Saturday’s Sherwood Craft Fair was a good day.

There did seem to be a tendency, amongst my customers at least, to buy smaller items rather than bigger ones. But many a mickle makes a muckle, so they say, and a muckle was indeed made.

It rained, but the fair was nonetheless busy.

There were lots of cute children, a roving accordion player providing musical accompaniment, delicious food and copious tea on offer.

But what I really want to share about the day are the wares of some of my immensely talented fellow stallholders.

First up, are the wonderful ceramics of foto ceramica.

Kit decorates her tiles, vases, boxes and bowls using the gum bi-chromate process. No, I don’t know what that means either, but as you can see, it produces stunning results…

Next up, Sophie Robins Mosaics. Sophie also teaches mosaic making – and for the craft fair had both original works and prints, plus a special range of the most wonderful mosaic jewellery.

I am still coveting one of her silver mosaic rings…

Across the room from me was the lovely Helen Shere of Shere Design, who makes the most beautiful silver jewellery on this earth.

I have long wished to own one (or more) of her pieces, as they are truly special.

I had to cheat and show you a photo from Helen’s website, as my shoddy photos just didn’t do her work justice.

Also busy with customers (but alas without photographic evidence from me to show their considerable talents) were Honey Bee and The Splinter Cell.

Deb and Peter are husband and wife creatives who work in textiles and wood respectively.

I was most jealous of Deb’s stall display, which sported a giant wooden tree (made by hubby) from which to hang her wares.

Might need to enquire about commissions…!

Katrin Moye I have mentioned before. I was next door to her stall last year, and she showed another beautiful selection of her pottery this year…

Organising the whole shebang and selling her wares, was Rachel Ainley, whose lovely bag I bought back in the summer.

This time she was selling her Christmas robins, birdies and tea cosies…

Alas, I didn’t get any good photos of Carly Dodsley’s stall. Her immensely popular wares were constantly surrounded!

But I was able to help out hugely talented designer Eloise Renouf by lending her some fairy lights to illuminate her little table of goodies, which was located in the darkest corner of the corridor.

These are her beautiful prints, which needed no additional illumination…

Another of my favourite stalls was Baska Designs.

Baska is from Poland, and makes the most wonderful dolls and creatures…

Baska also had some very cute Polish woollen embroidered slippers on her stall, brought back from a recent trip to her homeland.

I kept slipping across the room to try them on, but alas, ran out of time to find the perfect pair before the fair ended.

Finally, next to Baska was Gina Stalley, who makes an eclectic mix of embroidery and ceramics…To all the other makers that I’ve missed out on mentioning, I apologise.

I dashed round taking photos of as many stalls as I could, but some of my photographic efforts were terrible when I looked at them later.

And some people’s names I didn’t catch, so couldn’t look them up.

With so much creative talent and all those punters crammed into two tiny rooms, a corridor and a courtyard, The Place threatened to burst at the seams.

But even now they’ve dispersed, do go and check out their wares.

If you’ve got gifts to buy, they’ll provide you with the very best of handmade. ♥