We’re in Stratford-Upon-Avon this weekend, birthplace of Shakespeare! Lovely Tudor buildings everywhere..

We didn’t book tickets for an actual Shakespeare play because my boyfriend’s Dutch so it gets a bit confusing (can be challenging enough for an English speaker, I think!), but we went to see this awesome ‘paper theatre’ wish I could find better pictures of The Icebook, a mixture of book art and animation, ‘miniature theatre show made of paper and light’ with only 12 in the audience at a time. (And a play about Galileo with my parents.)

The house in the top picture belonged to Shakespeare’s daughter, the bottom one was Shakespeare’s house as he grew up (his dad was a glove maker), and where he later lived with his wife Anne Hathaway. :)

Back soon enjoy the rest of your weekend!

I am so excited that Liz Lawrence is going to be playing a concert in our living room on Monday night (21/01/13)!

Here is an article in the Huffington Post about the living room tour she is doing throughout January.

Anyone living around Beer in Devon is welcome to come along just send me a message!

Anyone living far and away take a listen to her music, currently available on bandcamp where you choose the amount you want to pay.

I LOVE her music my favourite is the Oo song :)

If you like it too, help spread the word of this up and coming artist and you can follow Liz on Tumblr!

Dartmoor Zoological Park (originally Dartmoor Wildlife Park) is a 30-acre zoological garden located near the village of Sparkwell, on the south-west edge of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon in the South West of England.

The zoo was opened as Dartmoor Wildlife Park by Ellis Daw in 1968 on farmland his family bought in 1948. The zoo was forced to close to the public on 23 April 2006. In August 2006, it was bought for £1.1m by the Mee family consisting of Benjamin Mee, his wife, Katharine, son Milo and daughter Ella, who reopened the zoo to the public in July 2007 after a major refurbishment. Benjamin Mee, a former DIY columnist for The Guardian, also wrote a book about his experience refurbishing and living at the zoo, We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives.

In 2009, 20th Century Fox purchased the film rights to Mee’s book and filming on We Bought a Zoo began in January 2011 under the direction of Cameron Crowe. via

Photographs by Graham Pilgrim, like him on Facebook

Dartmoor Zoological Park (originally Dartmoor Wildlife Park) is a 30-acre zoological garden located near the village of Sparkwell, on the south-west edge of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon in the South West of England.

The zoo was opened as Dartmoor Wildlife Park by Ellis Daw in 1968 on farmland his family bought in 1948. The zoo was forced to close to the public on 23 April 2006. In August 2006, it was bought for £1.1m by the Mee family consisting of Benjamin Mee, his wife, Katharine, son Milo and daughter Ella, who reopened the zoo to the public in July 2007 after a major refurbishment. Benjamin Mee, a former DIY columnist for The Guardian, also wrote a book about his experience refurbishing and living at the zoo, We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives.

In 2009, 20th Century Fox purchased the film rights to Mee’s book and filming on We Bought a Zoo began in January 2011 under the direction of Cameron Crowe. via

Photographs by Graham Pilgrim, like him on Facebook

Burgh Island, Devon UK, of the Ben Howard song.

By my friend, Graham Pilgrim, Like/ Follow him on Facebook.

Infrared photographs by my friend Graham Pilgrim, Like/ Follow him on Facebook.

Just a reminder to anyone living in EXETER and it’s environs that I will be at Handmade Arcade this Saturday selling my wares, along with lots of lovely other people selling handmade and playing live music. Anyone living nearby with lots of friends please invite them all via this EVENTS PAGE!

Hope to see you Saturday! (I will also be there on the 15th and 22nd) :)

There’s been some really amazing sunrises here the past few days, I thought I’d post some of the photos my manager / friend took this morning.

Like him on Facebook he’d be stoked!

(Taken from where we work and live, Overbecks)

And if you think you recognise these rocks and crashing waves maybe you’ve seen the new Tim Burton movie Dark Shadows, as they filmed here last year. :)

“Be England what she will. With all her faults, she is my country still”.

-Charles Churchill (1731-1764), English poet

Photography by Jules Falk Hunter, on Tumblr

This month’s Handmade Arcade was so much fun!

I hope to see anyone living in Exeter or surrounding areas at some of the Christmas markets, I will be there on the 8th, the 15th and the 22nd. :)

Super Awesome Shop is super stoked to announce that it will be attending it’s first crafts market at Handmade Arcade in Exeter, Devon on Saturday 3rd November and hopes to see all our followers in Devon The South West there!

Handmade Arcade is organised by No Guts No Glory who will also be celebrating their 3rd birthday on the day.

To celebrate their third year, No Guts No Glory are hosting a party on Saturday 3rd November to coincide with Handmade Arcade - Exeter’s Indie Art and Makers fair. The fair will feature special guest artists Sandra Dieckmann and Jack Teagle, and see the launch of a (free!) Silent Cinema - run by a collective of local film-makers. There will also be live music throughout the day from some of Exeter’s finest musicians; Some Sort Of Threat, Giles Bidder, Will Rene, Jess Maidment and more!

No Guts No Glory are offering lots of great discounts in-store as well as drawing competitions, mulled wine and lots of vegan goodies! Join them on Saturday 3rd November from 10am - 5pm at McCoys Arcade on Exeter’s Fore Street to celebrate the diverse range of Independent Art in the South West!

See you there!

Please reblog to help spread the word to any of your followers that might live near us!

Working on getting this shop up and running (more problems than I had anticipated!) ….But not on the weekends :)

As my boyfriend and I work for the YHA (England and Wales Youth Hostel Association), we get to stay in all these amazing old buildings across the UK for free! This one at Tintagel, an old quarryman’s cottage (The aerial photo I took from the website so you can see how ‘isolated and atmospheric’ it is :), is near Tintagel Castle, said to be the birthplace of King Arthur (you know?)

And, at Perranporth beach (and visible from the big window they have at the hostel-on-a-cliff there), we saw a shark! In British waters it must be one of these, a veggie shark. :)

Do you live in Devon? :)

Hopefully you’ve already heard of Handmade Arcade, held on the first Saturday of every month (and every week in December) in McCoys Arcade in Exeter!

Organisers Nath & Hayley of No Guts No Glory (on Tumblr too) are looking for more local creatives to come and sell their wares, apply here!

Anyone living in and around Exeter in the South West should come and visit!

Moth Wing ring “Based on the patterns and shapes of a moth’s wing, cast from original hand carved wax” by Kaye Blegvad of datter in London, England.

“I’m an illustrator and designer, and Datter Industries is the jewellery arm of my creative endeavours. Datter is the Danish word for ‘daughter’. It’s part ‘data’, part ‘matter’. It’s a little alchemical. At the very least, it’s my project to turn drawings and ideas into jewelry.”