Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Hooray! We've been featured!

We're so pleased and honoured to discover we have been featured in a treasury!
And to see lots of other lovely items made out of our favourite liberty fabrics.
Check it out below and follow the link to comment :o)

www.etsy.com/treasury/4db83c8321b96d919973707f/in-love-with-liberty


Friday, 22 April 2011

Baby headbands!

Here are some photos of our lovely headbands, hand made by Jenny. We are running a special promotion at our etsy shop - a free headband with every liberty dress purchased before the end of April!



Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Craft fair!




Here are some photos of our stall at a recent Craft Fair held at the Petwood Hotel in Woodhall Spa. We had a lovely day, and sold quite a few items. My Mum came too, so we had 3 generations on the stall!

Friday, 4 March 2011

daisyfleur at work!

At daisyfleur we like to sew together whenever we can - it gives us a chance to look at our new materials and choose the ones we need for our next project, work on similar patterns together and pass on sewing tips! We love all the liberty fabrics, as can be seen by the photos below, where we are choosing our favourites.

We have recently discovered a  new way of sewing together - we use skype! We both set up our laptops at an agreed time, and get busy with our sewing. The beauty of skype is that not only can we show each other how our work is progressing on the webcam, but can chat away for hours whilst we are cutting out and sewing, without the need to hold a phone! Our husbands have had to get used to hearing a familiar disembodied voice when they happen to enter the room! It is great fun.

The photos below show us working together.



Monday, 7 February 2011

New!! Introducing our new pink daisyfleur dress bags!!


I would like to introduce our new daisyfleur dress bags. They are pink, of course, and each bag is decorated with attractive motifs or trimming. All our dresses are now packed in these complimentary drawstring bags, which can be used to store all sorts of things such as shoes, ribbons or baby items.


Here are some photos of us packing dresses into these useful bags!!



Saturday, 15 January 2011

Buttons, Haberdashery, Trims - these are a few of our favourite things.....

I don't know if we've mentioned to you how much we love buttons before but we are both avid collectors.  When I was a girl, I loved going through mum's button tin and matching together pairs or sorting buttons into groups by colour or style.  The noise of the button tin when I shook it was the initial excitement followed by many happy hours spent playing with the delights inside.  
As I got a little older, we used to use the buttons as currency whilst playing the card game "Black Widow" (also known as Black Maria) and my brother loved the big clumsy dark coat buttons whilst I strove to enhance my collection of 'loot' with tiny  pretty brightly coloured buttons and those spares I remembered from dresses I wore as a little girl handmade by mum.

We've recently found the most wonderful shop on etsy Overspill and I wanted to share a few of their lovely delights with you today.  I can guarantee they will soon be receiving a purchase from Daisyfleur......




Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Autumn Cooking & sewing

Although we've had some lovely sunny days here in the UK, you can really feel the Autumn chill in the early morning & evening air.  I've noticed I'm starting to crave soups instead of salads and to celebrate some seasonal produce fresh from my Dad's garden I made some Butternut Squash soup & a Blackberry Crumble at the weekend.  Delicious!

At daisyfleur, we've been embracing the change of season by introducing some new dresses in richer autumn tones like our pretty deep blue liberty dress & burnt orange jumper pictured here.  Perfect to layer over a cream sweater, woolly tights or leggings.