shadowhive

So I’d debated going to the maker fest thing in town and it ended up depending on the weather. The weather app said mixed things, so I waited to see what it was like this morning. Thankfully it was sunny so I decided to go.

It was funny though, this was the first time going to town to not see a film in quite awhile. The last time was, also funnily, some sort of fest that had been put on but that one was lacklustre so I kinda expected the same here.

I’d looked at the festival guide on the train so changed my plans slightly. After picking up a Halloween thing, drink and some Stranger Thing lollipops (seems the Stranger Things hype is resuming) I went to the first stop, the leather museum. I’d not been before and so almost got lost on the way. It was nice, but a bit small. There was a lady there that does leatherwork and she’s gonna be at London fashion week next week. That’s crazy a local lady’s gonna be there (I wished her luck and hope she does well).

There was a craft thing downstairs and I did a lil leather coin purse. The lady running it was nice and apparently my stitching is good despite not doing it before. I’m quite pleased how it turned out.

I then looked on the stalls on the main street. I didn’t get anything going down, but I am a bit sad I missed out on something. A artist had done some Nightmare Before Christmas coasters and they were really nice. I got these from her instead though which are so pretty. I love the jellyfish.

I also got a friend!

There was a ‘magical garden’ thing set up past the stalls which was pretty. However the main focus to me were three people dressed as Star Wars troopers! They were so cool and I got a pic with them. There was also a life size chopper which was so cool! He even had working moveable arms and panels! It was so cool. I’ll post pics on insta later.

My main stop then was the town hall. I’d never been but it’s an impressive room, high ceilinged with a massive organ. There was a lot of making things there plus the robots from Robot Wars! There was Mathilda and sir killalot and they were so impressive, plus there was an arena where people could drive smaller ones. I didn’t have a go but I did watch.

I did look through microscopes, including doing a thing to sort beads with tweezers, I did make a bracelet with the dna code of my eye colour, plus did a sound art thing with sound (I’ve not got a pic of that yet though)

I did go to the memorial garden for another part of the fest, but that was a bit bleh. There wasn’t much to it and it so far out the way (and up a steep hill!) that it was tiring. On the way back I got caught in the rain, though I ducked in an Asda for shelter. I got some reduced Lego flowers, then zoomed to get the stuff above from the stalls and had food.

By that point it was close to 2. I debated going to the cinema to see The Roses, but saw on the app more rain was coming and worse so decided it was best to go home. Which was fine cause I was feeling a bit achy and tired (so might have drifted off!). I might see it next week when I see Thunderbirds, and look in the art gallery cause there was an exhibit mentioned in the fest guide (but it’s on till November).

Overall it was pretty good and much better than I expected. I’m glad I went and I’ll post pics over on insta later.

(Though of course when I came back mum had messed around with things cause she’d been left unattended🙄)

Gonna flop now but then it’s mcc and the last night of the proms later.

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yarnofariadne

One of the jewellery designers at the local market up here had some accessories in London Fashion Week last year - I'm not sure if she's showing again this year but it's nice that people across the UK are involved.

Your leather coin purse looks so cool!

shadowhive

Oh that’s so cool! Yeah it is. I saw on her website that she did something for it last year too and it was on display at the museum too.

Aww thank! Yeah it really is, it was a fun lil thing to do🖤