Ive come over all Christmassey...

The wind is howling, fit to bust, the rain is lashing down like theres no tommorow and the sky is as grey as a murky puddle.....

In an effort to cheer myself (and the rest of the household) I have put up a string of fairy lights in the kitchen.

The kitchen is now glowing like fairyland..... and Im getting very excited about starting the house decorations on December the first. We are having Christmas for a whole month this year!

Ive even redisgned the website and blog in suitably festive colours to cheer everyone else up too.

Working this afternoon.... lunch first and 3 cups of tea....

Last note: I wish it would stop raining so that I could take photographes of new stock to show you all.

NIMBY because its the only name that would do...

Words are so special arent they... and the most special ones have to be plucked from conversations like plums are picked from a tree. I found a rather yummy one on Sunday morning.... it happened during an interesting conversation at the kitchen table about wind turbine sites and Mr Fairysteps said, "Mmmm, its a case of Nimby. Not In My Back Yard". And I heard that little word which meant so much and had to pluck it out there and then and use it for something special. So into the dandelion down filled brain it went....

Then I saw this wonderful necklet on the edge of the IVY pull up leather and the name fitted it perfectly!

NIMBY, and its in the Fairysteps shop here.

Upside down it looks like a little fairy crown.

I reckon wild fairies would use lost buttons and suchlike for adornments so they would approve of nimby!

I shall make more......

Everythings going green.....

Not me, Im still a greyish pink colour.... but the new stock is all green!

Particularly chuffed with this ESME belt made with a sage green nubuck, in the shop HERE.

A lovely little PIP in ivy green pull up, in the shop HERE.

And last but not least a LULA in the same colour! I had thought it was a skim, silly old me! Its HERE.

I shall have new fairy shoes and boots to show you very, very soon as the next batch is well underway! Its a slow old job making shoes, with the different stages needing time betwixt them so apologies for the wait!

LAST NOTE! I thought to myself, alas, no comments all week, how strange??? I then spotted a little not saying comment moderation..... they were all waiting for approval! Sorry for the delay everyone!

Its a fidget but I had to put comment moderation on because Ive been hit by spammers, big time! Does anyone know how to get around this so that I can just go in and delete the horrible comments from my dashboard???

GYPSY in Ivy pull up...

The first of a new batch of stock... Freshly hatched for the Fairysteps shop.

This beautiful GYPSY bag made in the IVY pull up leather has just been listed HERE.

There will also be a large pouch and a ragtag SKIM made in this colour. I think Ive cut an ESME belt too in sage green???? Im stitching with green thread on the machine at the moment for shoes, so I then work through any little piles of cut green leather to try to be efficient with my time! Re threading, bobbin winding, etc all takes time so any I can save is a bonus. By gum, that sounded like I was almost organised......

Must dash x