Toot Hill Medley

07/12/2014

Blank on reverse (though of their age! so slightly grubby and worn around the edges, but otherwise unused) Christmas & birthday etc

07/12/2014

Collaged, flocked, hand cut reliefs (slightly raised)

01/12/2014

Needle felted wool - pure 100% wool fibres, stabbed repeatedly with a barbed needle until the fibres cling together as felt.

07/02/2014

Reminder to anyone who's thinking of setting up a BRAND NEW ETSY shop - if anyone wants to open a BRAND NEW SHOP do it through my new shop (toothillvintage) as a referral - then you get 40 free listings (and so do I). Send me a private message if you're interested. Etsy is a worldwide site and I don't think you have to be UK based same as me to get the free listings? We'd need to check - so if you're not UK based, tell me which country you're in and we can find out.

(Etsy is a website where you have your own 'page' and can sell your handcrafted products or commercial crafting supplies. Listings cost 20 US cents each and you pay commission to Etsy on what you sell. You use PayPal or their own Etsy direct checkout for customer monies).

Oh yeah, and don't get excited TootHillVintage new shop is empty. Won't be putting anything in it until waayyy after the house move. Probably in the summer.

01/02/2014

Folksy shop reopened today - but only existing stock, not sufficiently recovered to create any new designs - but fear not, there's a smorgasbord of products that haven't made it into the shops yet. More stock will be added over the coming weeks/ months (albeit slowly) as well as crafting supplies.

Anyway, fancy a Valentine's Card for your loved one? http://folksy.com/items/1311261-Valentine-Crazy-Heart-Card-TriFold-Hand-Cut-Hand-Painted-with-Love

A bouquet of handpainted crazy hearts for someone you love - for any occasion - for Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, a birthday, to say thankyou, or just because you adore them! Made with handpainted carefully shaded watercolour paper, nine handcut crazy...

26/01/2014

Anyone who's part of the UK Cake & Chat Team on Etsy - come on over to the team at 2.30pm today (Sunday 26/1/14) for an hour - We're having a 'virtual' team meeting about our individual goals for the next year for our own Etsy shops.

What's in it for you? Apart from getting yourself all enthused about the coming year? Some free Etsy listings....

Find info here: https://www.etsy.com/teams/7428/uk-cake-eaters-and-chat-team/discuss/13771211/page/3 (and if you're not part of the team but have an Etsy shop, are based in the UK and like cake, quick, ask to join!)

Virtual Meet-Up Sunday afternoon 26 January Sign Here!

21/06/2013

That's interesting...

13/06/2013

Would you like some good news?

Excellent.

Here it is: HMRC have new phone numbers, 0300 instead of 0845 which should make them cheaper to call. Just as well really, given you can't actually go and see them anymore now they've closed all their Enquiry Centres. This is to make it easier for customers. Yeah right.... Anyway, moving on,


http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/news/new-numbers-helplines.htm

New cheaper rate 0300 telephone numbers introduced for VAT, National Insurance, Income Tax and Self Assessment helplines

13/06/2013

(NB: You've seen this before? Yes. That's cos it's pinned to the top of the page. Permanently. I hope.)

Useful resources for Tax for Small Crafting Businesses:

1. My blog http://www.loisdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/p/tscb-series.html

2. The old Business Link website is now swallowed up into the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/browse/business Everything you ever needed to know, probably including some stuff you wish you'd not read because now you've got to do it properly...

3. HMRC has a YouTube channel with all sorts of useful stuff on self employment http://www.youtube.com/user/HMRCgovuk

4. HMRC run free webinars, with Q&A sessions afterwards http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/webinars/

5. HMRC has the most enormous collection of guidance on self-employment http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/selfemployed/index.shtml

13/06/2013

And Clearly Crafty Community have taught me two things - firstly you can 'pin' a post to the top of your FB page (I think, am just about to have a go). And secondly you can have Notes in that string of icons to the top right of the page, that one that has photos & events etc in. A most excellent way of keeping important stuff visible.

13/06/2013

*waves feebly* the ill-health gremlin has been sitting on me for a while. But I've found a new most excellent and helpful page. This one. Clearly Crafty Community

For the professional business to interact in a fun, relaxed and safe space

31/05/2013

Seriously gorgeous!

I decided my blue jay design needed a little tweaking... he now has silver legs and more detailled wings and face than before! He matches his tufted titmouse friend!