Ferry, ferry good fair

As I mentioned in my last post, Elsie May and Bertha was at the Vintage and Handmade Craft Fair at Woodside Ferry, Birkenhead last Sunday (17th Feb). It was a beautifully sunny day and where we had a table meant that we had a great view of the Liverpool skyline.

The fair, and the cafe bar we were based in Home, was really busy. Probably due to the happy coincidence of good weather, the start of half-term and the visit of HMS Illustrious to Liverpool. 

We met lots of new crafters who were selling at the fair including:

Natalie Louise Smith who is an illustrator and artist.


Image Natalie Louise Smith

Vintage Fairytale - this mother and daughter combo create beautiful cake stands (or use them as jewellery stands) and candles out of vintage cups, saucers and plates.


Image Vintage Fairytale

Loves a good yarn, owner Pam Harrow makes lots of lovely things out of crochet, including children's clothes, bridal accessories and afghans. 


Image Loves a Good Yarn.

CD Clockworld, Alan Southern takes old CDs and DVDs and creates them into clocks. It's such a simple idea but terribly effective. A Bart Simpson clock anyone?


Image CD Clockworld

It was a good, but tiring day, that means I need to get back into the Elsie May and Bertha workroom to replace all that I sold! So it's sewing (sorry!) for me.

TTFN
Louise

PS - Our next fair is at the Community Centre, Hoylake on 9th March.

The next one at Woodside Ferry is 21st April.

Elsie May and Bertha's next fair.

We're busy making for our first fair of the year. 



These are a few of the items we'll be taking with us.

Jewellery pouches.

Needle cases and pincushions.

I'll also be taking rose and lavender mother's day pillows as well as cards.

Hope to see you on Sunday.

TTFN

Louise

February Creative Connections challenge

February's challenge subject is 'valentines' (it had to be really).

I've made a few valentiny things to sell at the two shops that carry my work (Paper, Scissors, Stone and Seagrass studio Gallery) but these are more for men to buy women rather than vice versa. I decided, therefore, to make something more 'manly' for the challenge.

I decided on a 'picture' and started off with a cover off an old book to used as the board

I covered it with some 60's inspired paper on the front.

To create the picture I found a suitable quote (from the internet), cut out some hearts from an old map and sorted out some stamps and glued them to the board. 

For the back of the picture I glued on another piece of the map.

So that the lady could add a little billet doux to her Valentine I created a little envelope (I used a an envelope I already had as a template.

A little card to go in the envelope.

To be able to hang up my creation I sewed a brass ring to a little piece of fabric and glued this to the back.

To enter your valentine craft into the challenge, go to the monthly challenge page on the Creative Connections website.

TTFN

Louise

Christmas 2012 - my Mum and Dad's decorations

I know it's late, but with me being unwell I hadn't been back to my Mum and Dad's house since Christmas day so I hadn't taken any photos. The photos used here are my Mum's taken on her Samsung tablet, which have come out really well. I've not played with them at all.

My Mum is really good at this decorating lark (which is why I'm still posting these here now), her house always seems more decorated than ours. But that might have something to do with the difference in house sizes, you could probably fit their house into ours a couple of times!

Here's the photos (just pretend it's still December!).

I'll be posting about the winners of the Creative Connections monthly challenge winners for Sept, Oct and Nov 2012 next.

TTFN

Louise

Creative Connection January 2013 craft challenge

The theme for the first challenge of the new year is 'new'. I decided that new was going to be something new for me. I've been meaning to learn to crochet for ages so this challenge was ideal to push me into start learning.

I'd bought issue 24 of Simply Homemade and there was a pattern for a crocheted flower, along with details on how to begin crochet.

 The first thing to do is create a chain.

 Then I tried double crochet.

Next there's treble crochet, which is one of the stitches in the flower pattern.

The start.

The completed flower.

I'm rather proud of my flower. I hope to do more, now I know the basics I'll be doing some more crochet. My goal is to make some granny squares.

If you'd like to enter this month's challenge pop over to the Creative Connections website and see the items made by my fellow Design Teamers.
 

Anji from Anji Krafts has posted about here 'fat free' cupcakes on her blog.

TTFN
Louise.

PS. Happy New Year!