Cornish Feasts and Festivals

by Freya Laughton on January 18, 2012

I’m cur­rently work­ing on a series illus­tra­tions for Cor­nish Feasts and Fes­ti­vals, writ­ten by Liz Woods. I still have a fair way to go, but here’s a lit­tle taster.

Cornish Feasts and Festivals, Cornish Wrestling

Cor­nish Wrestling.

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Penzance Farmers Market

by Freya Laughton on October 27, 2011

Fri­day is my favorite day, and not just because it’s ‘Freya’s day’! We have a very good farm­ers mar­ket in, or out­side the town hall, St. John’s Hall. There are lots of stalls with all sorts of tasty fresh food, includ­ing Hope’s deli­cious bread, it really is ‘the loaf of your life’. Tomor­row morn­ing I’ll be join­ing them all, with a stand of my own  from 9:00am — 2:00pm. I made four hand bound leather books especially.

Handmade books

 

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Craft day for Maggi

October 15, 2011

Last week­end Marazion Com­mu­nity Cen­tre was full to burst­ing with teas, cakes, lunches, and ladies learn­ing crafts, includ­ing note­book mak­ing, folk art, rag-rugging, fused fibre, bead­ing and felt mak­ing. The day was bril­liantly organ­ised, down to the last choco­late brownie, by Crowlas and Ludg­van WI. All the many cakes and crafts were in mem­ory of one […]

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Beautiful leather put to use

October 4, 2011

Here’s a lit­tle book made with the beau­ti­ful leather I bought from Conker Shoes, and some lovely rib­bon from Poppy Treffry’s new hab­er­dash­ery range. Share

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Mr. Isaac Merritt Singer and steam trains

September 25, 2011

Last week­end I cashed in my 25th birth­day present from my friend Simon and we went camp­ing in Devon for two nights. We stayed at Churchill Farm, a lovely lit­tle camp­site in Buck­fastleigh, near Totnes, and were very glad of all the extra blan­kets and woolly hats. Luck­ily I’d heard about Old­way Man­sion before my Devon […]

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Mr. Singer himself

September 16, 2011

I’m off camp­ing in Devon for the week­end, hop­ing to visit the man­sion of Mr Singer him­self, I shall tell all upon my return! Share

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Likes means prizes

September 15, 2011

Just a lit­tle reminder that for every 100 ‘likes’ of my face­book busi­ness page, I will enter every­one into a prize draw to win a goody bag of my work, tell all your face­book friends! Share

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For the love of sewing machines no. 1

September 4, 2011

Dawn the Davis Sewing Machine I won’t pre­tend to be an expert on sewing machines. I’m not a mem­ber of any exclu­sive clubs… yet, I don’t have ter­ri­bly unusual ones, and I haven’t spent a huge for­tune on my col­lec­tion. So far I have 16 sewing machines and an over­locker (serger to US read­ers). They […]

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Eden, electric cars, and the circus.

August 30, 2011

My friend Matthew Trevaskis of eco­drive teamed up with the Eden Project this month to show off some of the elec­tric cars com­ing onto the mar­ket. With the incen­tive of test-driving the new Nis­san Leaf, I filled up my old petrol-guzzling Fiat and drove up to Eden with my par­ents. While wan­der­ing between bio­mes and […]

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The Design Fair

August 26, 2011

  What a crack­ing show the 2011 Corn­wall Design Fair was, I only wish there had been two of me, so one Freya could enjoy and pho­to­graph all the won­der­ful design­ers, enter­tain­ment and food there. The weather shone, the tents were cosy-warm, and sounds of story telling and bands drifted into our stands. I was kept […]

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