mud bath!!!!!!

we spent the weekend at ballywalter house at the game and country fair and this is what we had to deal with MUD! on the friday it was a bit damp and as the day went on the weather became wetter and a little bit more muddy. and when we arrived on saturday morning the placed was more like a sea of mud than a green field, good job it was only round the road from us and we didn't have far to travel.
but as usual loobylou and i made the best of a bad thing and had a ball, although we didn't make much money and as you can see we could still smile about it.

the guy beside us is a local artist and this was his first fair of this kind and he soon found out that we were good people to know and kept him supplied with constant cups of coffee and a large amount of witt and wisdom from marriage (bless he is only married a year, 'it il soon wear off' we told him) to getting sales at a fair

and although the weather was better today the mud was still there and the punter were sooooooo busy keeping their hands in their pockets we made very little in way of sales

but we looked good anyway!!!!! well at least the next fair is in a church hall where we will be away from the mud ......

busy,busy,busy

i have a very busy few weeks in front of me! me friend loopylou and i are off to a big game fair at the weekend and then a small fair in our church to help raise money to extend the halls and then the next week off to the big farm show in belfast and followed by a lovely weekend in the local national trust property (just round the corner from me!!!!) so off now to sort out the car for the first drop off and set up tomorrow, hope the lovely weather we have been promised arrives in time for the weekend and i think i will spend monday in bed, or at the sewing machine making more of everything ......

huffy puss

i have been very busy over the winter making stock for the up and coming craftfairs and not much time to sit about and relax- so after the success of my new labels i thought i had a few minutes spare i would make a load more and got stuck in, but i had a big problem ....... in the shape of hammy!!! as you can see i was not paying him much heed and he thought it was about time he got a little tlc

so after walking over me and the table a few times he settled down for a nap?????

tags take 2 !!

well with a bit of fiddleing about i have managed to make my own handmade -handstamped tags !!!!!!!!!!!!! ad you can see i went for the oval shaped punch and a cream card


and when i had punched out the required amount i stamped some with my new stamps ( as you can see i have went for the usual green for the handmade in ireland one )

and then with the single punch i made 2 holes to allow the back of the brooche to fit in

and there you have it and a lot cheaper than having to buy luggage tags by the thousand now i can make my own and i'm sure i'll find some other use for these lovely tags

just hope this makes the punters want to buy even more of these lovely little brooches

tags

have been looking for a long time for tags to put on my crafts and not having much joy. until i visited the craft show in the kings hall, belfast last weekend and was talking to the lady who runs the craft depot in bangor and she made a few sugestions. so off to have a think about what she had said and i visited the shop today and picked up the big punch we had talked about and some card to have a go ......
off now to have a wee play around and will let you all know how these new handmade tags turn out !!!!!

rosie

meet rosie


i have been on the lookout for a bust for a long time to display my shawls etc and i had a blowup one but Char squished it one day and it now has a hole that i can't fix. i had picked up a copy of the local ads for free in the hope of finding a new link box for the tractor and fell in with this instead !!!!!!! isn't she just great
sent hubby a picture and he said she could stay of she could iron and do a bit of housework

here rosie is wearing one of my beanies and a lovely blue neck warmer

hope she likes being my new best friend?

busy day

been a bit of a busy day today - i have finished the heart chalkboards i have been working on now for a little while and i have also finished some of the brooches and felt flowers that i have been working on over the last month .

these are the large ones that are a bit like a corsuage (not sure if these are spelt right but you know what i mean ) and the ones below are a mixture of felt flowers which are, i hope, in this years colours of the purple that there is so much of about and the others are the little knitted brooches that i have been futtering with for a while until i got just the way i liked them