Open for Business

Feb 13, 2024

Interesting times...

Life has been somewhat topsy turvy for the past few years. With Covid affecting the whole world and then my own little world being challenged with the tedium that comes with trying to sell my house and move to somewhere new; I've been feeling somewhat overwhelmed. The one constant in my life has been my yarns, hooks and needles. I honestly think they are to thank for getting me through the past four years with a semblance of sanity in tact.


When I recently had some time away, I decided it was best to close my shop, but it's now back up and running again and with many new items. Even when I'm away I always take yarn and my tools with me and one of the first things I seek out is the closest yarn shop (or tissu - as the case has been recently - a little clue to where I've been hiding out). I never stop making, whether it's on a ferry journey across the English Channel, or a cheap hotel on my way through rural France; I will have my essentials with me to keep my hands and mind busy with something creative. All the items below were made on my latest trip to France.

My online shop has so many wonderful ideas for presents, or to treat yourself. Clothes for babies, storage baskets for your home, Winter woollies for those 'blowing away the cobwebs' moments and so much more...


Please have a look and hopefully you'll find something to buy. This little business is my passion, but it's a challenge competing with High Street brands who can pump out cheap handmade items from far flung places (probably not paying their workers what they are truly worth). All my items are made by me, they are all made with materials that I ensure are natural, well sourced and only from companies that I feel share the same environmental ethos as I do. If they are more expensive than the big brands, it's because I care about the quality, not the quantity. It's also because you are paying for the decades of learning and honing my skills.


Far too often we buy things without thinking about where they come from, who made them and how they got to the shop you are buying from. I'd like to think that when you buy from Colour My Dreams, you are buying from someone with a social conscience and not just a big corporation who's really only interested in profit. Please consider my online shop next time you're looking for that special something for your special someone, who also includes YOU!

  • Child's bucket hat in three different shades of blue.

    Bucket Hats

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  • Amigurumi Toy Combi Van. Red body with cream coloured roof, black wheels and yellow lights on the front.

    Amigurumi Toy Combi Van

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  • Friendly Elves - Not just for Christmas

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  • Storage Baskets - for all the Bits & Bobs

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Colourful Ramblings

Festive Greetings from Colour My Dreams. Don't forget to have fun!

🎄Festive Greetings 🎄

By Cathie George • 23 Dec, 2022
If I was to rank 2022 on a scale of 1 - 10, it's a solid 5. Neither wonderful nor disastrous, in school report terms, "could do better". A new life and a new start is in reaching distance, I just have to be patient. I’ll keep doing the right things to make it happen and hopefully, before long I’ll be sharing with you my new adventure.
Photo of Cathie with the Eiffel Tower in the distance

Au Revoir, but not Goodbye

By Cathie George • 25 Jul, 2022
This day was always going to come, the day I say au revoir to all of you who signed up to my newsletters, visited my website, bought my products and offered kind words of support. Many of you did that regularly and I’m really grateful.
Cathie wearing a grey knitted beanie, holding a mug that says

I Am Enough

By Cathie George • 10 Jun, 2022
It took a pandemic to make me realise that I am enough. Yes, the me that I am today is more than enough, I don’t need to be anything more. I discovered that I don’t need to wear make-up and wash my hair every day (yes, I used to wash it every day - how ridiculous was that) and my pared back wardrobe was more than enough too.

Why I don't like Etsy

By Cathie George • 06 Jun, 2022
Retail is a competitive world, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that. For anyone who shops as a leisure activity or simply out of necessity, finding a bargain is what is on most people’s minds. Etsy provides a platform for comparing prices, not products. I wonder how many people who purchase from an Etsy shop really do some homework about the business they are buying from.
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