katiewoo

Please contact me if you haven't received a tag or swap.....I ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS SEND!!!

Importantly, I LOVE to sew so most of the items I send, if appropriate, are handmade. If that's a problem for you then let me know. personally, I love handmade!

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For a million years (well, almost) I was an Early Years teacher and I used to fit my crafting and arting into the holidays, now I have a new job (I work for the local authority advising and training teachers) and I don't get the holidays BUT I do get the weekends and the evenings! Yay!!

I was always crafting, my earliest memories are of making 'stuff' and it's what I enjoy the most. I found my creative voice through some great art courses and now I create in every spare moment I get. I am basically a girl that sews so anything sewing related hooks me in, even in art work I look for textiles. I love to make quilts but I'll have a go at most things; embroidery, bags, skirts, anything! I love the way craft has found a new following and people of every age can share the fun and the passion! I LOVE vintage stuff - sewing notions and items, embroidered tablecloths, patterns, ribbons, tapes, but especially buttons! I covet red buttons and floral buttons the most!!

My 3 beautiful boys have all left the nest now and I have claimed a room for my crafting, it overlooks the garden and is chock-a-block full of stuff that I create with. 'Where Women Create' it ain't!!! 'Where Kate Creates....Chaotic Crafts' it is! I craft there when I can with my oh-so-keen waggy tailed wire haired fox terrier Daisy and the patient Calico cat.

I'll listen to everything except head-banging stuff but I always come back to Ella Fitzgerald for quiet evenings in, Springsteen for loud evenings out and Van Morrison for everything in between. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

No surprises here...I am a sucker for romantic comedies, old and new. I love a feel-good film, who doesn't? I want to relax at a movie rather than be challenged or have the wits scared out of me. However, any movie with a strong hook can pull me in, I loved 'Oh Brother where Art Thou', Shawshank, but loathe those sci-fi or gratuitously violent films.

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Never bother with TV, I'd rather be sewing!

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Anything involving textiles, I make quilts, I do bags embellished with vintage lace, linens, images and buttons which I sell for money to spend on more vintage lace, linens, images and buttons which I sell..... you get the picture? I love bags - especially those that are made with vintage or retro-looking fabric. I could really use a messenger bag or a laptop sized bag at the moment as I have just started a new job...here's wishin and hopin..

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Please dont send me anything with an animal print - not for me thanks! Neither do I like gothic, pagan, dark or gloomy themed items. I'm not keen on novelty stuff, fluoro or neon things or anything tacky unless it's tacky from the 50s/60s! Please do not send me cosmetics - except lipbalm/gloss or candles (I'm a teacher, I get hundreds as gifts from my class!!) and finally, highly perfumed items and the smell of cigarette smoke are a definite nooooooooo!!!! Hope that's not too picky.

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ALERT!! NEW OBSESSION!!

♥ VINTAGE HANDKERCHIEFS, those scrummy, yummy brightly coloured flowery prints. Heavy sigh!

and my other loves...

♥ crocheted flowers - especially those little ones!

♥ Vintage lace, ribbons and buttons

♥ Vintage dress patterns

♥ Purses with those metal closing things that make that lovely click (!)

♥ Letter Sets

♥ Handmade bags

♥ Amy Butler/Anna Marie Horner fabrics

♥ Bird themed items

♥ Anything Anthropologie - ooh love that style & dont have the shop here:(

♥ seaglass, any colour

♥ Printed cellophane bags especially the small ones (we can't get them over here)

♥ Polka dots

♥ Anything Frida Kahlo

♥ Woodland items and fabrics

♥ Envelopes

♥ Bottle cap Pincushions

♥ Craft magazines (there aren't many in England)

♥ Variegated sewing thread

♥ Quirky, retro Alexander Henry prints

♥ Vintage Ephemera

♥ Sewing bits and bobs (especially quirky or vintage!)

♥ Rubber Stamps/Unmounted Stamps (especially birds)

♥Anything Wire Haired Fox Terrier related

♥ Something handmade by you

• FLAKED Handmade Tote Swap from @citygirl Kindly angelled by @MissTopaz thanks so much!

• FLAKED Tote Bag Swap from @BostonGirl79 and thoughtfully angelled by @Leilx - thanks!

• FLAKED Sew a Pouch Swap from @petlover but really thoughtfully angelled by the AWESOME @dmarie thanks so much!

• FLAKED Happy Go Lucky for May Thanks so much to @rayfancy for angelling - an awesome host!

There's a place for FLAKERS you know where they wait endlessly, with nothing to do, for packages that never arrive!!!

Thank you so much to the swapbot angels!!!!!