ClarasHandMade: My day at the V & A...

On Tuesday 22 nd I was lucky enough to get a place via Pinterest UK ( http://www.pinterest.com/) at a wonderful craft afternoon held at the awesome venue that is the Victoria and Albert Museum in London at an event for The Handmade Fair (http://www.thehandmadefair.com/) doing paper crafts taught by the simply amazing Poppy Chancellor (http://poppychancellor.com/) please check out her website what she does with paper is amazing!!! She is a crafting wizard. The whole event was hosted by the simply divine Kirstie Allsopp who I had to tell how much I loved her. Yeah I played it massively cool (!) I mean that woman does many tv shows on crafts and Christmas plus vintage, which are all my loves and her cousin is Cath Kidston. I want to be her when I finally grow up, if I ever grow up.
I have never done any sort of paper crafting before, mainly because some one is getting hurt when I am trusted with a sharp object and by someone I mean me. Yeah I am that fool that will cut some hair off by accident or I will get blood every where by waving my scissors about. Shockingly this time I came out OK apart from the headache caused by concentrating so hard on not fluffing up in front of all these other amazing crafty peeps and awesome people. I mean how embarrassed would I have been to be bleed out in front of Craft Goddess Kirstie Allsopp?! I would have simply turned beetroot in colour and played down any accident even if my right hand was hanging off from the shame. Thankfully nothing like that happened even though there were 50 women in a room all with knives, ha ha. The afternoon was even more awesome as I got to meet up with Lizzie Sibley, Viktorija from andsmile and the lovely Lindsay from Wood, paper, scissors (https://www.facebook.com/woodpaperscissors.uk) who I met back in March with Etsy and Pinterest for a coffee morning.
We had a great couple of hours eating cake and carefully cutting and chatting, I so rarely get to make with anybody else, I am normally a silent and lone worker that it was actually a breath of fresh air to do it with other people, as well as the chat and to achieve so much. All the bunting will be used too decorate at the Handmade Fair later this summer so look out for my wonky pieces if you are going!