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View of Llandudno from The Little Orme

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Wooden Mushrooms at Conwy Celtic Fayre

For being the best mum in the world i bought mum some mushrooms from The wood artist Michelle Parr

Wooden Mushrooms
Handmade wooden Mushrooms
They are so amazing. Both mum and i love wooden objects and these mushrooms are incredible tactile. The artist can be emailed on shellparr@gmail.com or called on 01270629014 if you would like more information on the work that she does.

More about the Celtic Fayre

Hello its me again Elaine's Daughter, mum asked if i could share some of my photo's from the Celtic Fayre, so here they are. 
Painted tunnel


Wooden huts on the front
There were lovely wooden huts set up on the Quay front for some stall holders

Cheese stall
Mum buying some cheese

Handmade truffles
Yummy Handmade truffle stall

glass stall
There was such a mixture of stalls, here you can see a glass stall, jewellery and handmade cards.
handmade banners
There was a lovely paper crafts stall, Banners, cards and girlt boxes all hand made by Caroline Free a Llandudno based artist. We had a long conversation about setting up a crafting community in Llandudno. It would be so great to meet up once a month with like minded people to swap skills and learn new techniques.

more beautiful banners


Bird house banners 

Crowds at Conwy Celtic Fayre
Dispite the rain people still made the effort to come.

View from Conwy Quay
As mum said the stall holders had a wonderful view

Monday, 16 May 2011

Celtic Spring Fayre 12th-15th May

This has somehow managed to creep up on us! It's a new event and it takes place on Conwy Quay from the 12th - 15th of May 9.30- 5.30. There will be lots of food stalls where you can sample and buy local produce. Craft and jewellery stalls will also be there. http://www.celticfayres.co.uk/

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Conwy Celtic Fayre

We paid a visit to the Conwy Celtic Fayre yesterday. Unfortunately the weather was not too good. This is the first time the fayre has been held on Conwy quayside so it was not as well attended as the Autumn Celtic Fayre which is held in Llandudno and has become a real attraction. However the setting on the quayside with the town walls as a backdrop and the view up to the spectacular Conwy Castle did make this quite special.

Historical information about Conwy
Conwy itself is a very popular town to visit. This is the information board in the car park showing all the places of interest..

From the car park you go through a subway and this is what you find on the otherside.......Quite a spectacular route into Conwy town
Bilingual sign
..and then signage to the Fayre in both Welsh and English

 



Leading up to the marquee were wooden cabins selling art and craft goods and refreshments. As you can see there were not many people around due to the weather. In the background is Conwy Castle.
Andrew Southall and artwork
My attention was  particularly drawn to pictures done by a local artist from Anglesey and in fact I bought the picture he is holding to put in the Breakfast Room at Lymehurst. You can check out his work on http://www.angleseyart.com/


In the Marquee we came to a stall selling all sorts of  olive oils, vinegars and herbs from Greece http://www.greekoildirect.com/
 
Greek Oil direct
On the same stall he was also selling  some hand made soaps which contained essential oils. I bought some pink rose and French white clay soap! sounds very unusual but it smells absolutely divine and apparently is good for problematic skin.


Natural olive oil soap

Next purchase came from  The Cheshire Cheese Company.  http://www.cheshirecheesecompany.co.uk/ Here there were all sorts of cheeses including "Taste of the Raj" a curry cheese! and wait for it.............."Sticky Toffee Heaven" .............and yes it has toffee in it. You have to taste it to believe it.


And as you can see from the photo the cheese makes you grin !


Hopefully more people will get to know about this fayre so it will be better attended. I think my daughter took more photos  of different stalls so she might well be adding those to the blog a bit later on



Saturday, 7 May 2011

What's happening in Llandudno in May and June

May 22nd
Part of the Welsh Road Running Championship 5 race series. Around 5,000  competitors of all abilities from fun runners to serious athletes will be descending on Llandudno for this event.
http://www.llandudno10.co.uk/.

June 1-4th
The Three Castles Welsh Classic Trial and Heritage Tour.
Competitors leave Llandudno each day on a different route covering no less than 200 miles a day.
http://www.three-castles.co.uk/

June 4th-12th Conwy Biodiversity Week
 Events held across Conwy provide an in valuable chance to discover the wild life that lives on our doorstep.
http://www.conwy.gov.uk/?biodiversityweek

30th June -3rd July
 North Wales Bluegrass Festival
Now in it's 23rd year, 8 Blue Grass Concerts will be held in Bodlondeb Park, Conwy. Instrument workshops, Appalachtian dancers and a line up of 20 top Bluegrass bands/
http://www.northwalesbluegrass.co.uk/

Llandudno Transport Festival comes to Llandudno



 Not content with hosting the Victorian Extravaganza  http://www.victorian-extravaganza.co.uk/ in Llandudno town centre  the Transport Festival http://www.llantransfest.co.uk/ took place at the end of the promenade at Bodafon Farm Park. Vehicles of all types ages, sizes were on display in the fields looking over the bay. A haven for vintage vehicle enthusiasts.and what a spectacular setting.
Tractors galore all colours shapes and sizes.



All the vehicles were so beautifully retored and cared for.
No bland cars here !

Cars with character and again in such good condition. The Little Orme in the background.

This just looks like a match box toy.

                                                                                                                                                                                              





 Live entertainment in the form of a fair ground organ........seating provided while you listened to Ruby!

Motor bike enthusiasts also catered for.

Good to see that there were plenty of two wheeled vehicles on show.

There were plenty of stalls too, selling every conceivable part or extra for the vehicles and lots more too. Quite fascinating to see what was on sale and in some cases guessing what the things were!! 

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

A new nameplate for Lymehurst and I found it atThe Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza

The last stall I came to at the Extravaganza was Brian Taylor's. He was busy at work on his vintage treadle powered fretsaw cutting out nameplates and names
I've been debating for ages about putting up a nameplate for Lymehurst but just haven't been able to decide on what type. Because Lymehurst is in a quiet residential cul-de-sac I have not wanted to have anything too obtrusive that might annoy neighbours, so when I came across Brian Taylor sitting at his vintage, treadle powered fretsaw cutting out names and nameplates in wood, I thought this would be  perfect for my nameplate.I have ordered a name plate so hopefully that will arrive in the post. Brian has a website where you can see examples of his work. http://www.namesinwood.co.uk/