Craft Fair – Sydney
June 13th, 2009 WendyLee
I went out to the Sydney Craft Fair at Darling Harbour today and had an absolute ball. It was so nice to attand a show as a shopping customer as oppose to an exhibiter. When youa re an exhibiter you only get to madly shop on your way to the toilet or if you happen to 5 minutes spare. So it was really nice to leisurely stroll around unhurried and catch up with old friends.
Felt seemed to to be the big thing this year. I am not suprised the colours are so vibrant and the felt feels so nice.
Wendyt Bailye was the featured artisit out at the show who makes some incredible Felt work. You can see Wendy’s work on her website: Wendy Bailye
I purchased one of Wendy’s Nun Felting on Silk Scarves kits that were available from Unique Stitching. I also got some handyed silk cocoons adn some shiva sticks. I had gone to the show with the intention of purchasing shive sticks and they wer ethe only place that I could see that had them available. Unique Stitiching Website Its worth having a look at there website they have lost of wonderful things to play with.
Next person to help me part with my money was Scrapmatts
I purchased some of the chipboard shapes. Now I am not a scrapbooker and I am not about to take it up but I have an idea that I think these chipboard shapes will work with. I will certainly post about it when i get chance to play and experiment, lets hope it works. Chipboard Shapes
That Bead shop was my next destination and they had the most incredible range of Waxed cotton threads in various sizes. The colours they had available were amazing. So many people had the normal black, white, but these people really had ecery colour of the rainbow! Check out there website and you will see what I mean : Waxed Cotton They also had the same range of colours availbe in leather as well! I was also impressed that the man working there had gone to so much effort and dyed his hair purple to match the compoany colours! You certainly couldn’t miss him.
ATASDA had an impressive display of members work. Exotica You can always count on these ladies to create some sensational pieces of art to delight the senses.
My first actual bead purchase for the day and they are beads intended to be used as beads were these yummy little copper and brass knot type beads from Eureka Beads.
They have a website: Eureka BEads
Catchy Crafts at Hornsby were next exhibiters to help me part with my money. They were the only people in the entire show (well that I could see and I look at Everyones stall) that had the Adirondack Alcohol Inks. I purchased a few of there mulitpacks as I have been wanting to use these for ages. Especially after seeing a tutorial in Polymer Cafe magazine and they amazing colour effects that you can get with using these inks and warm clay! I had recently purchased some of these from an EBAY seller but they never arrived, so I was really happy to find them at the show.
Suprise another beady purchase. May from S’BEad had some brand new Matsuno beads in stock that only arrived a week before the show. I was very excited by these yummy little beads. They are peanuit shaped and they interlock kind of like a vertebrae. The ones pictured are a matte violet colour that look like stone.
I think the way these beads interlock they will make some interesting fringing. These beads came in 2 sizes kind of an size 8 and size 11 equivalent.
I also picked up lots of the yummy twisted bugles in lots of Matte colours.
That was it for my beady purchases, I was hoping to gt some new gemstones but there really wasn’t alot new or anything that called out to me. Alot of the bead sellers were all selling the imitation Pandora style beads. They were EVRYWHERE you looked.
Studio Mio Sells bag supplies. She had some really interesting new buttons that I hadn’t seen before and some great buckles. I already have a project in mind for the buckle I purchased and will show you when its finished.
All in all I had a great day, my feet were killing by the end and my purse was a little lighter but not the shoppping bag. I love going to a craft show as there are so many different exhibiters there that I can get inspiration to use there products in ways that were not originally intended.
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