The Craft Fair.

We had a very wet start to the day and although we ended up with a long bright spell before the rain began again I decided not to go to the zoo this week. 

Instead I got the branches out of the garage and hung some special baubles that either had been gifts or I hadn't been able to resist in the January sales. The driftwood tree has no baubles at all, only creatures and stars. That wasn't planned but I rather like the 'alternative' result. 

I had a tidy up in the porch finally cutting back the trailing geraniums and then adding a few decorations. All silver glitter though I haven't been able to find the door wreath I'd promised myself once the porch was done. They had it for two years running in Matalan but not this year.

I'd had to go up in the loft to get some things and brought down a giant plush tortoise that had been in storage. This had been a 'Father Christmas' present (I used to combine the money given by the family to buy one special present for each of the boys)  for one of the boys when they were very little. After many years of being sat on, thrown and hugged it had became quite grubby to say the least. Today I carefully opened a seam, removed all the stuffing and hand washed the fabric. I'm hoping that I can restore it to its former glory and keep the tortoise as a whimsical cushion.

I'm hoping the rain will stop before I have to walk to the Hall for Pilates. And it's kettlebells. Not my favourite though I know it's good for me.

And now as promised some photos from Sunday's Craft Fair. There were over twenty stalls filled with beautiful items so this is just a snippet.

This (above) was one of the stalls I suggested to Pete as a good place to do his Christmas shopping. We already have one of the small round pictures of an owl that I bought for Pete one time.

I love ceramics but have run out of space to display what I still have in storage so no point in suggesting any of those to Pete. There was also lots of gorgeous jewellery but I hardly wear the pieces I already have so I had to pass on those too.

I did like the tiny metal creatures and the robots? below were great fun. A simple idea which I haven't seen before but very effective.

I would find room for the metal raven but at £400 it was way out of our price range.