[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-crafty-hen-session":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"My friend Charlotte is getting married and our friend Angela planned a great Hen Day session for her, booking textile designer and recent Kingston graduate \u003Ca href=\"http://zeenashah.com/\">Zeena Shah\u003C/a> to lead us all in a craft session just down the road at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.brocafoods.com/\">Broca Food Market\u003C/a> in Brockley. (You may remember Howard Hardiman's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.cutebutsad.co.uk/comics/?page_id=361\">\u003Ci>Badger\u003C/i>\u003C/a> visits its sister shop, the Broca coffee shop, just across the railway tracks.) Here's Zeena and me and my doll:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/char_hen1-5af5d9f428.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nZeena did a great job, giving us all little takeaway-style boxes filled with craft supplies for a few projects, printed sheets with project ideas (a heart or bird-shaped pin cushion, a tote bag, a felt brooch) and then had a supply of a lot more craft materials we could use. It was very free-form and we could make what we liked, so I doubled up by making that \u003Ci>Stitch Yourself doll\u003C/i> I'd promised Lauren I'd give her, for the Science Museum exhibition. And we had sandwiches and cakes and champagne, tea and coffee, not a bad afternoon! And a great idea of Zeena's to do these hen sessions, \u003Ca href=\"http://heartzeena.blogspot.com/\">you can book her, too\u003C/a>.\\r\n\u003C!--more More crafty session photos under the cut!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/char_hen2-709a18420d.jpg\">\\r\n Below: I only just spotted it in the photos, but I think that might be a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.simonelia.com\">Simone Lia\u003C/a> poster in the window.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/char_hen3-a7578bfa36.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/char_hen4-3cc8a1380f.jpg\">\\r\nHere's a pillowcase from the session, and a few of us in the evening at a Cuban restaurant, trying our best to look monumental under the rather imposing Sean Connery poster.","2010-05-17T11:59:00.000Z","crafty-hen-session",[],"crafty hen session",1776628718178]