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I hope you enjoy my new blog, with fluffy love and quacks, Mother Duck xxxx

Wednesday 7 September 2011


Where did the summer go? As we move into autumn we reflect on what we have been doing since out last Blog.


The workshop, affectionately known as “The Duck pond”, has had its refurbishment. Lots of lovely new shelving and a new hand built computer desk. We have so many plastic boxes – everything has been given a lovely new box so it will all fit beautifully on the shelves; we cleared the two closest Staples stores of a particular size of box. I wonder what they thought we were doing.  But the workshop is finally coming together, although there is still an awful lot that needs to find a tidy home! Mother Duck thinks we may need an extra little ‘shed’ so that we can have a fabric stash storage area – lots of yummy fabrics in storage boxes and on rolls, there is so much of it all! 
The workshop is also now in the 21st Century as we now have an internet connection; not sure if that is a good or bad thing as the easy ability to get on to the web could easily be a distraction.


This is part of the fabric stash, for the time being in the corner of the workshop; sat beautifully next to the hand built computer desk.

Did you know that you can buy from Dizzy Ducks Creation 24/7 via our website? http://www.dizzy-ducks-creations.co.uk/
We also have an open order book; if you see something on the website either for sale or in the galleries or in our fb photo albums, contact us and see whether we can make something similar for you. We also love making bespoke items, designing something just for you.  If you don’t ask you never know whether we can make something for you unless you ask.

Since our last Blog we have added a tab for Wedding Stationery to the website and we are actively attending Wedding Fairs. We are planning to make a full collection of our Swarovski crystal wedding jewellery, we have a volunteer who is willing to don her wedding dress and model for us and a local wedding photographer will take some professional pictures for us. We will let you know when it is happening.

We also have several Craft Fairs in the run up to Christmas – eeekkkkk we have mentioned the dreaded C word! There are 108 days until Christmas (today is 7th September) and it is NEVER too early to shop for Christmas!

We are frantically planning, albeit a bit late, our Autumn/Winter collection it will include jewellery, bags and gift items. If you have any ideas or particular wishes please contact us, we have a contact tab on our facebook page and on the website, so let us know and we can try to include them too.

love & fluffy quacks

Mother Duck

Friday 3 June 2011

The trolls and the disappearing ducks



It has been a while since Mother Duck has paid any attention to our Blog ~ sorry; life just has a habit of getting in the way of things!
So what news from Dizzy HQ?
Mother Duck had a short but successful stay in hospital; she is relieved to report that all results were negative and that we can all breathe a sigh of relief.

Our fb has been visited by trolls, an altogether unpleasant experience, causing us to close the page for a few days. So what is an internet troll?

 "a troll is someone who posts inflammatory or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion"

It was a very distressing experience and not one that Mother Duck would like to repeat. There are apparently many fb pages being targeted at the moment and the only way to beat the trolls is to delete the comments, ignore the rubbish they are spouting, report them to fb, delete the person leaving the comments and block them from the page.

On a lighter note we are getting a makeover, for the first anniversary of the website in September we will be getting a revamp ~ choices, choices, choices. That is not the only revamp ~ we are also doing a makeover in the workshop. After six years of working Dizzy Ducks has changed dramatically and so our work space needs to adapt to our current needs.

Change is very exciting but can also be somewhat daunting so there will be lots of discussions over the coming weeks as to what changes we can effectively make that create a better working environment without blowing the budget!

Whilst all that is happening we are squeezing in a holiday!

Hope you all keep busy through the summer whatever you are planning. I will try and blog a little more regularly in the coming months.
Love & quacks
Mother Duck

Friday 29 April 2011

Spring Craft Fair on Sunday 1st May

Come and see Dizzy Ducks Creations at a Spring Craft Fair!

It will be held at the Glasshouse, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster on 
Sunday 1st May 2011, open between 10am and 4pm.

