Featured in Popular Crafts!

The fantastic Popular Crafts has featured us on their News page as a hot story!

This months issue is Valentines themed and features over 20 step-by-step craft projects to make and covers over 15 crafts!

For Valentine’s sew yourself a romantic dress and compliment this with a silver clay heart pendant and don’t forget to send your message of love with one of their Valentine’s cards or a cross stitch heart pocket. The even have a special section on Brides who say I DIY with all the wows to help you say your vows including a floral umbrella and resin heart favours.

Great for artists and artisans, this month they have special feature on how to approach galleries to sell your art.

In addition they have loads of projects, competitions, stories and more - it's a great read and available at WHSmiths or any leading newsagents.

Visit us at the Peterborough Heritage Festival This Weekend!

This weekend is the Peterborough Heritage Festival! Every year I like to go - there are re-enactors from every era, great food, great crafts, a period market, real ale, mock battles - it's fab and set in the grounds of the amazing Peterborough Cathedral.



This year they are featuring a crafts tent full of local handmade crafters and their goods! A whole host of us will be there, including Yuri and her origami, myself, Daintylittletreausures and TillyRose plus loads more.

From 10am Saturday til 5pm Sunday pop in to see my lovely range of hand painted glassware and candles (although if you are going to be at the festival and want to have something else from the site, just let me know and I will pack it up and bring it for pick-up!)

Should be a fab weekend - I'll see you all there!

On Craft Fairs and Lulls

I hate this time of year, I really do.
It's dark, it's cold and everyone is still eyeing their bank statements after Christmas - especially in this Dreaded Recession.

So, being a crafting person at this time is tough.
Without a big event like Christmas, Mothers Day etc, it can be hard to justify going handmade - after all, it's often a bit pricier.


I had a lovely craft fair yesterday with Merge Contemporary Craft Fairs. We mostly had the candles out, as they are lovely little gifts and great fun to sniff and see in person - but it was very slow on sales. We had loads of people in, and Zoe was fantastic about going into town and herding people into the fair, but people just were not buying.

However, all the crafters involved were still smiling, still cheery and making jokes and still being enthusiastic and dedicated to their product - repeating their spiel, answering questions and giving up their Saturday to entertain people with their crafts, all without a complaint.

Do you get that level of warmth and service when you pop into Tescos for a gift and card? Do you know who made your last gift? Do you know what they used, where they got the inspiration from and where they live? No - it's factory-made. And dull with it.