tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70496938636721537822024-03-14T06:31:07.026+11:00miss pen pencottage industrypenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.comBlogger1535125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-85370658443730795682014-12-24T07:56:00.000+11:002014-12-24T07:56:27.552+11:00and so 'tis the eve....
And so we come to the last shop day of the year.
Let's be honest, what a bugger of a year it has been. It has slammed so many people I know hard, like really hard and between another broken wrist, two lots of surgery and the general malaise this sort of thing brings on, I have not had the greatest of times. The last three months has gone in a blur of making and trying to play catch-up and I penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-68404342759933970792014-12-13T10:38:00.000+11:002014-12-13T10:38:03.882+11:00well hello stranger....
Well I (barely) survived the Big Design Market last weekend and this week has been picking up the pieces and trying to get more work done. Exhausting. So I managed a few more smocks and we have now got 4 1/2 oz denim in regular and long, black linen in regular and long and one one beautiful patched raw linen one. I have to admit there is only a few in the denim and the linen at this stagepenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-86713809805395395352014-12-06T07:55:00.000+11:002014-12-06T08:01:44.301+11:00i forgot to tell you..... BIG DESIGN MARKET!
Sorry for the very late notice on this one, I had had plans to send out an email and shout it from the rooftops but... well that just didn't happen. Putting in 17-18 hour days making and running about like a loon and the promo side has fallen in a heap. We were at Big Design Market yesterday and will be again today and tomorrow. We've launched a whole new run of our pennant designs and our penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-52951393042394843632014-10-18T10:19:00.002+11:002014-10-18T10:19:33.324+11:00helmet head
I don't want to have another week like this one has been again.
Just too flat and boring and sad, full of ennui and angst.
And now the first migration of Xmas birds has arrived to warn me that I am running out of time to get my shit together for Big Design Market and the festive season. Mind you I had to smile when I pulled this bird out of the box, he's got his own 'do helmet!
There has beenpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-65684699753558207412014-10-11T10:44:00.000+11:002014-10-11T10:44:12.235+11:00well hello there...
So there I was thinking that it was only a few weeks since I last wrote a post a post on this poor little blog... how wrong I was! Almost two months!
Well hello little blog!
And sorry this is going to be short.
Things have happened (a holiday, more surgery to the bung wrist, time in the studio, time in the shop) and now there is the sudden realisation that Xmas and the end of the year is penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-84069859950494577662014-08-16T10:11:00.000+10:002014-08-16T10:11:35.728+10:00unpacking boxes
Bit of a crazy morning. Racing about like a loon. Discovering my pocket managed to post a photo to instagram without me knowing (just of three colanders, it's OK) and as everyone liked it before I realised I decided to leave it up!
The last few weeks have been stressful and upsetting and a bit blah, I've been as flat as a tack, then all the parcels of new stock started arriving and I managed penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-4497629404242473122014-08-09T10:00:00.002+10:002014-08-09T10:00:36.165+10:00neglected
Hello all!
Been neglecting you, sorry about that. I raced out of the house last Saturday morning for appointments at the trade shows and had no time to write even the vaguest of posts. Today's will quite probably be rushed too as I am in a flat mood after a weirdly low level shitty week. Trying to leave the house to actually get to the studio at a decent hour just didn't happen, appointments penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-77077248474929182482014-07-26T10:06:00.000+10:002014-07-26T10:06:18.909+10:00goodbye satchel
Morning all! Sorry I missed posting last Saturday but I raced out of the house at 6am for the studio sale and this poor little blog was forgotten for another week. I am back now and in the shop, as usual, today.
Finders Keepers is on up at the Exhibition Buildings today and the Projection Festival is on during the evenings so Gertrude Street is all abuzz at the moment. We caught Jethro penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-83382835545508780032014-07-12T10:08:00.000+10:002014-07-12T10:08:28.077+10:00time to rumble (in the jumble sale)!
And an icy good morning to you all!
The sun is shining out there but I am having trouble warming the shop up, if it is too bitter I might have the shop door closed today but we are open!
Poor little blog is probably the last to be informed (well not quite, the mailing list is next) that we are having a studio sale.... RUMBLE IN THE JUMBLE! We haven't had a studio sale in ages, there was meantpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-33406430168419917542014-07-05T10:19:00.000+10:002014-07-05T10:19:22.268+10:00giving jip
So yes, the smockage continues.
I seem to have quite a bit of smock suitable fabric stashed in the studio which might explain why I keep inundating you with 'smockbomb' photos. Also they keep selling so of course I keep making them!
This last week has been a bit exhausting with lots of things happening and long days at the sewing machine. Yesterday I had the nerve conductivity tests (checkingpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-15810560402664452792014-06-28T10:25:00.000+10:002014-06-28T10:25:16.160+10:00upsy, downsy, umming and ahhing
Morning all!
It has been one of those weeks, a bit upsy, a bit downsy and definitely all over the place. This morning seems to be carrying on the week's theme but I hope by 11 I have all my chores done, Jethro has settled down (a case of feline crazies) and I can take a deep breath.
I'm excited our new plates have arrived, made from tin printed with designs from the Queen's and the Wallace penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-17747717488614848772014-06-21T10:19:00.000+10:002014-06-21T10:19:25.715+10:00mizzle
I was dreading this week, it was mapped out in post-it notes around the edge of my computer screen (which might explain why I was avoiding doing anything on the computer...) but now it is Saturday and I get to at least have a half day off or just a bit of a sleep-in tomorrow. I barely got a day and a bit in the studio but managed some sewing up of lovely vintage floral linen cushions and penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-32252928424264616262014-06-14T10:15:00.000+10:002014-06-14T10:19:15.180+10:00well smocked
What a topsy week that was.
