This is an amalagamation of the last month or so, we've been so busy that the blog has rather fallen by the wayside. So much has happened!
We went to Beautiful Days festival in Devon the third weekend in August & it was exactly what it said on the tin - our best festival
of the year! It really felt like after a summer of rain & mud & a tangible collective gloom that post Olympics Britain was definitely on the move towards an optimisitc Autumn.
There was still rain & mud (this is England after all) but everyone seemed more cheerful than they'd been all summer & importantly for us people were spending!
The theme for this tenth anniversary of the festival was hearts & we did our best to get into the spirit of it. There was even a unique performance by the red arrows.
& the floral display was perfect for taking photos
All in all a gorgeous time was had by all!
Next Camilla went to Mosely Folk Festival with our good friends at Sixteen & their gorgeous little girl, the public were emphatically not spending at this festival which led to some severe down moments but we made good friends & managed to have a giggle anway, which sometimes is all you can do.
Emily spent the weekend printing up a storm & we have a Lovely selection of new long sleeved tshirt designs to show you all very soon. (As soon as we've had time to photograph them)
After that it was back indoors for the first time in about 3 months, on ironcially one of the nicest weekends weatherwise of the whole summer. The Milton Keynes Handmade & Vintage Fair was a great weekend, our baby vests particularly found favour with the shopping public so Emily had to frantically reprint all the campervan baby vests as soon as we got home. Our favourite sale of the weekend was to a fellow stallholder who admired the vests on Saturday & said that she'd be back if the baby arrived over the weekend & obligingly the baby was born in time for her to come back on Sunday & bag one of the last campervan vests as a present!
Then on 15th September it was Lovely's 4th birthday & we celebrated with a shopping party, cake & gin cocktails. This year we were really late organising our birthday party & inviting people but once again our friends turned out to support us & we had some new visitors who hopefully will come back again next year. Our good friends from Copenhagen once again came over & spent the week before helping us to get ready which involved less cleaning than in previous years but more marquee & tent erecting as our collection of Lovely structures has gradually been expanding, we couldn't do it without them! Most importantly however they also brought with them my oddson & Emily's odddaughter & we spent the week enjoying having small children in the house, introducing my oddson to the joys of hula hooping & cuddling Emily's odddaughter.
It was very quiet after they left, luckily we were at Ruislip Duckpond market & our lovely Duckpond friends were on hand to stop us from suffering too much from post visit blues!
So a couple of quieter weeks now to calm down, regroup & start getting ready for Christmas. We love this time of year as evenings get cosier & you can start eating apple & blackberry crumbles & warming stews again. It's time to dig out those warmer clothes & start bringing out our Autumn ranges which include long sleeved tshirts, as I mentioned earlier & courduroy aline dresses...and to start planning for Christmas. I know lots of people hate early mentions of Christmas but this year is all about starting early, making the money stretch as far as it can & making this year's the best ever whilst remembering to enjoy all the beautiful things about Autumn.
We have so many exciting new things to show you!
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