http://www.folksy.com/shops/britishcreamtea Delicious British treats hand crafted in felt. Perfect for everlasting tea parties, great for keeping your pins in order, make beautiful bookshelf ornaments, are fabulous as party favours, bring back memories of a British childhood and look beautiful strung on ribbon as holiday decorations. They look equally great just piled in a beautiful bowl in your kitchen. en-gb British Cream Tea Delicious British treats hand crafted in felt. Perfect for everlasting tea parties, great for keeping your pins in order, make beautiful bookshelf ornaments, are fabulous as party favours, bring back memories of a British childhood and look beautiful strung on ribbon as holiday decorations. They look equally great just piled in a beautiful bowl in your kitchen. Liquorice Allsorts have been an essential in the British sweetshop since 1899...and now you can wear your favourites!! Liquorice allsorts consist of a variety of liquorice sweets sold as a mixture. They are made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings and gelatine. They come in little square "sandwiches", coconut "wheels, tubes, sprinkle covered jellies and little liquorice Berties. They were first produced in Sheffield, England by Geo. Bassett & Co Ltd and this is the make that is foremost in the British child's memories mainly because of their mascot: Bertie Bassett – a jolly figure constructed entirely from Allsorts ;) Allsorts were the product of a happy accident. One day in 1899, a company salesman, Charlie Thompson, was showing a potential client a tray of different types of sweets. The client was seemingly distinctly underwhelmed until Thompson accidentally knocked the tray over, whereupon the resulting chaotic mix of sweets invented themselves in the client’s eyes as an instant new brand. This listing is for 1 liquorice allsorts badge/brooch/pin: The brown sandwich. Your badge will arrive to you on a little tag, wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil and sewn onto a stainless steel pin. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. 1 inch or 2.5 cms wide 0.5 inch or 1 cm tall britishcreamtea Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:15:06 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/158958 http://www.folksy.com/items/158958 Pick'n'Mix...The Brown Liquorice Allsort Recycled Felt Badge or Pin recycled,sewing,jewellery,pin,brooch,badge,thread,felt,brown,black,accessories,polyfil,jewelry,sweet,food,candy,recycled felt,liquorice allsorts,uk liverpool,steel pin Liquorice Allsorts have been an essential in the British sweetshop since 1899...and now you can wear your favourites!! Liquorice allsorts consist of a variety of liquorice sweets sold as a mixture. They are made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings and gelatine. They come in little square "sandwiches", coconut "wheels, tubes, sprinkle covered jellies and little liquorice Berties. They were first produced in Sheffield, England by Geo. Bassett & Co Ltd and this is the make that is foremost in the British child's memories mainly because of their mascot: Bertie Bassett – a jolly figure constructed entirely from Allsorts ;) Allsorts were the product of a happy accident. One day in 1899, a company salesman, Charlie Thompson, was showing a potential client a tray of different types of sweets. The client was seemingly distinctly underwhelmed until Thompson accidentally knocked the tray over, whereupon the resulting chaotic mix of sweets invented themselves in the client’s eyes as an instant new brand. This listing is for 1 liquorice allsorts badge/brooch/pin: The yellow coconut wheel. Your badge will arrive to you on a little tag, wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil and sewn onto a stainless steel pin. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. 1 inch or 2.5 cms wide 3/4 inches or 2 cms tall © Ouissi of British Cream Tea britishcreamtea Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:04:34 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/158938 http://www.folksy.com/items/158938 Pick'n'Mix...The Yellow Liquorice Allsort Recycled Felt Badge or Pin recycled,sewing,jewellery,pin,brooch,badge,thread,felt,black,uk,accessories,polyfil,jewelry,yellow,sweet,food,candy,recycled felt,liquorice allsorts,liverpool,steel pin Liquorice Allsorts have been an essential in the British sweetshop since 1899...and now you can wear your favourites!! Liquorice allsorts consist of a variety of liquorice sweets sold as a mixture. They are made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings and gelatine. They come in little square "sandwiches", coconut "wheels, tubes, sprinkle covered jellies and little liquorice Berties. They were first produced in Sheffield, England by Geo. Bassett & Co Ltd and this is the make that is foremost in the British child's memories mainly because of their mascot: Bertie Bassett – a jolly figure constructed entirely from Allsorts ;) Allsorts were the product of a happy accident. One day in 1899, a company salesman, Charlie Thompson, was showing a potential client a tray of different types of sweets. The client was seemingly distinctly underwhelmed until Thompson accidentally knocked the tray over, whereupon the resulting chaotic mix of sweets invented themselves in the client’s eyes as an instant new brand. This listing is for 1 liquorice allsorts badge/brooch/pin: The pink coconut wheel. Your badge will arrive to you on a little tag, wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil and sewn onto a stainless steel pin. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. 