new stuff for spring 2011......

I've been making these brooches from rescued herringbone tape and vintage buttons...I'll have some more of these, with a sprinkling of homewares, at the MTAM's Easter Fayre on Thursday 7th April at the Town Hall from 9am-12noon.....

 ...hope to see you there.

comic relief....

...doing great work for those going through such tough times. How can it be that in 2011, there are still parts of the world where children die because they haven't got 35p to get a taxi to a medical centre? How can so many have so little whilst we all waste so much? It's not right.....lend your support to these initiatives supported by comic relief by going to their websites...sometimes it's not always your money they need...a signature added can help change things...

"be the change you want to see in the world" (Mahatma Gandhi)

Japan

A Mad Hatter's Tea Party

It was our mini-mills' 4th birthday party yesterday and we invited her friends to a Mad Hatter's Tea Party! It took a bit of manic organising as we only decided what to do a few weeks before but I think we got away with it!!! Thanks Adam for helping to make the large tea-pots, keys and signs and for having to get up quite high to stick them on the ceilings - a big thing for someone who hates heights, especially whist standing on a rickety step ladder! Here are pics from the party....firstly you need to go 'down' the rabbit hole!

Thanks to Gabriella (the Mad Hatter) for entertaining all 25 kids for 2 hours (a small break whilst they had tea!) - the kids were thoroughly entertained!

The tea-room is all set for the tea-party (thanks to my family for loaning teapots and cake stands and plants!).....

A table of treats....

Thanks to 'Uncle Joe' for making the delicious red velvet birthday cupcakes and for decorating them just how I imagined! (I apologise for bombarding you with pics of what I wanted!!!)....

I had made some jam heart tarts (I was the Red Queen so just living up to the part!) but these lemon-flavoured iced biscuits are my favourite - I enjoy decorating cakes and biscuits but cannot make the things to save my life! So I cheated and bought some lemon biscuits but I'm such a wimp as my fingers starting hurting after the first few!!...

Everyone got a themed party-bag - a huge thankyou to Elaina at Bowcocos for the fabulous gifts for the girls (badges and playing cards for the boys)....

And finally, a very happy birthday girl (4 today!!) and 2 very cheeky cheshire cats!!...

Labour and Wait

I like this shop very much indeed!!!

Pick Me Up - 2nd edition

Heads up on the up and coming 2nd Pick Me Up graphic art fair at Somerset House - 17-27 March. If it's anything like last year, it will be great! Will keep you posted.

KATHAK STANZAS - dance and mythology

We went to see this wonderful session of kathak dancing at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank the other weekend, which formed part of the IMAGINE children's festival over the half term week.(I apologise now for the out of focus moments!)

Gauri Sharma Tripathi is the southbank artist in residence, and she put on a brilliant show/workshop of traditional South Indian kathak dancing and told stories of Indian mythology in which we could all take part.

My highlight was the music in the last dance routine -"KANYA" by Niraj Chag...beautiful! (He was also responsible for the music for BBC Radio 4's modern dramatisation of the Indian epic The Ramayana which was fantastic - my girls were thoroughly engrossed with it). Please do check out the links in this post - I hope you enjoy.