For more details click here: Spring Craft Fair

Admission to the fair is free. It is organised by Candice Craft Fairs who aim to provide customers with over 30 stalls featuring a wide variety of hand crafts. The fair will be held in the large function room of the Glasshouse, adjacent to the pub. There will be drinks, snacks and a full Carvery meal available in the pub on the day.

Tuesday 5 April 2011

Wedding Bells

Just wanted to let everyone know that we are so excited about the re-launch of our Wedding Stationery Service. 

We will be launching at a wedding fair on Sunday 10th April 2011

It would be wonderful if people could find time to come and see us, especially as it would be so great to put names to faces. 

We will be offering a bespoke wedding stationery service and hope that in May 2011 we will be able to launch our 'off the shelf' wedding and special occasion stationery packs on the website. 

Our new hot foiling machine means that we will be able to offer foiled cards ~ at the moment we have 11 different coloured foils but can purchase others to match your colour scheme. It also means that we can foil a wide variety of images for your stationery to suit your needs.

If you are planning a wedding or know somebody that is, come and see us as we will be offering a voucher for 10% off completed orders which will be valid for 6 months.

love & quacks
from Mother Duck
xoxo


Thursday 31 March 2011

Our first six months in cyber space or the website is six months old and changes are afoot

Dizzy Ducks Creations website and facebook page are coming to the end of their first six months! What an adventure it has been ... navigating our way through technology has not always been easy but we are getting there. There are some tweaks we want to make to the website but that can wait until after our sale ~ oh I forgot to say we are having a sale on the website ~ 50% off everything with free UK P&P all part of our plans for change.


So what do we make of trading on-line? It's quite scary to take the step to create a web site ... learn from our experiences, if you can afford to get someone to do all the technical stuff for you, we didn't. There are lots of off the shelf programmes etc that enable you to build your own  and we have heard varying responses to them; some people have sailed through the set up and are successfully running their page and others have had a nightmare. We chose our domain hosts and started to create our site via them (free), they had a major technical hitch during the process and we had to find an alternative. We purchased software and went our own way, learning from a book as we went (when I say we read Richard) it wasn't easy and was pretty time consuming especially as he did it as when he could around his job. 


The biggest challenge to us is getting the website picked up by the major search engines, this is probably something that would have been done for us if we had been able to continue building via our domain hosts. We know that we need special tags and key words but working out what they are isn't easy. We paid a fixed sum to have a service to help us get noticed but we still haven't really seen a change. We are hoping to work on a way to help ourselves do this but again it is a time thing ~ I have very few computer skills above the basics and Richard has to do what he can outside work hours ~ from a very technical book. So is now the time to ask someone else to 'clean-up' the website for us? If you have any experience of building your website let us know what you did to get the big guys to notice you.


Once the sale on the website is over we will be loading new goodies through April BUT sadly we are going to have to start charging for all P&P. We are hoping to offer standard postage or special delivery (to be signed for) we haven't finalised the costing yet; should we do one fixed price across the board or weigh and price each item? We actually held the free P&P longer than we had originally anticipated, it should have ended after Christmas.


On a personal note, we have been listening to our son play his first gig with his newly formed band ... what proud parents we are! Who would have thought that young people not only want to play Jazz but are knowledgeable about the genre; a lot of people are surprised that this is his genre of choice but you can see the pleasure they all get from playing.  My daughter is revealing a talent for cake baking and loving it, her coffee and walnut cake is to die for and the ruin of any diet! Now I wonder whether she will change her mind from her Maths based ambitions and becoming a cake maker.


love & quacks
Mother Duck


PS we will be posting details of the Wedding fair we are doing in April and the craft fairs we are at during the year ... we are staying relatively local to us for the moment but who knows what the future holds?

Sunday 20 March 2011

and so back to the beginning ... ... ...

