AuntyApplesRefinery

The life and times of a part time crafter - full time irish mammy

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Team Treasury Challenge

Officially i won the team treasury challenge, thanks for everybody who voted for me.
and all my friends on facebook.

Wow i am overwhelmed.

Well today i went and bought 20 donuts to photo on a cake stand for a lady who would like to see what donuts would look like.Needless to say my dietician wont be happy with my colossal weight gain this month... any excuse to buy donuts.





 Purls from etsy was sending me convo's and i really feel like part of the team. Thanks for including me

Monday 20 June 2011

http://www.stylishhome.com

I have recently been listed on this website and i love it. www.stylishhome.com
There are lots of lovely stylish home goods and at very reasonable prices.

Best of all there is lots of handmade and vintage items with lovely decour ideas.
Please do take a look and let me know what you think.


Glendalough Market.

I went two weeks in a row and i've been very disappointed with the turn out.
I willl give it one more try before i give up.

Oh today will be dedicated to getting new cake stands made and listed.
The photographing is the difficult part but i am excited because i am getting better at it.


I will have some new photo's tonight or tomorrow.

xx Apple xx

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Preview of new Stock

 Here is a preview of my new cake stands.
I am only sending this out to a few people, i hope you like some of what you see.
The stands have not been finished but i am trying to keep people happy and create what people want before i do new items for the shop.

Arklow Pottery piece. The bottom plate is arklow pottery and even though the top plate is a close match it is not by the same manufacturer.




Pink Roses - Both plates have pink roses, the top plate's image is very vibrant with a lovely gold edge. 
Top plate is carrigaline and i cannot date it. 
The bottom plate, date's to the 1930's from what i can read online regarding the marks on the back



Another Arklow pottery theme
This stand has an arklow pottery bottom plate, its arklow so its definitly vintage
the middle plate is modern and i cannot date the top plate



Summer buds - Bottom plate is colclough and vintage, i cannot date the other two.












Carrigaline - Three carrigaline plates in small, medium and large ( photo isnt great sorry  )


Mini rose buds on green with gold and white 
top plate is green under the gold with rose buds
The buds on the middle plate are very bright 
Pattern on the bottom is amazing and very clear



I needed something plain to go with the top plate, as everything else just takes away from it. 
Hope you like


Tuesday 7 June 2011

TuesdayBlues

Today i have the blues,i am trying to get crafting and failing gracefully
I was planning on finishing my lamp this evening but an evening of reading and relaxing might just happen instead.
I will be the laragh craft fair on sunday so its all go go go here to get prepared.
My shop will be off line for sunday so i dont double sell anything.

More photo's soon

Thursday 2 June 2011

Pincushion teacups

I have a lot of teacups from buying tea sets and i decided to use them up, so i made some pincusions.
:)


New Cake Stands

Well i have been busy moving workshop and learning to take photographs so this batch has been slow to arrive.
I hope you like them. I done the photo's myself