I’m taking a break, closing my etsy shop and heading for the snow for a short while. I doubt I will be doing much resting like Pye above but it will definitely be fun. I plan to soak up as much inspiration as I can and come back energized for 2010. Thank you to everybody who bought a Wren bag, added a comment to a blog post or even just hearted my shop – it is thanks to you that Wren is what it is and that it will be here again, with lots of new and exciting creations, next year. Can’t wait….

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

P.S. I will be back on the 8th of Jan.

It’s that time of the year again and as always before you have time to blink, yikes, it’s Christmas.

Christmas is less than 5 working days away which means that if you want anything to arrive in time, it needs to be shipping via EMS (Expedited Mail Services. Delivery to your door in 4 working days). *All the Coffee Travel Bags (and products purchased with a Coffee Travel Bag) are upgraded from normal airmail to EMS for FREE until the 22nd which is when I will be closing my shop for the holidays.

See and buy my bags from my etsy shop.

My neighbours must think I am mad. If I had a neighbour like me, I would. This is a photograph of me taking photographs (using the remote with the camera on a tripod) of my bags in the car port with the washing on one side, the canoes stacked behind me, a varnished ladder and a dining room chair. The wind was too vicious to take photographs outside (I kept having to chase after the bags). What a funny sight!

I have just added these new bags to my etsy shop. Go and check them out.

Memory, our family char, is currently in Zimbabwe collecting lobola. She is getting a cow for her daughter. Gift, her husband, is thrilled but Memory is far from impressed with only one cow. When the Merry Go Round topic came up this is the story that popped into my head – so what’s my cow I wondered and what’s Wren’s purple cow?

I think that to my mom, getting me out of the house was her version of getting a cow. But thats not what the Merry-Go-Round Purple Cow is about. It is asking what is special about Wren that makes it a purple cow (i.e. unusual and remarkable). Being deep, I think I am the blue cow and Wren is the red cow and if you look from far we merge into a purple cow. Wren is a part of me – you cannot separate us and I think that is what makes it so unique. I put my heart into every product, there is not a single Wren product that has not had my personal attention. Every fabric is selected, every coffee sack is carefully pulled out from the pile and the combinations are always highly individual. This is not time efficient at all even though I am a fast worker. My weakness, but perhaps my ‘purple cow’ quality, is that I get very absorbed (even lost sometimes) in what I am doing. I start with a few ideas that I must try, these grow into another few and before I realise, I have tried a hundred ideas all in pursuit of the perfect solution. In conclusion I think you could say that I am the blue dye that when mixed with the red dye of the Wren bird makes a purple cow. What fun!