Mother Duck is taking Dizzy Ducks Creations back to its origins ~ handmade wedding stationery and special occasion stationery; this doesn't mean that she is giving up on all of the other items we make. Our handmade stationery has always been a bespoke service but it was one of the things that was shelved when ill health took over. Well, believe it or not Dizzy Ducks Creations (formerly Dizzy Ducks Cards & Crafts, for 6 years) is now 6 months old, and the time has come for us to be creative with paper crafting and return to our roots.


We will be doing our first (for a very long time) Wedding Fair in April ~ details TBC ~ so we need to create a fresh portfolio of designs that will give people a starting point for their own wedding stationery. How exciting save the date,invites,order of service/day, menu etc etc etc ~ fresh, clean and far from dog-earred samples ~ mind you samples do get weary so very quickly with handling.


We will be creating a special section on the website for wedding & special occasion stationery but we will be offering not only our bespoke service we will also create some 'off the shelf' packs of small numbers of wedding invites, special birthday invites (18, 21,40,50,60,70 etc etc), children's birthday invites, special anniversary invites. This will be quite a small selection to start with that will grow over the coming months.    


So March and April will be busy paper crafting months, bespoke stationery, off the shelf stationery and our greeting cards will return too! This will all seem very strange having spent so much time with the sewing machine!


Things have moved on since we started six years ago; we will be looking into more computer aided design elements as well as our beloved hand stamped, drawn and paper based designs. Mother Duck is unsure whether the idea of using computers is a good one or a bad one, as a technophobe she is going to have to grit her teeth and give it a go.


So should we move with the times and create more via the computer or stick with what we know?!?! Mother Duck worries that heading into the more computer aided items the bespoke element will lose some of the originality.


No matter how you craft, or what you craft have fun
love & quacks
Mother Duck


ps I would so love a stack of papers like this to play with ... ... ...





Monday 14 March 2011

Is networking too much effort for little return or should you be enjoying it?

As a small business Dizzy Ducks Creations are often encouraged to network, locally and further afield something that Mother Duck actually finds difficult. She hates fostering a relationship principally with sole purpose of bettering our business. Is there an ideal solution? No. Although we may not enjoy networking it does actually pay off.


There are a number of small business network pages on face book and Mother Duck would actively encourage any new small business to take advantage of what they are offering. It may take weeks or even many months for you to actually see fruition from your networking but by letting people know you are there, what you offer and your willingness to accommodate customers wishes, will reap rewards.


Mother Duck likes to say to her customers "if you like what we do leave a review but if you have a problem with what we do then speak to us and let us try to put it right." Although we don't like a bad review if it's honest then so be it.Your customers are a great way to network! If you have a good customer base then they will spread the word and you will get word of mouth recommendations. If you can regularly update your products, make sure they are fairly priced and have customer offers occasionally you should be able to encourage people to purchase from you. If you provide good quality products with honest and helpful customer service you will get repeat business.


So Mother Duck says get out there ... shout from the roof tops, let people know what you do BUT be polite! If you are networking on facebook don't abuse other pages; this means don't spam your sale/special offer/new products on their wall. If you want to try and encourage other pages to 'like' your page make your first visit to their page count; just leave a polite calling card, let them know who you are and what you like about their work/page and politely ask them to visit your page. Most pages love to see their 'like' or fan numbers going up but don't harass people to come back to your page and like it personally. Remember it is a choice and if you pester they will most probably not bother and possibly remove your page from their favourites too; if they are seeing your page on the news feed that is great. Remember that everyone seeing your page in some form is a possible customer ~ maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but you never know what they may want in the future.


Mother Duck doesn't do the hard sell on our face book page and likes to keep it friendly. Remember that your page when all said and done represents your business, so avoid using it as a place to rant. If someone has badly treated your page/business be firm but polite in your response, communicate by email if you can. Keep copies of all that has/is being said (screen shots) so that if it escalates you can report the abuser to face book. Again it comes down to choice, you can choose to delete/ban a person/page that is abusing your page.


Your face book page or website are your shop window, your store, a place to encourage your customers to call in and hopefully spend. So keep it user friendly.


