In March their courses are:

Book binding part 2 – Saturday 2^nd 9 -12 (3 hours) £36

Focusing on the ‘Coptic’ method of book binding, Sew several sections together and add a basic printed element to the cover if you wish. A step up from the Introduction workshop but experience is not essential.

Leatherwork an introduction – Thursday 7^th & 14^th 7 – 9 (4 hours) £50

Over 2 weeks you will learn to design, cut, tool and stitch together a leather purse or wallet under the expert guidance of our Tutor Colin the Cowboy. This class may be carried on further to make your own bespoke piece if you get lassoed!

Introduction to your sewing machine – Saturday 9^th & 16^th March 9-12pm (6 hours) £70

Over two weeks this class will cover the basics needed to get your head and hands around your sewing machine confidently (including those fancy computerised ones….). Making a shopping bag with appliquéd detail, bring your own sewing machine and with ring mistress Pascale, free the creative beast within!

Invasion of the Bodice Snatchers! – Tuesday 12^th March 6.30 – 8pm £5

Conservator  Catlin is here to save the day! Imparting her wisdom and wealth of experience with all you need to know about spotting, swatting, and keeping those beastly Moths, Beetles & bodice munching buggers at bay!

Experimental stitch & collage – Tuesday 19^th 6.30 – 9.30 (3hours) £38

Playing with different fabric embellishing techniques including foil blocking, machine embroidery, layering, dissolvable fabric and free hand embroidery, you will create a beautiful collage.

Buttonology textile talk – Thursday 21^st 7 – 9pm (2hours) £24

A talk with a ‘hands on’ twist, exploring their history whilst making a traditional stuffed fabric button and a Dorset button, made on a curtain ring with thread. Surprisingly not invented until the 14th c. delving into a bit of child exploitation as Dorset buttons were crucial in the evolution of working clothes and smocks.

Spring Baskets! – Saturday 23^rd & 30^th 9-12 (6 hours) £70

Willow & hedgerow basket-weaving; with artist & author Stella Harding, making a simple basket from a mix of willow and garden prunings/foraged material, you will take a basket to be carried home in (if you’re lucky…).

Feltmaking part 2 – Tuesday 26^th 6.30 – 9.30 (3hours) £36

Building upon the basics learnt in the introduction to feltmaking, Skip sister Pia will guide your creativity and feltmaking to new unexplored heights! Go on surprise yourself……

Lino printing an introduction – Thursday 28^th 6.30 – 9.30 (3 hours) £36

Be seduced by the strong images you can create with a two colour reduction lino print whilst getting a firm grip on the basics to take away and play.

Friday night social – Friday 29^th  6-9 pm

Blimey! What a lovely way to start your weekend! Come and have a social crafty good time with us, a knit, stitch, prick, draw, glass of wine/tea, early to bed or a pre cursor to a night on the tiles/Wetherspoons (?!), whatever tickles your fancy… Don’t be shy, it’s the weekend!!

To see more from the Stag & Bow website, including updates and lovely useful bits, please see their webhome:

http://stagandbow.com/shortcodes/columns/

Arty crafty lovely market lady Penny Eccles sounds mighty fine and creative – go forth and potter!

Saturday 06 April: 13:30 – 14:45 | Auditorium: Pottery Studio | Farnham Maltings

Join resident ceramicist Penny Eccles on Market Saturdays in the Maltings Pottery and get creative and experiment with materials such as clay, plaster of paris and mosaics.

For April’s Monthly Make sculpt an Easter rabbit or hare out of clay. All ages welcome

More on that new fangled and thoroughly modern web thingy:

https://farnhammaltings.com/events/clay-easter-rabbits-hares-2/

Life called the shots last summer and everything usual and routine took a back seat, a random left turn, a step into another life, another reality – a stressful thing turned into a new path in my life. Vintage and Mrs Antil’s legacy (of a kind) didn’t go far but had a holiday, for a bit..with comfy shoes on of course.

So, after sorting out the whole ‘what is my password’ issue, I hope to get back into a new regular swing of this blogging lark of an old fashioned and lovely kind. And hopefully a fair may appear on the horizon – one thing at a time though.

Vintage kisses to Twisted Vintage.

Twisted Vintage takes forgotten jewellery, whether it be bent, broken or tarnished and revives and reconstructs it into beautiful pieces of authentic vintage jewellery, that is unique in style.

www.twisted-vintage.co.uk

Every piece of jewellery from Twisted Vintage comes in a complimentary recycled vintage bag, hand-stitched from old curtains or cloth – adding another unique twist to your piece. As a present, a bridal gift or simply to add a bit of dazzle to an outfit, each piece of jewellery from the range of necklaces and bracelets at Twisted Vintage is an exquisite work of art.

info@twisted-vintage.co.uk

This sounds wonderful. Caterham really needs a regular market of local affordable produce as Caterham Valley doesn’t have an independent bakers, a bakers or greengrocers and boy could we do with them.

