Been to visit Origin, the London Craft Fair in it's new venue. Spitalfields is a great area, but the tent itself was a bit of a let down after the great structure they had in Somerset House last year. Terrific makers as usual though.

I particularly loved the work of Wycliffe Stutchbury who makes amazing wall pieces from old timber.

What was also wonderfully different and imaginative was the work of Joanne Tinker, who creates art works from materials that are normally thrown away. I loved the collections of tiny sculptures made from colourful sweet wrappers, all origamied and lined up!

Recycling, reclaiming, and re-appropriation were definitely still the flavour of the day, which isn't surprising given the zeitgeist I suppose. Suits me, as I love reinterpreted materials and things with layers of meaning, or that are just plain fun.

Just thought I'd quickly share a couple of my favorite exhibits from Collect, the Crafts Council's international art fair for contemporary objects which I visited at the weekend.

Nathalie Lahdenmaki had a lovely collection of spoons on the Galleria Norsu stand. Beautiful delicate slithers of ceramic: etherial and beautiful.

I also loved Ingjerd Hanevold's wall mounted brooches, which you can see here on Lucy Harvey's blog.

Both, I guess, were collections where the maker had got into making many variations on a theme, which I realise is a way I like to work too. And actually I realise I liked the collections more than the individual pieces: for me the sum equalled more than the parts.

A useful reminder: it'd be good to set time aside for working on an exploratory series, a bit like the bird brooch series I did for my graduation. Sorry no pictures - for some reason the 'insert image' button is missing today!

In October I'm going to be exhibiting at Origin, the London Craft Fair, run by the Crafts Council. Unlike at Goldsmiths' Fair, where the display cabinets are provided, at Origin you design your own stand to a far greater degree.

I'm going to be sharing a stand with jeweller Daniele Geargeoura, and we've decided that rather than hiring jewellery display cabinets (which people usually do on shared stands) we'd like to do something a bit different.

Having met a couple of times to plan things, we're finding it really hard to design a stand that will will meet all our display and storage requirements, be easy to store afterwards, and yet not too expensive! Standard jewellery cabinets certainly hold some appeal!