What dreadful weather we had yesterday - Heavy rain coupled with gusty wind was not a good combination for holding an umbrella up. It did not stop us from going along to the Artistieke Handen fair (artistic hands). Thankfully we only had the short walk to the bus stop to battle with the weather. There were not as many stalls there as usual and even less visitors - which was good for us as we did not have to fight our way through crowds to look at the stalls.
I bought a few things that caught my eye and got lots of ideas to make things from looking at the vast array of crafts there. The one stall I love to go to is this one: www.feestje-enzo.nl They have lots of Tibetan silver charms - ribbons - motifs - beads and lots of other wonderful craft items. I was hoping to buy some of the Tibetan silver 3d Eiffel tower charms they had on their web site for using in my dolls house miniatures - but when I saw the size of them they were huge - so too big for what I wanted. The lady who has the business along with her husband were so lovely and went out of their way to help me. I was able to buy a small parasol for crafting from them which I paid for there and they are going to post it on to me - they spoke wonderful English too :).
They had containers of beautiful ribbon - 6 for 1-75 euro and lovely motifs for the cardigans I knit for my Grandson - so I bought a pack of 2 dogs for 99 cents. The pack of 3 teddy bears were 1.05 euro and all the motifs are reversible - curly on one side or flat on the other.
Stickers of the alphabet and numbers are always very useful when making birthday cards so I stocked up on those in silver and gold. I think they came to 3.50 euro for the 5.
We are very lucky here in Apeldoorn to have a really good bead shop - it also has lots of mystical things to buy to - but I have to pay a visit each time we are in town and rake through the hoards of beads they have for sale. I was delighted to see them at the Art and Craft fair and found these really cute china beads in the shape of Dutch clogs. They are the ideal size for dolls houses and a pack of 6 cost 1.70 euro.
Also from there I bought some jewellery findings and some really pretty rose beads in a rainbow of colours and a pack of flower head beads. www.uniekinkralen.nl
We had a wonderful time looking around. There are a lot of very talented people in Apeldoorn. Our next event is the dolls house fair at the end of the month - cannot wait for that one.
I bought a few things that caught my eye and got lots of ideas to make things from looking at the vast array of crafts there. The one stall I love to go to is this one: www.feestje-enzo.nl They have lots of Tibetan silver charms - ribbons - motifs - beads and lots of other wonderful craft items. I was hoping to buy some of the Tibetan silver 3d Eiffel tower charms they had on their web site for using in my dolls house miniatures - but when I saw the size of them they were huge - so too big for what I wanted. The lady who has the business along with her husband were so lovely and went out of their way to help me. I was able to buy a small parasol for crafting from them which I paid for there and they are going to post it on to me - they spoke wonderful English too :).
They had containers of beautiful ribbon - 6 for 1-75 euro and lovely motifs for the cardigans I knit for my Grandson - so I bought a pack of 2 dogs for 99 cents. The pack of 3 teddy bears were 1.05 euro and all the motifs are reversible - curly on one side or flat on the other.
Stickers of the alphabet and numbers are always very useful when making birthday cards so I stocked up on those in silver and gold. I think they came to 3.50 euro for the 5.
We are very lucky here in Apeldoorn to have a really good bead shop - it also has lots of mystical things to buy to - but I have to pay a visit each time we are in town and rake through the hoards of beads they have for sale. I was delighted to see them at the Art and Craft fair and found these really cute china beads in the shape of Dutch clogs. They are the ideal size for dolls houses and a pack of 6 cost 1.70 euro.
Also from there I bought some jewellery findings and some really pretty rose beads in a rainbow of colours and a pack of flower head beads. www.uniekinkralen.nl
We had a wonderful time looking around. There are a lot of very talented people in Apeldoorn. Our next event is the dolls house fair at the end of the month - cannot wait for that one.
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