Crafting Live Malvern

Crafting Live - Malvern

A couple of weekends ago I went to the Crafting Live show at the three Counties Showground, Malvern. It was a weekend where my husband was free and as he is training for a 44 mile walk I suggested he met our friend to go for a walk on the Malvern Hills when I went into the craft fair – which meant I got a driver!!

We parked in the first entrance we came to because our friend had arrived first and this is where he was. From this car park it was very poorly signposted and I followed some people in the hope they were going to the same place as me! I think if we had gone round to the next entrance it may have been better. Even once we got to the building, it wasn’t very clear where to go and you had to go through a café area to enter and made you wonder if you were going right.

However, once inside there was a lot of crafty goodness! I like a craft fair as you can have a good browse and there are some good demonstrations happening – all to tempt you to buy more!! I did find a lot of the stalls had the same brands but then they are the big players in the market so can’t expect much else really. I did find myself trying to remember the best price for some products from different stalls.

It was very busy in there and the stalls seemed to be quite tightly packed. However, I think if you have patience you can find some good products!

My favourite stamp brand Card-io were there though and I did get a good few stamps from there – some of which I have already used. They as always were very popular – their stamps are so versatile and easy to use and you can build up amazing scenes on cards with them.

At 1pm I had booked a Shaun the Sheep Masterclass. This was with one of the animators off the popular TV series. However I did leave feeling a little disappointed as there were three big tables and the man was trying to talk to all three over top of a live broadcast on Create and Craft so I don’t think my sheep looked that great. This could have been improved by putting the workshop at a different area to the TV show and less people in the class. There were other masterclasses during the day which I couldn’t seem to find out what they were beforehand so didn’t do any.

I did find one of my new obsessions though – Lawn Fawn stamps and dies at half price so I picked up a set of them!

I had booked an early bird ticket and so got a free gift – which was a great tattered lace die. You were given an option of a few different dies. This did cause a few queues but I kept coming back to see a smaller queue and was really pleased with my freebie!

Just read the above back and it seems very negative but it really wasn’t that bad – just maybe a few minor changes could improve the show for all.

We never seem to get any craft shows in Wales and have a great venue for it at the Royal Welsh Showground so if any craft show organisers are reading this please consider Mid Wales for a show as there are lots of crafters here ready and waiting for you!