Beer!

Last weekend I went away to Somerset for a relaxing weekend (OK, only the hotel was in Somerset, everything else we did was in Devon). While driving around we saw a sign for Beer and couldn't resist...

Beer turned out to be a really quaint fishing village. Driving through I was quite excited by the amount of tiny specialist shops and art galleries (this was before I threw a strop at the stupid parking machines. I'm never capable of being relaxed for more than 20 minutes). I fell in love with a nearly-£9000 painting, sadly it will never be mine :(

Look at the view....


I attempted to take arty photos...


It had just stopped raining, and the weather was gorgeous.


We went rock-pooling (my first time!) and saw crabs, anenomes and really strange stripy fish with fins next to their heads. The plants and rocks were amazing colours - I especially liked the pink stripy ones. I thought this one looked like a dragon egg.


Sadly after falling over several times trying to get back up the pebbly slopes, we needed caffeine more than beer, so we failed in our original mission in visiting the village...

Craft Fair and (gulp) Christmas....



This weekend I organized a craft stall at a local goth/EBM/alternative night. After a lot of panicking about lighting levels (which is why I now own all the fairy lights in the entire world) and timings it went pretty well. Also on the stall were the amazing Esperanza Em (Mexican-inspired jewellery - I reviewed her shop last year here), Katy's Sock Monkeys (self-explanatory) and Imp of Mischief (gorgeous jewellery). It's a really welcoming club and venue - they are also holding a New Year's Eve event (details here).

My snowmen danglies will  be adorning the Christmas trees of Southampton and Portsmouth this festive season thanks to the lovely customers this weekend, but you can now buy Christmas monsteryness from my Etsy shop. They will be joined by more tree danglies as I make them! Yes, I know it's not Halloween yet...

Christmas Bob tree hoop:


Christmas pudding monster tree dangly: