an exciting day...

What a start to December! Yesterday I went to the Vintage and Handmade Fair in Chipping Sodbury, a little market town near Bristol.  There were lots of lovely stalls selling all kinds of gorgeous bits and pieces...

on the Country Cottage Chic stall there were vintage Christmas tree decorations...

lovely toys and books...

and I loved this elephant from a set of vintage wooden circus toys!

There was also a huge stall run by the lovely Lizzie Van Hasselt with all kinds of amazing vintage loveliness...

stunning french fabrics...

and buttons...

a very special pair of gold party shoes!...

and all so beautifully styled.

 
I also met the lovely Woo of The Devil Makes work, but do you know - we were so busy chatting I forgot to take any photos of her beautiful stall!  Sorry Woo!

Obviously I love vintage fairs wherever they are, but the main reason for going to this particular one was that I knew the lovely Donna Flower was selling some of her vintage goodies there, and I wanted to have a look at her fabrics in person, and of course meet the lady herself.  I follow Donna's blog and I had left a comment telling her I was planning to go...little did I know she would bring some really special fabrics just for me to look at!  But the sun is shining and we're off out for a walk, so you will have to wait until tomorrow to see if I bought anything....

Hope you have a lovely sunny Sunday!

Rachel x

can it be Thursday already...?

well actually it's nearly Friday - where has the week gone?!  I have decided to invent a new Blogging Award...I have called it the Crap Blogger Award and I will only ever be awarding it to myself!  There are at least a million things I should have shared this week...well maybe that's a tiny exaggeration...but I do feel like there either aren't enough hours in each day, or I need an extra me to do all the boring jobs so I can do all the fun stuff like blogging! 

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments about the bits I made for the Craft Fair - it went very well, I sold quite a bit and had a fun day. 

The light was terrible and there was a very busy background behind my stall so I didn't bother taking too many pictures, but here is a little glimpse of my buttons and mirrors, displayed on my favourite vintage plates of course...

One of the nicest things about the fair was that it was at the local secondary school, where M will be going in a few years...it used to have a pretty bad reputation but now it seems like a really great school.  It was the first time they'd held a Christmas fair and lots of pupils and teachers got involved, and I met the Head and she was lovely.  It seems strange to be thinking about it now, but I'm learning that the years zip by so fast and before I know it he'll be off to big school all by himself...*gulp*!

In the meantime his lovely primary school is holding their very well established Christmas Craft Fair next weekend and I'll be there selling more lovely fabric goodies.  I sold a lot on my stall there last year, including big things like lampshades and cushion covers, so I need to get some serious making done over the next week! 

Hope you're having a lovely week, although I haven't been posting I have been trying to keep up with a lot of lovely blogs - apologies if I haven't popped by recently, I may have lurked and not found time to comment!  And sorry for the word-heavy/photo-light post, thanks for sticking with me if you've got this far.... :)

Rachel xx

you can never have too many...

...buttons!!

Today me and R played with my button tin.  It was a very happy way to spend our time! 

he made me a 'cake'...

and I rummaged through my tin and found all the 'sets' that were held together 

by thread and made...a rainbow (of sorts) - I'm SO predictable!

hmmm, could have tidied the table and/or framed that one a bit better! Ho hum, never mind...was going to take some more photos - this was only about a 20th of what was in the tin, and I've got another tin full of buttons still on their cards...but my camera battery ran out, so that will have to wait for another day.

I've also just ordered some self-cover buttons so that I can use up some of my fabric scraps and have some little things to sell at upcoming Christmas craft fairs...so when they arrive I'll have even more!  I've never made fabric covered buttons before so it will be interesting seeing how easy/fiddly it is...I'll let you know how it goes.

Hope you've had a lovely day.

Rachel x