Hello everyone,
We can't believe our last post was in October...... Where has this year gone to? It seems to have really disappeared before our very eyes.......
Before it all goes mad, we just wanted to wish you all a very Happy New Year and all the very best for 2014. We hope it's a happy, healthy + prosperous year for everyone. We know that 2013 has been a very mixed year for people, some of our friends have lost loved ones and we always think of those people no longer with us at this time of year. For us, it's our much loved + missed Mum + Nan plus lots of other family members who we love and miss each and every day. And, of course, this year we also lost our little Jack Russell Judy who had belonged to my Mum and we also miss her as well.
November saw the first birthday of our adorable and very precious Lilly, again where has that year gone to? Only seems like yesterday I was blogging to say she had just been born. She really is gorgeous - and I know each and every grandmother must think the same thing! Not walking yet but crawling very fast all over the place. Lilly had lots of presents for her first birthday along with a birthday party at her other Nannie + Grandad's house. Then just a few weeks later, more presents for Christmas, I bought her the Fisher Price 'First Tea Set' which comes complete with a talking teapot! Not sure this won't drive her Mummy + Daddy mad in a few weeks time....... Plus I bought her 'Upsy Daisy' from the Night Garden which is one of her very favourite TV programmes!
We are posting a few of our photo's from Christmas - none of our beautiful Lilly unfortunately but a couple of her Christmas blanket that I crocheted for her - I am really pleased with it as it's the first time I'd done the shell edging which really finished it off nicely (see photo no 3)
Plus a few photo's from the orders we completed for Christmas, so to those people who opened a piece of our jewellery on Christmas morning, we hope you love it as much as we loved creating it for you!
HAPPY NEW YEAR..... with love from us here at Fat Fairy Jewellery xx
Good morning everyone!
Well, here at Fat Fairy Towers we are now really pushing ahead with our very own Artisan Handmade Craft Market. It will be held here in Rugby tomorrow (Sunday 27th October) at The Rugby Hotel, Sheep Street, Rugby CV21 3BX. Starting at 11am and running till 2pm but maybe longer if people are still coming in and shopping!
We have some lovely stalls and very talented craftspeople including:-
Fat Fairy Jewellery
Textiles by Leanne
Fruits of the Fleece
Knits not Perfect
Kazam Jewellery
Amber Feng Shui Arts
Miss K's Krafts
Harkers Fudge
Little Bundles
So, please come along and see us and support all these lovely + very talented artists. I'd just like to say a big thank you to Adrian + Carl at the venue, for all their help + support with our event, it's much appreciated + we are really hoping that this can become a regular event - maybe a Christmas Gift Fair next time.....!
Happy Saturday everyone and we look forward to seeing lots of you tomorrow!
With love from us here at Fat Fairy Jewellery
xx
Morning folks,
Well, I can't believe it's been a week since we last blogged and what a busy week it's been!
At the end of last week, we paid a flying visit up to Preston to see my son, his partner and, of course, our very adorable and precious Lilly! Can you believe Lilly will be a year at the end of next month - where has that time gone too? It was very much a 'flying visit' mainly because I was booked on a holistic course on the Saturday, so had to be back home but also because they are moving house this Thursday, so fingers crossed that it's a nice dry day up in Preston tomorrow!
And, we've been very busy putting the final touches to our very own Artisan Handmade Craft Market this coming Sunday! Just in case you missed our last Blog details below of where to find us on Sunday:-
The Rugby Hotel
Sheep Street
RUGBY
Warwickshire
CV21 3BX
Free admission
11am till 2pm
We have a lovely variety of stalls including (obviously) our very own Fat Fairy Jewellery, Miss K's Krafts, Harkers Homemade Fudge, Little Bundles (baby goods), Kazam Jewellery, Knitted + Crocheted Goods by Sarah, Textiles by Leanne, Homemade cards and other goods by Michelle, Amber Feng Shui Arts + hopefully Homemade Goods who make pickles, chutney and jams!
Really hope to see you there - please come and find me and say hello - or find my very lovely daughter Debbie who has been such a great help to me over the past 2wks!