I don’t know if there’s any entry free but as a market there shouldn’t be. I will be taking a peek at the Caterham Indoor Market and hopefully it’ll be something that becomes a valued contribution to the community.

Caterham Indoor Market – 5th May 2012:

Indoor market selling a selection of local goods and produce OPEN 9 am – 12.30 a refreshing change to the High Street.

Stalls offering a wide range of home-made Jams, Cakes, and Preserves, Local Honey, Jewellery, Watch Repairs, Local Farm Eggs, Award Winning Portrait Artist, Nearly New Clothes, Fashion Accessories, Home Made Cards, and Bedding Plants.

Refreshments and light snacks readily available – fully accessible building.

Caterham Indoor Market, Harestone Hill, opposite Morrison’s car park, Caterham, Caterham United Reform Church, Surrey, CR3 6SX

Caterham Indoor Market is organised by John Morris who can be contacted on 01883 340 812 and new fangled electronic email djohnmorris@talktalk.net

Destined for a brand new city-centre venue, we’re delighted to be bringing our Southampton vintage fair to The Treasury.

The Treasury, 129 The Highstreet, Southampton, SO14 2PB

Only our third-ever visit to the city, Southampton has quickly become a favourite; showcasing 30 vintage traders from all over the UK with 60 years of stock, expect vintage dresses and accessories, shorts,skirts and summer staples, leather and menswear, ephemera and collectibles and designer-makers to boot. From retro tees to maxis – no box is left unchecked.

Bound by affordability, we’re always thinking of ways to make the pennies stretch further. Handpicking only affordable traders, we’ll be offering not only cheap entry, sale rails and bargains galore, but free vintage discount cards, available on the door. A veritable vintage playground without paying through the mouth – that’s what we’re all about.

Featured in Elle, Vogue and Marie Claire – we’re going all out. Offers and discounts, cupcakes and new-season staples – we hope you can make it along.

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Entry: £2/ £1 student card/ OAP [Under 12s go free]

www.judysvintagefair.co.uk

kieran@judysvintagefair.co.uk

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I spoke to Anthony today and already had my eye on this launch  – what a lovely idea. Keep fit by shimmying – I couldn’t think of anything better to get fit and have fun doing it, well I could but not with regards to dance. Get ready to bust some lovely vintage moves and through some roaring 20s shapes ladies and gents.

You can see this wonderous dance/exercise on new fangled YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZOWkHQT-R8

WHAT: “CHARLESTONERCISE – Vintage Exercise DVD launch”

WHERE: Matt & Phred’s Jazz Club, 64 Tib Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

WHEN: Friday 29th June. 6.00pm – 1.00am

With Vintage being all the rage, The Great Gatsby being remade with Leonardo DiCaprio and the Charleston featuring on Strictly Come Dancing – Manchester dance teacher Anthony Padgett has created a new fitness workout based on the 1920’s Charleston.
CHARLESTONERCISE: The Vintage Workout – Exercise in style.
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And if you are wondering what is the Charleston? It’s a fun dance craze from the 1920’s America. It is from the Jazz era, a time of Flappers (young, liberated women), High Society, Gangsters and Prohibition (where alcohol was illegal and was drunk in illicit bars – the Speakeasies).

So ditch the leotards, lycra and leg warmers. Here is an exercise you can do in style. Put on your favourite vintage outfits and learn some easy and fun moves which also give you a great workout.

Said Anthony “I taught Salsa for 7 years and then came across the Vintage scene in Manchester and London. There was no looking back. So I put together Charleston dance moves from old films and began to teach this in Manchester. I was amazed how much energy you use and also how much fun it was. So the idea came to me, just as Salsa has Zumba as a fitness workout so the Charleston was the ideal dance for a Vintage workout – and Charlestonercise was born.

And it’s not just exercise, it’s also a social occasion. People can have drinks and nibbles afterwards. It really is a party.”

Anthony Padgett (B.A., M.A., P.G.C.E.) has been teaching dance for 10 years and has danced Charleston for BBC1 and Sky TV.

DVD booklets are available on Ebay. The DVD has 4 sequences of exercises in increasing difficulty. Each sequence has 6 moves that will exercise your thighs, waist, arms and chest. There is also a final 5th sequence that will focus on your abdomen and back. Fun moves in the DVD include The Great Gatsby, The Penguin, The Hotsy Totsy, The Flapper, to name a few.

Classes currently run in Manchester the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at Matt & Phred’s Jazz Club, M4 1LW (in the heart of Manchester’s Vintage scene)

There will also be a special DVD Press launch party on Friday 29th June 6pm – 7.30pm at Matt & Phred’s. Review/complimentary copies will be available for the Press and then the night will turn into a general 1920’s Speakeasy Party with the “Lazy River Jazz Band” until 1am.

www.charlestonercise.co.uk

Facebook: http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Jazzswingdance/100001097411045

Contact: Anthony Padgett

New fangled mobile telephone: 0790 2342448

info@charlestonercise.co.uk  (new fangled electronic mail, well I never…)