Another week gone but unfortunately not too much crafting has been done! I managed to make a couple of felt pouches for phones, cut out some templates and also sized up fabric to make card holders. It did make me realise that I’m going to need a lot more felt!
Last Saturday I was staying in Romford and managed to get to a fair in the library – it was very small but had a great atmosphere with some very skilled crafters selling their wares! I may need to keep an eye on craft fairs out that way as I stay there regularly. Hopefully over this weekend I’ll be able to make some things up and take pictures of the finished products to stick on my website.
My partner has started designing a website for me (Lulu and Stitch) and I’m really happy with it so far – which is why I want to take some good pics to do it justice!
Last Saturday I was staying in Romford and managed to get to a fair in the library – it was very small but had a great atmosphere with some very skilled crafters selling their wares! I may need to keep an eye on craft fairs out that way as I stay there regularly. Hopefully over this weekend I’ll be able to make some things up and take pictures of the finished products to stick on my website.
My partner has started designing a website for me (Lulu and Stitch) and I’m really happy with it so far – which is why I want to take some good pics to do it justice!
I managed to get my name down for a couple of craft fairs – one November 19th and one 10th December – please see the Ark and Craft Fayre, Needham Market for details. I also tried to get my name for a fair with Handmade Havering, also in November, but I’m afraid I missed the boat and they will not be continuing with their regular fairs after this year – such a shame! Kirsty (The Little Black Cat) was the organiser and was very helpful in offering tips and links on how to find other venues so hopefully I’ll have a little luck soon – however I don’t want to push myself too much at the moment so I can get a feel for things and find out what I’m letting myself in for
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Tuesday was my day at the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary. We were scheduled to have two new freezers delivered at 1.30 and one knackered one to be collected. One big problem we had though – the one to be taken away was still in use and needed to be defrosted for the people to take it! Because it was still in use, there was still chicks, quail, rats and mice in it which we had to try and cram into the other freezer! My task: to pour a kettle full of boiling water down the side of it to begin the thawing process. An hour or so later and nothing had really happened so I boiled another kettle of water and poured it slowly and then began to chip the remaining ice off with a plank of wood. A few splinters later and it was done with the mushy ice sitting in the bottom – the freezer was so old that it didnt have a plug in the bottom of it but I decided that tipping the freezer was not the kind of thing I could do.
Good thing I did do it though, the delivery men turned up at 12.30 – a whole hour earlier than we expected and just as we were starting our 12.30 flying display! They had apparently “made up time” and were “ahead of schedule” but Maz told them that it was tough and they would have to wait until the display was over – they got a free display out of it and were able to wander around the site looking at our other birds.
We lost one of our microphones and because two falconers do the display, only one could talk so they shared the display. The first bird in the flying display was Pungu who is our Battleur Eagle and because she was in her pen, she didn’t have her gear on, only her flying straps so there was no way to tie her to the post. So guess who was lucky person who got to carry her back to her pen? I say lucky very lightly – Pungu absolutely hates girls and seems to hate me more than most. She never lets me anywhere near her and every time I walk past her, she does something similar to the Haka done my Maori warriors - I call it her war dance. So imagine the chaos that ensued when she was handed over to me, her mortal enemy!
She is no lightweight bird, and decided to do her war dance while I was trying to carry her back to her pen.
Good thing I did do it though, the delivery men turned up at 12.30 – a whole hour earlier than we expected and just as we were starting our 12.30 flying display! They had apparently “made up time” and were “ahead of schedule” but Maz told them that it was tough and they would have to wait until the display was over – they got a free display out of it and were able to wander around the site looking at our other birds.
We lost one of our microphones and because two falconers do the display, only one could talk so they shared the display. The first bird in the flying display was Pungu who is our Battleur Eagle and because she was in her pen, she didn’t have her gear on, only her flying straps so there was no way to tie her to the post. So guess who was lucky person who got to carry her back to her pen? I say lucky very lightly – Pungu absolutely hates girls and seems to hate me more than most. She never lets me anywhere near her and every time I walk past her, she does something similar to the Haka done my Maori warriors - I call it her war dance. So imagine the chaos that ensued when she was handed over to me, her mortal enemy!
She is no lightweight bird, and decided to do her war dance while I was trying to carry her back to her pen.
As you can imagine, her wings were battering me around the back of my head but I could cope (apart from the couple of occasions when her feathers covered my face and I couldn’t see!). Then she decided that the war dance wasn’t enough to see me off and grabbed hold of my arm with her beak, then twisted her head and gave me a pinch! She did let go eventually after much waggling of my arm and then went for it again but luckily got the edge of my glove and was trying to constrict me with her talons – they actually went through the leather glove and left holes in it. I managed to escape with my life though, and got her in her pen and ran away for a well earned cup of tea! I’m feeling it now though with a sore arm (I was carrying her with my arm completely outstretched so she couldn’t get near my face!) and a nice bruise in the crook of my elbow where she bit me.
Another example of her rage:
She likes to pull up grass to express her dislike.
Grumpy Baloo!
Napoleon was showing off her beautiful self when I took my phone out of my pocket to take a picture of her:
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Luci xox