Have a good day everyone - take care out there as it sounds very windy here in Warwickshire!
with love from us here at Fat Fairy H.Q
xx
Good morning world from here at Fat Fairy H.Q.
Hope this finds you all well and having a good week? It looks (and feels) like winter has really arrived, yesterday here in Warwickshire we had the heavy rain and winds that the weathermen had forecast. They did say they'd travel up country from the south-west during the day but why do they always arrive just at lunchtime? I really needed to go out and got blown about!
Anyway enough of our great British favourite subject the weather and onto the reason for today's Blog - our very own Artisan Handmade Craft Market! It's being held here in Rugby at:-
The Rugby Hotel
Sheep Street, Rugby
CV21 3BX
Sunday 27th October 2013
11am to 2pm
Admission free
We'd really love it if you could a) help us spread the word + b) come along and see us if you are local!
We've lots of leaflets out + about, it will be in this week and next week's Rugby Advertiser, on Stallfinder + lots of other websites and leaflets are now available from the venue and Mo's Fabrics here in Rugby. Trying to upload a copy of our leaflet - working on that one now!
Have a great day and please just e-mail me if you'd like further details of our forthcoming event - fatfairyjewellery2010@hotmail.co.uk or 07976 711002 as at the moment we do have a couple of spaces left due to cancellation.
with love from us here at Fat Fairy H.Q.
xx
Evening everyone and can only say thank goodness it's Thursday because that does mean tomorrow is Friday.....!
Hope you are all having a better week than I seem to be. It started off on a bad foot with a nasty migraine last Sunday which just would not leave me and I ended up having to take Monday off sick as I just felt so washed out and could not even get out of bed - which is most unlike me! They really do leave me feeling drained and tired - which seems daft in itself as I just have to go to bed when I get one and sleep but always feel tired for a couple of days afterwards.
Then, just as I was beginning to get back to normal (whatever normal is!), my PC at work decided it had had enough and packed up. This meant our IT guys had to rebuild it and I was without it all day yesterday (Weds) - how on earth did we all become so dependant on computers? Everything I went to do, needed the PC. Even the filing was beginning to look tempting....
Today our weather here in Warwickshire seems to have turned into winter almost overnight. As I type this tonight, it is very wild + windy outside and the wind is howling down the chimney. Glad my daughter has just got home from a conference in Birmingham and very glad too that my son arrived safely back on UK soil today - thank you Etihad Airlines!
Well, what news do I have on the jewellery making front? I'm busy making lots of pink jewellery as at my day job we will, once again, be supporting the 'Wear it Pink' to work day for Breast Cancer, so making a few new items to tempt people with. What do you think - photo's below.....
But my biggest news is that, having got fed up with being turned down for various craft events because they already have too much jewellery, I have decided to host my own!!! It's something I've thought about for some time and had discussed with a couple of my crafting friends, so I am now going for it (as they say!).
Details herewith and would be delighted if any of you could share the information around for me and if anyone is interested in having a stall, please do get in touch!
Artisan Handmade Craft Market
Sunday 27th October 2013
11am till 2pm
The Rugby Hotel, Sheep Street, Rugby CV21 3BX
Feeling very excited about this and hoping that it may become a regular event.
That's all for now folks, will keep you updated on the Artisan Craft front but please just contact me if you'd like any further details,
love from Fat Fairy H.Q.
xx
Hello everyone,
Hope you've all had a happy + productive Sunday and managed to enjoy this glorious weather. It has been an absolutely stunning day here in Warwickshire. If you didn't know it was the end of September, you could almost think we were still in July.......!
It's been yet another busy weekend here at Fat Fairy Towers. Yesterday saw the car at the garage first thing, a quick breakfast in town in Nuneaton, then collected the car (thank you IVC Garage!) and then off to the Bead Soiree run by the lovely Louisa from Beadelicious Beads.Louisa was actually on her way home from holiday but we were left in the very capable hands of her 2nd in command - Michelle. Had a lovely morning catching up with all the ladies and I made the project sheet of the day and then had some inspiration for a necklace (using the same dyed Agate slice as I used in the project) for a belated birthday pressie for a dear friend. Will post photo's once it's completed and delivered!
