A Busy Weekend

It's my birthday tomorrow but the celebrations have already begun!!
Friday, the boys and i took a trip to Hungerford to have lunch with my mum as a birthday treat. It was a gorgeous sunny day by the canal and just how people should spend their day off from work.
Saturday was a disaster at work when i was left alone in the kitchen due to the main cook having a days holiday and my Saturday girl being sick in the loos!! And boy was we busy! Fortunately the stewardess saved the day and came down to help make the salads and snacks.
A very speedy clean up today after service and my man and I jumped on a train bound for London's West End to watch the popular musical Sister Act at The Palladium.
Wasn't sure about it when it first started but after about 20 minutes it really picked up and ended up being absolutely brill.
I did laugh when i saw 2 nuns in the audience. Yes REAL nuns!! Didn't see them smile much though!
After a walk around a very lively Covent Garden and Leicester Square we came home to reality.

After a few hours sleep it was time to set off for today's craft fair. Quite exciting today as we were using our new grid wall display for the first time.
The day didn't start off too well when we got caught up in a queueing system for unloading our vehicles. Having lost time we didn't really get a chance to mess about with the grid wall and change things around til it looked right.
Having finally set up (in a fashion) we sat down waiting for the punters to arrive. But it was like a ghost town and remained that way all day. By 2pm the first stall started to pack away followed by several more. By 3pm i think the place was a third empty.
So we took that as our cue to get going as well. After all we had had only 1 sale of a dolls house duvet cover for £1! Never not covered our stall money before, it's a weird feeling.
I did manage to relieve the nice cake lady of 8 cakes at a bargain price of 50p each to take to work tomorrow!!
Plus treated myself to a facial mask from Just Soaps.
Below is a photo of today's stall.


Scrumptious beef chow mein for tea and i'm now looking longingly at the 3 presents sitting behind the sofa!
Not long now!!!

Easter Sunday, Sywell Fair, & Secret Easter Bunny

I had to work most of the bank holiday Easter weekend so i was determined to make the most of my only day off on Sunday. So i took myself, my OH and even the boys to Penine Fairs 1st event of the year at Sywell, Hanger One, Northampton. We have booked with "the Anns" , who organise the fairs for June and November but unfortunately couldn't do this one. I wasn't disappointed in my day out at all. The stalls were all of such a high standard with it being a totally handmade event and all personally vetted beforehand.

Having now become quite an active member of the craft forum it was a pleasure for me to meet and chat with so many members that were exhibiting at this event.

Many thanks to the 4 below who let me take their photo for "the blog!"



This is Sonia from Dainty Pastimes who i met earlier in the year at a craft fair in Northampton. She sells the most gorgeous and unique peg dolls which you can buy from her Etsy and Folksy shop.

Someone who i have now met on several occasions is Claire from Ladyluck Jewellery. Today her stall consisted of totally handmade polymer clay jewellery. It was Claire who taught me all about using a pasta machine for polymer clay!!! You can buy or contact her from here.

Charlotte Hupfield. Bless her, not long out of hospital and straight back to work. Once again selling her unique stoneware pieces. You can find out more about Charlottes work on her website by clicking here.

And finally every womans favourite stall, Just Soaps. All handmade soaps and body care. I could just stand there and enjoy the smells all day. More information about their produts and their soap making course can be found on their website here. As you can see Jane's husband loved having his photo taken!!

And can i just show you what i treated myself to. I love it. It's a ceramic burner made by Stephanie Beasley and sits lovely on a shelf in the corner of my lounge and filled the room with a beautiful smell of orange soy wax melt purchased on Folksy from SweetScentedSoy.

Also yesterday, as it was Easter, all forum members who participated in the secret easter bunny were, at last ,allowed to open their presents. I received this lovely quilled bird picture from Indri.

My son hadn't seen quilling before so he took quite an interest in the art.

And Elissa from NotJustHandbags opened the wreath i had made her and fortunately (phew!) loved it. So all that stalking paid off!
Can i just say it was a delight to make a present for her as i have always admired her stylish bags . You can find her through this link and also look at her blog here.

After the fair we walked around the country park, had a full roast dinner and settled for the evening with the dvd of Benjamin Button.

What a relaxing day it was!!