And now here is Saturday again.
Perhaps it was the holiday on Monday that threw everything into confusion but I am glad that tonight I might be able to throw myself on the couch and fall asleep... after I have baked off a batch of choc chip cookies for a Ben's Turning 6 Party tomorrow, of course as they need to sit overnight for the chocolate to set penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-547784485729159552014-06-07T10:17:00.002+10:002014-06-07T10:17:49.795+10:00another long weekend
I've been a bit worried that I have been posting too many Harvest Smock photos on social media of late but they have been the main thing that I have been making over the last few weeks. Don't worry there is a lot more sewing on the horizon and lots of stuff to take photos of soon!
It's a long weekend here and most of it will be spent trying not to procrastinate over things that really penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-40198011090254040882014-05-31T10:03:00.001+10:002014-05-31T10:03:24.975+10:00this, that and the other
Well we survived Markit on Sunday. My prediction at I would come down with the flu on Saturday night came to nothing.... I got it on Wednesday instead. I'm coughing and sneezing and start fine in the morning but sink as the day progresses. It was on the cards that I would be the next to succumb after both shopgirls were hit by it, I think mine is just a cold from too much balmy weather and penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-59960079231434802152014-05-24T10:18:00.000+10:002014-05-24T10:18:03.833+10:00no day off this weekend....
Yes Saturday is here again.
It's been a jumbled week with me dashing here and there and then having moments tied to the sewing machine in the studio furiously sewing. I've managed to make some more Harvest Smocks in lovely checked linens in the new top length and the old regular length and restock (one only at the moment) the new longer length in the denim. Next week there will be more penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-54831541163032753312014-05-17T10:26:00.000+10:002014-05-17T10:29:02.979+10:00handwoven week
Phew. What a week it has been. Both shopgirls down with flu, me trying to juggle studio and shop duties (and making quite a few mistakes in the process) and then having two shipments of stunningly beautiful textiles arrive to fill my heart with joy.
I managed to make a small batch of Harvest Smocks on the days I did make it to the studio, in the 4 1/2 oz denim in regular length and the penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-75061175487259062082014-05-10T10:14:00.002+10:002014-05-10T10:17:07.516+10:00chock full of wool
It's been a bit of a crazy week. Dreary dull shop days interspersed with frantic wholesale orders, making and picking up new stock. I think, all in all, we hit the 'yes it is cold and it is time to rug up' jackpot and this is the time the Cottage comes alive.
We've finally got our mitts on the stunning St Albans kid mohair scarves that I have tried to order for three Winters. I can't make penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-79839181638330090222014-05-03T10:18:00.002+10:002014-05-03T10:18:22.587+10:00smug as a cat in a box of tea cosies
My weeks seem to be marked out by my Saturday blog updates, I really have been all consumed by the World of Instagram....
Happily the weather is changing, chills and frosts, and yes I know you all hate it when I go in about the Joys of Winter but I like how different it is to Summer. I really do feel it is when the Cottage comes alive, under layers of snuggly wool of course. I love the way penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-20391347955364914062014-04-26T10:10:00.001+10:002014-04-26T10:10:25.183+10:00glorious autumn
Morning all!
What a week of holidays and stop-start it has been, quite topsy in fact.
I know it is Saturday, I am shopgirl but it feels really weird with ANZAC Day falling on a Friday.
Anyways. It's all over now. No more public holidays for a few months. Time to get back to work.
I did a quick run up country yesterday to pick up more gloves from my knitters so now it will be full boil on the penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-70453185555982116242014-04-22T10:33:00.004+10:002014-04-22T10:33:58.912+10:00rain+beanie+cat=heaven
Shop is open today!
I am shopgirl!
I will be working on beanies.
It is raining, you might need to think 'Winter'.
Jethro is not happy.
Come and visit!penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-89413380215403956842014-04-19T09:45:00.002+10:002014-04-19T09:45:55.054+10:00bring on the bunnies and the eggs
Morning all!
Hope you got to scoff a couple of HCBs yesterday, I managed to grab a couple this morning, I hear there have been early morning bunfights all over town.
It was a peaceful day around here yesterday... apart from me yelling at the knitting machine regularly and the crashes of bits of equipment sliding off the work the work table at odd moments. I was tinkering too much with the penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-30312166342655901452014-04-16T22:31:00.001+10:002014-04-16T22:34:05.380+10:00a message from d.l.b.
Dirty Lil Bunny here bring you the Cottage Industry Easter News.
We will be closed on Good Friday as we will be eating a mountain of hot cross buns.
On Saturday you will find the Tall One in the shop as usual, 11 until 5, you know the guff.
Next up will be Easter Sunday, of course the Cottage will be closed, that's what happens around here on a Sunday (except in December). There will be a penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-18913376641384551782014-04-12T10:02:00.000+10:002014-04-12T10:02:08.199+10:00spectrumming
So the shipment of yarn finally arrived (after DHL finally read the paperwork that said 'FIS' and stopped demanding money from me) and I delivered it to my knitters (who can't start knitting because their elastic yarn shipment hasn't arrived). Then I spent most of the week dyeing the undyed stock I already had and now we have a lovely new range of colours and as I have no undyed stock to dye penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7049693863672153782.post-91556644972837537722014-04-05T10:03:00.003+11:002014-04-05T10:03:48.045+11:00not smiling, yawning
Morning all.
Well to be frank, this has been a right shit of a week. As you know I am not the type to pretend to sweetness-and-light-and-isn't-everything-great when in fact I am sitting crying and exhausted. I think it all came to a head on Monday night and now the tears have uncorked I am still a little weepy. I think seven months of wrist shit has worn me down to a raw and sensitive nub. penhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18267416259888049673noreply@blogger.com0