Gossamer Dreams February

Gossamer Dreams goes live tonight with theme Sweet Dreams
This will be my last offering for the GD store as this morning I sadly made the decision to withdraw.
I have 2 items, I did have a third but decided not to offer it at this time.
There is one KK AIO in large, with angel fabric trim, and a really pretty pink necklace with sweets shaped beads.
The auction on my Minicuteture Store is still running

Bushfire Auction-Capris Set

I have just put up an auction for bushfire relief on my Minicuteture Store

A recommendation

I rarely single out wahms and/or their products as there are so many good ones.
However I would like to give a one-off plug.For those of you who knit, do check out The Dye Pot at Minicuteture.
Sara is lovely to deal with and of all the wool I have used hers is my very favourite.
Often you get a great wool from somewhere so you buy more, and suddenly you find it is not as good as when you first bought some. This is not the case with The Dye Pot. Every ball I have bought has been superb in quality,gorgeous colours, knits beautifully and guaranteed not to run; and the service is spot on.
Just leave some for me !!!

Ongoing charity donatioins

As most of you know Possum Pouches always gives a percentage of sales to charity, selecting a different one each month or 2. Jan and Feb had already been allocated to Salvation Army so I have now added March to that time frame, with the donations being divided between the Bushfire Relief for Victoria and the flood relief for North Qld.
This will include any items I make for the Gossamer Dreams stocking this weekend, and sales from Nappy Hunt month.

February- taking a short break

I have decided to take a break from orders/sales for NAPPIES ONLY for the remainder of February
During this time I will complete the current Intro to Cloth Packs and nappy orders and get ready for the Hunt in March
For way too long now I have been putting aside home and family related stuff and burning the candle at both ends trying to please everyone else. Now I need to catch up on the jobs here that have been pushed aside.
I do my knitting at night so am happy to continue to accept knitting orders. I normally sew during the day but in order to do paperwork and Hunt items, and still see my family I need to free up some of those days.I don't sew at night as the noise disturbs DH who goes to bed early and works very long, hard days.
Hopefully I will either have KKs listed instock during the hunt or will be able to make them to order. I actually prefer to accept orders by email rather than sales from stockings. So once Feb has gone I will be happy to accept most nappy orders-but please keep an eye on the blog in case anything changes in the meantime.
If however you have any questions or concerns about any Possum Pouches item please email me -via the Contact page at the website as I rarely look at forums anymore.I will do everything I can to help, but occasionally I may take just a little longer than the usual 24 hours to reply.

Moving into February-already

January was rather busy, to put it mildly. For the last week I had a very active 6 year old grandson ( the same one pictured in the original ceejays on my homepage )visiting, so spent time at the local pool, the museum and of course the toy shops . He is in Grade 1 this year, having completed Prep in 2008.
I was so busy I forgot to get photos. The blog photo is my 2 year old grandson making himself an omelette.
During February I will not be making many nappies as I have a lot of Intro to Cloth packs to do, as well as knitting orders.
I will be accepting orders for knits at any time but nappies/KKs will probably not be available till the hunt in March.
I need to catch up on paperwork too and am making some changes to the website, all of which takes time.
Don't forget to register for the hunt when registrations open.
I will post here later regarding what I will be doing for the hunt.

Gossamer Dreams stocking for January

It's that time of the month! Tomorrow Gossamer Dreams opens for January with the theme "My Australia".
I love everything about Australia so had lots of options here. However I have chosen a theme within a theme and decided to base my listings on endangered/threatened/at risk animals and places.
I had a lot of things in the planning but due to a heavy workload I was not able to do as many as I would have liked. However I will have a few items going up tomorrow.
Because I have gone with the "at risk" theme I had planned to have some items for sale from which all proceeds would go to one of my favourite conservation charities, but time slipped away; so instead I will be giving a little stuffed bear, as seen here in the pic free with each of my listed items and I will donate the value to the charities.These are ideal for Valentine's Day as they are embroidered on the arms with "love you beary much" and the arms tuck together to hold a little rose or lollipop or small gift.(Random colour ).
I will be away for the next few days so all items will be posted on my return.(I will also put this info in each listing).I will not be online at all between Thursday and Monday and then from Monday to the following weekend I am delighted to be having my 6 year old grandson to stay for the last week of the holidays, so my online time will be limited for that week.Please forgive me for being slower at replying to emails at that time.