Hellooooo Again!!! Monday Catch~Up

Hello Loverlies

Sorry I have been away for a little while but soooo much has happened and it jsut keeps happening and keeping me very busy between then and now. However I find myself with a bit of free time on my hands so I doing a mahoosive Monday Catch Up for you all !!!

Soooo last time we chatted I was off to the Acoustic Festival of Great Britain... which by the way was AWESOMES!!!! It also taught me a great deal of what to make sure we have and are doing for our events. Just remembering that everything is a learning experience helps you get through the worst of nightmare situations and trust me there were some close situations at the festival this year.

However there were some awesome ones as well ... meeting up with old friends and meeting new ones. All a great thing and a great time was had by all. Hiccups over and done with, and end of the Sunday being beer o'clock makes everything much better hahaha.

So here are a couple of pics of us at the Acoustic Festival :~

Me and Tink

Me and Lisa Fairy

I love these ladies they make life sooo wonderful and to find them both at the one festival does make things awesomes !!!

I work with Lisa at faery festivals during the year but Tink I only have the honour of meeting up with at the Acoustic so its loverly to catch up with her :D

So after a fabbytastic weekend of booking in bands and taking care of them i was knackered for the rest of the week .. not surprising really but I had lots of stuff to do for the Edge of the Moors Faery Festival

Not to mention the fabby few days that the Pendle Faery and Pendle Pixie came to visit us here at Pixie Towers YAY!!!! oh boy did we gets up to some stuffs ... and yes there are pics hahaha!!!

The Pendle Faery, Himself and Bloo Pixie 

Pendle Fairy, Pendle Pixie and Bloo Pixie

Bloo Pixie and Pendle Faery going up the Pixie Path 

Norty Faes !!!

Teddy Faes :~ the picnic was cancelled so we went to cheer up the kids and came as the teddies :~D 

This of course is coming up fast however not before I had a fabbytastic week up in Lancashire with the Pendle Faery and Pendle Pixie .. which was awesomes!!!!! I just got off the bus and was dragged up Pendle Hill :~

Suzanne, The Pendle Pixie and Bloo Pixie navigating the cattle grid :~P 

This is what happened the next morning O.o

Bloo Pixie

It's amazing what happens when you go up magick mountains on the Solstice!!! I'm just glad i didn't get to the top I'd look like a Smurf!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!

The Pendle Faery, Freya Fire Sprite and Bloo Pixie

..... so anyway this brings us to the Pendle Faeries Mad Hatters Tea Party !!! Oh Boy what a day that was HAHAHA!!!

Here are all of us after the Tea Party off to the pub for din dins !!!

  So then the next day Bloo Pixe, The Pendle Faery and Bindweed had a day out of nortiness in Morecombe.... wicked fae we was ..... 

Bloo Pixie, Eric Morecombe, Pendle Faery and Bindweed

Playing in the Park !!!

Utterly chillaxed looking cool overlooking Blackpool !!!

Norty Bloo Pixie blowing razzberries at the photographer :~P

All that horsing around got us all peckish so we decided to share an icecream teeheehee!!!!

 So there you go all sorts of norty fae games were played in the last couple of weeks ... but the best little bit on news to date is this one... 

Matilda Leigh born 24th June 2012 (World Faery Day) my bootiful little Grandfae !!! 

We had masses of fun making decs with the kids at the school for the festival .... pics will come later ... great imaginations making Faery Bells and Faery Houses and Peg Dolly Faeries been fabby this week. 

The only issue we've had this week is that my back has done silly things to itself, so at the moment I'm running around on crutches. Which is a great way to make me slow down. Which I am .. and behaving as well ... well kinda ... sorta .. maybe .. perhaps hahahah!!!! 

So there we go a complete catch up of the last few weeks ... will get onto this weeks Blogs asap !!!! xox 

Have a fabbytastic day

Love and Light xox

Monday Catch - Up ~ In which I find myself in situation CHAOS ... normal everyday again really !!!

'elloooo me Loverlies!!!

Happy Moon Day and yeap again it's Tyr's Day

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I am off to The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain tomorrow so there will be no blog this week ... however next Tuesday's blog will be a BIG FESTIVAL CATCH UP with piccies and everything!!!!

At the moment and over the weekend I have been sewing like mad to get my cothes ready and fit for public display as my jeans are ripped to shreds !!!

So between making my Pixie Tool Belt and clotheses and doing paperwork and attending meeting tonight and going to pick up tent etc right now this second and Himself playing with the new drill .. it is all go here at Pixie Towers right now ...

I WILL make this all up to you next week I promise and in fact my entire Blog next week will be people I have met showing me how they do thier thing to fit in our blog

Have a fabbytastic weekend and week

Don't miss me too much

xox Love and Light xox

Ode to the Week ~ In which I have a fabbytastic week and realise that maybe I can do stuffs i fink I can

Helllooooo Me Loverlies and welcome to Freya's day !!!!!

Well what a week !!! I have to say straight away sorry for being a bit slow with my blog posts this week cos it has been all over the place chaos round here this week !!!

It's been a week of arranging 2 festivals and getting ready for another one. Ice skating dresses and clothes for the festival next week. Sorting our the websites. Fielding calls from revellers and would be stall holders. Paperwork, talking to sponsers, organising accounts, finding camping for festival crew and stall holders. Blog writing and working out new crafts and things around the house.In the middle of all of this, helping out with a family emergency, NO I did NOT make it worse!!! Sooo ner !!!

