Glorious Glass

Just packing up lots of lovely coloured glass pieces for Bridport Vintage Fair on Saturday.

Some of it is deco and it's all reasonably priced.

Come along and take your pick.

Photos of latest fabricy makes will follow on Thursday!

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Utility china

Just pricing up some lovely pastel coloured utility china ready for Bridport Vintage Fair next Saturday. I'm loving all those colours on display together.

Woods Ware Beryl, Iris and Jasmine, Meakin Jade Glamour, Johnson Bros Greydawn, Goldendawn and Rosedawn. I will also be taking some crates containing tea and coffee sets.

Let me know if you're after anything in particular, I keep uncovering more of it!

There are some great photos of others collections on this Flickr page



The Easter Egg!

Indulge me please!

Yesterday we got incredibly excited about an Easter egg of a very special kind.

Nestling in it's own pink pod.

 Our very first bantam egg from one of our new girls. The ginger one we suspect.

 It was a miserable old day weather wise so the girls didn't get too much attention. They do seem happy though and hopefully the egg is proof of that.

I made myself knuckle down to a customer order for a quilt.

So pleased to have broken the back of it!

Today the little jammers are showing off the chickens to their friends.

hmmm!



Here come the girls...

It's been a year now since our short lived time as chicken owners. We inherited Dusty with our house last year, but sadly she vanished after only 3 months. It was however 3 months of sheer delight for the little jammers. How they loved it when they came home and she dashed up the garden to the kitchen door to greet them. How they shrieked when they discovered the cheeky girl in the living room. How they enjoyed carrying her around the garden on their shoulder. Poor old Dusty. One morning she was there, that afternoon she'd gone. As Little Jammer said "she was my favourite pet". Cover your ears Hectic, 15 years counts for nothing!

So, I've been looking at safer options than complete free range ever since. I've ogled the Eglus in all their pretty colours and added them to my Ebay watch list. As Easter crept nearer I was running out of time for my grand plan. It was time to be bolder, time to ask for a buy-it-now I could afford. Would you believe it, only second time of asking and luck was on my side! On Monday night I became the proud owner of a lovely posh super safe PINK Eglu. Thank you Tania (who turned out to be a customer from the vintage market)! 

One step closer. All I needed now were the bantams.

Courtesy of Jo at Dorset Traditional Poultry I was sorted.

The Eglu however took a little more sorting. Manoeuvring it from the van where it had been hidden and trying to build it in the dark proved infuriating. In the end the poor bantams had to spend the night in the spare guinea pig hutch and that is where the Little Jammers found heard them this morning! Their noise gave them away.

Still in PJs (and looking rather sleepy) they couldn't wait for a look.

15 minutes in daylight saw off the Eglu and the girls got to transport their girls down the garden.

"I'd like the smallest" said Little Jam.

That's a Silver Laced Wyandotte if you please.
Eldest Jammer plumped for the slate and gold Pekin

Leaving me with, you guessed it, the ginger one!

Or Buff Pekin as she prefers to be known.

Off they toddled to explore their new and very pink home.

Later we let them out for a spot of supervised exploring and I remembered all the chickeny habits they have...

Happy Easter Monday. Hope you're having a dry one?!

Happy Easter!

Feel like it should read Happy Eater at the moment!

Do you like my pop up eggs? Courtesy of Jackdaws in Bridport. They have oodles of lovely Easter decs.

 

I've lost track of how many batches of these Simnel Muffins we've knocked up in the past week or so. But hey we wont have them for a year...

'Happy Eater' to you all

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Easter makes and a fair on the way

Busy sewing lavender pillows here.

Dressing up some spring friends.

All ready for this lovely fair that is coming round quicker than I can sew!

Bridport Vintage Fair, St Mary's Church Hall, South St, Bridport, Dorset.

Saturday 21st April

Pop it in your diary if you're local.

This was my stall there last Easter Saturday!

Happy Easter

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Little Jammer's blankety bun tutorial

Yesterday Littlest Jammer had her very best friend here for the day. We decided to make more blankety rabbits as my last batch had all hopped off to new homes.

So, here in her own 6 year old words are instructions for making your own if you, or your little ones are so inclined!

First draw what you are going to make. Remember to have big arms and big legs and big ears that will stay on (We had several attempts at this). Cut it out.

Draw around it onto the blanket.

 Pin two pieces together and then cut it out so you have two.

Get a needle and put coloured thread onto it and do some eyes and a nose.

Put it in the sewing machine. (Sew a small running stitch around the edge leaving a gap for stuffing.)

Put the stuffing in with your finger. First you fill the legs then the ears then the face then the arms then the body. (a pencil was useful here)

Lastly you put it back in the sewing machine and where you put the stuffing in you have to sew up.

Not bad eh?

We all got the blankety bunny bug and I made a couple of mini ones for my nephew and niece.

They popped out for a sunbathe earlier.

 But now they're all tagged up ready for Sunday!

And these two are heading off to my shop tomorrow unless you want one (£10 inc UK postage) in which case I should be able to post so you get him for Easter.

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