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Friday FREEBIE 48

26/11/2010

How can it be the last Friday of November? Where has the year gone?

I know for sure it is the last week of November as we have no more shows until next year - yippee. Are you all ready for Christmas, cards made, presents bought? Yeh, just like me then!!

How about a wish list, do you have one of those? Is there any ribbon on your wish list?

For this weeks Friday FREEBIE tell us all about your ribbon wish list, whats on it - Swiss Dots, Crafty Fairies or even Christmas ribbon.

Bev and Rachie are both into wish lists, they will read all your comments and pick two lucky comments and will fulfill your wish lists.

WOW get your thinking caps on girls, list your ultimate ribbon wants and Crafty Ribbons will make your wish come true!

Hello Wednesday - Ribbon Clock

24/11/2010

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

Have you ever looked at something and thought - "I like that", but are not sure what you would or could do with it. Well this is just one of my like it pieces!

When I got this scrap booking page clock I had no idea what I was going to do with it, I just knew that a project would come to me!

A simple bit of ribbon weaving around the outside, held in place at the back of the clock with tape, and a few buttons and voila! and it works! Swiss Dot Grosgrain ribbon can be found HERE and the NEW large super duper spotty buttons are HERE.

I am really loving this Wednesday, I am home. Paris was fantastic but to be home is so special. to be honest the show was so exhausting that I am suffering from lack of brain power, a few good nights sleep and I will be back to normal. Tony and I had planned to have today off, but the girls have experienced such a huge amount of orders, we are running a couple of days behind, so we decided to come into the warehouse and are being told what to do!! Make the most of it girls, this does not happen very often!!

If you have placed an order, we are working on it in strict rotation and will despatch as soon as we can - so sorry for the delay.

Come home soon

22/11/2010

Come home soon Ali and Tony - we miss you. It is their last day in Paris and from what we have heard it has been wicked, the van will certainly be flying home. Although it sounds as if they are both shattered, long show days, adding up and speaking French has certainly taken their toll.

Rachie and I are feeling a teenie winnie little bit jelly. We visited the Paris show last year and it was awesome, the shopping was unreal. We were invited to go this year but both had reasons we could not go. Boo Hoo.

Sydney is all ready to see Ali on Wednesday, she can not wait. She was helping me to make cupcakes yesterday. This one is for you Ali, but not sure it will still be here when you get back!

Almost forgot the Friday FREEBIE winner which is ..........

number 10 = Carmen

Gorgeous ribbons, what a lovely giveaway.

What a long day but those button necklaces sound fab.

Hi, Carmen thanks for your comment, (Ali has had to make a new necklace everyday, they only buy the colour buttons of the one she is wearing!!) just send us an email to craftyribbons@gmail.com and the fairies will fly to your house. Mega thanks to everyone who left super comments,

No need to do our normal panic tidy up today as it is spic and span for Ali's return, we had a power cut for most of the day on Friday and could do very little without the computers, internet and lights. So we gave the warehouse a good blitz..

Take care all.

Bev and Rachie x x

Friday FREEBIE 47

19/11/2010

I got a text from Ali late last night asking if I would pick the Friday FREEBIE. YIPPEE

I was chatting away to Mollie this morning and I asked her about Ali and ribbons and to my surprise I heard "ickey and innie". Mollie can not pronounce her M's. But we have given away Mickey and Minnie ribbons before so how about some fairies. Everyone can do with some little extre magic.

If you would like some of our Crafty Fairies ribbons then all you have to do is leave a comment and we will pick a winner from our "Bingo" bag on Monday.

Ali really is not looking forward to today, the show opens at 9.30am and does not close until 10pm. They had a fantastic day yesterday and Ali was demonstrating how to make her button necklaces. It is so late by the time they get back to their hotel that we do not have much time to talk - she wants to go to bed!

We wish you luck Ali, go sell those ribbons sis, remember we do not want any coming back.

Have a good weekend.

Rachie and Mollie x x x

Gingerbread Heaven

17/11/2010

I do not normally make two postings in one day, but I just have to say.......

"A Huge Thank you to all our Ribbon Challengers".

I ran out of time to photograph all your goodies at the weekend and I was feeling really bad about that. A last minute snap desicion I decided to load them into the van, just before we left on Monday evening.

Well......today I opened them......you have excelled yourselves they are just awesome. We have gingerbread houses, cards, christmas tree decs, children booties, a wooden spoon, receipt cards... they are just fab.

They are happily dancing their way across the front of our stand, they were even stopping exhibitors in their tracks (which is very rare!)

Lucy I read your note before doing my normal and ripping open the box! All looks well inside the box, but felt it would be too delicate to display on the stand - so have saved it for the blog. It looks wicked and I was itching to take off ALL the bubble wrap - but controlled myself!

Once again THANK YOU

Hello Wednesday - Away from Home

16/11/2010

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

It is a long time since we had a doggie, some of you may remember my scrapbook page of Alfie (Here). For some reason when ever we are away from home I always think of Alfie more then normal.

