Crafty Tales

Just a little insight to what Aunt Jane's Attic will be doing in the next few months, we will be at all these craft fair venues selling handmade cards, lavender bags made from Liberty fabric, Harris Tweed and gorgeous velvet, journals featuring vintage images and lace, bookmarks using beads and pearls and Harris Tweed and wool felt, some finished with vintage crocheted flowers, also some love lavender hearts reusing embroidered tray cloths and charms and beads, also new this year wall hangings, one with two little girls has a family tie.

This is our newest fair at Bridport Arts Centre called Aunty Ann's Craft Fair, looks like its going to be a good one, was very well attended last Saturday, we had a great time and met lots of lovely new people and old friends.

new style cards

map cards of Bridport

journals 

bookmarks with Harris Tweed

and wool felt and vintage crocheted lace

new lavender hearts reusing embroidered tray cloths

lavender bags

new line - wall hangings

this hanging I have used a picture of my Auntie when she was a little girl gathering flowers from her fathers nursery, which was in Cheshire (eventually ending up with my Mum and Dad running it for a few years, before it was sold for building) Margaret, my Auntie grew up there and when she got married moved to Taunton, Somerset, thats why I have so many happy memories of this area.  I incorporated the picture, printing it onto material first, into the tray cloth, cutting out the little arch area to fit Margaret and her friend Nora in.

Craft Fairs:

February:

23rd - Bridport Town Hall

March:

9th - St. Marys Church House, Bridport

23rd - Bridport Arts Centre

30th - Bridport Town Hall

April:

13th - St. Marys Church House, Bridport

20th - Bridport Arts Centre

27th - Bridport Town Hall

May:

11th - St. Marys Church House, Bridport

18th - Bridport Town Hall

25th - Bridport Arts Centre

Random Musings

Well I know its a bit late but Happy New Year to you all, my how time passes by so quickly.  Not really been up too much lately, started making for the craft fairs of 2013, have a new one to do still in Bridport at the Arts Centre which will be on 16th February, called Aunty Ann's Craft Fair which I am really looking forward to doing it should be very exciting!  So now have 3 craft fairs a month, I think it will be a case of just getting off at the next stop!  But really looking forward to all of them, been making new cards and still carrying on with the lavender bags, but as well as the Liberty fabric will be using some lovely velvet, well actually a lot of velvet which was picked up on ebay, in loads of different colours, and some gorgeous Harris Tweed.

So have a few random pictures to share, eccentric daughter had a birthday in January, so she wanted a trip to Portland, she loves that place and loves to take photos, so thats what we did, we met a charming man who was working down here and he was into photography, we got chatting and he let her have a go with some very serious camera equipment!  On the way to Portland we visited Grandad one eye, who sadly is not with us any more and lies in a grave in Westham Cemetery in Weymouth died in 1878, the headstone is still there although leans a bit more than it did.  We call him Grandad one eye because we found out that he was in Dorchester Prison for stealing some leather, he worked in that line, and the prison records state that he had only one eye, had two fingers cut of, don't know if I would have like to have met him in a dark alley, anyway we didn't have a spare glass eye, but we did take him some leather buttons and put them on his grave!

leather  buttons, they look like toadstools

Portland Lighthouse

messy work space

gorgeous Harris Tweed

made this wall hanging for eccentric daughter to go with her book 'The Russian Royal Family'

our lovely new friend Blue who lives next door

another new friend and visitor to the garden, we've been taking extra special care of this one just in case he struggles to find food, with being that little bit different.

daughter having a change round in her room (and tidy up!) a friend bought me this rabbit, but seems to be living here now.

Miss Lemon, all girly twirls enjoying life and getting 5 lovely eggs a day

Charmouth Beach

and finally sleeping dog, where he shouldn't be!

Hope its not too long before I'am back here again writing to you all

Bye

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Finished - finished - finished all the craft  fairs yeah - well for this year anyway, what a hetic week the last lot was, which was very enjoyable, but now feel a bit lost now, not having anything to make anything, not allowed to do anything until after Christmas -  so been doing a bit of this:

Made this all by myself, was going to buy one, but couldn't find a nice one, all had those tacky plastic flowers  in, so took the bull by the horn and bought a moss covered wire and filled in with homegrown christmas tree, holly and ivy and cones which turned out rather well I think.

