Lost in the Wood

As part of my ongoing attempts to refine the things I'm making and the way these curious creations are presented, I've decided to set up a new Etsy shop  http://www.etsy.com/shop/LostintheWoodDesigns . After a bit of reading about the differences between Etsy and Folksy, it's clear that Etsy has a lot more users (buyers & sellers) and I hope that may help me to get my products seen by the people they'd appeal to. While there's inevitably a lot more competition and items to wade through, I've discovered that the  things I want to focus on fit more naturally into the Etsy world than Folksy. Etsy not only has categories for crochet foods and animal heads (hurrah!), they also have lots of entries under these more niche categories. I was relieved that the process of setting up the shop was straightforwards and only subtly different from Folksy Today I've added two new items, crochet rabbit heads. It would have been three but after writing up the list...

Deviating away from the planned 'focus on making one thing' objective, this week I've fulfilled my desire to crochet an Easter inspired Egg & Soldiers set. No good reason, I just thought it'd please me to make this and so it did. After a few dodgy attempts to make a properly egg-shaped egg, I instead settled on using plastic eggs bought online from a kids' craft company. The bottom half was made to fit snugly round the egg then the rest was done with the mould in place & carefully crocheting around it ( slower & felt slightly odd but worked a treat).  I was particularly pleased with my buttered toast soldiers and my shiny spoon which although needing a bit more work on the shaping, made me happy. Setting up this little scene was sadly most enjoyable until the rudeness of my curious cat ensured it had to be whipped away before little paws got hold of any of the brunch components. Having a bit of time left before setting off to my Welsh class ...