Time to pick the winners of my holiday giveaway. As promised, I split them into two lists and then used the random number generator. The winner of the Jammie Dodger pack is HazelEyes and the Happy Orange pack goes to Trekky. Congratulations! I’ll be in touch soon to get your addresses.

Here also is a photo of my first bunch of daffodils of 2012. Daffodils are my favourite flower so I always grab them as soon as I see them pop up in the shops. Seems a bit early this year though, but at least they’re brightening up the dark mornings.

I have clearly been on holiday too long as I opened Illustrator the other day, made the above pattern almost on autopilot and totally love it. Hopefully I can learn how to do that while sleeping too.

I posted some end of year lists over at diskant i you want to know my favourite records, films, books, zines and events of 2011. The other lists are a good read too.

All my shops are open again and shipping is back to normal as of tomorrow.

Speaking of diaries, they are all sold out, hurray! I hope you’re all enjoying filling them in. There will be another edition in the Autumn to start in 2013, but if anyone needs a custom one starting on another month this year, get in touch and I can work out a price for that.

My Sew Cute rainboots are also starting to sell out worldwide so if you fancy a pair you’re running out of time. UK sizes 5 and 6 are all gone everywhere. I’ve got a few in size 7 and 8 and there are some size 4s available from Plueys.

In other shop news, my Folksy store now only accepts orders from UK buyers and has free shipping. My Etsy and DaWanda stores have free shipping within the EU and everyone else will pay a small shipping fee. This has made things so much easier for me and since most of my orders from those shops are for one item, hopefully it makes things easier for you too. I think I’m keeping shipping separate on my main shop though, so if you’re planning a big order, that’s probably the best value for combined shipping. Wow, that was boring.

Don’t forget, the end of year sale is still running, and so is the giveaway!

Tamtokki is a brand new shop in Bordeaux and my first French stockist. It’s a really cute store and I’m proud have my gift wrap sitting alongside products by Shinzi Katoh, Momiji and Decole!

Quirky Boutique is closer to home, an online store based in Liverpool. They have some great gifts on offer, including a selection of my stationery.

And finally, Tania Holland Gallery is in Bridgnorth near Birmingham – if you’re in the area do pop in to browse the art and handmade gifts, including a range of my items.

Big thanks everyone who voted for my cookie in the Spoonflower contest. He came in fourth! Spoonflower sewed up all the top ten designs and doesn’t he look adorable? I think I need to order some. Is it worth me buying extra to sell? Leave a comment if you might want one.

You can also buy the pattern direct from my Spoonflower shop for just $5.

(Photo by Spoonflower)

We found this family of giant bunnies outside Spitalfields Market in London – aren’t they ace? My new life motto is, ‘you can never go in the wrong direction; you can just find some giant bunnies instead’. While we were technically going in the wrong direction for the Renegade Craft Market, I was even happier with giant bunnies and a spot to eat the giant brownie we’d just purchased. Renegade was cool, but I forgot to take any photos, and didn’t buy anything, so maybe have a look at Kim from Finest Imaginary’s blog post instead. Legoland still to come – I’m waiting on my sister’s photos of me being an idiot.

In other news:

1. We got over 25 Likes on Facebook so go enter the giveaway to win a half-size Busy Bee Organiser.

2. Keep the Pocket Ghosts giveaway entries coming! In the interests of fairness (especially since my own mother entered!), I’ve not clicked any of the links yet. I’ll open them all up on Friday and pick my favourites and then see who posted them. I will say that I already own this adorable t-shirt so try again!

3. The Moon was ginormous last night. I wished I could show you what it looks like through my little telescope and actually I kind of can! My photo is a bit fuzzy but still, THE MOON.

So, I gave in and started an Asking For Trouble Facebook page. Obviously, we’re looking very unpopular at the moment so it would be awesome if you would Like it. I’ve already got some little treats set aside for giveaways when I get 25, 50 and 100 Likes so get to it – the sooner you like us, the more chances you’ll have to win a prize!

In other news, all my parcels are arriving in the wrong order! I have Christmas cards and 2012 calendar magnets, but my badges, gift wrap sets and secret publications that shipped before those are still to turn up. Sometimes I hate my postman (that is, pretty much every day except Sunday).

As mentioned, I am off to London tomorrow for a mini-holiday. The plan is to check out the Renegade Craft Fair on Sunday to see all the awesome sellers and then go to Legoland on Monday. I have always wanted to go to Legoland so I’m very excited. Anyway, here is the news:

1. I’ll be posting my little ghost giveaway tomorrow so make sure you come by and enter!

2. You can also win a pack of zines from pushpin over at TokyoBunnie, which includes my Tokyo Shopping Guide. It ends soon though so hurry!

3. My shops are open but orders won’t be shipped until Wednesday.

4. I finished my perler bead Arecibo and it looks great. I haven’t had a chance to photograph it yet, and it really needs a black paper backing for the frame but still, exciting!

5. If you get bored, have a look at some of the cool websites I’ve been working on lately, over on my portfolio blog.

6. Coming soon – another peek at my upcoming Christmas designs, a crafty book review, a ton of zine reviews, the launch of my secret publication and lots more. Woo!

Click here for a chance to win these zines at TokyoBunnie

I’ve just added two new shops to my stockists page. The first is all the way over in Prague, at a lovely international bookshop for children called Amadito & Friends. They’ve got a whole lot of my badges and a few other things.

The other is closer to home – Mind The Gap in DeCourcey’s Arcade here in Glasgow. They sell art supplies and gifts and now have the full range of my gift wrap and tags, plus some badges and stationery.

Please do pay them a visit if you’re in the area!

1. After a very very long time, I have finally made some Cakeify and Friends sticky notes. It basically took me two years to add that heart to my design in progress and now it looks great. Hurray! They’re in my shops now.

2. Thea at Pretty in the Kitchen has made another Blythe dress, this time with my teeny weeny Bunny & Panda fabric. Now it’s even cuter! This one has sold already but you can contact Thea if you’d like her to make you one.

More news very soon!

The day has arrived and my zine distro is now open! Please head over to pushpin zines where you’ll find a large selection of fabulous zines for your entertainment. I’ve had to read to them all in order to write the product descriptions so I can say with confidence that they are all definitely worth your money.

There are more exciting zines and surprises to come over the next few weeks so I hope you’ll subscribe to the pushpin blog and keep up to date. It won’t be a proper blog like this one, but I don’t want to be posting too much zine stuff over here.

You can also pick up a copy of my new zine – my guide to Glasgow! No prizes if you guessed that was the subject. I spent a lot of time on the blog post version so it seemed worth expanding into a zine for visitors. There will be a PDF version soon too.

Speaking of PDFs, all my PDF zines are now available from pushpin and not Asking For Trouble, basically because I only want to pay for one Fetch account for the digital delivery. My printed zines and book will be available from both though.

Phew! It’s been a busy old month and June is going to be even busier! I just added all my upcoming events (more on these soon), train journeys and other important dates to my iPhone calendar and now June is a sea of dots.

Anyway, hope you like pushpin and as a treat, anyone who orders something by midnight on Friday will get a free badge and the first 5 orders will get a free zine (chosen by me)*. Off you go!

*You need to order at least 1 non-digital product as I can’t send badges via email, yet. If you want a specific badge, leave a note at checkout.