Christmas window ledge

eccentric daughter made this lovely card for her Mummy and Daddy

Christmas mantelpiece

christmassy cup and saucer charity shop find

pretty fairy lights

and tree

eccentric daughter's feet and dogs in her new Dr Martins pressie from her Auntie and Uncle

At the beginning of December we did Eype Makers Market, these pictures were taken as we were going in the morning

This is where it was held in a lovely church

love this window

Bridport is down there somewhere!

and as we were leaving, late afternoon

so that has been life these past few weeks

Wishing you all a lovely 

 MERRY CHRISTMAS

Upcoming Fairs

Upcoming Craft Fairs Aunt Jane's Attic will be at:

24th November

Bridport Town Hall (Lift in Tourist information centre)

9:00am-3:00pm

30th November

Taste of Christmas at The Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis

6:00pm-8:30pm

1st December

Eype Makers Market, Eype, Bridport

10:00am-4:00pm

5th December

Bridport Christmas Festival

6:00pm-8:00pm

7th December

Beaminster School Christmas Fair, Beaminster town hall

6:00pm-8:00pm

8th December

Monthly gift and craft Fayres, St Mary's Church house, Bridport 

10:00am-3:00pm

Madness

Weeks wizing by totally ignoring this blog, been busy busy busy, lots of Christmas Fairs and craft, I think the first week in December I have 6 all in a row, so might be lying low for a while.  Its so hard to know what will sell and how many things to make, my friend from Cumbria Jo, asked me today what my bestseller will be this Christmas, how do you know that, I just don't know, some things sell out some weeks and then the other weeks something sells better.  Anyway amongst all the madness my sister-in-law and husband are coming to see us, which will be lovely as we havn't seen them for 2 years, so looking forward to that.

Still havn't done the post about monkey, I think monkey will have to wait until everything has died down, in fact monkey is sat here next to me, looking rather smart in a fine needlecord pinafore dress and a cute little brooch, which is actually a clip-on earring, which eccentric daughter adorned on to her.  She is sat on the dogs chair, who isn't too pleased with her!

Here is monkey in her earlier days and me on holiday in Bourenmouth ....

and here is monkey last month in Bournemouth

in the needlecord dress.

Anyway will be here tomorrow

Hope to see you all in blogland soon.

Craft update

Had a good day a Bridport town hall, lots of people going through. Even sold out of Liberty lavender bags with vintage brooch. So only had supplies to make 2 more, have to get more brooches now!

If anybody is in Weymouth tomorrow, do come and say hello to us. We will be at:

Lights, Camera, Action

Well, I bet you all thought I had been blown into blogger cyberspace, sorry its been so long since I have updated, and commented on all your lovely blogs, but been busy with other things, mainly to do with crafty things, getting things made for up and coming fairs, trying to think of new things, source new things and then make everything.

In my last post I showed you all a picture of Monkey and said I would tell you all his/her (don't know if its a girl or a boy) but I'am afraid Monkey will have to wait until next time as wanted to show you all these pictures of a new ITV series they have been filming down at West Bay where we live.  Eccentric daughter and I went to have a bit of a stalk (ooh should I be saying that word or not), anyway they have been filmnig before at the end of August but we didn't see anything, now they are back, having inside information as some have been staying at the guest house where I work.  They have taken over the car park near the old station full of trailer vans, canteen, I think there's more directors and makers than cast, anyway this is what we found on our stalking trip...

Lots of strange equipment

Do you know who this is

He's been in lots of things, but best known for his role as the last Doctor Who

yes, it is him, David Tennant

There was lots of standing around and waiting

He is starring with Olivia Colman, seen here

she was in Hot Fuzz and the Iron Lady and many other, too many to list here, also starring Pauline Quirke and Arthur Darvill, who played  Rory in Doctor Who, and who is apparently starring in a West End Show and is rushing down Thursday night to film Friday, what a busy life!

This pics for eccentric daughter, waving as she was taking a picture

But its always reasurring that everybody 

dunks their biscuits in their tea and

wipes their nose

I don't think he was too happy on the boat, it was very rough, perhaps feeling a little seasick

getting to know the sights of West Bay

Everybody was very friendly and didn't mind lots of people about and didn't keep you out of the filming bits

The series which is to be shown in the New Year and is called Broadchurch, is a Detective one about a small coastal town (West Bay) and turns the close-knit community into turmoil as a body is discovered on the beach.

They are back in November filming so I suppose a bit more stalking will be on the cards.

But it was all too much for the mad dog

totally bored