Our first ever retail show was in Exeter - a Christmas Fayre many moons ago. Where ever we went Alfie would always be with us, we sneaked him into the exhibition centre, (he was not a small dog but a big Golden Retriever!) we settled him down under the table and he fell fast asleep....... until he smelt food when he would pop his head from under the table cloth to have a good look round!! We made a Santa hat for him and he loved it.

So this weeks Hello Wednesday idea is for all the Alfies out there.

This really is a very simple card, two strips of ribbon, a bow, a tag and a bone button and you are done. The ribbon is called tracker and you can find it HERE.

We arrived in Paris safe and sound yesterday, the crossing was very good - we were the 4th vehicle onto the boat (we are normally the last!) and were tucked up in our cabin fast asleep before the boat left Portsmouth! Le Havre was surrounded in fog yesterday, something we both hate, so the journey to Paris took a little longer then normal.

Just about to leave the hotel and walk to the exhibtion centre and set the stand up, if we get this done without any problems then Tony said we can take a stroll along the Champs Elysee - something we have only done in the past when the shops are closed!!!!!!

Hurry up Tony we have work to do.

Enroute to Paris

15/11/2010

It has been a very long day, we all started work at 6am this morning!!! We had so much to do to get the exhibition stand finished and loaded onto the van that an early start was the only way.

We did it!! We have just waved Tony and Ali off in the van, we had packed so many ribbons into it, we are sure it was groaning as it pulled away up Tin Pot Lane - lets hope they sell out in Paris and they can skip home.

It was also a big day for me today, Sam started pre-School, he was so proud when he popped into the office on his way home with Daddy. He got rather excited picking the numbers from the "Bingo" bag for this weeks Friday FREEBIE that we had to help out.

The lucky winners of "MY" ribbon Bag are....

5 = Jan
What another wonderful bag, well done Bev!! Im going to keep my fingers, tightly crossed . What a fabby win this would be
Have a lovely weekend everyone
xx

12 = Fi
Hi
please let this be my lucky week i would love to win one of Bev's bags the ribbons are lovely. have fun.

24 = Wilma
i am the proverbial coo's tail - always behind and haven't made a single christmas card yet- probably because i am waiting to win this lovely load LOL!!!

32 = Sherry
Lush ribbons, just in time for all those Christmassy projects!

You have a super Bevs bag waiting for you, all you have to do is email us at craftyribbons@gmail.com and we will get them straight in the post. Thanks to all commentors (is there such a word?)

Safe crossing Ali and Tony - I am sure Ali will be checking up on us, while in the ferry queue this evening.

Bev x

Friday FREEBIE 46

12/11/2010

Bev has a NEW ribbon bag. She has put so many ribbons into this "Christmas special" bag that you can hardly see the bag!

See what I mean? There are 30mtrs of ribbon in Bev's NEW Ribbon Bag all from our "Go Grosgrain" and "Skinny Christmas" collections as well as a 1 mtr of our exclusive Crafty Gingerbread man ribbon and Mickey's Christmas. Bev thought there may be one or two of you out there that still had a few Christmas Cards still to make, so wanted to put as many ribbons in as possible. I have just done a quick count up and you would have to spend £26.50 to be able to receive all these different ribbons.

Don't forget that Bev's bags are only £5.00....... or ............ you could win one in this weeks Friday FREEBIE. We have 4 Bev's bags to give away - would you like one? For a chance to win, just leave a comment and your number could be pulled from our "Bingo" Bag on Monday.

We are very busy here in ribbon land! Rachie and I are trying to cram as many different ribbons as we can on the exhibition stand for Paris - we want to take them ALL!

I have lots and lots of wonderful parcels on and around my desk - all challenge goodies, I hope to photograph these this weekend.

Have a great weekend.

Hello Wednesday - Button Necklace

10/11/2010

Don't you just LOVE wednesday's? Say hello to wednesday "hello wednesday" It's all downhill from now on to the weekend - yippee!!!

Oooooh, Oooooh I received a button sample card in the post last Tuesday. I left it on Bev's desk so she would find it Wednesday morning with a little note saying "What do you think?". I got a text from her "I WANT THEM - ALL!!"

Our spotty and stripe buttons have gone SUPER SIZED! They are just wicked.

As you can see I have had fun playing with the NEW buttons and our organza swiss dot ribbons, they are a perfect combo. The buttons are about 34mm in size, which is larger then a £2 coin. Use them on their own or mix with the small size buttons, they look great on top of each other.

I am sure you all know how to make these button neckalces, but if not leave a comment and I will do a tutorial for you. I am not a jewellery expert, but I do know how to play.

This one I made without any RIBBON - shock horror I will be getting withdrawal symptons!

You can find our NEW super sized buttons with their matching smaller ones - Spotty HERE and Stripes HERE

Have a play.

Crafty Fairy

09/11/2010

Do you ever wonder how we are always coming up with NEW ribbons?

Have you ever thought - where do the ribbon ideas come from?

We will let you into a little secret.........

.......we have fairies. We do - honest, you can see them all HERE.

Tana is our Queen fairy

She flutters around the warehouse, putting everything into order. We also have Sebille, a normal ribbon fairy that likes to dance all day long.

And finally we have Fayette, she is our little fairy... we have to be very careful not to lose her as she is so small, she is also very naughty and likes nothing better than to climb into orders.