Back from Bath and ready for Christmas... well, the first bit is true.

Hello my lovelies I hope you haven't missed me too much! I am back from my shed in Bath - and loving the warmth and dryness that we all associate with having 4 walls and a roof over your head. And a heater.
Actually I had 4 walls and a roof. Although they were all wooden and one of the walls had a great big hole in it through which to sell my wares. And to see out of. To see the rain, the hail, the gale force winds... I kid you not, Bath was enjoying particularly seasonal weather for the 2 weeks I was there. The day I left, the day after the market finished, you can probably guess that the weather was beautiful - blue skies, sun, a crisp winter's day.
But loads of you hardy folk came out prepared for the weather and to buy buttons, for which I thank you all muchly, without you it would have been cold, wet, and....boring. And while I'm thanking people, I'd better say a quick thanks to my mates in Bath - for lizzie for bringing me lunch every day, minding the stand while I went to the loo and for nikki and chris for putting me up for the whole time (and putting up with me)and cooking me lovely meals and being my personal taxi service on a lot of occasions, also minding the stand and putting up with my moans about the weather and being cold and my sick foot (see pic). Ahhh, I lurrve my friends... (no vomit sounds please, it'd ruin a lovely moment.) On the subject of my sick foot (ok, I know we weren't talking about it but I like to go on about small injuries to make them feel more important...) it's not that bad really, I just pulled a muscle or something in the sole and couldn't walk. It was like an injury that you'd get from wearing nice high heeled party shoes, but no, I got it from a pair of flat boots and a march home in the rain. But thanks to the St Johns Ambulance man who was passing by and agreed to strap it up for me. (and thanks to chris for the strong painkillers, such a bonus to be staying with doctors)
Thanks too for Kate, the lovely customer who gave me my first christmas present of the year and cheered me up no end on a miserable day. Who made me think how nice people can be and therefore I phoned up my mum to apologise for being mean to her on the phone a couple of hours earlier.
On the whole it got me into a lovely christmassy feeling, all the little chalets (the correct term apparently for garden shed) with their twinkly christmas lights. The smell of gluwein and mince pies and hot dogs and other lovely things drifting up fromonce side, lavender from the other. People wrapped up warm with bags full of lovely presents.. I sold a whole load of my button brooches for christmas presents - they do make good presents, I wish my family and friends didn't associate me so much with buttons - it's a little too much of a cliche for me to give them button related presents.
Anyhow, I am back now, to lots of exciting new things, - a shipment of Japanese Fabrics this morning - very exciting I am going to make a melly & me little kitty I will show you when it's done - and at long last the Amy Butler fabrics will be delivered hopefully sometime next week. Hurrah!
Now I need to concentrate on finding more lush papers - I'm going to have a stack where the christmas papers used to be to fill up so I'd better get cracking. Any ideas?

10 days in a shed in Bath. Wish you were me?

The time is fast approaching to get out my long johns, to wrap up warm and get into the Christmas spirit.
Really? In a SHED??!! Yup. Until this year I have never associated christmas with sheds. It's gonna be cold, but I reckon a lot of fun. Look at it, it looks so pretty! It's mainly the buttons that we are taking, but I'm sneaking in a few other things, like some lovely papers, my amy butler patterns, and other lurvely things. I'm going to try making up some button jewellery to sell made up as well as the kits - haha i think i'm gonna need some fingerless gloves!
So Mum'll be looking after the shop in my absence, go in and say hello to her, she likes company. I dont think she'll know what to do not being able to just wander off and see people. Mum spends her days running from one person who needs her to the next, so maybe during this time they'll have to come to her... she may even find time to encourage her fledgling crafty side. This year has been such a learning curve for me - not just with the shop but finding out all about my mum and her secret sewing skills. Who knows what I'll come back to find? (Hopefully the quilt she is making me for christmas!) Just don't expect any entries in here til I get back. I've told mum how to log on to write in this but nothing has appeared so far. Not that I'm one to talk with my few and far between entries... I looked today on my listing in the Crafty Blogs site. I'm LOW! But it's nice to know that there's at least a couple of people out there..... i think.. unless it's my mum trying to log on.
The best thing for me about this whole 10 days in a shed thing is that some of my best friends live in the bath area, so I get to see loads of them! hurrah!
Anyhow, gotta go and pack.. if you are anywhere near the bath vicinity get yourselves down there, say hello, come and make some button jewellery with me.