We all love to take selfies and photos of our friends, pets and family - and even the photos that we look a bit daft in we will still keep on our phones to laugh at later on.

But after a while those pictures get forgotten..

lost forever... 

and even our best selfies...

Got a friend that you don't see very often? Or maybe you just want to shower your appreciation on your close buddies? Heres some ideas of how to show them that you care...
 

1) Send them a card
A nice little pick me up in the post, not too expensive and easy to do - se...

I don't know why but this has popped into my head and I felt the need to write a blog about it (so please bear with me!)

Let me tell you a story...

As a kid I remember getting ferociously bullied for being the 'weird one'. 

I vividly remember that I once spent a who...

I first learnt how to cross stitch at school aged 7 (I stitched a very square looking snail haha!) and at first I wasn't exactly sold...it was fiddly and tricky to figure out how to read a pattern. 

But flash forward a few years and I was hooked. It only took me...

A bit of a tiny grumble...

Recently I've noticed a growing trend happening in my email inbox, and after speaking to some of my fellow creative business friends they seem to have had the same thing happen to them!

I get these emails at least once a week - from blogger...

Hello! 

I've done quite a few craft fairs since starting Ellbie Co. in 2017 but my first one was definitely the scariest - mainly because I just didn't know what to expect! 

I'm not an expert by any means - but I wanted to write this blog to offer some tips and...

We have a range of embroidery patch kits - for beginners to get started with embroidery!

All of these patch kits were created with a different message behind each one - and little by little I'm going to be explaining the meaning/thoughts behind each one!

The second k...

Because we all know the best things in life come in rainbow form! 

1) Glitter fabric - I can't get enough of this stuff just think of the possibilities... 
Click here to get your hands on some sparkly magic fabric!

2) Rainbow washi tape - add it to anything and i...

Hello! 

A question that I get asked quite regularly is: 'How do you make your kits?'

And my answer is always pretty simple - 'I just make them...I dunno!'

But I realised the other day that actually I go through a process with each kit that is fairly similar - so her...

We are all guilty of it! Myself included. You have a spare half an hour in the evening and instead of doing anything productive or beneficial we just sit and scroll through facebook or instagram - not even taking anything in...looking at endless age old memes and adver...