frou-frou is 1 year old today! Yay!

It all started with a little whisper of a post saying ‘I’m here’! Then all went quiet for a while. It wasn’t until I had a period of illness over the summer of 2009 that I really got focussed on what frou-frou was all about and started realising how much I was going to enjoy ‘blogging’ (though I am still a bit in denial about having a blog!). 

I must say that I am very proud of my little website. It may be bigging myself up a bit, which I am not very good at,  but I love the colours, layout, content and overall look of it.  I love getting comments and emails from people, strangers even, saying they like it too.  Even my Dad, the most critical person I know (sorry Pops, but you know its true!) had good things to say and only one ‘constructive criticism’ – that’s why I now have page numbers at the bottom!  I do most of the techy stuff myself too which I am very proud of.

I only ever intended this to be about craft and craft related things, not my day to day life, family, work etc and while I have referred to those things in different ways from time to time, they aren’t central to what frou-frou is about.   I’m actually a very private person so putting myself  ‘out there’ is weird but I can cope fine when I’m hiding under my (crocheted) craft hat.

When I open the site (which I actually don’t do very often – I’m usually in the workings behind the scenes) I feel happy and proud. Like a mummy looking at her little baby. OK maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration as I didn’t give birth to the thing, but I did conceive it (not in the biblical sense clearly) and I did nurture and develop it and let it grow.

So today I am celebrating a little bit of me, with pride and happiness and a great sense of achievement. And to those of you who have popped in along the way, been with me all along or are yet to come I say hello, welcome and thank you!

Fi xx

Oh how much do I love doing craft fairs? Lots and lots is the answer!

The sun shone, friends came, strangers came, chit was chatted and great fun was had! You guessed it… another craft fair. I don’t think I can adequately put into words how happy and skippy it makes my heart feel.

I spent the last few evenings prior to Saturday trying to finish a few things off – some worked better than others. I was delighted with the little lavender bags and coasters, but I was rushing the clothes peg bags so left them at home for another time. I am committed to making my makes throughout the month of April in advance of the next craft fair, as don’t want the busy evenings that last week involved.

I’m looking forward to it already: 24th April, usual place!

Wanna see a few pics?

Brilliant craft fair once agan but having some tech probs with website & cant post. Sending this from twitter. Back to normal asap I hope!

Craft fair all set up and ready to go! Could be a busy day as lots on in Chorlton today!

…with frou-frou too!

Saturday 27th March,  the Horse and Jockey by Chorlton Green

‘They couldn’t be more YOU if they tried’ said Caveman as I found these earrings in Accessorize!  They just had to be mine!