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Are you suffering from dull, colourless legs? Then look no further than new  Folksy shop    Tights For Sore Eyes Drawn by the clever name and funky photos, I decided to find out a bit more............ Recently opened, Tights For Sore Eyes is run by Scotland-based Danni and Nikki McWilliams. With backgrounds in fashion design, marketing and fine art Danni and Nikki set about combining their individual passions to create tongue in cheek fashion and art for legs everywhere Each pair of tights is screen-printed by hand in a variety of cool colours including vanilla, mint, red, green and baby pink. With designs including Mr Moustache, Winged Diamond (with Swarovski Crystals) and Grape Toxicity, your legs need never feel in the shade again! Find out more about Tights For Sore Eyes  by visiting Danni and Nikki's BLOG

This week's Folksy  Friday is all about CATS! Mel Croft Illustration Quernus Crafts The Sunroom Jessica Woodhouse Northfield Primitives Millicent

 Folksy Friday   Today I am mostly feeling Turquoise Dive into the blue with these beautiful finds from   Folksy Toucan Ceramics righthand Gelert Design mengsel Fizzy Popov Northfield Primitives

T his week's Folksy Friday features Folksy  shop owner Fiona T  ~ stay at home Mum to Anakin Skywalker! Fiona, who opened her Folksy shop at the beginning of May, sells delightful embroidered and applique covered notebooks. Currently living in Derbyshire, she studied Textiles (embroidery) at Nottingham Trent University and has been drawing, knitting and sewing for as long as she can remember. Pink Ninja Fiona's items are the result of a collaboration with her sister, translating her sister's pen & ink drawings into Fiona's fabric 'sketches', before creating a fun end product. Each tiny piece is cut and stitched by hand, so every design is unique. Fiona likes to work with calico, cotton & linen, using applique, hand and free machine embroidery. Pink Cupcakes Notebook cover It was doing some freelance design work for a greetings card company which kickstarted the sewing/embroidery bug: "I had made some embroider...

     This week's Folksy Friday Picks ~ ♥ Father's Day Gift Ideas  ♥ Bacon Resin Cufflinks ~ Birdcage Creative Wine Bottle Stopper ~ Diggi Woodturning     Cool Cucumber Mint Soap ~ Melusine Soap Father's Day Card ~ Spotty N Stripy                               Father's Day T Shirt "Tattoo" ~ PIDGEONSTITCH   Rockabilly Father's Day Card ~ Konnie Kapow Another great selection of original handmade items from talented Folksy shop owners!

Yes, this week I've gone potty! I've always had a love for ceramics and admire how a lump of clay can be transformed into a beautiful piece of art. Here's my selection for this week's Folksy Friday Yarn Bowl ~ Caractacus Pots Flower Crochet Purse ~ Rebecca Keelor Ceramics WaterLily Dish ~ Prince Design UK Moss & Pewter Ring ~ Gimme That Thing (Chicita) Porcelain Magnets ~ Lauren Ceramics Star Trinket Plate ~ Sarah Designs All available on Folksy!

Today's Folksy Friday is slightly different ~ I've decided to feature the work of one Folksy shop which this week is .............. Millicent! Folksy shop Millicent is run by Janet Allinson from Lincolnshire and is named after her daughter Milly. Janet worked as a reporter for her local paper for 17 years before returning to her art roots. She got into recycling in 2006 (when her husband began hiding his shirts!) and regularly scours her local charity shops for interesting materials, particularly spots and stripes. Bag Tag Once her finds have been washed Janet is ready to start creating her bright and colourful paperweights, fridge magnets, tags, pencil cases, hangers and bookmarks. Each piece is unique and evolves in it's own way. It was her very cute mouse paperweights that made me stop and investigate her shop!  Retro Mouse Paperweight Folk Bird Hanger Blackboard Bookmark Fi-Fi Fridge Magnet Felt Cone Hanger Heavy Heart Paperweight For ...

M y Folksy pick this week just HAD to be........   CHOCOLATE! ~ ♥ ENJOY!! ♥~ Chocolate Cake Coin Purse Dinky Daisy Chocolate Mocha Bubbles Pearl Bracelet AMI Designs Chocolate Hot Water Bottle Cover Amanda Sainsbury Galaxy Of Chocolate Wedding Tree Bouquet jamball Chocolate Cupcake Card Snowdon Chocolate Lollipop Cushion BLONDEDESIGN ♥ Some of these Folksy  shops are familiar to me, some aren't, but they are all selling the most beautiful, well made, handcrafted items you could find anywhere ♥ ~♥ Take a look ♥~ And one last chocolate photo just for the hell of it!