New Craft Room is building up

I am just about to load some more irrestible BAGS OF TREASURE into the NEW CRAFT ROOM in the Doodly Bird Store, so I thought I would give you a sneak preview.

Anyone who likes a challenge and to push their creative side will love these bags & boxes of goodies.

See what you can make from them, then send me a picture.

But if you are anything like me you might not do anything with them, only look at them and mess about with the contents, they are so tactile.  The bags are like a piece of art.  It will be difficult for me to part with them.

Putting them together is great fun, I lose hours playing around with different combinations.

 The box alone is so nice in this set, as is  the piece of lacy  calico I got from the Antique Textile Fair last year.    Hmm ! do I really want to part with it.

 

Pop into the Store for a look

Move over Doodly Birds, crafters coming through.

DOODLY BIRD STORE

New Craft Room is building up

I am just about to load some more irrestible BAGS OF TREASURE into the NEW CRAFT ROOM in the Doodly Bird Store, so I thought I would give you a sneak preview.

Anyone who likes a challenge and to push their creative side will love these bags & boxes of goodies.

See what you can make from them, then send me a picture.

But if you are anything like me you might not do anything with them, only look at them and mess about with the contents, they are so tactile.  The bags are like a piece of art.  It will be difficult for me to part with them.

Putting them together is great fun, I lose hours playing around with different combinations.

 The box alone is so nice in this set, as is  the piece of lacy  calico I got from the Antique Textile Fair last year.    Hmm ! do I really want to part with it.

 

Pop into the Store for a look

Move over Doodly Birds, crafters coming through.

DOODLY BIRD STORE

BUTTONS, BEADS, PLATES AND THE BEAR

Yesterday I went to Todmorden near Burnley, Halifax and Rochdale in the UK with my friends Susan and Ruth

Butter dish and cross stitched paperweight £1.50 each

We got some real finds on the secondhand market and charity shops

I will be making some cakestands out of this £3.50 find

For my two kiddywinks next door

These lovely bracelets were made by Angelini Designs you can contact her on 
Facebook on angdesigns
As we wandered round the market in the rain I spotted a box under a stall that was full of these goodies .....

When the story unfolded about where they had come from we were all hooked.

They had been found in the basement of what once was a high class tailors on Regent Street, Ardwick Green, Salford named Lieberman's. Joanne the lovely owner of the market stall told us how the buttons dated from the early 1900's and others that were found may have been featured, along with a shop bag from Lieberman's, in the Manchester Museum.

Joanne gave me these buttons which had been left open to the elements in the basement and eroded into these fantastic textured pieces.  They are a great find for me to add to some of my art work and I will be sharing them with my friend Gemma Thorpe who works with coastal themes.
Nip over to BUTTON FLOOZIES to see the rest of the stash and contact details for Joanne if you are interested in learning more or are looking for vintage buttons.
A trip to Todmorden, even in the rain, would not be complete without  a lovely homecooked lunch at THE BEAR CAFE followed by a bit of haberdashery & craft shopping on the inside market at A STITCH IN TIME and a call in at the Bead Shop  www.beadzshop.co.uk

BUTTONS, BEADS, PLATES AND THE BEAR

Yesterday I went to Todmorden near Burnley, Halifax and Rochdale in the UK with my friends Susan and Ruth

Butter dish and cross stitched paperweight £1.50 each

We got some real finds on the secondhand market and charity shops

I will be making some cakestands out of this £3.50 find

For my two kiddywinks next door

These lovely bracelets were made by Angelini Designs you can contact her on 
Facebook on angdesigns
As we wandered round the market in the rain I spotted a box under a stall that was full of these goodies .....

When the story unfolded about where they had come from we were all hooked.

They had been found in the basement of what once was a high class tailors on Regent Street, Ardwick Green, Salford named Lieberman's. Joanne the lovely owner of the market stall told us how the buttons dated from the early 1900's and others that were found may have been featured, along with a shop bag from Lieberman's, in the Manchester Museum.

Joanne gave me these buttons which had been left open to the elements in the basement and eroded into these fantastic textured pieces.  They are a great find for me to add to some of my art work and I will be sharing them with my friend Gemma Thorpe who works with coastal themes.
Nip over to BUTTON FLOOZIES to see the rest of the stash and contact details for Joanne if you are interested in learning more or are looking for vintage buttons.
A trip to Todmorden, even in the rain, would not be complete without  a lovely homecooked lunch at THE BEAR CAFE followed by a bit of haberdashery & craft shopping on the inside market at A STITCH IN TIME and a call in at the Bead Shop  www.beadzshop.co.uk