SOCK – Arts, Crafts, Purchase & Commissions Fair – Loughborough Town Hall – 23rd & 24th March 2013

23rd March to 24th March 2013 – 10am-4pm Both Days 

Free Entry – Loughborough Town Hall, The Market Place

A range of quality arts, crafts, textiles,ceramics, jewellery, glass and homewares will be available for purchase in the Main Hall and Sock gallery over the entire weekend!

Children’s FREE craft workshop on Sunday.

I’ll be attending with a selection of fun sock and textile creations. Here are a few… sock zombies, fabric remnant softies, textile brooches, colourful sock monkeys and sock owl kits…

Hope you can come along. 🙂

Spring Craft Fair – Thatcham, nr Newbury – 9th March 2013

I’m looking forward to my first craft fair of 2013 next weekend. It’s being held at:

The Catholic Hall
7 Bath Road
Thatcham
RG18 3AG

Saturday 9th March, 11am – 4pm

Free Entry & Free Parking  *  Refreshments for sale 

Beautiful handmade crafts & produce 

Craft activities, face painting & glitter tattoos for the Children!

Visit the organisers Facebook page to see lots of the goodies that will be on offer. It will be the ideal place to browse for last minute Mother’s Day gifts, shop for a few items to brighten up your Easter celebrations or just to get a treat for yourself. Oh and of course get a cuppa and a piece of cake 🙂

Here are a few of the things I’ll be bringing along to my OddSox stall… fabric brooches and baskets, sock monsters, monkeys and plenty more. Hope to see you there.

Arts, Crafts & Vintage Fair – Park House School, Newbury, Berkshire – Sat 1st December 2012

THE VENUE – PARK HOUSE SCHOOL, ANDOVER ROAD, NEWBURY – SATURDAY 1ST DECEMBER – 10AM-4PM – FREE ENTRY

I’ve been making some festive HooterNinnies (similar to hedgehogs!) and robin decorations ready to come to my last fair of the pre-Christmas season next weekend along with a posse of cute and crazy sock creatures. It promises to be a fabulous affair. It’s not just a craft fair, there will be lots of other exciting events going on too. Here are a few things to look forward to…

Vintage traders will have selected clothing modelled by students in fashion shows throughout the day

 Hair and Makeup by Beautycall – offering Vintage hair and make up: £15 for both or £10 each

The PHSA at the school will be providing drinks and delicious snacks throughout the day

Cake Competions

Beautiful handcrafted and unique gifts

…and lots more besides – all accompanied by festive music to set the scene

We’ll all look forward to seeing you there 🙂

Craft Fair – Sun 18th Nov – St Bartholomew’s School, Newbury, Berkshire

This week I’m busily sewing up a box full of sock monsters and monkeys to replace the ones that were sold at last weekend’s craft fair. This little lot will be coming with me on Sunday 18th November to the next fair at St Bartholomew’s School, Newbury.

My OddSox stall will be placed next to award winning Mrs Chutney – I bought three pots of delicious items from her stall a couple of weeks ago and can thoroughly recommend her produce – top fave is the Chillililli – fresh, crunchy, fragrant and with a good spicy kick. And the best thing is, she has little taster bowls out so you can sample before buying!

I hope you can come along – we’ll look forward to seeing you 🙂 Here are the venue details…

27th Oct – Craft Fair – Wash Common, Newbury

 

FALKLAND WI CRAFT FAIR

 

SATURDAY 27th OCTOBER – 10.30am – 2.30pm

 

At St Georges Hall, Andover Road, Wash Common, Newbury

Just a small reminder of a local Craft Fair this coming weekend – everyone welcome. I’ll be there with a selection of my creatures and homewares. I know a few of the other stall holders who will be there too, Natalie of NOfkants Curios, Jacqueline of J Austen Jewellery Design  and Pauline of Snowfire & Ruby – we hope you can come along.

The Café will be serving homemade soup, cakes and refreshments

There will be lots of craft stalls offering Handmade

Jewellery  ~  Woodcrafts  ~  Bee Products  ~  Preserves  ~  Cute & Crazy Sock Creatures  ~  Cards  ~  Bags  ~  decorative items for the home

Inspirational Gifts from the Old Chapel Textile Centre

And Lots More!

FREE ENTRY

Upcoming craft fairs in Newbury, Berkshire area

If you are looking for pre-Christmas craft fairs in the Newbury and Thatcham, Berkshire area, here are some details of a couple of new ones.

