more rain and more cake

Hello You lovely folk,bit of a soggy election day. got quite soggy cycling home from work, poor flowers on my basket, at least skin is waterproof!
More cake today! It's my friend Janes' Birthday so I baked a cake with lots of pink sparkle on top.Hope she likes it.
Just picked some lilac from the garden to bring indoors and remind me it is actually spring!
Now it's time for The Darling Buds of May, a glass of vino, crochet some more of my colourful 'Romany' blanket, probably another glass of wine and then outnumbered on tv-bliss.
Cheerio for now and remember 'work hard and be nice to people'
Amanda xx

Hi everyone ... no wonder I need to go running with all that lovely cake around!! I've also been busy telling everyone about the craft fair in September and have had several offers of cake-making and tea-pouring!
I desparately wanted to sit down and finish off the Peter Rabbit bunting but put my talents (?) to different use and started setting up our website! Hopefully it will be launched within the next few days when we've taken lots of gorgeous photos of our lovely things and loaded them all on!
Oh well - there's always tomorrow for the bunting, and I can feel a bag or two coming on too! Take care! Tina xx

tea and cake

Hello Folks, where did summer go?? Sat and had tea and cake in the garden with a friend, scrumptious. Although noticed how the grass had grown, no we hadn't sat there that long! so out comes the mower and in goes the sun. After that bit of exercise time to come in and bake ( tea loaves) and sew (lavender sachets), what a lovely way to pass the time.
Checked out local paper for jumble sales, so Tina and I will be out with our shopping baskets on saturday. I can feel more tea and cake coming on! Blissful way to spend Saturday afternoon!
Telling lots of fellow crafters and tea drinkers all about our craft and vintage fair on sept 18th, very positive comments and ideas, especially for cake- there seems to be a theme coming through here. That reminds me must get Mother Bea, our finder of good stuff, onto the fruit cake making, You must try some at the fair!

Hope all is well with you and yours and remember "kind people are the nicest kind of people"
Amanda xx

Hello! Having a bit of a chillaxing day today. Decided to go to Taunton this morning to see if I could find a dress for Fi's wedding - found an absolutely gorgeous one in Debenhams.

Steve and I decided it was too chilly to go for a walk so I thought I'd give my new butterfly punch a go and make some lovely wedding cards, which I will get round to photographing and posting on here some time this week! I can't believe how fab they look and how easy it is!

I now have quite a collection of cards ready for our Craft / Vintage fair in September, but will be adding more most weeks. Amanda is making cards today too ... so hopefully we'll have a mountain of choice by the time the fair comes round!

Hello, the other half here. A bit brighter today and surprisingly no hangover from the business meeting last night!
OOhhh it's so exciting doing the things you love, and as my daughter pointed out 'Mum at last you're fashionable' , always been a charity shop queen and crafter.
Tina and I love all things vintage and pretty and of course wine and chocolate, what more could a girl ask for?! oh and I don't quite know every one in the village, most though! it's a lovely place to live, nice people and most people know me from cycling round the village on my flowery bike, wave if you see me.
This is an exciting time for Tina and myself , it will be extra busy and should be so much fun. send us your comments and join us for tea and cake in September. Big thanks to Tina's Hubby, Steve, for all the suggestions and to Mother for all her 'finding good stuff' abilities.
Bye for now and smile , it's contagious xx

Hi there - what a wet and windy Bank Holiday Sunday! I've finished pressing all the penants for my Beatrix Potter bunting now, just waiting for the white bias binding to arrive through the post on Tuesday, so I can finish it.

I've just made another fairy cushion cover too, so now we have a matching pair! And they are very lovely! I'm trying to work out how much stock we may need for the craft / vintage fair in September (and where we're going to keep it all!). Hopefully there will be enough room in both of our garages after we've done the car boot sale in a fortnight's time.

Amanda is coming across the road tonight, so we can have another business meeting - I'll show her the business cards I've ordered and she'll talk to me about the rubber stamp we need to order to stamp our labels and greetings cards! I'm trying to be really organised as I have a feeling the next 3 months will just fly by! Especially as I have a big family wedding next month, followed by a HUGE birthday (50) so will be tied up for a lot of the time.

Off to chill the wine now!

hello again! Had a lovely day today with a very dear friend, at Clarks Village in Street, Somerset. Bought a lovely lot of cardstock at the Paper Mill Shop and a fab butterfly punch which I can't wait to try out!

Hubby Steve read through my first blog yesterday and chuntered that it was he who had first put the idea in my head of getting together with Amanda to form a venture, and that it was he who had suggested we put on a craft fair as our first outing and that it was he who had suggested where was the best venue for the craft fair! Fair enough I say - thanks Steve - you have been a great help in all of this!! And you don't even grumble when you can't hear the telly for the noise of the sewing machine!

Amanda and I are having another business meeting tomorrow evening to see what needs to be done next - must get a bottle of rose tomorrow! In the meantime I have finished sewing the pennants for the Beatrix Potter bunting - just awaiting delivery of the new supply of white bias binding to finish it off (it would be Bank Holiday weekend, wouldn't it!).

Think I'll make some more greetings cards tomorrow - lots of butterflies I think!