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I was quite excited about this fair to say the least. And man was it big! Larger than I thought actually. This was a great plus of course. The minus might be that there were a lot of the same or similar things. A lot of scrapbooking (which I'm not into) and embroidery (neither). There were however things that I appreciated as well, fabrics! some pastery sections and jewellery which is always nice to look at, lots of pretty pearls and macaron-shaped earrings etc.
Over all it was a nice fair. I did miss some "free samples", I figured there would at least be a free magazine or something. It was a bit crowded, but no queues. I would have liked if they included stuff like soap-making, candle-making and creative cakes as well, to broaden it even more.
There were a lot of fabric suited for patchwork. I bought two pieces, however I'm not going to use them for this but for a pillow case that will be nicely placed on the sofa. After all they are 45 x 55 cm, so it should work. I'll show you when I've got the right inner pillow for it. Or maybe I shall just buy cotton and do it myself from scratch so to say...
There was definatley a great variety of fabrics. Some suiting for a vintage 50's look, romantic countryside flowers or stronger bold colours.
You also had book shops specialized in "do-it-yourself" and creative hobbies represented.
Cute stuff the japanese way for example...
Installations and workshops were also a part of the fair. You would have to pay extra to participate in a workshop though. It was fun to just look at it a bit, however it was one project that seemed quite fun, painting on a glass plate. The thing was: you painted on the back of the plate and then when you turned it around it looked really pretty. I want to do that sometime! Unfortunately, now that I think about it, I never took a picture of it. - Oh well!
Everyone got to contribute to this "painting" with the help of some pretty tape. There were lots of different patterns and colours. And as you can see some people really put their heart into it (see the face down in the left corner).
A lot of people as you can see here.
Some inspiration for christmas as well. Oh how I would love to go to a christmas fair. But soon all the christmas markets in Paris starts, actually the one on Champs-Elysées has allready begun, so I read yesterday. Apparently it started this weekend. I went to it last year and it was wonderful, so surely I'm gonna go again, and I'll show you of course. There are also other christmas markets in other parts of town, I was thinking I'm gonna write about all of the markets that I wisit. Would be a nice project. :)
This was one of my favourite market stall. Can you see why? Here I (after some thinking and figuring and considering) bought something that will (hopefully) improve my macarons. It's a silicone (I think) plate that you use instead of the regular baking paper. Next time I make macarons you will see.
Saw many hi-tech sewing machines on the fair as well. So if you are thinking of buying yourself an advanced machine that can make some impressive embroidery this might just be the place.
After about 2,5 hours at the "Créations et Savoir-faire" I felt satisfied and we went home. On or way back home we bought a nice bouquet of intense blue flowers to put in our blue kettle. After all it was fresh flower's friday two days ago!
I understand that the reason the colour is so intense is because they have been dyed. I got this confirmed when my boyfriend's fingers had some blue stains after cutting the flowers down a bit and trimming of some of the leaves.
We offered ourselves some cheese and crackers after our intense day! ;)
Bisou!
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