Friday Fun!: Button Bag Kitten Baskets (Part 1)

Hello! Welcome to the (later than normal) Friday Fun! We were going to update this on Friday, but there were a series of unforeseen events that distracted us (ok, there was Chinese Takeaway, but it was really delicious). But here we are now, so it's time for our Friday Saturday Sunday Fun!

This episode we are looking at the Kitten Basket from Button Bag (that we mentioned in our Thursday Roundup a couple of weeks ago). 

Before we continue, I must mention that I (Matt) haven't sewn anything in at least 12 years, and the last time I did it ended with someone being taken to hospital (needless to say, i'm rubbish at sewing but make a fantastic Jason Bourne). Kate, on the other hand, sews all the time - and is quite the perfectionist - our differing skill levels will undoubtably become apparent as we start work. 

Here's what we got in the box:

We got the pre-cut kittens, all the thread, needles, pins we could ever need (enough for both of us to make the kittens at the same time!), some stuffing and buttons and the instructions for how to make them.  

At this point, and after some office politic-ing (there were secret hand signals and codes and the like) we came to the decision that I get the Black kitten whilst Kate got the Orange one (that took us about a quarter of an hour - you can see why the blog is late!).

Anyway, here's us at the midway point:

Kate was trying to get it perfect whilst i was just trying not to stab myself.
Much like a normal workday really.

And after some sewing and some stuffing, we had two new employees at the ReRetail office, Bumble and Marmalade (they mostly do clerical work):

Bumble is on the left.

But that's not all! Next week we'll show off what we did with the rest of the kit! Until then, check them out for yourself here.

Because we liked these little kitties so much, and to beat the impending postal price-rise, we've decided to offer Free Shipping* to all our UK customers until the 4th of May! Just use the code FRIDAYFUN during the checkout.

Also, until the 30th of April you can still get 15% off of all makedo items using the code BUILDABOXEY* and, if that's not enough, you can get 12.5% off of all our products (forever!*) using the code IMFROMTHEBLOG*.

There's also 15% off everything using our FaceBook code (you'll have to find that one!).

Hope you had a great weekend (there's still a few hours left!) and we'll see you Tuesday for the Spotlight! Oh and, also, because this post is late it actually falls on Earth Day, so be sure check them out!

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