Enjoy your networking, make it count but don't abuse it.


love & quacks
Mother Duck

Friday 11 March 2011

Do I really need it, should I buy it ... are you sure you don't already have one?

As a crafter I will often see a new template, rubber stamp, stamp pad, pattern, fat quarters etc. that I just know will enhance my work in the workshop BUT do I need it? Dizzy Ducks are in the process of planning a full stock take and re-organisation of the workshop and Mother Duck is wondering just what we will find!

Mother Duck is aware of a couple of duplications on CD ROMs and at least one book that has an identical twin on the shelf. So how does it happen?! Truth of the matter is lack of organisation ... no catalogue of books & CD ROMs or even templates and they seem to be all over the workshop ... it just depends when I last used them and where I was when I was working with them. There are many stacks in the workshops that need sorting ~ all of the fabric is stored in boxes, the card & paper are in racks, all of the glass working materials are in just one area but everything else seems to be part of a free-for-all!!

So the time has come to sort it all out, especially if Mother Duck is going to have a Dizzy Duckling working with her! The sheer thought of doing this scares this old duck witless but it has to be done.

Having said all of that Mother Duck has this morning ordered a lovely template that will create a great base for a wedding or special occasion invitation *sigh* oh well it won't take up much space ... honestly it will go in a file with the other templates ~ when I find it!!

So how is your craft space? Is it organised chaos like Mother Duck's workshop or is it beautifully neat and  tidy - everything in its place and a place for everything ~ *Mother Duck drifts off into a dream of a beautifully organised workshop but wakes to the semi-organised space that she works in!*

In these frugal days we should all buy less, recycle more etc etc but any crafter will cave in the minute they see the perfect yarn, material, paper, stamp, paint etc 

So the answer to the title of this Blog is probably no I don't need it BUT I really want it, no I shouldn't buy it but I know that once I use it in the project I have in mind I will make the money back that I am spending. It's a brand new design so I know I don't already have it.

No matter how you work, chaos or neat freak, if you are producing items that people love & buy, should we be worried ~ no definitely not!

Have fun in all you do,
love & quacks
Mother Duck 


Saturday 5 March 2011

All's fair in love & War or can I write graffiti on your shop front to let your customers know what I am selling?

All's fair in love and war ... or maybe not. When you have a business, unless you are someone that literally provides something nobody else on the planet does, you will have business competition. Some businesses in the big wide world do fight dirty when it comes to competition, after all they say business is business, but generally most take the view that to compete they have to be more savvy & produce better products at a competitive price. You advertise your wares where you expect your target market will see it or hear it, you get to know your market and play to it. What you don't do is write on the store front of your neighbouring stores to let their customers know what deals you have on right now. You produce a better window display, better advertising and create better deals for comparable,if not better products.





So why when you use face book to sell your goods do you ignore best practice? Good manners and common sense should come into it somewhere. If you are crafter that sells on facebook or uses face book to gain a following that you can steer towards your website, Esty or Folksy shop etc, then you will no doubt have found others selling similar or the same type of products as you. Look at it as healthy competition, use it to improve your product and services so that people will keep coming back to you BUT don't think that they are 'stealing' your customers, indeed they may even steer people to you if they don't make something they are being asked for but you do.


Don't get me wrong, I know that there are some unscrupulous vendors that will blatantly copy your work, try and pass your photographs off as their own and even directly ask your customers to go to them instead of you. But they are actually in the minority, the majority of vendors on fb do support each other, join business networking pages etc so why not make the most of it.


The problem is deciding what is acceptable, or not, for posting on another Vendor's wall. If they are happy for you to share a link great, but that doesn't mean they want your first visit to their wall to be an advert for your latest special offer, Auction, Sale etc etc  Some businesses would prefer that you never leave such information on their wall and you should respect that.


