Oh My Golly Embroidery

Hand holding a vinyl sticker with the words ‘trans lives are more important than Harry potter’ in white block letters on a black background. Lots of other stickers lay spread out behind the one being held.

Just restocked these stickers!

Thank you 🙏🏻

Embroidery hoop on black background. Stitched in black thread are the words “trans lives are more important than Harry Potter”.

Important reminder today (and always)

A black embroidery hoop with cream coloured calico fabric with ‘so it goes’ stitched in black thread. The letters are slightly wonky block letters.

A little Vonnegut appreciation. And only a little, a teeny tiny 2 inch hoop in fact.

The back of an unfinished embroidery hoop laying on a blanket surrounded by a pair of small black scissors, black thread, a pair of glasses and a small jar of thread scraps.

My view for most of today

A collection of 12 different vintage cigarette cards. On the cards are pictures of historical figures, flowers, plants and insects. All in colour.

A collection of nine different vintage playing cards. All feature coloured illustrations of human characters or animals and one has a photograph of a cat.

New (old) supplies to add to my mini collage kits. I’m constantly searching for things to include and it feels like a win every time I find something. Haven’t figured out if links are allowed on here but collage kits are available in my Etsy shop.

A hand with a plaster on one finger placed over an unfinished embroidery design with hundreds of tiny black dots stitched in black thread. The majority of the embroidery is obscured by the hand.

Stitched so many of these teeny tiny dots that my ‘needle pushing’ finger is wrecked. Thimbles are too bulky, even the rubber ones, so plasters it is. I mean some people put their lives on the line for work, but we embroidery artists have our own struggles yeah?

Thank you ♥️

Screenshot of my Etsy shop page with six different embroidery hoops and the prices at 50% off.

I currently have a half price sale on many hoops in my shop. It’s on until the end of the month. And I only just found out that it’s National Embroidery Month! So what better time than now to buy some embroidery art?

Had a dream last night that I got a £200 Etsy order and woke up this morning excited to sort it out before I realised it wasn’t real. My dreams are taunting me.

Haha I got one of these for this year and I also now realise how bad at geography I am!

Hand holding a small collage kit: a bag filled with random cuttings including a stamp, a picture of Frank Sinatra and a gift tag. Other collage kits are in the background.

It takes me so long to put together these little collage kits. I use tweezers to get the small items neatly in the bag. But it’s so satisfying to do. I just wish I was a bit quicker!

Its completely wiped me out for days!

Had the worst cold right before Christmas and now I have a terrible cold before January is even done. All my good intentions to get shit done in the new year completely out the window. BUT I did manage to set up a half price sale in my Etsy shop on many hoops. Runs for a month. Now I’ll nap.

Haven’t stitched a stitch since loooong before Christmas and itching to get back to it. But business admin and life admin have been getting in the way. Longing to stitch along to an audiobook but who has the time?!

Hand holding a small black embroidery hoop with other hoops in the background. In the hoop is the words ‘slow down’ stitched in black with thick, slightly bubbly writing.

Celebrating the fact that I finished my tax return already and didn’t leave it until the day before it was due, like most previous years. Gonna ‘slow down’ this weekend, maybe watch a movie, maybe take a nap or two. There are perks to being organised. Who knew?!

Thank you so much!

Must make an effort to post here more now the meta ship is sinking because zuck is an iceberg or some other analogy that makes sense. Here’s an embroidery. I have more. I’ll post more if I remember.

Sharing this from IG here because I guess I need to spread the word. This GPSR stuff is a headache, right?

A white womans hand holding up three small collage kit packs labelled ‘Oh My Golly Collage Kit’ against a pale pink wall

Someone with over 300k followers shared my collage kits on a Christmas gift guide yesterday but didn’t tag/link me which in previous years would have bothered me immensely but now I’m in the ‘who cares’ era of small business. I still got a few extra sales out of it so I’m calling it a small win.

I’ve considered giving up embroidery (as a money earner) an uncountable amount of times this year due to business being terrible, personal life things being intense and motivation being so low. And yet I persevere and I’m wondering if it’s hope or stupidity that’s keeping me going.

Thank you. My eyes really struggled so I’m not sure I’ll be making one like this again! It took me forever!

Embroidery hoop filled with hundreds of tiny black seed stitches covering the bottom half fabric with a block of black satin style stitch at the top. Overlapping the two sections, slightly off centre, is a circle of tiny dots, also stitched in black thread.

In an effort not to do my usual ‘post once then never again’ that happens with every other new social media platform I join, here I am posting for the second time. And here is another embroidery of mine.

A picture of a wooden embroidery hoop with three ghosts stitched onto cream coloured calico fabric in black thread. One ghost is wearing sunglasses, another holding a drink.

I guess I should post something here to introduce myself. I’m an embroidery artist in the UK selling hoops like this and some other bits and bobs in my etsy shop. Is it nice here?