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summer time

12 Saturday Jul 2014

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Craft, Creative, Crochet, food, Handmade, summer

To celebrate House of Sharkey turning two in April, I approached the Country Larder Cafe in Wigan (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Country-Larder-Wigan/518237128212040?sk=timeline) and asked if they would be up for me making some crocheted items for display in the shop. as luck would have it they where planning on doing a pic-nic themed window display for summer and where really up for the idea of me making some food items for them. so I got to work and made Eclairs, Macarons, fresh juicy Strawberries and cheese cakes, jammy dodgers, cupcakes and ice cream cones. In return, my business cards are on the counter pride of place for any curious potential customers :^)

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I am really really pleased with how well it turned out and fingers crossed it’ll bring in some new fans.

love

Lola x

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Hobo Bazaar and bunnys

09 Friday Aug 2013

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Craft, Crochet, Hobby

Well I have had a very productive time since I last blogged. I had a stall at the amazing Hobo Bazaar facebook.com/hobomarket on the 21st of July (which was also my 25th birthday) it was my first time selling there and I loved it, even though the blisteringly hot weather that we’d had for the previous week had suddenly disappeared but this meant that the lads who where playing music where inspired to play Reggae in order to tempt the sun to come out. Didn’t really work but it gave the afternoon a lovely relaxing vibe and it was fun watching the girls dancing :^) Delia Brady Jacobs, who co-organised the event, was just so lovely and I can’t wait for the next one.

In other news I have been hard at work making some gifts for my mums friends baby girl Penny (Farthing), who was born three months premature. I am the least maternal person but she is a cracker. So delicate and tiny but she has enough hair for a quiff and long finger nails! She is honestly the most beautiful baby ever and when we visited her, I had to fold my arms over my chest because the temptation to just touch the incubator that she was in was so so strong. I had made her this Jive bunny but my mother fell in love with her so I’m going to make a Halloween witch version. 

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I saw the pattern in last months Mollie Makes and knew that I just had to make it. She’s coming home from the hospital at the end the month or middle of next month so I’ve got plenty of time to knock up one for her now that I know I can make it. Also considering making some little wool hats for and donating them to the premature baby unit.

I’ll finish this post off with a song from Sunday that is just pure chilled out Summer. Enjoy

 

 

Birthday Girl

29 Monday Jul 2013

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Craft, Creative, Crochet, Embroidery, Handmade, Indie Craft, Sewing

I really need to set up some sort of reminder on my phone, or else all of my blog posts are going to start with an apology for not blogging more often. I swear though, I am going to take this blogging lark more seriously as I’ve just turned 25 and realized that my next big birthday will be my 30th. I have never been particularly bothered about age but that scared me as I don’t feel as though I have really achieved anything. Yes I’ve graduated Uni but not with the grade I wanted, so now it’s time to make a change and make a success out of House Of Sharkey.

Things haven’t been very good at the moment, after an MRI scan I have found out that my Tinnitus is here to stay. Couple this with Anxiety, an OCD and my mother going through severe depression after having a breakdown last year, you could say that the sun is not exactly shining on our household at the mo but we’ll get through it, we always do.

I’ve been trying to distract myself with craft and have discovered that I love sewing! I have loved cross stitch after my nana taught me how to make little cards when i was a tott. Combine this with my love of Franz Ferdinand and you get:

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and:

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at the moment though I am currently getting stuck into this piece which is inspired by a Box Codax song called Seven Silvers

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I just to finish the blood off and add a banner saying “How do I get your bullet out of my head now? How do I get you out of my mind?” 

I got the idea after that bit of the song got stuck in my head and started to think about love. I find that love can be a very destructive and scary emotion so I’ve depicted a woman blowing her brains out to show how love can totally knock you for six or make you feel like there is only one way to get your lover off your mind. The blood splatter peters out into heart shaped blobs, so it’s not all grim :^) In happy news, I’ve been featured on the brilliant Marry Me Inks blog!!

 http://marrymeink.co.uk/2013/07/29/house-of-sharkey-handmade-jewellery-crochet-embroidery-items/ 

I’m also planning to take part in two top secret yarnbombings and as my mums friend has given birth to her little girl Penny, I am going to make her an ice cream cone mobile for her cot and some little  crochet hats to donate to the premature baby unit at the hospital. It’s good to keep busy. Lets just hope I start to get some sales eh?

Love Lola

 

 

House of Sharkey’s 1st birthday

18 Thursday Apr 2013

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Butterflys, Craft, Crochet, Flowers, Frappacino, Handmade, Yarn Bombing

On April the 11th I decorated two benches, a pole and a bollard, in Wigan Town center. I did this partly to publicize my shop on it’s first birthday and also just because I wanted to do a Yarnbombing. 

