Country Living

You can now book your Country Living Tickets for the SECC in Glasgow 19th-22nd Nov.

Call 0844 848 0157 and quote promotional code CC2 to buy your tickets at the discounted price of £7.50 each!

Hope to see you there!

Also have a look at my new web site which now has an online shop so you can simply click to buy.

Web and e-mail

just to say my new web site is up and running with simple click to buy buttons on the online shop. The My Baboo e-mail is also still info@my-baboo.co.uk.

Thanks for being patient!

New Web Site

Hi All,

I'm currently changing my web site provider to one that will have an instant click to buy feature. My web site may be down for a few days and e-mails should be sent to lynneseaton1@hotmail.com during this time also.

Thanks for your patience, hopefully it will be a more user friendly site but will no doubt have a few teething problems along the way.

Happy October Holidays!

A quick hello

Hi All,

just a quick update as I know I have been lacking on the blogging front. Will be trying to get my new 'click to buy' web site up and running this week which means a certain degree of uncertainty as to what will happen with my current e-mail address. If you get any e-mails returned you can contact me at lynneseaton1@hotmail.co.uk over the following week or so.

Returned to the Wee Green Market yesterday which was good. Next big gig is at the end of the month at the SECC, I will post more details later.

Then it is heads down for Country Living! It certainly doesn't feel like a year ago the 'fear' had set in about stock levels. Needless to say my knitting panic has well and truly set in for this year.

The next few months will be hectic so I apologise in advance for lack of blogging. I will try and keep you updated with new products etc and I will also be giving away a pair of tickets for Country Living at Glasgow soon, so it's worth keeping an eye on my blog for that. I will hopefully get a promotional code too so you can book tickets at a reduced price and I will let you know when that arrives.

Sorry no pics today, a reflection on how disorganised I am at the moment!

On the news front I am delighted for Alice who has managed to secure a shop in Balfron, hopefully opening soon!

Have a good weekend,

Lynne

Not Coming to A Shop Near You!

When is a Coffee Cosy not a Coffee Cosy?


When it's a door stop of course!


This door stop was commissioned by a lady I met at the Edinburgh Festival. She had just decorated her music room and needed a door stop to match. The shape of my coffee cosies did the trick so I made a simple insert which is full of rice and is ready to be posted.

Why write about the door stop? I'm sure I have mentioned before that one of the benefits from buying directly from a maker is you can get exactly what you want, not what the High Street thinks you need. You will not find my door stop on the high street - just in a lovely music room!

The gloves are a result of four very cold and wet days spent in Milngavie at the Book Festival. There is a certain degree of satisfaction from knitting these 'on the spot' whilst I was tending my stall. I'm planning to write up the pattern and make them into a knitting kit.

I have also decided to start putting together a monthly e-mail newsletter with some special offers, sneak peaks of new products and the odd hint and tip. If you would like to receive the My Baboo newsletter please e-mail the word 'News' to info@my-baboo.co.uk

I have finally caught up with myself after Edinburgh and Milngavie so it is now full on knitting for all my Christmas shows. I will be at the Logierait Market this Saturday (19th Sept), which will be my last visit there till next year as I will be elsewhere in October, so come along for some good Christmas Present ideas.

See you soon!

Bearsden and Milngavie Book Festival

I will have a stall at the Bearsden and Milngavie Book Festival from 3rd - 6th September. You will find me on the main street between Boots and M & S, next to Alice.

There will be lots of events so please come along (whatever the weather!)

Hope to see you there,

L

Who do you think you are?

Family trees are becoming more and more popular. I am the last of the Mactaggarts in my line, although I am now Seaton by marriage. We have quite a few historical names in the generations immediately above us such as Wallace, Stewart and Brodie - it would be interesting to see where the branches of my Family Tree stretch to, but that is a project for another day.

I get asked often where 'My Baboo' comes from. Its a simple answer so here is the story.

A few years ago I knitted a little bunny for my sister. Our friend Tracey saw it and wanted one. T also happens to be the manager of Homer in Aberfeldy and before I knew it my little bunnies were hopping of their shelves.


When I started selling the handbags I had made I used a different company name which was more relative to handbags. However this just didn't suit a wee bunny. So My Baboo became the name of my bunnies (and chickens and sheep) - here's how:

My first name is Lynne. In the cartoon Charlie Brown there is a little boy called Linus, and my sis used to call me that (and still does). Linus is the object of Charlie Browns sisters affections, and she calls Linus her 'Sweet Baboo'. My Baboo Bunny had a nice ring to it, and has ultimately ended up being my company name.

The picture above is of two Baboo Bunnies that Rene knitted from my pattern. She and her bunnies live in South Africa, where the mountains are currently dusted with snow - hence the scarves. She has knitted them from bamboo and cotton - and I love how they have turned out.

What I like even more is that in her correspondence she doesn't refer to them as bunnies, but as 'Baboo's'. So that's what they are - Baboos - sweet.

I'm off to the Edinburgh Festival West End Fair on Sunday for a weeks trading - Arch 11. I studied, worked and lived in Edinburgh for nearly 15 years so it will be nice to spend a week there, catching up with friends and hopefully meeting some new ones and reliving a little bit of my history.

Hope to see you there.

Lynne