I wanted to start this post with a little bit of spring to cheer us all up! I found these lovely snowdrops so I thought I'd share them. So pretty...

I have been busy making tea towels this week so there are now some more floral tea towel available to buy in my shop!

I think these two designs look really pretty together.

I've also been thinking of how I can make my craft stall attractive so a few weeks ago I found this towel rail in an antiques centre near me. 

And I though it would be a great way of displaying my tea towels. So I've sanded it down...

 I've put primer on it...

Now I just have to decide what colour to paint it. Do I do it just white or an off white?

My new Blue fabric with white polka dots has arrived, yippee! Made some tea towels, of course!

To this design I've added a pink ribbon so you can also hang the tea towel on a hook. I thought this might be useful. So going to do this from now on.

I'm also really pleased with how the collection is coming together, you can mix and match any designs together to will brighten your kitchen!

After the success of my lavender heart promotion, my tea towels are now being stocked by the Ugly Duckling of Artisans in Ashby de las Zouch. Very exciting. Frantically ordering more fabric so I can make more tea towels, napkins and want to make aprons too.

This week I've been making some more napkins.  I've been really inspired by the amazing photography on the decor 8 and designsponge.com blogs. So I've tried to take some better more interesting photographs.

I went to a lovely market yesterday which was selling homemade cakes and bread. They all looked so delicious I bought some. They turned out to be extremely useful too!!

The whole range of Chez Beccy napkins.

Now I'm going to make a nice cup of tea and eat one of these amazing looking rock cakes! I've been drooling over them for too long!!!!

                             ********Lavender scented heart GIVEAWAY********

To all the lovely people who read my blog. I don't want you to miss out. I'm doing a give away on my facebook.com/chez.beccy page, for a lavender scented heart (see folksy.com/shops/ChezBeccy). I'd like to get 100 likes and then I'll draw the winner out of a hat. 

The view from my studio!

I get so excited when it snows. It makes everything look so pretty and then if sunshines as well its so bright. I went for a walk on sunday through the fields near me and the sun almost shone while it was snowing! I love the hush that descends, the stillness. I like the fact it makes life slow down for a short while. I took a few snowy photos.

It's hard to believe that this was only last week. When will it stop raining!!!

Last weekend I designed a couple of cards for Chez Beccy.

I was hoping to have done more but I was completely distracted by tidying up a big pile of stuff that had been sitting in the corner of my studio for a very long time!!! I wish I was naturally tidy person or maybe its a lack of storage so I don't know where to put things. So I'm hoping I'll be able to carry on with my spring clean even if it is a bit early in the year. It does feel good. I can recommend it! 

Now I need to make this fabulous lavender linen spray I found on the designsponge.com blog to finish off my spring cleaning. It will compliment my lavender hearts nicely as well.

Getting very into my lavender hearts. I've made some smaller ones as well now. These are also made from organic cotton and are approx 9 cms x 9 cms.

I think these two look really good together.

I should get some more fabric in the next week or so of my Ditsy Floral design on Blue so I can make some more lavender hearts and napkins!

I've been reading a great book about starting your own crafting business called the Handmade Market Place by Kari Chapin. Its really helpful. Talk you through everything from creating, marketing, selling online and at fair, social networking. I keep dipping into it and thinking there is so much I want to do!!

I've started to experiment with how to lay out my table when I do craft fair. I need to find something to hang my hearts on. This mug tree isn't tall enough! I ned to find a good way of displaying my tea towels. Maybe I'll have some hanging and some in packaging. I'd also like to find some wooden shelves. I'm going to add in some little terracotta pots of herbs as I think it will freshen everything up and make my table more appealing. (I hope!) I've also been looking into craft fairs and I've found on in Chipping Norton which is quite near me. If anyone knows this craft fair it would be great to get some feedback on it!

 I'm all very new to this so any top tips would be greatly appreciated!

*** Happy New Year ***

I've decided 2013 is going to be the year of my first craft fair! Very exciting. I've had a few days to make some more things, which is a real treat. I've now got some of my Ditsy Floral design made into napkins. This design was inspired by all the lovely Forget-me-knots that grow in my garden. It takes me awhile to get from my initial idea to design, then to fabric and then final product but I get there! The cotton I've used is also Organic which also makes me happy.

So here are the designs I have made into napkins so far. I now want to order some of my Disty Floral on blue and the Daisy print on blue to complete the set. Oh and I nearly forgot my Polka Dots on blue...

I've also been making some lavender filled hearts. Over Christmas I kept seeing all these lovely hearts as decorations, so I thought I'd like to make some. Then it came to me that my Sister-in-law loves lavender and this might make a good present for her. She has a problem of moths eating her clothes, so as well as smelling nice they will keep her clothes hole free to!!!

They are also made form Organic Cotton Sateen, approx 12 cms high x 11 cms wide.