I cant believe where the time goes

I haven't posted on my blog for so long, over 3 weeks and that isn't good.

So whats been happening in the world of Love, Heart, Home well I have been really, really busy getting ready for both Halloween and Christmas, running 4 sessions of Craft Club a week, filling orders and sourcing new suppliers.

So we now have 4 new suppliers, each has a very different selection of goods that now adorn the shelves of our lovely shop, over the next few days I will showcase each of them showing you what lovely new goods are available from Love, Heart, Home.

Today I will show you the gorgeous items we have just received from Rachael at Made with Love

Rachael makes Children's bags, Scented hearts. Patchwork hearts, Fabric Key rings, Pencil rolls, Fabric Book covers and much more

Here is just a small selection of the goods from Rachael

Goods on display

Childs bag



Boy's bag



Patchwork hearts

Scented hearts



Pencil Rolls

Fabric covered notebook

Beautiful items from a lovely lady, next time I shall bring you Richards hand turned pens

Off to bed now, too many early morning and late night!
Bye for now

A new Collection

I love trying out new colour schemes and I have to admit I was unsure of this one but the more I made using the colours the more I love it.


This combination of Laura Ashley Pale Duck Egg Blue, Ivory and Pale Peony coupled with Cath Kidston Red is certainly different to what I would normally choose, I'm a chalky colours girl at heart but I have to say I love it!

Home, Sweet, Home

I love the combination of colours on this plaque, the Red is so striking. I have also made 2 new shopping list boards, one with hearts and one with Cupcakes

A close up of the Cupcake

Cupcake Shopping List Board

Then my favourite piece so far

Cupcake Clock

I totally love this little clock, how could this not brighten up a room? but not everyone is into Cupcakes so I also made this one

Pendulum style clock

A pendulum style clock, I'm not sure if you can see by the photo but the heart which is suspended onto Red dotty ribbon has Duck Egg Blue spots on it.

To add to this set I also have a decorative Rolling Pin and a Chalkboard but no piccy's of them as there not quite finished yet, I will also be adding Peg bags and carrier bag holders, I'm hoping to make them today but have a few household jobs to do first.

So what do you think of my new collection then?

The winner of our first giveaway is.....

Giveaway prize

Tammy Simpson

Congratulations to Tammy and a Huge Thank you to everyone who took the time to leave a comment, we shall do another giveaway very soon

Blog and Facebook Giveaway!!!

I decided to have a Giveaway when we reached 200 followers on our Facebook page and had promised to post it last night but my Daughter got the keys to her new house and time slipped away so I didn't get to post this then so here I am doing it now.

So as a huge 'Thank You' to all of our followers whether it is here on our blog or on our Facebook page we are now having a Giveaway, all you have to do is follow our blog and leave a comment either here or on Facebook and your name will go into a hat to win this -

It is a beautiful Hand Made Heart Shaped Rag Wreath that is approx. 10" tall made in a gorgeous selection of Fabrics and Ribbons in shades of Lilac and Green. I hope you can see by the photos the true colours on this one.

The draw will take place at 8pm on Friday evening and the winner will be announced then.

So Good Luck get commenting!

The new Love, Heart, Home - Lots of pictures!

Well we started at 4.30 Saturday evening after the shop closed and we have worked all day both Sunday and Monday but finally the shop is Finished, well nearly! I still have a few tweaks to do and a bit more stock to put out.

I will give you a tour shall I? Apologies for the picture quality but my camera batteries were flat so I was recharging them for a few minutes then taking as many photos as I could then putting them back onto charge then photos and so on so the photos are not the best quality.

First the Kitchen section which is the first thing you see as you enter the shop

The Kitchen area needs a few new bits to fill it up.

Then the bathroom - Bedroom section, there was a nice mirror hanging where the heart picture frames are but a passer by came in and wanted to buy it so it went!

We then move to the Baby - Children's section

This is one of my favourites, all of the girls hanging items now are hung on the trellis and the boys hang on the ladder.

Now the Living room - Hallway section

This area really needs some new stock making for it but we have never had a defined area like this before, I really love the way this looks, the large unit was built with removable shelves so I could add or take away as I needed too, The log effect fire was from my old house and now sits on a 'Granite' slab, its MDF really painted Black and spattered with French Grey and Ivory paint then lacquered.

This is the corner to the right of the fire and the space were my Christmas tree will stand  as it wall be visible both in the shop and the window display.