I started and wrote a little book of Bloo Pixie Wisdom today all I have to do now is put in the pics and I can put it out ready for you to grab a copy of. So hopefully that will be done before I go away next week. Actually might get onto it this weekend. Himself is away tomorrow so I will have a loverly quiet day .. you know the kind you can work on the couch or curled up in bed and eat toast and cup of teas all day!!! mmmm heaven !!!

I have to admit I am feeling alot better than I was earlier this week. I tend to get a tad freaked out when making something new that is special for someone. I tend to worry to the point I give myself a panic attack until it is done and I see a smile on thier face and know they are genuinely happy with it. I have to admit as well because I make my costumes the old way with rolled hems and not using an overlocker because I don't like them. I feel that doing things the old way is better as it gives the seams 4 times more stability than an overlocked hem.

Anywhooo I tend to get a bit wound up, cos I'm not that confident always. Well this week I had been working on a piece with fabric I'm not used to and a pttern I have never put together for a young girl who has worked very hard to make herself well up in iceskating working herself to English team standard!!! There was no way I wanted to mess that up. I do have to say I was a bit of a mess. However when I saw the look on her face when she put it on. It made all the difference it fitted perfick and it looked awesome and she loves it !!! Job done and me calm again !!!

Sometimes I panic for the wrong reasons, sometimes for the right ones, sometimes cos I just does. I think now though after this week I might not panic quite so muchly. It also got me to wanting to make my own tops for the summer. So I figure job well done.

Don't let fear stop you from doing what it is you want to and can do.  It's ok to be scared but don't let it stop you, do it anyway!!! I did !!! If this ickle fraiedyfae can do it i figure you lot can !!!

Have a faerytastic weekend

xox Love and Light xox

Stitch And Bitch ~ In which I finally have time to write this and decide to start on a couple of tops for meeeeeee

Hey Loverlies welcome to Thor's Day

Yeap normally I write this on a Tyr's Day but last night we had a bit of a family emergency and I knew you would all understand.

It has been a very hectic week to be honest what with being reminded that The Acoustic Festival of Great Britain is actually next weekend and not the weekend after !!!!! Oh dears!!! Oh wells .. am onto that paperwork this weekend ... but the biggest issue was finding something to wear.

As with most trades people I have nothing to wear that isn't falling to pieces. It makes sense to me, mechanics always have a broken car and builders a half fixed house. It does really go with the territory and we all accept that. So today I have found that I have a little surplus of certain fabrics hand have decided that I am going to use them for myself !!! Cos I can !!!

So today's Stich is going to be me designing and making my new top, well at least one of them. I have kept it all very simples so anyone can make one .. including me whilst knackered HAHAHA!!!!

Ok so Festival Bloo Pixie Top

measure around your chest and then measure from your top of your boobage to the bottom of your boobage and add 2 inches either side for a side seam unless of course you have an over locker and I am not talking about those abominations !!!

Then you need to measure yourself from under your boobage to about the middle of your thigh ... or whereever you feel most comfy. I personally prefer long and baggy !!!

Right so now you want to cut out your fabric, I had some of a loverly turquoise spandex left over from a very special ice skating dress i made so i used that as my top bit.

I also found a very cheap way of purchasing voile on ebay so i used some of that as well for the "skirt" part of the top.

So there you go 2 squares of fabric :~D

Now this is what i started doing with the voile :~

yes my friends these are "petals" I have needed to make 12 of these to get round my frame in an orderly fashion and I shall be making 12 more double the length of these to go under them ... You may have noticed that I have put 2 together. Yes I have the reason for this will be made clear shortly. However I only sewed the two long sides together at this point.

For the very reason of putting silk petals in the fabric ones lose and adding 3 silk leaves to the top of the petal. Now you might think this was a bit of overkill what i did next but personally i found it made life sooooo much easier when it came to putting everything together.

Yeap I actually sewed the tops of the petals BEFORE attaching them to the top of the shirt. Now I did this due to the delicate nature of the embelishments. If I had sewed them all at once I would have lost a few. So this made alot more sense. once they were all sewn up at the top I started sewing them to the top fabric, which by the way was lots of fun, as it has to be stretched and the voile doesn't. so making sure it was evenly sewn does take a bit of swearing and other such tantrums until it happens the way it should.

I overlapped the petals halfway between each other :~

Right well there you go thats the main bulk of what needs to be done to make this shirt. I honestly am not allowed to show you anymore just now as "Stitch" one of my house pixies has said it is only to be unveiled at the Acoustic Festival Hahaha!!! ...

Anywho the basics are here and all you have to do with the longer petals is repeat the process of the shorter ones. I went for popping them between the shorter ones to give it a more layered flower look. The best part of this top is all you have to do at the end is sew it up the back in one even seam. I use rolled seams they have more security in them than with an overlocker which if you snip a thread the whole thing comes undone. I for one can do without such costume malfunctions thankyou very muchly !!!

So enjoy it .. make your own... it's alot of fun and looks great. And yes for the record I did put straps on it HAHAHA I knooooow who I work with I'm not dumb!!! HAHAHA!!!

Go enjoy it

xox Love and Light xox