New Stock for Mere Sands

I was lucky enough to receive a cheque from Lancashire Wildlife Trust at weekend for the sale of my bags in our (almost) local Nature Reserve at 'Mere Sands' which of course was brilliant news as they had sold my bags, but also meant I had to get busy and make some more. Above are a couple of the ones I have ready so far - planning on our visit for Sunday.
Mere Sands Nature Reserve is a wonderful place, so quiet and peaceful with plenty to see, as long as you have the patience to wait, particularly the kingfisher can be rather shy. For further details there is a link on my website.

Has meant I have struggled a bit to keep up with the Folksy 'June Bugs Daily listing club' but at least I am being kept nice and busy. I have also searched and found all the fabric and extra's for my next set of bags, should be popular with the dog lovers. I have also neglected my Special by SimJaTa shop, hope to remedy that one soon - have some simply gorgeous fabrics for silky scarves, as we do not appear to be having a roasting hot summer so far, so they should still be popular.

As usual I do struggle with never enough hours in the day, so if these two bags from my shop are still there at weekend, they may well be finding themselves in the Mere Sands shop. These pictures do connect to my shop, just click on them and they will take you there (at least until Saturday).





Hope everyone is keeping busy, but maybe a little less than me by finding some relaxation time too - hoping to find mine on Sunday at our little Mere Sands oasis of calm.

~Bags of Swank by SimJaTa~

Folksy Friday ~The majestic Owls

Hello bloggers
I have missed out last couple of weeks of Folksy Friday's, one week when blogger wasnt playing and sinmply out of time last week.

So this week its full steam ahead - and a Folksy Friday showcase of some of the lovely owls available on Folksy. Simply click on the photographs to be taken for further information on how you can purchase, and to look around the rest of the fab folksy shop.

To begin I just couldn't resise this lovely bookmark from "Made 4 Your Books"



Next from my super talented Folksy pal "Squintessential" are these fimo owl earrings, she also has other owl earrings in her shop.



More lovely earrings from "Flonightingale" who has lots more simply gorgeous jewellery in her shop to match these.



"Artisan Silver" another of my favourite jewellers has this superb Parisian Owl Pocket Watch Pendant.



"Nofkantscurious" has this snowy owl keyring, along with the rest of her lovely bird collection



I wanted to show a card from one of the folksy sellers, this one was my favourtie owl, from "Lilly's Night Garden" a Vintage Owl card



From "Diomo Glass" a super suncatcher, with this lovely cute owl



Lastly from "Bags of Swank by SimJaTa" there are 2 owl tote bags for you to choose from in the collection of many other themes.






Hope you are all staying warm and dry, we got caught in a very heavy downpour this morning, totally soaked through. Forcast not good for weekend either. Hopefully meaning lots of shoppers on line ready to cheer themselves up.

~Bags of Swank by SimJaTa~

My First Folksy Friday - The Birds

Ok, here goes - my very first Folksy Friday. Folksy Friday is a popular topic for the sellers on Folksy to showcase their wonderful crafts, so this time my blog is not just about me, but also to feature some of the other fabulous talent you can view and purchase on Folksy.
As this is my first one it will not be so long, I hope to improve.

First of course is ME, from Bags of Swank at SimJaTa you can purchase this wonderful tote bag with garden birds and bird houses - simply click on the photo's to go visit the shops below (hopefully)



Next is one of my favorite sellers Bessieloves (I bought one of her wonderful necklaces for my Mum for Christmas) just look at this lovely jewellery




From Imogens Imagination, a lovely bird fascinator



From Buttercup Boutique (another great seller, I bought Mum a robin from here for Christmas)



Artwork from Moppsie Floppsie




and last but not least, as I said not many this time as this is all new to me.
Embroidery by Clootielugs




Hoping you enjoyed this weeks bird theme, look forward to next weeks Folksy Friday for a new theme and new talent featured here by me at Bags of Swank by SimJaTa.