The counter area was vastly cut down and unfortunately my camera really died before I could take all of those pictures but here is my ribbon/craft and the wrapping paper stands both of which we lost moving the till area

I bought the bookcase for £4-00 from a car boot sale and painted it, it is now filled with baskets of ribbon, ric rac, buttons, felt etc

I bought the umbrella stand and revamped it to hold my wrapping paper.

And here is the workroom before and after

It took me another 2 hours to tidy the workroom once we had finished and although the shop still needs a few bits doing at least it can open this morning in its brand new state.

Well what do you think to the new shop?

The new shop layout has started

A few weeks ago I wanted to re-organise my shop as I wanted it to be seperated into sections, Lounge and Hallway, Kitchen, Bath and Bedroom, Baby and Children making shopping easier for our customers, after drawing up a scribbled plan on a piece of paper which I have lost now we decided to wait until this bank Holiday weekend to do it, well the turn round has started and last night my beautiful shop looked like this

Tony, Stuart and karen are working on opening up a box that was built behind the pillar, this will be the new till area and the new space will be shelved out to hold my carrier bags etc

Karen, Stuart and Tony all hard at work

Large unit cut down and counter out

The large unit had to have 8" cut off it so it would fit on this side of the shop, there is a beam running down this side along the ceiling and as the unit was built to go the other side it made it too tall to be moved across without being cut down. When I first fitted the shop out I had a rather large counter built to take up space as at that time the shop looked too big to fill, now that counter is being made much, much smaller. I had the words Love, Heart, Home cut out of MDF which I painted Cranberry and had them fixed to the front of the counter, hopefully these will be saved and reused in the shop as they cost quite alot of money. 

 Why are we doing this without emptying the shop first? well here is a picture of the workroom having moved everything under the counter and off the tall unit, there was no room left to move anything else so we had to work around the rest of the stock

Hopefully we will get the bulk of it finished today and refill with the stock tomorrow, I have a few new lines that I have made but have waited until this was all done before even thinking of putting them out so they will be on sale next week as well.

So after stressing about this for a week it has finally started and there is no going back, hopefully I will be back with more photos later to show the progress we have made.

What are you all up too this bank Holiday weekend?

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I really feel good about today for some reason, not sure why I am just so happy with my life at the moment, I feel very blessed to have such a lovely family and I am very lucky to have my own business, I love working for myself even though it can be quite stressful at times.

I want to show you a few things that we have been making in the shop since I got back, first we had an order from my friend Bill who needed a very special Birthday card for his Mother in law who is 101 today,

Happy Birthday Gwen!

The boxed card

Front of the box

Top of the box

Karen made this gorgeous card for Gwen using the fabulous tissue paper flowers, I don't know how they are made but they look gorgeous, Karen had the box so made the whole card to fit, once it was made I helped by making an acetate cover for it so it could be displayed.

We have also been busy with some new ideas, I have been open for nearly 6 months now so I have been evaluating the stock we have and I want to add more Shabby Chic and Vintage looking items, the ones we have had have been extremely popular with our customers so I want to extend those lines, I love that look and think it will sit nicely with our existing stock.

Here are a few bits and some of the new colours we have been using

Sets of Magnetic pegs, these make great stocking fillers and are already quite popular, the top 2 are Laura Ashley Peony and Duck egg and the bottom 2 are the new Christmas colours we are using

and these

Painted Hearts

My Daughters Sarah and Vicky along with my Daughter in law Marie have been busy helping out, on Sunday they helped me get started on one of the new Christmas lines; Rag Wreaths which are stunning even if I do say so myself, I don't want to publish the pictures of these yet as Christmas is still too far away but here are some of the other wreaths made for new baby gifts.

New baby Boy

New baby Girl

Both of these have either a Heart or Star hanging in the centre which can be personalised on both the front and back so there is plenty of room to add Baby's details.

So the rest of this week is going to be busy, I have craft club both tonight and tomorrow and the rest of the time will be spent designing some new wooden lines my lovely hubby will make for me and getting ready for the major revamp of the shop this weekend, I wanted to do it a few weeks ago but decided to wait for the bank holiday so we have plenty of time to do it, we will start after closing on Saturday and we have until Tuesday morning to get it all done, I have bought a few new stands and am really looking forward to seeing all the drawings come to life. I must remember the before and after photos!

Its going to be a busy week!