Kitted Up For Crafting

This has been the summer for enjoying small craft projects. Everyone seems to be having babies, so there's been personalised bunting coming out of Ribbon Circus for the past few months.

The best craft project of the summer has been the design a bag craft kit from Blueberry Park. The kit comes with a ready made bag, embroidery silk and all the trimmings you need to make it look beautiful. Without the pressure of trying to work out whether you've got everything you need, your mind can concentrate on the design. Oh, what fun!

And if you like the idea of personalised bunting for new babies, birthdays and celebrations, Blueberry Park also does a mini bunting kit... although if you want to get totally creative and choose your own colours, trimmings and embellishments, everything is available from Ribbon Circus. As well as having the fun making the bunting, your friends will be forever grateful.

On The Button

At last, Ribbon Circus has started its button collection in earnest.

We've been thinking about it for months, and finally we've done it. To be honest it was a trip to Paris and the wonderful La Droguerie trimmings shop that reminded us of the joy of quirkiness, not to mention how it helps get the inspiration flowing. We've always tried to resist the boring haberdashery display stands, but their practicality sometimes wins out... not in this case though, as we're stashing our button collection in old jam jars. If you've got old jars you want to get rid of, bring them down to Ribbon Circus and they'll be lovingly recycled.

If you're on the hunt for interesting buttons, but don't live near Hebden Bridge, you can always try our online shop. We promise to keep the website up to date with our new button purchases as the collection grows and grows.

Hats Ahoy

Ribbon Circus is recovering from Hebden Bridge's first Fabulous Fifties Weekender... and what a fabulous weekend it was. There was dancing from Friday right through to Sunday evening, wonderful live bands (our favourite was TC and the Swingcats), amazing clothes both on people and to buy at Lucy and the Caterpillar's Vintage Fair and a seriously impressive 1950s beer festival at The Hole Int Wall.

The forementioned TC and the Swingcats should win an award for the most dedicated musicians, as they continued to perform through the pouring rain on Saturday afternoon in St George's Square. They were so enticing that the crowd was happy to get drenched just to stay and watch them perform... and I've never seen so many people dancing under umbrellas before. Hilarious.

Watch out of the next one.