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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 - sending a card can make the recipients day! You don't have to stick to a standard old supermarket card either - there are loads of funny original cards online that you can personalise and make extra special! 2) P

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 whole day 'designing' my own backpack so that when I went to school I could be different from everybody else. I spent hours stitching on patches, I used puffy paint and hand drew designs all over that bag. Onc

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 little bit of practise to get the hang of it, and I was amazed by the potential designs and colours that you can use... the combinations are endless! This year after lots of fiddling around on my laptop, I have

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 bloggers, other small businesses, advertisers and most likely scammers. All of them asking for the same thing: FREEBIES in exchange for exposure. The trouble is - unless you are a national newspaper, major onli

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 advice that I have picked up on my craft fair journey so far! Hopefully it will help somebody else who is thinking of going to their first craft fair feel less nervous! STOCK One of the first things you should th

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 kit is our Narwhal patch kit! Narwhals are without a doubt one of the oddest most magical creatures of the animal kingdom. It's a unicorn whale hybrid and it is also a rare and endangered creature. We wanted