Then home to the hairdressers and then off to the gym..... Our new gym here in Rugby is lovely, run by a company called Better and they have extended the opening hours on a Saturday till 8pm,which is much better but obviously not many people realise this as we had the gym almost to ourselves!
Today has seen me at the local station waving goodbye to my daughter Debbie as she heads off 'up north' to stay with her sister-in-law and baby niece - our adorable Lilly! Then I visited the bead fair in Dunchurch run by Sarah from Bead Supermarket. They visit twice a year and always bring a lovely array of beads and findings with them. Managed to spend quite a few pennies but as Sarah comes all the way up from Wales to be in Dunchurch, it seemed rude not to stock up..... (well that's my excuse anyway!).
As it was such a lovely afternoon, I also managed an hour in the garden cutting back the ivy which has gone mad - as only ivy can! My neighbour then very kindly invited me in for a cup of tea and then, before you know it, it's time for dinner!
I just wanted to share a couple of photo's of the venue of last week's wedding. Andy + Shirley had a church wedding (lovely service) and then their reception at Donnington Le Manor House in Leicestershire, which again was lovely. Shirley had someone in to decorate the barn and they also did a lovely job!
The lovely archway which was decorated with not only flower and ribbons but twinkling fairy lights too!
Some of the lovely gardens, all the plants - including lots of herbs, were all labelled so you knew exactly what they were
Lots of tables outside with pretty umbrella's and as it was a nice day, lots of people did sit outside
And they keep bees - how fab is that!
One of the lovely table decorations - I was kindly given one to bring home and it's still going strong over a week later
Two pitchforks from some time ago with the lovely bunting too!
That's all for now folks,
with love from Fat Fairy Jewellery
xx
A very good evening from Fat Fairy H.Q!
Well, at the end of yet another very busy week, I find myself home alone tonight! My daughter is out celebrating her very last day at her awful job and, without our little Judy here, the house is very quiet......
As I mentioned in my previous post, last Sunday saw us at our first wedding fair, we were a little disappointed at the very low turnout but, if nothing else, it proved one thing. And that is what I've always said about any event - you need to advertise, advertise and then advertise it again. With social media these days making things even easier - Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest etc etc, there really is no excuse. Anyway, I do have some photo's of the day which I'll share in another time with you all.
Last weekend also saw the wedding of Andy + Shirley over Leicestershire. They got married in a lovely little parish church in Thornton and then had their reception in the barn at Donnington Le Manor House - another lovely day + some lovely photo's!
But I really wanted to share these photo's with you tonight, taken the weekend after my birthday when I spent the day with my dear friend Gill and we decided to visit Baddesley Clinton, which is a lovely National Trust property near to Solihull. We had such a lovely day and were very lucky with the weather. Like a lot of NT properties, it has lovely gardens and I just had to take a few photo's..... I felt very envious of their flower borders as you will see and also their kitchen garden - see if you can spy their very unusual helpers there!
The house itself, surrounded by a moat.....
Local resident ducks (there were lots of them!), these 2 look like they are on guard!
Gorgeous flower beds, full of marigolds and the topiary in the background!
Beautiful pots in a sunny spot with seats for a afternoon nap!
One of their beautiful flower borders - look at all the different colours, shapes and sizes!
Helping out in the kitchen garden...... he looks a bit stern!
What a beautiful and perfect flower!
What a gorgeous colour these flowers are!
Another visitor to these gardens - a beautiful butterfly!
More of their colourful + vibrant borders!
Another helper in the kitchen garden....!
And last but not least, these are a gorgeous splash of yellow.....
Well, I don't think I've ever shared so many photo's on one blog! Hope you enjoy these lovely photo's from Baddesley Clinton - it's well worth a visit if any of you are local to the Midlands. - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/baddesleyclinton
Wishing you all a happy, peaceful + productive weekend,
with love from Fat Fairy Jewellery
xx
