The ghost meets a mushroom
We were at Camden POP Handmade on Saturday 19 September, 12 to 6pm, with @ShoreditchPOP, at St Michael's Church, Camden Road, London NW1 9LQ. Grey skies most of the day -- the kind that makes you glad of a table to lean on and people either side of it.
The ghost meets a mushroom
Little Ghost Reading left its usual spot on the table again -- it does that, we've noticed -- and turned up in a stranger's hand next to a small crocheted mushroom with a bright red spotted cap and a stitched-on smile. The mushroom belongs to Honey Bee Stitches, who crochets these little creatures one loop at a time, and who we're very glad now shares a table's-width of space with us.
A small ghost with an open book held in both hands, the pages painted gold. Pink or white.
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A card holder we did not ask for
A few tables down, Pollock Designs was glazing ceramic dishes in colours we do not have the words for -- a mustard that goes translucent at the edges, a black that turns out to be a thousand tiny bubbles up close. By the end of the afternoon our business cards had a home: a small pink dish, made and given for no better reason than that she wanted us to have one.
And a visitor from much further off
Somewhere in the middle of the afternoon, Extra Emily stopped by -- an influencer, over from Texas, with no obvious reason to be at a church in Camden on a grey Saturday. We were thrilled, and made no real attempt to hide it.
Where we're next
Bodega Urban Market -- Mid-Autumn Festival, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September, 10am to 6pm both days, at Canary Garden Cafe, 77 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH. Same ghosts, we imagine, new company.