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Getting
Crafty on Green Days
A
wide range of locally based crafts people will be exhibiting this
weekend
A new
Chiswick company that makes craft products and party bags for children
will be exhibiting at this weekend's Green Days and Craft Fair as
part of the Bedford Park Festival. Anne-France Kennedy and Karine
Etienne, who are both French, set up Petit Artisan last year to
offer parents, child carers and teachers innovative craft activities
based on natural materials. They are based in Bath Road, Chiswick,
close to where the Craft Fair is taking place, on Acton Green, opposite
Turnham Green tube station.
Anne-France moved to Chiswick five years ago with her husband, Chris,
who is the finance director of EMI Records. "Petit Artisan's
products are designed to help parents spend quality time with their
children" she says. "Children learn best through play
and learning is most effective when it is fun."
They offer a range of activity bags and party bags, containing wood,
felt and papier mache items to make and paint. One enables children
to make a wooden mechanical toy - a dragon or a footballer. Prices
range from £3 to £15, and 30p from every bag is donated
to a charity called Hope
and Homes for Children, which finds foster homes for children
who are victims of war and disease.
Petit Artisan can be reached on 07810 893029. They're one of more
than a dozen exhibitors at this year's Craft Fair, which forms part
of the Green Days fete, this weekend. The event will be opened at
11am on Saturday by John Humphrys of Radio 4’s Today programme.
There’s a wide range of crafts on display and the stalls will be
open in the Craft Tent on the Green from 11am-6pm on Saturday 7th
and 11.30-5pm on Sunday 8th.
Barbara McDowell of Twinkle produces children's painted furniture
and accessories and also undertakes commissions for children's nurseries
and bedrooms. (a photo of one of the bedrooms is attached). Cathy
Day, who will also be on the Twinkle stand, makes children's cushions
and has just won the textiles prize in a competition organised by
the Victoria & Albert Museum, called "Inspired by the V&A".
New exhibitors this year include Dianne Lindner & Lauren Carew,
of Naturally for You, who make handmade soaps and bath products;
Victoria McKenzie of Bella Plata (handmade silver jewellery from
Mexico); Katheryne Semlekan, of Wotwu Childrens Clothing; Sasha
Dee, who makes handmade textile bags; Liz Riley of Love Unlimited",
who creates hand painted ceramics; and Jo Merriman - traditional
willow baskets.
Susan Derbyshire will back this year with her Artful Glass stall,
demonstrating her stained glass work and taking commissions - as
well as showing her glass panels, sculpture and jewellery. Jeremy
Cuss - another regular, who lives in Chiswick - will be giving a
demonstration of caning and also showing his rush seating and french
polishing. And woodturner Sam Cook from Cambridge will also be back,
showing his work in sustainable and temperate hardwoods, along with
three other Bedford Park Festival regulars - Helen Reid from Haywards
Heath, with her display of handmade beeswax candles; Anne-Marie
Bruce of Bruce Upholstery; and restorer Roger Lloyd of Furniture
Rescue.
The money raised from this year's Bedford Park Festival is going
to St Mary's Convent & Nursing Home Appeal.
For
more details and a full Festival programme, contact the parish office
of St Michael & All Angels Church on 020 8994 1380, or visit
the Festival Website
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3, 2003
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