Helping Charity and Winning Pretties!

There is a fabulous arts and crafts directory out there called Crafts 4 Charity run by Mick of Shpangle jewellery in which every crafter listed (Lou Lou's Luxuries amongst them!) has given a donation to charity for the privilege of being listed!

A little while ago the Crafts 4 Charity blog ran a competition. The way of entering was to come up with a new idea to make the directory even better and to make more money for charity too. This proved pretty difficult as the fabulous Mick had already made it pretty perfect!

There were four entries to the competition in the end, all with the chance of winning a fabulous piece of jewellery from Shpangles! And guess what? They all won! And I was one of them!

I came home from work last week to a lovely little package:



And here's the close up!




I highly recommend having a browse of the Crafts For Charity Directory to find unique gift ideas and know that you're buying from crafters with a heart!

I'd also recommend Shpangle jewellery! Such a gorgeous necklace cannot go unnoticed! I'm still trying to decide whether to give it as a gift or keep it for myself!

Thank you so much Mick!

October Folksfest!

There is another daily listings club taking over Folksy!

This month it's the October Folkfest!

I wish I could take part in this and list every day but unfortunately this weekend has been less than fruitful on the making front. This is because of a supplies order that still has not arrived after 36 days! Now, I know this order was coming from a land afar but this is ridiculous! Hopefully it will be sorted soon and some replacement orders have been placed so fingers crossed for lots of new pretties soon!

So I thought I would take this opportunity to show off some off the fabulous items already available as part of the October Folksfest!






I've been a little cheeky and included two of my own up above there! I wonder if you can tell which ones they are??

Don't forget...Those shown above are jut a small sample of all the beautiful items currently available as part of the October Folkfest! They'll be more added everyday!

You can follow a lot of the October Folkfest taker-part-erers (good word I think you'll agree!) by searching for #octoberfolkfest on Twitter!