I had a stall at the Summertime Hop on Saturday and there were so many great stalls, mine was next to the fabulous La La Loop and new crafter on the block Samantha from Summer of Love. I managed to get quite a few wanders round the stalls throughout the day and treated myself to lots of goodies from the other stallholders. The very first thing I bought was some ethical taxidermy from Madness of Many. Good job I got in quick too as Kim quickly sold out.

On my second whizz round I bought some bow earrings and a bow brooch from The Night Owl and some earrings, clips and badges from Magic Alice.

Third trip round I drooled over Elaine Eckford’s prints and her illustrated book Olympia. I bought some cards which I might even send!

And lastly I bought yet more jewellery from Canary Yellow. Jennifer’s jewellery is both reasonably priced and amazing so I always stop by her stall at MITS events.

During my adventures in packing this week I’ve found quite a few bargains I nabbed and promptly forgot about. As I love blog posts with charity shop finds (Laura Donald over at dropstitch is the master at these) I thought I’d share a couple of recent finds below.

I really like them both but particularly the sailboat. I’m sure we had a lot of these thread types of pictures in our house when I was growing up. I can remember one abstract looking one in gold threads but my mum claims to have no knowledge.

This last one wasn’t a charity shop find, I bagged it at Say No To Plastic earlier in the month. I heart it very much but will be putting it in the nursery and not hoarding it all to myself. The terrible phone pic doesn’t do it justice.

Inspired by Konnie Kapow I’ve decided to give this Folksy Friday lark a whirl. I’ve just finished a nice cup of tea so decided to go with tea as my theme