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Monday, August 24, 2009

My weekend

It was a gorgeously sunny weekend here in London and I fully made the most of it. Saturday was the Bust Craftacular in Bethnal Green. I went over with some girls from my knitting group; it was an excellent event, probably the best craft fair I've been to. A lovely space, a brill pop-up tea shop and loads of lovely crafty stalls, of course.

Bust Craftacular
Tatty Devine were building the world's biggest charm bracelet with help from fair attendees.. you could sit down and add a charm, and also build your own little bracelet to take home.

Bust Craftacular
Mini Patisserie jewellery; their dollhouse-sized doughnut charm necklaces are so cute.

Bust Craftacular
The pop-up tea shoppe provided by Lady Luck Rules OK was out first port of call. Each table had a theme from a different era, from 70s bright Formica to our elegant Thirties table.

Bust Craftacular
Gorgeous jewellery by Never. Each unique piece is made using found objects, from teaspoons to broken watches.

Bust Craftacular
Claire Platt's embroideries of anatomical drawings. I love the sequins and pastel tones! Check out her blog and Flickr.

Bust Craftacular
I had the pelaseure of finally meeting my long-term Twitter friend Kate, a.k.a Little Doodles. She'd worked very hard getting all these lovely items made for her stall and it all looked gorgeous. I bought a teacup and some see-through decals.

After the fete, we popped into the very nearby Museum of Childhood, which is currently hosting an exhibition of Quentin Blake drawings for Roald Dahl's books. It also has an amazing collection of antique dolls' houses and lots of vintage board games which brought back memories.

Museum of Childhood

Museum of Childhood

Lots more photos on my Flickr. In case you couldn't tell, I'm still really loving my E-P1!

5 Comments

Anonymous said...

I love clair platt's yoni pictures.

smurfpop said...

Jealous! :( I'm a bit gutted I couldn't get there - I can't wait to move to London in a few weeks, hopefully I can get to exciting things like this much more easily :D Those cupcakes look D R E A M Y! x

Claudy said...

So sad I missed it, but I had tickets for Shakespeare at the National Theatre... I think I saved money by not going from your photos though!

Bayard said...

Museum exhibition sounds amazing, such a shame I won't get to see it. I have always loved Quentin Blake! I was very excited to see the new "Time for a Rhyme" feature in the September Storybox book, illustrated by non other than Quentin! http://www.storyboxbooks.com/ The new feature "Time for a Rhyme" presents a read-aloud celebration of poetry and art for children and publishing these pages, StoryBox supports the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) , a non for profit organization working to defend every child's right to read.

Bayard said...

Museum exhibition sounds amazing, such a shame I won't get to see it. I have always loved Quentin Blake! I was very excited to see the new "Time for a Rhyme" feature in the September Storybox book, illustrated by non other than Quentin! http://www.storyboxbooks.com/ The new feature "Time for a Rhyme" presents a read-aloud celebration of poetry and art for children and publishing these pages, StoryBox supports the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY) , a non for profit organization working to defend every child's right to read.