Craft fair

On sunday 24th April I had a stand at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station . It was only the second time I've had a stall so it's still all new to me. I didn't make much, but had a great time and had some lovely cake! On top of that I met some lovely and talented people, carry on looking to see photos of all the stalls.

These three images are of my stall with all new linocuts! Available from my shop on Facebook

Working meccano version of some of the machinery in the pumping station

Jayne Sanders

Hayley Powell 'Forever Forged' 

Who organised the craft fair and is a blacksmith! 

A fantastic stand of wood turned products and also wood turning demonstrations. A very talented man!

Antonia Booker Jewellery  some of the jewellery shown here was made by Antonia Booker's talented hands and some was made by another great jewellery maker who I didn't manage to get contact details for

This is Bazaar

Always has lots of tempting, gorgeous, but affordable things to buy, by an array of great artists/illustrators/designers

Christine Gray-The Purple Shed Studio

An artist who makes beautiful sculptures and these intricate mosaics with reclaimed materials

My view from behind the table!

Things to Do and Make

Now here is the book I bought

Lovely 50's stylised illustrations, and lovely to see that despite it's excellent condition, it has been used, as the paper snake you can see in the last image was taken from a pattern in the book. very pleased with this little find that cost me £1.50 

Books, glorious books!

We went to Malvern in Rhubarb this week. It was beautiful there and we also found this amazing second hand bookshop, this is just a photo of one of the many rooms staked high with little treasures. I was a good girl and only bought one book (as some were quite expensive!) but took photos of lots of them!

New toys :)

Toki Doki Unicorn

Android 

Lunartik in a Cup of Tea (mini series)

New goodies that me and Joe bought the other day from 'Nostalgia and Comics' In Birmingham. I can never get over how excited I get over these colourful, little pieces of vinyl!  

The Rising Sun

It's been put there for a while but I designed this paper toy in response to the terrible events in japan. It is available to download as a template from my website for £1 all proceeds go to the Red Cross. 

Start Today Goodies

The wonderful Chloe Cook did a giveaway the other week and lucky 'ol me won :D.

Just wanted to share my goodies!

Chloe has been doing a lot of screen printing recently and I think they're looking awesome!

I have a telling off for the post man though who shoved the envelope through our door, despite this

Naughty naughty mr postman!

Ace book! Printed Pattern

Just wanted quickly share this book with people. I got it out of the library the other day and it's given me really itchy fingers to start doing some prints!

I've wanted to do some for ages, and this book presents some different methods in such a simple, friendly way, with lots of great photos. It even suggests making printing stamps from the simple eraser! So any budding printers should check it out!