Wednesday 28 November 2012

Four bears ready to be put together

comming soon four new bears! come back and see them

Tuesday 27 November 2012

Dimitri

Please meet "Demitri"


17"(44cm) one-of-kind hand dyed bear dyed in my “signature rainbow dyed effect” made from

beautiful curly shulte mohair, filled with super polyester fibre and steel shot to give extra weight,

with green 100% wool felt foot and paw pads, black glass eyes, with a matching green perle cotton embroidered nose and fully jointed. Dimitri is completely hand sewn. Dimitri will be going up for adoption on my web site.



Monday 3 September 2012

Bears for Hugglets Sunday 9th September 2012


DACRE

Hall 4 Stand 141 A


Kensington Town Hall

Hornton Street

London W8 7NX

 CINZANO
 SAPPHIRE CEANOTHUS

 PRIMROSE PAND

 
THIRLMERE

Wednesday 15 August 2012

A visit to Gretna Green on Holiday





Our recent holiday was to the top end of the Lakes, just five miles from Ulswater and Keswick.

We travelled over the boarder to Scotland and visited Gretna

Gretna Green is a village in the south of Scotland famous for runaway weddings. It is in Dumfries and Galloway, and was historically the first village in Scotland, following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh.

Gretna Green is one of the world's most popular wedding destinations, hosting over 5000 weddings each year in the area, and one of every six Scottish weddings.

Gretna's famous "runaway marriages" began in 1753 when Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act was passed in England; it stated that if both parties to a marriage were not at least 21 years old, then parents had to consent to the marriage. The Act did not apply in Scotland, where it was possible for boys to marry at 14 and girls at 12 years old with or without parental consent (see Marriage in Scotland). Many elopers fled England, and the first Scottish village they encountered was Gretna Green. The Old Blacksmith's Shop, built around 1712, and Gretna Hall Blacksmith's Shop (1710) became, in popular folklore at least, the focal tourist points for the marriage trade. The Old Blacksmith's opened to the public as a visitor attraction as early as 1887.

The local blacksmith and his anvil have become the lasting symbols of Gretna Green weddings. Scottish law allowed for "irregular marriages", meaning that if a declaration was made before two witnesses, almost anybody had the authority to conduct the marriage ceremony. The blacksmiths in Gretna became known as "anvil priests".

Since 1929 both parties in Scotland have had to be at least 16 years old, but they still may marry without parental consent. In England and Wales, the age for marriage is now 16 with parental consent and 18 without.

Sunday 25 March 2012

Reminiscing

I found some photos from my childhood and thought I would share them with you. This is Dad, Mum, my little sister and me (the older child) at Scarborough when we were young. This is me and my sister at Butlins watching a Punch and Judy show, I am the older child with the slightly large swimming costume. Probably bought for me to "grow in to"
This little girl is my mum when she was quite small.
I use this picture on my swing tags.
This in my grandma "GranDo" she always said she didn’t want to be called grandma. In this picture, my mum said Gran was about 21year old. It is strange to think I always knew her as an old lady.
Grando was the one who taught me to sew.
I inherited her Singer sewing machine. Sewing was her lively hood. She bought the singer sewing machine when she was a teenager, she used it to sew with most of her life. She made haute couture wedding dresses and clothes to support herself and my mum and mum's two brothers. Gran spent all her life sewing.