There are still stalls available for sellers and all visitors will be very welcome – add the dates to your calendars to get some early and unique handmade Christmas gifts purchased:

Saturday 3rd November – 10am-4m – Craft Fair

Catholic Hall, 7 Bath Road, Thatcham, nr Newbury

£10 per table

For information or to book a table please contact: Anne-Marie McInerney on 01635 868904 or 07971 884924 or email: a_mcinerney@btinternet.com

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Saturday 17^th November  –  2pm – 5pm – Christmas Craft Fayre

including handmade crafts, refreshments/cakes, several craft activities for children to take part in and, of course, Santa’s Grotto

  At the school on Gainsborough Avenue, Kintbury, Berks, RG17 9XN.  Run by the PTA.

Pitches available for £10 (tables approx. 180cm x 74cm / 70in x 29in)

For information or to book a table please contact:  Heather Thompson, PTA Chairman on 07776 198269 or Debra Ellington at The Clothes Shop on 01635 47832 or 01488 658512

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For more craft fairs in West Berkshire have a look at my Craft Fairs & Events page

 

Arts, Crafts & Vintage Fair – Park House School, Newbury – 21st April

Park House School, Andover Road, Newbury – Saturday 21st April, 10am-4pm – FREE ENTRY & PARKING

The event is being organised in partnership with Vintagenie and will be showcasing the best of the vintage, arts and crafts world from Berkshire (and beyond).  Here’s a little taster of what’s on offer:

Vintage Village : showcasing vintage clothing, accessories, housewares, make-overs and more, with live music fashion shows.

Crafts Corner : Well – quite a bit more than a corner really! We have a lovely light and airy space for lots of unique hand crafted goods. There will also be some how-to workshops going on.

Arts Arena : Artists stalls and gallery of work for sale. Showcasing work from students of Park House school and members of the local community and beyond.

Grub’s Up! : Local hand-made and organic foods traders will be providing refreshments for the day with a likely mix of delightful cakes, sweets, organic meats, pies and so much more!

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I will be there with a selection of my OddSox creatures, textile accessories and homewares. Hope you can come along 🙂

SOCK! Artists & Makers Fair Stall Pics – Loughborough March 2012

I had another good weekend at the fourth Loughborough Town Hall SOCK! Artists & Makers Fair at the end of March. It was a lovely sunny weekend, so a bit of a shame to spend quite that much time indoors, but on the upside it brought lots of people out.

As usual there were plenty of talented artists showing and selling their work over the weekend and on the Sunday the Town Hall had a free printing workshop during the day for children to come along and try out.

I have a few OddSox stall pics, not the greatest as the light wasn’t too good in the hall, but at least it’s a record of the day.

There was also a board with cards to leave comments and feedback…

And most exciting of all for me was this huge billboard on one of the main roads leading into the town centre with an image of one of my sock creatures on it. Look at the beautiful blue sky too!

 

I also acquired a rather lovely textile bird brooch from a fellow stallholder called Rachel Ainley – we actually did a ‘swap’ which is always fun. Here’s a pic from Rachel’s website showing a whole collection of her delightful birds, just click the pic to visit her site, she has lots of other goodies on offer too.

Thanks for looking and have a great Easter everyone 🙂

Spring Craft Fair, Padworth Common, Berkshire – 17th March 2012

 

I have a stall at Mortimer West End Craft Fair again this year, 17th March – as you can see it’s a lovely setting. Two or three stall are located in each of the pretty rooms and also in the adjacent hall. There will be a lovely selection of handmade arts and crafts available and hopefully a repeat of last year’s amazing choice of delicious home made cakes and soups.

It would be a perfect opportunity to find a unique handmade gift for Mother’s Day which will be the following day – Sunday 18th March.

So if, you’re in the area or are looking for something different to do, please pop in and say hello 

 

Mortimer West End Chapel *** Chapel Lane*** Padworth Common  *** RG7 4QE

10am – 4pm

FREE ADMISSSION

 

Here’s a taster of the kind of items I’ll be taking with me: ‘Door-Mice’; Sock Creatures; Fabric Baskets…

 

Christmas Craft Fair Stall pics

I’ve already attended a couple of craft fairs this month, one at St Barts School, Newbury and the other at The Watermill Theatre, Bagnor.  It was lovely to catch up with some old faces and also meet some new stallholders and swap a few ideas. I’ve been busy stocking up on some favourite items such as sock monkeys, bunnies, cats, owls and monsters, Door-Mice, Amigurumi HooterNinnies (aka hedgehogs) and other cute crocheted creatures plus quite a few new items such as sock pixies, fabric baskets, coin purses, makeup bags and tree decorations. Here are a few of my OddSox stall pics:

I’ve been out this weekend for a sock buying top-up to replenish stock ready for my next fair on 3rd and 4th December at Yew Tree Garden Centre, Ball Hill, Newbury. I’ll be doing a separate post soon with the details of times and what’s going to be on offer.

If you’re in the area do pop along – you could get your Christmas tree at the same time as a few gifts 🙂