If you have a special offer, sale or auction and you are trying to get people to your wall to join in there are places you can post, that encourage such advertising & networking. Is it really acceptable to post the same information every 10 minutes or every hour so that it floods the wall of anyone that has signed up to your page? No, I don't believe it is, nor do I think it is acceptable to abuse the support from other vendors by directly posting on their wall about your special events without checking whether they mind or not. It's different if they are directly involved in your sale and are sharing the promotion of it. But why would you go to a page that sells the same or similar products as you and post repeatedly about what you are doing on your page, how would you feel if they did the same to you every few hours?


Manners and common sense should not go out of the window just because you don't have a bricks & mortar store. These things should be your guide in your business, that's not to say that it isn't sometimes hard out there to get customers, because truth be told it is hard for all small businesses to get and keep their customers. But if you forget manners and common sense and abuse the support on offer from other vendors you will find that your page remains hidden from their wall, sent to the spam box or deleted.


So what do you do? Make sure that you know which pages will let you post information on theirs, get yourself signed up to some of the small business networking pages, and get involved in any promotional events they run but don't abuse it; honestly, people really do send your page to the junk box if you over post on their wall.


enjoy your business, embrace the support offered by others and get involved in business networking.


love & fluffy quacks
Mother Duck

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Technophobe drowning in technology or a rant on technology

eeeeekkkkk isn't technology supposed to be getting easier? Mother Duck can do the basics but anything else scares her witless. So what to do ... find a free course that will teach the basics with a little bit extra that we can already do or push the boat out and spend money & lots of time on the complicated in-depth courses?

Most digital cameras come with some sort of photo editing programmes but why are they written/designed for computer whizz kids? Whatever happened to simple language instructions?

Mother Duck cannot be alone in feeling sidelined by technology ~ Face Book, E Bay, Folksy, Etsy all of these possible sale points often throw a curve ball for a technophobe; uploading photographs is just the beginning. People throw around technospeak all day and if you don't fully understand it they are often reluctant to slow down and explain something more than once in more simple terms; even mobile phones are complicated these days!

Don't get us wrong we are not against the move forward but we yearn for simplicity ~ so are there classes out there for people like Mother Duck? That have some knowledge but are too confused to gain any more? After all she doesn't want to design a website (although it would be nice) she doesn't want to run a huge international trading organisation reliant entirely on technology to create mega millions (ok so we would like to earn more) but this mad old duck would like to get through a day of business without pulling her feathers in frustration over one technical issue or another.

So what is the answer? At the moment it is relying on a Dizzy Duckling to get out of computer dramas; if the magic answer drops into the nest Mother Duck will be sure to let you all know.




love & fluffy quacks
Mother Duck

PS We forgot to mention that we are having our *SPRING SALE* on our face book page this evening 7-10pm (GMT) lots of lovely goodies from some lovely Vendors as well as Dizzy Ducks Creations

Sunday 27 February 2011

Hard sell or friendly approach?

Some of you may have seen Mother Duck talking about the hard sell approach on our fb page 


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dizzy-Ducks-Creations-II/159116527464445?sk=wall


So which route is best for business? Out in the real world you can approach each individual customer and judge whether you need to go softly softly or push the sale for all you are worth. In the virtual world it is harder to know your customer, indeed some may not want to know their customers as long as they are getting the sales. 


At Dizzy Ducks Creations we like to know who is buying from us, especially as we create some beautiful bespoke items; this doesn't mean that we don't want to know about our customers that don't buy our bespoke items. We love to see pix of our customers using our bags/jewellery or hear how well received one of our greeting cards has been. 


We regularly have a special sale on our fb page or indeed on our website but we don't feel the need to remind our customers every morning that these are happening. To a business analyst or even the bank manager this is probably not the best way to assure sales but it actually has assured return customers.


Every business is different, each approach has pros and cons - indeed Mother Duck isn't convinced there is only one way to go - after all it wouldn't do for us all to be the same. But one thing she has learnt over the years is that reducing your prices to get customers doesn't always work, people look at the really low price and wonder if there is something wrong with it. So we are back to the question do I price to sell so I sell lots of goods or do I price to true value and have fewer customers ... it's an eternal circle.