ImageFirstly I had planned to make things like crocheted Pizza, Donner Kebabs and beer cans and leave them around the town center, as pretty litter but as I started to plan it all out, I began to think about The Olympic Opening Ceremony and how they depicted a beautiful land that was paved over in the name of progress. This combined with a story I had read as a child, about a young witch who made creeping ivy vines and brambles burst threw the patio in her hated neighbors garden and attack her.

I thought that this could be a really interesting idea for my project. I wanted to make it look as though the dormant plant life underneath the choking concrete flags had suddenly come to the surface but rather than taking over and destroying outright, it is slowly creeping up on us and lulling us into a false sense of security.

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As one bench was in front of Starbucks, I decorated it with flower and butterfly cushions, a Starbucks Frappacino and a plate of jammy toast and a croissant, so that people could sit with a drink and just relax as they watch the world go by, blissfully unaware of the vines slowly creeping up on them.

ImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageImageAfter having perfect weather for the previous month, i started to rain about five hours after I finished putting it up but it has gotten so much positive feedback on sites such as Facebook and the staff in Starbucks asked if i would like to leave some business cards for customers to take, so I took some in and knocked them up another Frappacino for by the til.

Sadly the cushions and breakfast stuff was removed but i was prepared for that.I’m just so happy that it went down so well with the people of Wigan and I hope you all enjoy the pictures.

I would also like to say a big thank you to Gill Kent and Sophie Bold (www.strangecasecollective.com) for taking some of the pressure off me by sending me some beautiful flowers and butterfly’s and thanks to Mike Mathews of Wigan Council for being so accommodating and helpful. If all goes to plan, I will have a stall on wigan Market soon.

 

 

Crochet and valentines

15 Friday Feb 2013

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Crochet, Valentines

Well it’s not been as long as last time but it has been a while since i last updated :^) to be fair though, i have been busy. I came up with these little cuties: https://www.etsy.com/listing/122968514/valentines-fortune-cookie
Who could resist such adorable and unusual little tokens? Well it seems that everybody could but i wont lose heart lol my shops only been going a year and i’ve only just found out about some valuable marketing tips.
I’m still hard at work on the gothic three tier wedding cake and have literally just finished making a beautiful rose and barbed wire fascinator. Also, after becoming obsessed with this blog: http://www.rocknrollbride.com/ i’m inspired to crochet a little something for it’s ultra cool creator. But now i shall spend the evening crocheting nun chucks for my sisters Mental Health Girl super hero costume, bake cookies for my mum and if i get a chance, working on this cross stitch

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Do you smell wedding cake?

29 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Crochet, Etsy, Goth, Handmade, Wedding

Right, i am seriously going to have to put a reminder on my phone to push into updating this thing a bit more often. My last entry was December the 6th. How embarrassing *^_^* still i have lots to write about, like how I got a wonderful Crochet book for Christmas ( Creepy Crochet) which inspired me to create these little beautys:

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Petra the Zombie Bride and Bob the Vampire Groom. Aren’t they lovely? Petra was inspired by a Rockabilly song called Zombie for your Love, that i just can’t get out of my head. I think that they are the perfect little Valentines gifts for those who don’t want a bunch of roses or a soppy cuddly bunny.

Other recent projects include:

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The Jammy Dodger cushion has been my baby but i just cant get it to photograph properly :^(

I’m also helping out the lovely Sophie and Laura of Strange Case Collective http://www.strangecasecollective.com with not one, but two weddings this year and Sophie has suggested that i keep my eye out for people who want more unusual weddings and might appreciate some crocheted goodies on their big day. So i’m planning a photo shoot sometime in march/April which will feature a three tier gothic wedding cake, crocheted in black and dark purple and decorated with cameo brooches, roses and sharp silver studs. It’s going to look divine and would be the perfect thing for a goth who has a bit of a fetish for wool :^D
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http://www.rockmywedding.com
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I’m knitting with only one needle

06 Thursday Dec 2012

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Crochet, Handmade

Found the most brill thing ever on a blog called According to Matt, its a crochet Jammy Dodger! http://accordingtomatt.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/jammy-dodger-pattern.html?m=1

Heres one of many I have made

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I made about twelve to start making a biscuit blanket but it didn’t look quite right so I’m currently experimenting with a Jammy Dodger Cushion

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Not bad considering and It’s given me inspiration for new projects such as cherry bake-wells and pie pin cushions I just wish i could find a site from years ago that showed you how to make a Starbucks Cup, Ice Cream Cones and even a prawn sushi back pack. That would just be amazing

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