If you're anywhere near the National Trust's
Osterley Park House in North London in the weekends leading up to Christmas, do drop in to visit the craft fair and enjoy some seasonal carols.
This will be my second "real" craft fair, and I'm nervously excited. I'll be there this weekend (3/4 December) and my colleague Maggie will be around the following week. I've packed up a great range of Christmas decorations and presents. Visit me to buy hand-painted and decoupaged wine glasses, wooden spoons and stirrers, baubles, card toppers, Lazy Susans, votive candle holders, shopping bags, earring boxes, clocks and much more.
Folk art painting takes time, so we won't have a huge stock under the table. It's going to be a "when it's gone, it's gone" sale. Do come and say hello if you get the chance.
Saw these wreaths for the birds on a stall in a Dutch village just before Christmas. What a fabulous idea! Would love to copy this for next year, but not sure I fancy having woodpigeons and squirrels clinging to my front door in an attempt to gather lunch. Perhaps the shed door would be better ...