On our fb page Mother Duck can be found asking her fellow crafters and fans of our page all sorts of questions that help build a picture of who check out our page. Is it better to know a bit about the people you are dealing with rather than an anonymous crowd? Today, the question is what do you do when you are not crafting or caring for the family etc. It is amazing how many people don't actually have time to do anything but sleep. We all lead such busy lives, which leads to another question that was asked on our page the other day, maybe you have an answer? What would you do with a 25th hour in the day? Have a look and see what people said.




No matter how busy we are, we must remember that if we don't look after ourselves we will actually be too tired to help those around us, whether it be our families or in our 'proper' jobs. So Mother Duck wants to close by saying rest well, eat well and play well after all we shouldn't be living to work but working to live.


love & fluffy quacks
Mother Duck


ps Our on-line shop is under maintenance at the moment but we can still be contacted via our website www.dizzy-ducks-creations.co.uk if you have a question or would like to order some goodies.

Hard sell or friendly approach?

Some of you may have seen Mother Duck talking about the hard sell approach on our fb page 


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dizzy-Ducks-Creations-II/159116527464445?sk=wall


So which route is best for business? Out in the real world you can approach each individual customer and judge whether you need to go softly softly or push the sale for all you are worth. In the virtual world it is harder to know your customer, indeed some may not want to know their customers as long as they are getting the sales. 


At Dizzy Ducks Creations we like to know who is buying from us, especially as we create some beautiful bespoke items; this doesn't mean that we don't want to know about our customers that don't buy our bespoke items. We love to see pix of our customers using our bags/jewellery or hear how well received one of our greeting cards has been. 


We regularly have a special sale on our fb page or indeed on our website but we don't feel the need to remind our customers every morning that these are happening. To a business analyst or even the bank manager this is probably not the best way to assure sales but it actually has assured return customers.


Every business is different, each approach has pros and cons - indeed Mother Duck isn't convinced there is only one way to go - after all it wouldn't do for us all to be the same. But one thing she has learnt over the years is that reducing your prices to get customers doesn't always work, people look at the really low price and wonder if there is something wrong with it. So we are back to the question do I price to sell so I sell lots of goods or do I price to true value and have fewer customers ... it's an eternal circle.


On our fb page Mother Duck can be found asking her fellow crafters and fans of our page all sorts of questions that help build a picture of who check out our page. Is it better to know a bit about the people you are dealing with rather than an anonymous crowd? Today, the question is what do you do when you are not crafting or caring for the family etc. It is amazing how many people don't actually have time to do anything but sleep. We all lead such busy lives, which leads to another question that was asked on our page the other day, maybe you have an answer? What would you do with a 25th hour in the day? Have a look and see what people said.




No matter how busy we are, we must remember that if we don't look after ourselves we will actually be too tired to help those around us, whether it be our families or in our 'proper' jobs. So Mother Duck wants to close by saying rest well, eat well and play well after all we shouldn't be living to work but working to live.


love & fluffy quacks
Mother Duck


ps Our on-line shop is under maintenance at the moment but we can still be contacted via our website www.dizzy-ducks-creations.co.uk if you have a question or would like to order some goodies.

Friday 25 February 2011

1000 sparkles, should I charge what its worth or what I think people will pay

Mother Duck has been revisiting her 1000 swarovski crystal necklace and has decided that she will make these to order. How exciting that email enquiries came within a short space of time after it was posted on our fb page. 






This particular necklace is great for any formal occasion ... adding a bit of glitz and glamour but it would also be wonderful for any bride, not forgetting of course that Mother Duck also makes bracelets & earrings.


This process has also made her consider whether as part of Dizzy Ducks return to the wedding fairs whether we should consider do our wedding jewellery too. It is many years since we have sold tiaras but nothing is impossible. Was it James Bond who said "never say never again" or has Mother Duck got her feathers in a twist with another film character?


