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UK Arts n Crafts - Online gallery and catalogue for artists and crafters. Includes a listing of craft fairs and exhibitions.
Kered: The UK Crafts Directory - UK crafts directory with free listings for craftspeople, suppliers, courses and shops. Projects, software offers and links to other craft resources.
Copper Island - Candelabras, candlesticks, candles, copper metalwork arts and crafts gifts.
Handmade crafts - Truly handmade crafts from makers based in the UK. Toys, Games, art, and furniture. Links for crafts shows and craftspeople.
The Essex Craft Society - The Essex Craft Society was created to promote, exhibit and sell work of a high standard produced by Craft Artists living in the county of Essex.
Paragon Restoration - Short courses in french polishing, furniture restoration, veneering and chair caning.
Craft Search UK - Directory of artists and craft makers from across the UK includes photos of their work, events and links. Online shopping available for some.
Perpetual Posies - Floral preservationist specialising in creating pressed floral gifts and momentos.
Crafts Council - National organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts. Exhibitions, events, buyers guide, shop locations and magazine.
The Dorset Arts and Crafts Association - Promotes the arts and crafts with an annual exhibition and bursaries. Membership, history, exhibitions and past shows.
Loom Exchange - Allows weavers and spinners to post equipment for sale.
Craftsman Magazine - Information and ideas for commercial crafters. Business advice and craft fair listings.
The Beadworkers Guild - Crafters guild. Information on membership, journal, workshops and events plus gallery of work.
Olga Edwards - Offering classes and workshops in One Stroke decorative painting. Based in Hyde, Cheshire.
The Worcestershire Guild of Designer Craftsmen - Group of professional designer-makers that aims to bring high quality craftsmenship to the community with exhibitions and offers its members support. Includes gallery.
The Devon Guild Of Craftsmen. - Gallery and craft showrooms showing work selected from around 240 makers. Exhibitions, directory of makers, friends and education. Online shop.
British Artist Blacksmiths Association (BABA) - Promotes craftmanship and design among artist blacksmiths. Events, gallery, education, magazine and newsletter.
Clerkenwell Green Association - Charity working to maintain and promote fine craft and design skills in the heart of London's historic community of Clerkenwell.
Wales Craft Council - Independent organisation of full-time professional craftspeople working in Wales. Membership criteria, events, news and list of members with product descriptions.
Book Works - Non-profit organisation based in London who commission and produce new books in collaboration with contemporary artists and writers.
National Association of Flower Arranging Societies - Teaching charity with around 1,500 flower clubs affiliated to 21 UK areas and 100,000 individual members offers listing of courses, events and publications.
Pressed Flower Guild - Membership information, activities and events plus examples of work created by members.
British Polymer Clay Guild - Galleries of members work, membership application and information, newsletter, suppliers listings, and project pages.
Independent Craft Galleries Association - Association representing independent applied arts galleries. Members, exhibitions and details of the galleries.
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Crafts Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln Crafts Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Crafts "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno Crafts Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Crafts A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Crafts For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Crafts What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Crafts If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Crafts "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous Crafts Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Crafts Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Crafts At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison It is most unwise for people in love to marry. -- George Bernard Shaw Crafts We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Crafts A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Crafts The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Crafts If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Crafts Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Crafts Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Crafts Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Crafts God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Crafts Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Crafts
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