...more for august...

Carrie Ann Coupe continues to delight us with her lovely designs...

From Greeting cards to notecards and bookmarks to magnetic notepads, Carrie-Ann Coupe offer’s a variety of handcrafted paper goods. Having recently developed her range further to feature some non-paper products there are now badges, pocket mirrors and tote bags on offer!

Zinc White return to reetsweet with some more uplifting upcycling! Check out these new necklaces! Zinc White's mission is simple: to create accessories and homewares by reusing old matericals - they are always very popular so get down early! August 6th and 7th Leeds Corn Exchange...

august reetsweet preview: new talents!

We have lots of new people for you to meet this august reetsweet next weekend! Laura's Lockets bring you a feast of pretty jewellery...

'My love of charms started with a simple locket and has inspired my search for other interesting charms including cameos, flower charms, Eiffel towers and more recently sewing machines, harmonicas and scrabble pieces! The more unusual the better!

It’s great to sell at craft fairs as it enables me to find out what styles and colours people prefer and it’s a lovely feeling to provide my customers with a new piece of jewellery to take home with them...'

august reetsweet: awesome new artists!

Hello again! Just wanted to hit you with some of the latest stallholders who will be appearing at the next Leeds fair on August 6th and 7th! I am completely in love with this:

(pretty great isn't it?!)

These lovely pieces are by Mitty of 'Witty hearts' who's coming to reetsweet as her first fair oop north! So let's give her a warm welcome! ...and ceramics will also be featuring at this fair, we have some stunning work by Lucy Worne (these are so nicely made, and so original!)to share with you so bob down - entry is free and we have a great selection of original art, accessories, jewellery and homewares for your perusal!...Sat 6th Aug we are open 10am to 5pm, sunday 7th it's 11am to 4.30pm!

saying goodbye to craft candy...

On saturday me and my good friend Bianca headed out in the rain to sheffield to make a farewell trip to craft candy's last fair in sheffield...

We had a great day...sheffield is so friendly and so laid back! We loved the mirrored fountain that greets you walking out of the station and we thought that the Millenium Gallery was stunning! Craft Candy did not disappoint, we were loving Elodie G (above) as usual who's naive illustrations has us smiling and cooing, plus I finally saw the prints that Sarah Waterhouse one of the Craft Candy's organisers makes and we were bowled over! Funny! Cute! Stylish...awesome!(see below) We especially liked her speech bubble designs but the birdcages are also so pretty!




Plus I got two of dreams fulfilled in one day...by meeting 1) an amazing leather designer and 2) finding some fudge-ice (fudge with coconut ice with it) at the fair.

...Fairwell Craft Candy! Reetsweet is delighted to be continuing your work in Sheffield but honestly, many many people commented on how your fairs will be missed and we can only try to carry on the work you guys have done in bringing craft to sheffield...see you in November Sheffield!

much love reetsweet x

totally sweet! : steph says hello's new design for reetsweet!

Hello there reetsweeters! You may find you'll be seeing a lot more of our flyers and posters around leeds so watch, this, space! Steph says hello (aka Steph Baxter) has once again surpassed herself and produced us an amazing autumn flyer for the august/oct fairs...thank you steph!! To see more of her fantastic work got to her website! Thank you please! x

august reetsweet preview: spotlight on james green

James Green has appeared at one of our earliest reetsweet fairs and continues to support us and promote his work with reetsweet, you can also see him this weekend at craft candy's last fair in sheffield, James took some time today to tell us a bit more about what he does...


'I'm a printmaker based in Sheffield and I specialise in linocut prints. I've been working in the medium for around eight years, and I'm a little obsessed with it. I produce prints of people, animals, landscapes and the occasional absurd dream. I've produced commissioned work for Domino Records, Paul Smith Menswear, Tramlines Festival and I also run linocut workshops, teaching people how to make prints. Oh, I've also recently produced some mugs with my prints on (with the help of Lianne Mellor), so might bring them along to Reetsweet!'


Find James's work at: http://www.folksy.com/shops/jamesgreenprintworks http://jamesgreenprintworks.blogspot.com And of course at Reetsweet's august fair, the corn exchange leeds august 6th and 7th!

join us on fb for updates and announcements!

Keep up to date with all our events, submission dates and musings on the facebook page here! We have a two day event coming up this august @ the stunning Leeds Corn Exchange - more details here for saturday 6th august, and here for sunday 7th august...both days are free, we just wanted to give as many crafters, and customers alike, the chance to come on a day that suits them to take a look at what we have on offer!

Watch this space for our very own reetsweet competition coming up soon!

the rise and rise of another reetsweeter! : matt saunders

I was a total stalker of matt saunder's work before I booked him for reetsweet, I am not afraid to admit it! His work caught my eye on etsy, and then at a lovely event up at the brudenell social club put on by my friend amy (aka amy panda - see her work here!) and then I would look at his website and get all dreamy! Matt, a Leeds graduate has been incredibly busy these past few months, not only has he done work in the past for belle & sebastian and channel 4, but he has just recently been commissioned by none other than CATH KIDSTON to do illustrations for their magazine,and they also interviewed him! Get in!

Matt has recently been designing some stunning prints that are just amazing - delicate, wistful and childlike (see top) - we love! They remind me of wallpaper I once had in the 80's! We wish Matt and all our fantastic reetsweet artists well for their future and may you have lots more success!

August reetsweet preview!

OMG! Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? Just thought I'd post as it's been a few days and give you all a sneaky peaky of the august fair - it's coming together nicely! As usual, we will have lovely refreshments in cake form from the marvellous tea dance co, and we have a number of new crafty people to surprise and delight you! With prices starting at just £2 for a real piece of gorgeous handmade craft!



We have Jodie who has some great new nautical jewellery, ahoy! Some great new luxurious jewellery by Ruby Spirit designs - nicely does it! And last but not least - Laura Black rejoins us with new knitted loveliness!

Dreamy! See you at the corn exchange on sat and sun 6th and 7th august! Reetsweet!