Please have a look at my new vibrant pink fairytale bag/mini tote - it's a dream for girls, both large and small !

Click here: Etsy Shop AmandasImagination

I have lots of new things made now and ready to list on Etsy and TheCraftStar - it's very exciting as I feel really into the swing of it now...

I am also about to list some craft supplies too - buttons to start with and also some handmade craft supplies, such as crochet flowers that you can use on beautiful wrapping for gifts, or maybe as a corsage, or to embellish your own craft work in some way - no limits !

I will also be listing some .pdf downloads of crochet patterns that I have designed myself - just have to get them all down on paper and legible !!

Please - if you have any ideas at all of things that you would like to see for sale in my Etsy shop, please send me a message here or email me on Sophiiireland@gmail.com

Talk soon !!

Here is my latest offering on Etsy - it's a pretty girl's cardigan, made in crochet with denim blue yarn

I love the colour and the trim, and the painted wooden buttons are too cute 

Click Here:   http://www.etsy.com/listing/99208247/girls-crochet-cardigan-ready-to-ship

As well as my new Etsy shop, I am about to open a new online shop on TheCraftStar's new website (when it is up and running). It will be called Amanda Jane.

Here is a link to TheCraftStar's facebook page - where all new info about the new site is being posted for now
http://www.facebook.com/thecraftstar

Anyone LIKING their page can claim Free Shipping from my Etsy Shop until the end of May 2012. Code CRAFTSTARFREEPOST

I have just added this listing to my Etsy shop 'AmandasImagination', which sells the Amanda Jane crochet & clothes range.

It's a special listing "custom made to order", a cute baby hat similar to the one in the photo - choose your own size and colour etc.

There is also another listing if you prefer a cream hat that's already made.

Click Here to see it   http://www.etsy.com/listing/98558013/crochet-baby-hat-custom-made-to-order

Etsy Shop - Amanda Jane Label

Please share this link with your friends !


In order to kickstart my very new Etsy shop I am offering a 50% discount on any item in my shop to the first 5 customers who purchase something !

http://www.etsy.com/shop/AmandasImagination?ref=si_shop
http://www.etsy.com/listing/98558013/crochet-baby-hat-custom-made-to-order

I will have a similar offer when I very soon open my new CraftStar shop!

{Pistachio Green Merino Wool Baby Jumper}

by Amanda Jane

I would welcome all your ideas for things that I could make and sell to my customers, both online and off !

Restarting Wild Cottage Blog at Last !

As of today - 24th April 2012 - I am restarting this blog as I seem to have got my momentum back !!

I will update it this evening with some new photos and my BIG NEWS :o)

An October Day of Gathering Free Food

Blackberries & sloes gathered in my fields.

I freeze the blackberries for adding to crumbles etc during the winter.

I freeze the sloes also, and use many to make Sloe Gin. I will post my personal recipe instructions for this tomorrow.

I also sometimes make Sloe Jelly.

 Moon daisies still flowering in mid October !

 Mushrooms - I'm afraid I don't know what kind these are.

If anyone out there knows please let me know !

A closer photo of the same cute small mushrooms

 These are Shaggy Ink Caps - an edible mushroom that is very prolific around my land and the area in general.

They must be fried/eaten as soon as you pick them, otherwise you will have a pool of black gooey liquid to clear up and totally disappeared mushrooms !