summer shades

I've had this orange cotton yarn along with other spring shades sat in my stash since last autumn. the plan was to knit them up in spring for the warmer weather, well I've had to kick my butt, cause summer has well and truly kicked in, around the world, apart from the UK (of course) where we've had barely a handful of warm sunny days.

So now I just have to get the rest of these spring shades knitted up, before autumn is upon us once more, and these cottons are stuck in my stash box for yet another year.

Ran out of yarn to finish this

Inspired during my sisters visit this past weekend, and a trip to Chelsea on saturday, I'm going to call this 'The Chelsea Jacket'

Unfortunately i ran out of yarn to complete the arms, so these will be knitted later in the week,

so for now imagine if you will ,a long sleeved figure hugging jacket.

Also, imagine it slightly longer with a little more flare on the skirt area. As the final version will fall to around the middle of the thigh area.

But for now I'm pretty happy with it.

Something to share with fellow sellers

Today one of my team mates shared this useful tool with me.

As a seller I'd like to know how my customers found iLE AiYE, most of my online sales come from Etsy.com but sadly Etsy don't have a tool for customers to state how they found me.

WELL the good news is PAYPAL Does.

here's how to do it.

1) Login to your PayPal account
2) Under "my account" click "profile"
3) Under "selling preferences" click "custom payment pages", then
click "options" and go to "merchant service options"
4) Check "add a customer service survey" and fill in the blanks*
5) Make sure you click "SAVE" before you exit

More from Chelsea Flower show

Chelsea flower show

I'm just back from a super but very tiring day at The Chelsea flower show, my sister was gifted two tickets for the show, so she sped up here last night, and today we walked our feet off, gave our eyes a treat and our noses a delight with the amazing smells.

Here's just a few images i took of some truely amazing flowers and displays. to truly appreciate the beauty of these flowers, click each image, and enlarge to the max. you won't be disappointed - promise

Yes I'm liking this bag

http://www.etsy.com/shop/iragranteco

Ummm. I wonder if I could spoil myself to this, a perfect (for me) summer bag. it reminds me of a bag I had when I was much younger, I'm always a fan of yellow in the summer, and I like my bags to have a masculine touch, which I think this hints at, whilst still being ever so feminine.

a new YARN

Whilst this looks just like my other summer shrugs, believe me, the yarn is very different. this is a mix of super luxury mohair and silk, and when I say silk, i mean too, as soft as silk. this shrug falls over your skin like a soft warm breeze,

But you can't be multi-tasking whilst wearing this, NO....

Only suitable for romantic nights out,

Dinner and dances

sunny wedding, or christening invites, or similar special occasions,

The shrug is available in many different tones/shades I'm sure one of them will match your special dress.