the contrasts too strong, I used a warm light grey paper for my base and backed it with plum purple shade that made the black stand out just enough without killing all the shades and shimmers of the fabric.

I will renew these listings and keep my fingers crossed that my little black evening purses bring some new sales...

A strawberry chocolate feature

My Chocolate love decorative heart has been featured by Melissa on her The Speckled Pear blog amongst all these yummy brown and pink items - makes me want to grab a piece of strawberry chocolate and a glass of milk...

Thank you, Melissa!

Pins and needles

Just a few lovelies I found browsing through Etsy shops today.

Top left: laurabucci (these sweet buttons made me look for some actual pincushions), top right and bottom left: two pincushions from namolio (I couldn't decide which one I like better, the are like Summer and Winter) and a cute little felted one from quintessentialquirks (bottom right).

Succesful treasury hunt

Last night I managed to curate another Treasury list on Etsy - I had such fun making my first one and was so excited it made the front page that I wanted to try again.

This time I chose chocolate brown, ivory and pale purple items, trying to match them by hue, texture, shape or motif. Some of the artists are among my favourites and some I've found when searching through the colour tags.