A Quick Reminder

Don't forget its The Spring Vintage Bazaar tomorrow from 9-3pm at the Cheese and Grain in Frome. There are some amazing vintage and handmade things coming....dont be late!

The Textile Rag and Remnant Rummage

This Saturday is the first ( but perhaps not the last!) Textile Rag and Remnant Rummage at Trull Memorial hall in Trull near Taunton form 9-2pm. We have a hall full of vintage dealers who are having a spring clean! What could be better...tons of fabric and trim at sensible prices! One of the many stallholders is Donna Flower who, as you can see is getting some fab stock ready to take. Be there early!

Dates for Your Diary!

This year is busy, busy, busy with lots of fairs on the horizon.

Feb 25th- The Vintage and Handmade Textile Fair in Chipping Sodbury http://www.vintageandhandmade.co.uk/

March 3rd - The Textile Rag and Remnant Rummage in Trull near Taunton http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/

21st April- The Spring Vintage Bazaar in Frome http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/

26th May- The Original Vintage and Handmade Fair http://www.vintageandhandmade.co.uk/

30th June- The Giant Vintage Rag Market in Frome http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/

22nd Sept- The Vintage Bazaar in Hartley Whintney, Hamps http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/

29th Sept- The Vintage and Handmade Textile Fair http://www.vintageandhandmade.co.uk/

1st Dec- The Original Vintage and Handmade Fair http://www.vintageandhandmade.co.uk/

15th Dec- The Christmas Vintage Bazaar in Frome http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/

There are these and other events are listed on the wonderful Washerwoman blog. I hope to see you at some if not all of them!

Only 4 more sleeps......

This Saturday sees our third Vintage Bazaar in Frome, Somerset. There will be tons of dealers selling quality vintage and designers who use vintage fabrics to create stunning items. You can buy the most wonderful and unique Christmas presents and of course its chic recycling! The doors open at 9am and Lizzie and I have been planning for this event for the last 5 months so it promises to be fab. I really hope that you can all come along but if you cant please follow us on our blog http://www.thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/ 'like' our FB page http://https//www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Vintage-Bazaar/168134483206175 and follow our tweets under VintageBazaar1

Hope to see you all there x

Thanks

The Original Vintage and Handmade Fair

.....is on in Chipping Sodbury tomorrow, Sat 1st October please pop along to see all the wonderful stalls

Celebrations and new arrivals

There has been a new arrival this week at The Darling household, a small, brown eyed Arthur rabbit came to live with us much to the delight of the children (and resigned sign from Mr D!). So far they have been very good and stayed true to their promises of cleaning and pettting duties but I realise it has just been a week and things may change as the weather becomes colder! As well as a new arrival we have had my mums 70th birthday tea party. Is was a super turn out with over 70 family and friends coming from Switzerland, Ireland and the Isle of Man to raise a glass at the village hall (bedecked with 100m of handmade bunting....needless to say me and my sewing machine never want to see bunting again!!). Another exciting event was seeing my embroidered bunnies in 'Handmade Living' magazine which had a wonderful article on The Original Vintage and Handmade Fair and lastly Mr Darling and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary so all in all its been a busy couple of weeks. The summer holidays are well and truly here and its been great to really enjoy being together as a family and remember what life should be like when you're not up till the wee hours planning and marking I've even started on a few new projects based around the theme of Thumbelina using canvas, embroidery and vintage bits. Liz and I are also busy preparing for the next 'Vintage Bazaar' on 29th Oct and we are planning something exciting for next year...more of that another time.........

This Week (couple of months!) I 'Ave Been Mostly.....

...continuing my obsession with feedsack fabrics and patchwork,

having a go at making a quilt for little ones birthday with the help of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbTHlGGKMPM,

drinking tea with my 'grown-up' girl, being a proud mum at my 'grown-up' girl's cushion making here http://milliemoonshop.co.uk/,

making a dress for little one, going to the fairground at Nanny's

and lastly ( but not leastly! ) attending the wonderful Vintage Fashion and Textile Fair in Chipping Sodbury (pictures to follow....)

oh and yet again managing to mess up the spacings in my blog posting!!

What a Day!

Thank you so much to all our lovely stallholders who put on the most delectable show so far! The Cheese and Grain was transformed on Saturday thanks to everyones hard work and preparation. A really special 'thanks' goes to Michael who helped out on the front desk while Mr D was wrestling a small child! and to Trixie who rented him out to us!! Do look at our dedicated blog http://www.thevintagebazaar.blogspot.com/ for more details and pictures. If you didn't make it this time the next date for your diaries is Sat 29th Oct....I'll leave you with some pictures to drool over.