So how do you price your treasured creations? Do you price it for a quick sale that under values your work or do your price it fairly and risk a barrage of people telling you charge too much and they could get it cheaper from Primark? So how do you do it? Here at Dizzy Ducks Creations we try to fairly price our products without under valuing them - this is roughly (really roughly) how we do it ... cost of materials, cost of utilities (unless you are working in a dark cave you will have used heat & light whilst making your creation) and your own time (at least minimum wage for your time); people would also suggest you add a little for your profit margin - some say this should be 5% some say 10%  BUT all in all you have to charge what you are most comfortable with. Don't under estimate your worth or the value or your work. People will pay for good quality, handmade items.


If you love your work and put love into your work it will show.


Whether it is 1000 sparkles, a hand knitted baby blanket or a set of lavender hearts for the wardrobe make sure you make it to the best of your ability and look at it with a critical eye ... if the quality is good enough that you would buy it from store/craft fair/etsy or folksy then it is good enough to sell. 


Enjoy your crafts and have fun in all that you do.
love & fluffy quacks
Mother Duck

Sunday 20 February 2011

Inspiration sweet inspiration

The title of this Blog has been 'borrowed' from one of our fb followers - it was his response to a post where Mother Duck asked people what one craft wish they would ask for from their fairy Godmother. If you want to see what else people would ask for or tell us what you would ask for check out our fb page.


http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dizzy-Ducks-Creations-II/159116527464445?sk=wall


So where do you draw your inspiration from? Mother Duck is building quite a library of books on techniques, different skills and textiles to name but a few; BUT she sees inspiration in everyday objects or those little oddities  that we stumble upon in life. Her most frustrating being a stunning antique chair with an amazing buttoned back, she can see in her mind's eye a beautiful buttoned detail bag but hasn't found the right fabrics or buttons yet! She has sketches and is ready to translate those into a paper pattern but doesn't want to jinx the project by doing all of that before she has the fabric. Do you have one of those 'just out of reach' projects? Mother Duck has a sketch book/journal full of inspirational ideas waiting quietly to be rediscovered ... she also has fabric remnants that are waiting for a project to catch up with them and a peculiar collection of goodies that she just knows will become a Dizzy Ducks Creation item. 


So what is your 'just out of reach' project ... why is it out of reach? Some of Mother Duck's out of reach projects are just that because she cannot afford the materials to create them.



"Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks."
Author Unknown

May you find inspiration to fire your imagination and strive to reach the pinnacle of your achievements.

fluffy love & quacks
Mother Duck

Saturday 19 February 2011

duckies of the world unite

Hello & welcome one & all to our new Blog; we have moved to this one because it is much easier for Mother Duck to do without having to ask for lots of help.


So what has been happening ... we have had all the excitement and confusion of the changes to the business page on facebook - not completely sure that we have it cracked yet but we are getting there. The amazing support that we have had from other businesses is certainly much appreciated. We have been astounded by the wide variety of products and services that have a face book business page BUT also at how many wonderful talented people there are making some stunning handmade items and selling via facebook. Mother Duck has treated herself over the last few weeks to some lovely items.


So what do we have in store for Dizzy Ducks Creations in the future? 


We have a multi-vendor sale on our facebook page on the 2nd March 2011 and we have a variety of craft fairs booked throughout 2011. April will see us return to the Wedding Fayres too; so we will be updating our portfolio of wedding stationery and other wedding goodies. We will be posting full details, including dates locations etc soon. Mother Duck hopes that this is the beginning of her return to making bespoke wedding stationery which is where Dizzy Ducks Creations began 5+ years ago.


Mother Duck is busy in the workshop creating all sorts of lovely (she thinks) goodies for the website/craft fairs and as soon as they are ready for sale she will let everyone know.


with lots of lovely fluffy hugs & quacks to you all
Mother Duck