Thursday 24 November 2011

All the Fun of the Craft fair


There will aslso be a Few Limited addtions from The Soul Apothecary......



Shopping and gift buying is a far more enjoyable experience when you can engage with the actual people who made the goods.....and see the evidence of the hand that made the piece in the work. I find shopping malls a fairly spiritually anaemic way of shopping , worshipping at the altar of consumerism, where there is far more stuff than anyone could ever need that is ultimately destined to be thrown away, not cherished and kept and passed on.

Tuesday 22 November 2011

Crux Craft Fair

I havn't posted for a while...largely because I've been busy making for Crux Craft Fair which is held this coming weekend in Rattery Village Hall, Devon. Encouraged by my dear friend Susie while we had coffee in her gorgeous treasure and delight filled kitchen last week, I was spurred on to post a new blog about what I'd been up to....... so here I am busy at my desk which I've had no time to tidy so there's not a great deal of space to work.


Some bits that will at some point make it into a piece....if I can let go of my attatchment to them!


Here's what I've beeen making, laptop cases, gift boxes, covered wishbones, tool cases, needle cases, cumberbunds,tags.....


Talisman Keepsake Boxes






Collections of treasures...


Nature Folk Art


I always love reading about what peope are listening to or what books they are reading so here are a few songs from 'The Soundtrack to my Weekend' just gone while I beavered away, and occasionally stopped for a bit of bedroom disco!....... Praise You . Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars.. Killing me Softly (Roberta Flack Version) You on my Mind and my Sleep. Driving away from Home. I've Just seen a Face. Black and Gold (Giullemots version). Moves Like Jagger (currently no1 on my bedroom disco chart) Waiting like Mad. Kiss (Prince not the band). There she goes my Beautiful World. Fly me to the Moon ( always the Frank Sinatra version) Crazy feeling. April Come She Will. None of us are Free. Wagon Wheel. A Hard Rains Gonna Fall. Mehendi Rachi. Leaving on a Jet Plane. You're my Thrill. In the Beautiful
Tomorrow. Diamond Dogs.