New Year, New Products

Hello all!
It sure is nice to be back in blogland. I hope you all have enjoyed your well deserved Christmas, New Years, work and school breaks.

Today I would like to introduce a new product to the Pannikin Etsy store - 25mm badges! Yes, I bought a badgemaker a few months ago and have gone a little button mad. After a lengthy session of creating these babies, my studio (aka my bedroom) looks like some kind of mini cyclone has ripped through it. But it's totally worth it, because the end result is adorable, if I do say so myself.

This morning I have uploaded the 'Wonderland' series of badges, which is made up of 5 pairs of unique Alice in Wonderland pins, all created with vintage Little Golden Book cutouts. Each set is only $5 US and come packaged all pretty like. (Photos of packing are coming soon, I promise!)
Please keep checking back, as I will be uploading different collections during the week. Some of these include pins made from kawaii Japanese fabric (with owls, squirrels, rabbits and more!), handprinted Japanese paper and of course, more adorable storybook images - think cats, deer houses and sweet little children.

Until then, have yourselves a lovely time. Don't work too hard!

PSST! Spend over $15 in my Etsy store to receive a complimentary 25mm badge, chosen at random. But rest assured that they will be just as cute as the ones for sale. Hey, you could even give it to a friend or relative for extra brownie points!

New Products!

I've just uploaded some brand new brooches to my etsy store. Each brooch measures 38mm in diameter and are covered in quilting fabric, vintage handkerchiefs, and various other printed fabrics. There are 10 different designs to choose from. Pop on over to my shop to see the rest! http://www.pannikin.etsy.com/

Announcement

Hello to all the beautiful people who read and/or follow this little blog of mine and big welcome to the newcomers! Take the time to brew a tea and make yourself comfortable - ginger biscuits optional. I'd like to share with you all some great news...

I have now begun selling my handmade goodies on Etsy!

Please click here to take a look. I truly appreciate your feedback too, so if there is anything you'd like more or less of etc it'd be great to know!

PS. My MadeIt shop will still be open until my products are either sold or the listings expire.

My Sweet Wren

It was all squeals of glee when I discovered a lovely shop by the name of 'My Sweet Wren' on Etsy last week. It's the kind of store where you basically want to buy everything for sale because it is just all sorts of wonderful (but that would be greedy now, wouldn't it?).

The team (from Melbourne, Australia) describe themselves on their profile as "suckers for vintage loveliness, faded glory and whippets. We wished we could have been ballerinas purely for the tutus. We like to stitch and to paste. We love old reference books, vintage haberdashery, the word haberdashery, Spring, bluebells and sweet wrens."

Anyway, my little parcel arrived in the mail a few days ago - look what I scored!



Over 50 Vintage World Stamps
(You can buy this here)

Vintage Ephemera Sampler
(You can buy this here)

Over 100 Vintage Atlas Rounds
(You can buy this here)

I'll definitely be back for more - opening their beautifully packaged goodie bags was, dare I say it, better than Christmas.

And The Winner Is...

http://www.thehandmadeexpo.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to Micky of 'The Handmade Expo' blog, who scored a polymer clay doughnut pendant which has been described as "tasty enough to eat!" just by answering this question:

If you could invent any kind of doughnut flavour, what would it be?
Answer: I would like to taste a choc-mint flavoured doughnut - YUMMO!

Micky will soon be receiving her very own doughnut pendant via the postal service very shortly. Hooray!

*Stay tuned for more future giveaways*

New Product!

A long while back I was selling lasercut acrylic necklace pendants and to my delight I found two of them hiding in the studio (aka my bedroom). The white meat cleaver you see above has been uploaded to the MadeIt website. If you'd like a better look, just click here.

A black sewing machine pendant has been sent on over to the creators of 'Therefore" magazine to soon be used as a giveaway along with a little feature of yours truly.

Please keep an eye out for this little handmade mag, as I've been told that issue 1 is almost ready to be published and I'm sure it's going to be amazing. If you'd like more information, pop on over to the blog: thereforemagazine.blogspot.com. They are a lovely team and are ever so friendly, so don't shy - say hello!

Giveaway!

Up for grabs is this sweet little Doughnut Pendant, handmade by me out of polymer clay.
The bail is silver, so you can pop your pendant on any silver necklace that you own. Or, if you like, you can hang it from ribbon, cord, or even turn it into a handbag charm.

To go into the draw to win, simply email me an answer to this question: If you could invent any kind of doughnut flavour, what would it be? Personally, I'd love to try out a Turkish Delight flavour. Yum.

Good luck to all entrants!

***GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED***
CONGRATULATIONS, MICKY!


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Only 1 winner will be selected to win 1 doughnut pendant (pictured above).

Please pop your answer in an email and send it to: pannikin_accessories@hotmail.com.

Your postal address must be within Australia. If you are the selected winner, an email will be sent out to you requesting your postal address. Please reply with relevant information promptly.

Winner will be selected by the pulling-a-name-out-of-a-hat system on Saturday 19th September 2009, so get your answer in before that day to be win!