Wednesday 30 April 2014

Pigs Trotters and a seagull wearing lipstick

Still catching up on blogging my BH doings.
Saturday morning was spent at the antique fair in Wadebridge.
My first one down here.
Only a few finds …..
… but met some lovely people.


A collector of sewing memorabilia …..
….. with the most exquisite items …
… to coo over.
The teeniest, tiniest scissors with a pen knife attached …


… just an inch long …
… perhaps once attached to a long chain ...
... round a slender neck …
… handy to snip her silk thread.
Tiny carved pig trotters .....


...... used to keep the wool tidy when knitting socks …
… on four needles.
An enamelled shoe with concealed pen knife …


….. also only an inch long.
Super, duper sweet.
Delicately engraved mother of pearl tape measures.


So very elegant.
The Victorians certainly knew how to do exquisite.


My purchases ...
... buttons ...
... of course ...



… one can never have too many …
… a silhouette picture so intricately cut out …


….. with the sweetest of messages on the back.


Odd bits for my collages …
... and ephemera ...
… vintage French maps, rent books from Bilston (11s 9p a weekrent in 1929) .. 


... and promotion pics for radio stars .....


..... before the days of TV.
A Scottie doggie brooch ... 
... with a loving gaze ...


... but  perhaps my favourite of all  …


… is a brooch of a seagull wearing lipstick.

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Sunday 27 April 2014

Teeny Boats and a Wise Old Donkey


A busy Bank Holiday weekend.

Friday was the best day, weather wise ...
… of the weekend.
A whole weekend of fairs.

Happy dance.

The sun was beaming.
The sky, the deepest blue.
The tiniest wisps of white cloud …
….. drifting in the softest of breezes.
The sea looked like it had been sprinkled with glitter.
Very pretty.


A perfect day in fact, for taking time out from making …
… to visit the Trefeife House Craft Fair.


Very English.


Craft tents on the lawn …
… homemade lemonade on sale.
Lots of talented artists …
… selling their own makes.


Christine from The sea Garden
… had been very busy …
… with her utterly exquisite makes


Beautiful nature collages …



… teeny mermaid boxes  ...


... and pretty cards.


Then it was a stroll round the garden …
 … before getting back to my own makes.
Including little fripperies.
For the Portscatho Fair.


... teeny little boats ...


... and a wise old donkey

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