A Bit of Blog Lovin'

This month I'd like to recommend Tales from Mount Pleasant as my blog of choice. Anthea, the lovely person behind it, is also the face behind Forest Flower Designs as well as being a mum, helping with her partner's business and writing lovely reviews for Barefoot Books. I always visit Anthea's blog on a Sunday because her Silent Sunday posts are always beautiful - she loves taking pictures and that comes out in her pictures. If you haven't already discovered Tales for Mount Pleasant then you should definitely go around there and see what it's all about.

A Bit of Blog Lovin'

This month's Blog Lovin' goes to Baban Cat - a fellow Etsian who I discovered through the British Sellers on Etsy team. I've been following her blog since she started her July 'Take One a Day' challenge: every day Cat made a new creative item for her Etsy and Folksy storefronts and I was seriously impressed with her dedication - especially as she makes such pretty things! This month Cat has been looking at Pantone colours and has produced some beautiful treasuries and blog posts using different colours as her themes. I love that idea and may have to steal it! I like the clean, fresh look of her blog and I'm sure you will enjoy finding out more about her and her work. Oh and she also nominated me for a Versatile Blogger award so I am very grateful for her support! Go and check out BabanCat's blog!

Blogger Giveaway!

Well well well, I promised a giveaway when this blog had 100 followers... and now it does! Hurray! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported Creating Trouble getting to where it presently is - I really appreciate your comments, advice, participation and the fact that you take time out to read some of my ramblings! So, in recognition of that, I'm really happy to announce this giveaway!

Its... a..... BUNNY BAG! And this one has not been seen anywhere else - it's a new variation on the original design. So, if you would like to have a chance to win this great blue lotsa-bunnies bag, here's what to do:

Follow this blog and write a comment below this post (along the lines of 'enter me!' or sth!)
For extra entries you can also:

1) Follow me on twitter,
 2) LIKE my facebook page
3) Go to my etsy store and leave me a comment what your favourite item is.

Make sure you write a comment for each of the entries here under this post as I'm only a bunny of very little brain and am liable to get confused unless comments are here on the post. I'll announce a winner on my return from San Diego on Thursday 25th August. You have 10 days...

A Bit of Blog Lovin'

This month's blog loving goes to 'It's Always Something' headed up by the lovely Marci. Not only does she have a great blog, but she is also on twitter (immarci) and sells on Etsy too. Her blog is varied - from Music Monday's to the In Your Eyes photography collaboration via some cute little plushies and more. I really enjoy reading Marci's blog and I recommend you go and have a browse. Thank you Marci for being a great tweep to chat to, an interesting blogger to read and a lovely creator.

And the Winner is...

So the Twitter Giveaway ended last night and it's time for me to reveal who the winner is. First of all though, thank you to everyone who entered and who wrote lovely comments on my blog. As I'm not the world's most techy person I had to use the good old 'pick-a-name' method. I've just spent about an hour going through Twitter and everyone's names etc and writing each one on a separate slip of paper.

Having put all the pieces into a box I asked Andy to pick one out of the box for me. Which after attempting to throw them all on the floor he finally did, and so I can now reveal the Twitter Winner:

Congratulations Dannie! 

Send me a DM or e-mail with your address on it and I'll send you your card straightaway.

Thank you to everyone who participated and who spread the word - it was really nice to get such good participation for my first ever giveaway. And look out - once this blog hits 100 followers there'll be a new giveaway....!

Love the Weekend

It's been a good weekend - well apart from the fact that I haven't left the flat in days and am going a little crazy... But I was really excited on Friday when I checked my e-mail and discovered that I had sold 2 (yes, 2) mosaic necklaces! How great is that? So a massive thank you to Julia from MyApplique who bought them (check out her Folksy shop - it's cute!) Part of me is a little sad to see them go - the mosaic one is one of the very first necklaces I made, and the Red Reflection one is my favourite design. But I'm glad they're going to such a nice person. Just in case you've forgotten what they look like - here are the two necklaces in their boxes about to be put in the post:

Posting these turned out to be harder than expected. I don't have business cards yet (because that would make me feel like a grown-up) so up to now I've been printing off a small card with the Creating Trouble logo on it and using it instead. Except for last night my printer decided it just didn't like me. At all. After about an hour or so messing around with it, Andy decided to try printing with the same printer from his Mac. And of course, it liked him. Admittedly we only managed to get one piece of paper out of it in full colour, and normally my cards are a LOT smaller than half an A4 sheet, but at least we managed to get something!

It was such a palaver (love that word!) Andy decided to design and order me some business cards. They should be arriving on Wednesday or Thursday and I'm really excited to see them!

AND... I follow quite a few other blogs and tend to comment when I see something I like or get asked a question. This weekend Kate from Scientific Culture posted a picture of one of her yetis and asked what people were up to this weekend. Apparently my comment was the most interesting response (it involved turning into a Yeti to be able to move) and she's sending me one of her cute badges! How cool is that?

Go & check out Scientific Culture on Etsy - really cute badges & more!

I'm getting a Yeti Thumbs Up badge... it's so cute! And in fact has quite a lot of character so I think he deserves a name... Any suggestions? Thank you Kate for deciding to send me a badge :-D

Blogs of Note

Every Friday I do a bit of an Etsy shout-out, featuring a few photos of different shops where I've seen some cute items. But I've realised that they aren't the only people who might want shouting out - you, my fellow bloggers, might too! So many bloggers have been inspirational, supportive and brilliant over the past few months, and it's you who I would most like to thank.

So here's the deal - every month I'll pop round to someone's blog that I read and enjoy and let you know that I'm putting a link to your blog on Creating Trouble. If it's OK with you, I'll post a photo from your blog and put up a link with a very short bio / reason as to why I think everyone should follow you and that's it. What do you think?


If you want to get ahead on the shout-outs, then leave me a comment and I'll try to make sure I go and look at your blogs first!!