We heart East London...

Well we've had a bit of a calamitous time here lately as my Dad injured himself by falling off a garage roof! Oops. But on the bright side he's been pinned back together and is now recovering back at home and me, C and Ru have just been on a weeks holiday! Yay. More about that soon. But all this left little time for blog writing. Darn. So I thought I'd catch up on a few posts and photos I've been keeping up my sleeve for a few weeks...

We recently visited my lovely friend Dana of Beards and Buttons back in lovely London town and spent a day in and around the east. I love it. I'd forgotten how vibrant and inspiring it is. We had a great day just wandering, perusing shops and markets, stumbling across random live music and even one mini festival in a recently renovated old bandstand in the middle of a sort of roundabout-come-square! First though was Coloumbia Road flower market...

Then a short walk to Spitalfields market - one of my favourite places when I lived up in London town. It's been a tad over renovated in the last few years but I still love the building and they've kept the feel of the old shop fronts and signage. Me and C were lusting after these gorgeous bikes from the pop-up shop by Tokyo Bikes for ages afterwards!

On route we passed the beautiful new East London tube line - I'm a sucker for oversized concrete architecture!

Then we spotted this gem of a piece of graffiti nestled under a tree on a meandering route back to the flat. Ru was especially impressed - he's a fan of squirrels. Quite right.

It was at the end of this street that we spotted and heard the mini festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the bandstand in the middle of Arnold Circus. There was a fantastic brass band playing covers of pop songs and people picnicing at little checked tableclothed benches dotted around the place, some beautiful stalls and a guy taking portraits with some great cardboard props! We were tempted but the queue was enormous. Such a lovely and unlikely event to just stumble upon one sunny Sunday afternoon.

Then back home via the now empty Columbia Road and through London Fields... ahh I miss London. Must go back more often.

Mid Century Modern heads west!

Thanks to the lovely Colin of Homescape who we had a nice chat with on Sunday whilst both running our stalls at the St Catherine's market, we heard about the fabulous Mid Century Modern Show coming to our wee neck of the woods later this year. Yay! And boy are we excited. Better start saving those pennies now!

Oh and this is a gem (his words not mine!!) C took just before we packed up the car and headed home from the market. I don't know the history behind this fantastic post box and lamp post but it was a photo opportunity I couldn't resist!

And the beat goes on...

Just a quick little post about our beloved beautiful BBC 6music being saved yesterday! Hurrah.

I don't know where we'd be without it, it's on all the time in our house. Even Ru is a fan of Lauren Laverne a.k.a. 'Lorry Lorry'!

Park life...

We decided to take a day off after another Frome Artisan Market yesterday and headed to a park from my childhood - Lake Pleasure Grounds in Warminster. I'd not been there for years but we'd been thinking of taking Ru for a while... shame the pedalos were out of service! Darn. He loved feeding the ducks anyway although Scout the dog made it a tad tricky until we'd left and they pounced on all our bread.

Suddenly seeking fabric...

We've been trying out a few new fabrics - our supplier ran out and apparently they've stopped making it! Argh. Who knew it was so hard to source fabric, not me. So we've printed a bunch of owls on different types just to see.

Here are some shots of them and some feet and wings in progress...

Summery Summer...

I love my evening walks with Scout the Dog and what with the rare summery Summer weather we've been having this week it's been even more appealing - and I even remembered the camera last night!

This is the field behind our house and one looking back toward our village. The crop in the field this year is my personal favourite (can't believe I have one!) which I think is wheat - my entire basis for this is Ru's weetabix packaging so who knows! Anyway it's beautiful and looks incredibly filmic to me.

Shipping out...

Thanks to some lovely, lovely blogging folks out there we've been a tad busy of late and all I've managed to take photos of recently are some little fellows wrapped and awaiting packaging and shipping, so thought I'd just share a few with our new hand printed labels too...

Ooh and I was really pleased to see a big article in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine this weekend all about etsy! Hurray. Have a read here.