Happy Halloween everyone! let the Trick or Treatin' commence! 
This year, my husband has realised that it is far better to be the one staying at home with a glass of wine and handing out the treats than traipsing around in the rain (it always rains) with our sweet crazed children. Damn!

BIG NEWS! The Wrens have hatched!

I have an announcement to make! Myself and 3 other lovely designer birds Dawn Machell, Sue Driscoll and Wendy Kendall have been busy hatching up the DOTTY WREN STUDIO. And what's more.... we are going to SURTEX, next year 2014... oh yes we are, so exciting!

I'm amazed we've actually gone and done it... the booth is booked, we're on our way! 

This is something we've all separately wanted to do for ages. Dawn and I have chewed over the dream in endless emails. We met Sue and Wendy in Lilla's MATS course, all caught the train up to 

Wendy's house a couple of weeks ago, hatched up a name over several hours and several bottles of pink fizz, a nice curry (thanks Wendy!) and decided to go for it. 

Now, comes the next bit....working towards Surtex but while we're doing that, in the meantime...

we'd love to hear from you!

What are you waiting for, fly yourselves over to our website and blog to find out more. 
www.dottywrenstudio.com

These wings were made to fly!! :-) 

I know it's another squizzer but there are lots of cute little squirrels bobbing around in my neck of the woods at the moment . I should imagine last night they were blown about a bit in the predicted great storm of storms that turned out to be 'windy but not as windy as everyone was expecting!'

Hey, what's up!

Lots is what's up, that's what! I don't normally love when the cold weather creeps in and everything gets soggy. But it's ok this year... The trick is to have lots on..... exciting stuff around the corner, watch this space! 

I've met and spoken to some wonderful people recently who are genuinely lovely and inspiring. 

And, it's the Bake off final tonight.... what more does a girl need, my spot on the sofa is booked!! 

Happy Thursday all! 

Ooo... how fab! A dino design of mine is over on Print & Pattern today. It's one I've done for 

the wonderful Dashwood Studio. Hot foot it over to Fabric Rehab right now and get some... or the dinosaurs will come and get you!

So, a while ago, when I had a quiet day, I signed up for the Great Big Stitched Postcard Swap... not thinking at the time about actually getting it done! So, at the weekend, I rustled up a quick postcard which will be winging its way across the ocean to Judy in America. The theme was celebration... and I say celebrate and enjoy each day people because each one is a little blessing!