Flashback Friday-Will it be Nil Poi for Great Britain?

The Eurovision Song Contest is on 26th May, it used to be a big thing in our house, but since we never come anywhere near to winning anymore due to the outrageous political voting it has lost some of it's appeal. I used to love Terry Wogan's irreverent commentation which was really very funny and got funnier as the evening wore on. Do your remember out first win in 1967? Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw, I remember it like it was yesterday, she was so cool in her bare feet, I never liked the song but it was a great feeling to have won and the excitement as the points came in was great! So to this year, again we don't have a chance of winning but I really like the song, Englebert Humperdinck is the singer and at 76 years young does a great job, well I will run the marathon next year if he does win lol! Here are Sandie Shaw and Englebert, the young and the old, hope they bring back good memories!

Crystal and Stone

I really love receiving my parcels of stones and crystals that come through the post, you never know exactly what they will look like in the flesh. I was thrilled with some new ones that came so I have made a couple of new designs with them, the sparkle of the crystal is so wonderful that you cannot really capture it in a photograph, but I tried! If you are interested in any of them please contact me at barbaralowe700@hotmail.com  Of course if you wanted something special in your own colours let me know I love doing custom work.

Beautiful large grey crystals with pale pink fasceted treardrop crystals and pearls

Large Aqua Crystals with pale pink fasceted teardrop crystals

Huge Jasper beads with Amazonite

Natural grey Aquamarine with Mystic Topaz crystal and pale pink fasceted teardrop crystals

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend, big hugs, Bea xxx

Kent Village Vintage

On Saturday I had a stall at a little vintage fair that my workmates at The Cloth Hall Antiques, Headcorn, Kent, arranged, and it will be held every second Saturday in the month. It was very Miss Marple held in a little Methodist Church Hall complete with ladies of the church making tea and supplying home made cakes, and I had a great view of the churchyard behind the church. It was particularly satisfying for me as a few very stylish ladies bought some of my hand made jewellery and I have to say it looked fabulous on them. We had a surprise visit from The Mayor of Maidstone Cllr Brian Mortimer complete with Chain of Office and bodyguard as this huge chain he told me was 24ct gold!! I had a good look and it is most impressive! If you are ever in the Headcorn area do come and see us, either in The Cloth Hall or at the fair.

In case you were wondering about the glasses, they have my prescription lenses in and I had an awful twitch in my left eye, didn't want everyone to think I was winking at them!

The Mayor of Maidstone Cllr Brian Mortimer

My mad workmates Lyn and Gail

This is The Cloth Hall, Headcorn, which has hardly changed from when this was a Victorian workhouse for the poor of the village