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Old House of Foye - Cornwall shop sells crafts, oriental rugs and pottery. Also offers self catering accommodation.

Warmingham Craft Shop - Suppliers of hand crafted walking and shooting sticks, folding seats as well as dog leads and whistles.

Facets of Avalon - Glastonbury specialists offer hand-made jewellery, hand-painted silk and colour therapy products, by mail-order.

A'anside Studios - Scottish craft studio offering online ordering of decorative lighting, lamps, mirrors, stained glass, woodcraft and art deco items.

Fair Trade On-line - Online store selling fairly traded foods and crafts from around the world. A partnership of Oxfam GB, Traidcraft, and Yahoo! UK and Ireland.

Pebble Cottage Country Crafts - A family run business based in south Leicestershire offers paintings, sculptures, ornaments, gifts and furniture.

Woodland Crafts - Features craft fairs, country shows and shopping mall craft promotions.

Crystal Haven - Supplier of quality crystals, rough, polished, and tumbled stones. Also gem jewellery and pendants.

Objects of Design - Specializes in hand-made and hand-finished design accessories for homes, offices, gardens and gifts.

Aston Gifts - Aston Gifts sell traditional and contemporary handmade gifts not normally available through traditional high street stores. Secure on-line ordering.

Gift Horse - Offering prints, jewellery, glass and ceramic artworks. Online ordering for most items.

Police Medals - Provides hand crafted, dark wood, gold frames for police and Queen Jubilee medals. Includes ordering information.

Bumblebee - Glass paintings, candles of various shapes/styles/scents and greeting cards from Cardiff makers; order by post.

Clearlight - Family business supplying own hand crafted candle designs. Website includes helpful tips, candle burning information and online ordering.

Pottery and Pieces - Provides a range of hand crafted products including silver jewellery , hand thrown ceramics and pottery. Includes shopping cart, terms and conditions and contact details.

The Crafty Fox - Unique hand painted frames, mirrors and lightbulbs. Also offering dreamcatchers.

Ashcroft Crafts - Providing crafted products from a variety of artists and craftspeople. Includes individual galleries, ordering and contact information.

Colly Brook Fine Furnishings - One and two-day courses in soft furnishings and craft subjects, as well as soft furnishings sundries by mail order.

Twigs - Providing handmade New England folk art inspired angels, santas, snowmen, mug mats as well as a variety of decorations and gifts.

Fermanagh Craft Consortium - Promoting a wide range of diverse and unique traditional Irish craft businesses and their craft products.

Mcdonald Crafts - Offer a range of kilts, sporrans, tartan goods and celtic jewellery. Catalogue and contact details.

Mist's of Time - Offer a range of unique and unusual hand crafted and painted gifts. Gallery and contact details.

Stencil Kingdom - Offers a wide selection of designs in a variety of themes.

Dizzy Design - Provides hand painted quality china ware gifts. Different designs are available for a variety of occasions. Includes product descriptions and online order form.

Spiritual Insights - Religious and inspirational wooden plaques and spiritual gifts. Catalogue and order form.

Soap-Flowers.com - Flowers crafted from scented soap made into gift baskets, glassware, and used for decoration and air fresheners.

Country Heart - A selection of exclusively designed and hand made gifts, crafts and home decorations.

Made In Scotland - Offering Scottish crafts, gifts, knitwear and traditional textiles. Over 70 Scottish producers on one site linked to our own search engine. Catalogue and online ordering.

Shrieking Violet - Offering photo frames, mirrors, hanging chimes and suncatchers, and pendants made using using pressed flowers and glass. Selling wholesale and retail.

You're Gorgeous Handmade Soaps - Range of cold processed soaps hand made in Colwyn Bay, North Wales using organic ingredients, botanicals and essential oils. Suitable for vegans. Gift boxes, bars and wholesale information.

ArtCraftNow - Paintings by Gavin Ruston and embroidered butterfly brooches and hatpins by Emma Hunn. Includes biographies, work, and online purchase.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West Crafts After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Crafts "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Crafts "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Crafts Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Crafts Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Crafts He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Crafts Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Crafts The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Crafts We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Crafts "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin Crafts Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Crafts "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Crafts To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong? -- Jenny Weber Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Crafts He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford Crafts Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Crafts I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. -- Oscar Wilde Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along Crafts Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Crafts blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Crafts your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Crafts He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Crafts Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian Crafts
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