*Fanfare* I now have internet access! Will get to work making up for lost blogging time.
*Nother fanfare* I went out this weekend! On an expedition to Walthamstow.
As promised, I paid a visit to the small but perfectly formed East London Craft Guerrilla Market on Saturday, and purchased this lovely grisly necklace:
It’s made by Glowing Doll, who won my prize for Stuff I’d Like To Own, though there were some other stalls which caught my eye, including a lady making awesome soft-toy guitars. There were about half a dozen stalls (and a sleepy cat) in the sunny leafy back garden of Beautiful Interiors, which is also worth a visit if you’re up that way.
And you’d probably like to be up that way because, my goodness isn’t Walthamstow Village lovely? In a similar way that the door of Eddie’s pub in Stratford deposits you in Hampstead, a short walk down Third Avenue from Hoe St transports you to Church Street in Stoke Newington. As well as all the twee and sexy crafts in Beautiful Interiors, there is a restaurant and deli called Eat 17 which looks gorgeous. It was formerly a waffle cafe (a wafflery? If that isn’t the word it should be) so has a pretty impressive choice for dessert, including a cheesecake waffle. Yup, that’s cheesecake on a waffle. Num num num, say I.
Ooh, also Diamond Geezer has been in my neck of the woods recently with this post on invisible artwork ‘Linked’. Will add that to my Leytonstone to-do list, especially after my rant about rubbish public art a while back. Though can imagine it wouldn’t be for everyone – I have been covering my organisation’s press phone this weekend, and got an impassioned call at 5.30am from an unhinged person ranting about ’skull-based receivers’ and how the Government is controlling the voices in his head. Sca-ry.
3 Comments
June 12, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Hello,
I remember you! Thanks so much for putting up pics of my stuff and for buying my heart necklace.
I am going to link to your blog
June 15, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Thanks for making lovely things for me to buy! The necklace has already served me well. Yay for linkage – will try and update the blog a bit more often if there’s people reading it…
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