The lightbulb effect

My friend Cath, who is a fantastic photographer was bought a light lox for christmas from her husband. She has since taken a photo of a bag I made for her last year and look how good the photo has come out. The bag looks much better here than in my poor attempt. The suede [...]

Its finished

I am stuck at home with a sick child – fever all weekend and turns out to be yet ANOTHER bout of tonsillitis. So going slowly insane as i am really not very good at being in the house all day, especially as Martha seems to have developed a wheeze.
On a good note i have [...]

So sewing again

It has taken me so long to get back into sewing since Christmas. There seems to have been so much to do and caffeine/sugar/carbohydrate withdrawal have meant that i have not been a particularly nice person recently.
So anyway i am now getting stuck into making the nappy bag for Naomi, mum of my new [...]

Welcome to the world

Little Michael Dennis Phelan was born this morning at 2.14am at home. My big brother Richard is a daddy for the first time and i am just so over the moon. Restraining myself so that i dont go rushing around there. 8lb 9oz. Congratulations to Richard and Naomi

Shes only gone and done it

Yup gone and got myself an Etsy shop. www.joannabags.etsy.com Only got two items on there at the mo – Christmas was very successful with my stock. Also currently working on an Amy Butler Nappy bag for my sister-in-law and have another two orders after that. So then i will be ready to [...]

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Chickens

As you can see in the right hand tool bar there is a chicken and a banner with the strange title of “Chicken Out”. For those of you in the UK you will have seen the big push to get everyone to buy free-range chicken or better still organic. If you havent seen the [...]

Apologies in advance

Just a quick post to say that if any subsequent posts become moany ranty objectionable and argumentative it is because i am on a two week detox thingy. Not a just eat celery and water one but i am cutting out all carbs, wine, coffee and chocolate for two weeks to give my body [...]

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everybody. With Oliver’s last day home yesterday i decided we were going to have a joint effort at making cakes. Something we haven’t done very much since Martha was born as she is allergic to eggs and putting her finger in the mixture would just not be a good thing. So having [...]