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Pie Factory Margate, 5 Broad Street, Margate CT9 1EWFriday 21st, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November 201410am to 5pm I've organised a Festive and Fun event in Margate, with 12 designer/makers and artists showing and selling their work, running workshops and discussing their fabulous skills, this is an event not to be missed.  Each of the 12 has also designed an exclusive table mat for sale at the event on the theme of Thanet and the seaside...find out more on the Pie Factory Margate website or see more of the artists work on Pinterest

The Hare and The Hen, 11 Dalegate Market, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk PE31 8FB Philippa Lee is a potter who creates very lovely ceramics from within her studio/shop in Burnham Deepdale.  The colourful, light filled shop is brimming with lovely items made by Philippa and other designer/maker craftspeople.  Be sure to add it to your list of places to visit when in North Norfolk... Photograph of Philippa by Andy Davison Photography

  A lovely post on the great British Interiors site Heart Home  by Rona Wheeldon  about the Flowers range of tableware designed by Gillian Blease... I love the vibrant colours which Gillian has used, together with the retro symmetry.The designs can easily be mixed and matched. And they’d certainly bring sunshine to your table at any time of the year.  They’d also make great Christmas presents… Read more of the article at Heart Home

 Dawn Cole has created a body of work inspired by the diary of World War One Nurse, Clarice Spratling. Her latest exhibition will be opening this week at London Printworks

   Today is The Lord Mayor's Show.  If you'd like to bring London and State Occasions into your home, how better to do it than with these mats from the National Railway Museum collection