Tales from The Fairs

 

 It has been an incredibly busy four weeks for me with five craft shows over four weekends but lots of fun taking my work out around Perthshire and Fife.

 

Last weekend found me at my second Exclusively Highlands event held at Blair Castle in beautiful highland Perthshire.

I was invited to write about the event for Folksy.com's online magazine which you can read here

In the meantime here are some photos from this most stunning of locations.

 

 

You can just see the castle turrets above the treetops here. I took this photo from our accommodation at Tom of Lude Steading Cottages. I've never exhibited at a fair where I had to stay over before but my friend and I had a great time and made a weekend of it by staying for two nights. It was nice getting a chance to get to know some of the other stall holders a little better and much hilarity was had over a few bottles of wine.

 

 

Neighbouring sheep.

 

 

Blair Castle is a beautiful building and made a great venue for this event.

 

The Hall was resplendent with over 30 stalls featuring a great variety of art, craft, jewellery, photography, ceramics, soap, textiles, food, wood and more.

 

 

 

I couldn't believe it when a man came in and lit the fire opposite my stall! How fab is that! It added such a cheerfulness to the event and kept us all nice and warm.

 

 

Whisky Barrel Furniture and Gifts by Darach

 

My own stall below.

 

 

We were totally spoilt as we had the Leachkin Bakery to the left of us as well!

I've never eaten so much cake in my life!

 

Another new exhibitor at Exclusively Highlands was Morag McGee Ceramics from Aberdeenshire. It was great to get a chat with Morag as she is involved with NEOS (North East Open Studios) so we were comparing notes a bit about Open Studio events.



 

 

Next to Morag was another North Easter from Aberdeen, Aubin Stewart with her Aubeebop Jewellery collection. Aubin likes to make her jewellery pieces from re-fashioned collectible materials, acrylics, metals, precious pearls and gemstones.  She loves giving a preciousness to ordinary or discarded materials.

 

 



 

If you enjoyed BBC's Autumn Watch this year, you will love Eoghain McLean's wildlife photography. We particularly liked a canvas of an otter popping up out of seaweed with such a fantastic expression on it's face.

 

 





 

 Love these wee cupboards made from reclaimed wood by Rustic Simplicity

 

 

 The craziest weekend was the week before when I had a stall at The Steeple in Newburgh on the Saturday and The Handmade Show at Perth Concert Hall on the Sunday. I had to go home on the Saturday night and make more sheep jewellery!

Both were great events too and it was lovely to meet up with other makers I met last year and have kept in touch with online

 

 

Left to right, Sally Sutherland of Soul Silver Lampwork Beads and Jewellery, Rebecca Anderson of Songbeads, Alison Moore Designs and me.

 



 

This week has been all about making as much as possible available online.

All these pieces are available in my Etsy shop.

 

 

 

 

There are still a few Calendars left but not many! Available on both Etsy and Folksy

And all these are new listed on Folksy.