The Sewing Croft

We have re-instated our blog to concentrate on our love of classic Winnie the Pooh (no Disney!), Dr Seuss and Alice in Wonderland.  Our collections of illustrations and information has grown s...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-winnie-pooh.html

Just recently I have been looking a lot at vintage images and have come across public domain images. These are images that are no longer copyrighted and as such, are free to use.  There are also...

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So much has been happening with The Croft recently that I have just had no time to pay attention to this blog, for this, I do apologise. We have been featured in a nice glossy magazine Wiltshi...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/09/catch-up.html

Its been way to long since I last blogged. I have been painting up my studio and getting it ready for 'work'. My youngest will be starting school this year and I wanted the studio to be compl...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/07/toooo-long.html

Today, in the world of Twitter is #SBS. Theo Paphitis, an extremely successful business man retweets 6 business' who have tweeted him about their business. Its called Small Business Sunday. So, f...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/06/sbs-and-theo-paphitis.html

Traditionally us Brits call the month of June 'Flaming June' I assume this is because of the glorious weather. This June is basically NAFF! Not only is it raining and cold, their is nothing but ...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/06/business-customers-and-studio.html

Hey everyone. Am dying to do a proper blog post, so much is happening at the moment.  So for now, I just wanted to show you my latest 'product' line.  Im really pleased with it and its taken ...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/06/just-quickie.html

Strategic Promotion for Success: New Finds from the SPS Team - 6/2/12 : Check out these amazing new finds from the past week from various shops on the SPS Team!!! Be sure to stop by each of the ...

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I have been having such a busy couple of weeks.  Its so hard to find time to do everything isnt it? My husband came home one evening last week to mashed potatoes and gravy for his supper, in my ...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/06/printing-pints-and-promotions.html

I am sooooo very pleased with my new range of postcard pillows.  They look stunning. I am going to list one each day for the next few days on both Etsy www.etsy.com/shops/thesewingcroft and Fo...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/05/sneak-peak-of-postcard-pillows.html

Well, at long last, the British weather has sorted itself out, stopped trying to drown us and is now currently baking us :-)   Son and I went for a lovely walk along the lanes and we picked the...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/05/wild-flowers-and-jubilee-fever.html

Is it May? are your sure? feels like March or April. I really DO NOT want it to be May because next month I am no longer a 'thirty something'.  Thats about all I have to say on the subject and ...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/05/which-would-you-choose.html

Dirty children are happy children.  Thats what my mother always says. Funny, very funny! Wasnt often dirty as a child, and my children are often so mud spattered that she comments on a regular ...

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Hello!!!!! Its been sooooo long since I last blogged. So much has happened too!  As you may know or not, I have been on a rather major pr campaign.  Seems to be working, slowly! Altho im s...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/05/faires-commissions-and-magazines.html

Intersting blog title ay?  Its been a very busy few weeks, as always.  Isnt family life just nuts? do you ever look back at your own mum when you were a child and think "oh I get it now", I do,...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/04/shoplifting-pr-and-gardeningish.html

I suppose the title says it all,  I seem to be making lots of these type of cushions, pink gingham, red gingham. Applique hearts, personalised applique names.  They have been fairly popular o...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/04/cushions-cushions-and-more-cushions.html

Hey everyone!! We have just had a wonderful week away in the North of Cornwall, scenery, weather and company were just perfect.  We found an amazing cove, that, when the tide went out revealed ...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/04/cornwall-sewing-and-designs.html

Its been a week! Most exciting is my little girl who lost her first tooth, she is 7 and a little behind the other children so there was much excitement, and a little tear from me.  The tooth s...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/03/fairy-doors-teeth-and-sewing.html

Its Mothers Day. Its lunchtime and im undressed and still in bed - with the laptop of course!  Husband wanted to go for a nice walk and picnic today, but do you know, all I want to do - is nothi...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/03/mothers-day.html

OK so first im obsesssed with sewing and mending, then making, then fabrics, HUGE obsession with fabrics!  Then embroidery.  I love it.  I love that I can 'write' anything, it always looks so ...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/03/obsessed-with-embroidary.html

Very very very very pleased with myself, after researching, reading, thinking, rethinking and finally finding some time, I have learnt to embroider and applique.  So today, I made MYSELF a prese...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/03/yay-i-can-embroider.html

Been ages since I blogged. Been actually feeling guilty, no idea why, not as if I have hundreds of followers :-) Both kids been off one day or another with a nasty cold virus, mainly a high tem...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/03/illness-marketing-and-sewing.html

Like everyone, im soooo glad its Friday.  Been such a long week this week. Altho I have had some rather major triumphs, the first was - I cleaned my kitchen....not the floor, that would be more ...

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Im a business woman! Not making any money as such, but hey, im getting there.  Ive opened a new ebay account for the Sewing Croft http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/thesewingcroft  and listed my items o...

http://thesewingcroft.blogspot.com/2012/02/business-woman.html

I have a website! Blow me down this sewing thing has really got out of control www.thesewingcroft.co.uk Love Zoe x

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