Wonky Craft Fair 24 November 2018

We’ll be showing off our wares at Llantrisant Leisure Centre on 24th November as part of the Wonky Craft Fair organised by Friends of Animals Wales.  Apart from all the craft stalls we’re expecting excellent cake and refreshments and lots of friendly dogs.

Wonky Craft Fair , Tea Party And Dog Show @ Llantrisant Leisure Centre, Cardiff [24 November]

The full address is 7 Park View, Llantrisant, CF72 8DL. It’s open to the pubic from 11:30 until 16:00.

We hope to see you there!

December Closure

The Woodwasp shop and workshop will be closed from Saturday 10th December until Wednesday 21st.

When we  re-open it may still be possible to arrange collection for our local customers, but will be too late to post products in time for Christmas.

Cardiff Christmas Market

We’re making stock and getting ready to attend the CraftFolk market in Cardiff city centre.

2013-11-14-190825 We’ll be there from Tuesday 17th December 2015 until Sunday 21st.  Trading times are 10am to 5.30pm, closing half an hour earlier on Sunday.  We’re not yet sure precisely where we’ll be, but we expect to be in a wooden cabin facing John Lewis, with our back to the Old Library.

We hope to see you there!

 

 

Re-opening postponed

Unfortunately we’ve had to postpone our planned re-opening due to a family illness.

We hope to be able to re-open by the end of September. Please revisit, or drop us an email if you’d like to be notified when we’re back in action.

We’re sorry if this has caused any of you any inconvenience.

Back at Landsea Square – 28-31 August

We’re attending another CraftFolk event this weekend in Cardiff Bay.  We’ll be in the area near Weatherspoons, Carluccios etc – look out for the red and white striped tents. The stalls will be open from 10 am to 5:30 pm.

candle arches_pierhead 4At the same time the Harbour Festival is taking place, Cardiff Bay Beach continues at the Oval Basin and on Sunday and Monday we’ll hear the roar of the Welsh Grand Prix of the Sea. Plenty of opportunity for a great day out with lots to see and do.

For more detail, see the CraftFolk website.

Big Cheese Festival, Caerphilly, 25-26th July 2015

We’re excited to report that we’ve managed to get a stall at the Big Cheese Festival in Caerphilly on the weekend of 25th and 26th July.

This festival has been going for eighteen years and keeps getting bigger.  We last had a stall there a couple of years ago, and it was a spectacular event; stalls and activities, music, food and mock medieval battles taking over the whole town for the weekend.  All this is crowned by the spectacular backdrop of Caerphilly Castle.

Caerphilly Castle candle holderCaerphilly Council think there may be as many as 80,000 people attending over the weekend.  It won’t be a good time try to navigate Caerphilly’s one-way system, but there are free bus shuttles into town and affordable park and ride arrangements.

Once you get to Caerphilly, entrance to the event is free.  We’ll be there in CraftFolk‘s red and white striped tents, we hope to see you.

 

Engraving boxes for Prestige Pens

As I write this, I’m close to half way through engraving a batch of wooden pen boxes for Bryn Jones of Prestige Pens, based near Caernarfon.

Yew pen by Prestige PensBryn is a wood turner who I met at the Wales Spring Fair in Llandudno. As well as wooden bowls, he makes fabulous wooden pens, turned by hand from a wide variety of native and exotic woods. He sells them at craft events, through shops in North Wales and through his Prestige Pens web site.Engraved pen boxes

Much of the wood he uses has dramatic grain patterns, so every pen is a one-off.

To give his pens the finishing touch, he offers his customers a wooden box to keep them in, engraved with his logo.  He seems to be doing well, judging by the number of boxes he’s using!

Laser engraving is a flexible way to mark wooden boxes like these, with the ability to prepare batches as and when needed, or to do small runs of bespoke designs if required.