1 inch or 2.5 cms wide 3/4 inches or 2 cms tall © Ouissi of British Cream Tea britishcreamtea Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:00:15 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/158918 http://www.folksy.com/items/158918 Pick'n'Mix...The Pink Liquorice Allsort Recycled Felt Badge or Pin recycled,sewing,jewellery,pin,brooch,badge,thread,felt,accessories,polyfil,jewelry,sweet,food,candy,recycled felt,liquorice allsorts,uk liverpool,steel pin,pink black Liquorice Allsorts have been an essential in the British sweetshop since 1899...and now you can wear your favourites!! Liquorice allsorts consist of a variety of liquorice sweets sold as a mixture. They are made of liquorice, sugar, coconut, aniseed jelly, fruit flavourings and gelatine. They come in little square "sandwiches", coconut "wheels, tubes, sprinkle covered jellies and little liquorice Berties. They were first produced in Sheffield, England by Geo. Bassett & Co Ltd and this is the make that is foremost in the British child's memories mainly because of their mascot: Bertie Bassett – a jolly figure constructed entirely from Allsorts ;) Allsorts were the product of a happy accident. One day in 1899, a company salesman, Charlie Thompson, was showing a potential client a tray of different types of sweets. The client was seemingly distinctly underwhelmed until Thompson accidentally knocked the tray over, whereupon the resulting chaotic mix of sweets invented themselves in the client’s eyes as an instant new brand. This listing is for 1 liquorice allsorts badge/brooch/pin: The blue bobbly one. Your badge will arrive to you on a little tag, wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil and sewn onto a stainless steel pin. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. 1 inch or 2.5 cms in diametre 0.5 inch or 1 cm tall © Ouissi of British Cream Tea britishcreamtea Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:54:40 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/158910 http://www.folksy.com/items/158910 Pick'n'Mix...The Blue Liquorice Allsort Recycled Felt Badge or Pin recycled,sewing,jewellery,pin,brooch,badge,thread,felt,blue,accessories,polyfil,jewelry,sweet,food,candy,recycled felt,liquorice allsorts,uk liverpool,steel pin 2 metres of fun teabag, doily & crown bunting perfect for decorating your walls, Christmas tree, kitchen dresser, mantlepiece, banister or anywhere else that needs a touch of afternoon tee! The teabags are real Lady Grey filled teabags that have been handfolded and stapled and they make the bunting smell divine. The doily scraps are embossed white paper and have beautiful intricate edges. The tags have been stained with tea for a antiqued look and stamped with a little crown. The bunting is strung on a nude coloured embroidery thread. Designed completely by me. Completely hand cut, strung and made. Please note that as each length of bunting is hand cut and constructed, each one will vary slightly. Length: 2 metres or 6 feet © Ouissi of British Cream Tea britishcreamtea Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:11:41 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/132498 http://www.folksy.com/items/132498 Teabag and Doily Bunting sewing,paper,card,thread,bunting,tea,christmas,crown,doily,garland,teabag,christmas tree,mantlepiece,home decorations,mantelpiece,teabags,doilies French Fancies are a colourful favourite of the traditional British tea party and form the centrepiece to many British children's parties. Little cubes of sponge topped with a dollop of buttercream, covered in fondant and drizzled with icing they are sweet, bright and beloved of the nation's children. I have read that they were originally called Othello cakes with the name and the colours being inspired by William Shakespeare's plays Othello and As You Like It, with different coloured icings to represent major and memorable characters in the plays. Othello was represented by the chocolate cake, Desdemona the white cake, Iago was coffee, while the fourth and final cake was coloured pink after Rosalind, the highly popular, blushing, aristocratic lead in As You Like It. I love the pink ones, a preference that seems to be with me from my childhood...as an unbiased adult I would have expected the chocolate one to be my favourite ;) This listing is for 3 french fancies: 1 chocolate with chocolate drizzles, one pink with white drizzles and one yellow with chocolate drizzles...all in their own little brown "paper" cases. Designed completely by me. Made from recycled felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each fancy is hand cut and sewn, the icing and case may very slightly in each piece. 2 inches or 5 cms tall 2 inches or 5 cms wide britishcreamtea Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:09:36 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/119626 http://www.folksy.com/items/119626 French Fancies Set of 3 Recycled Felt Food Sculptures sewing,thread,felt,brown,white,pink,uk,set,polyfil,yellow,cake,felt foods,recycled felt,french fancy,french fancies,fondant Liquorice Allsorts have been an essential in the British sweetshop since 1899. Allsorts were the product of a happy accident. One day in 1899, a company salesman, Charlie Thompson, was showing a potential client a tray of different types of sweets. The client was seemingly distinctly underwhelmed until Thompson accidentally knocked the tray over, whereupon the resulting chaotic mix of sweets invented themselves in the client’s eyes as an instant new brand. This listing is for 5 liquorice allsorts: 1 chocolate sandwich, 1 lemon and white sandwich tower, 1 pink coconut wheel, 1 yellow coconut wheel and one liquorice tube. Use them as separate pincushions, unusual play pieces in board games, Christmas table decorations, table place gifts or display them in a glass bonbon bowl to brighten up a dull corner. They will arrive to you wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Remember you get 5 and each one is different. Wheels: 1 inch or 2.5 cms wide 3/4 inches or 2 cms tall Chocolate sandwich: 1 inch or 2.5 cms wide 0.5 inch or 1 cm tall Lemon and white sandwich tower: 1 inch or 2.5 cms wide 10/16 inches or 1.5 cms tall Liquorice tube: 1.2 inches or 3 cms long 10/16 inches or 1.5 cms wide 0.5 inch or 1 cm tall britishcreamtea Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:04:02 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/119618 http://www.folksy.com/items/119618 Liquorice Allsorts felt,pink,yellow,chocolate,food,liquorice,sweets,candy,coconut,liquorice allsorts,pincushions A fun biscuit from my childhood! The party ring was introduced in 1983. It is a circular biscuit with a central finger-sized hole, covered in hard coloured icing with "wiggly" lines in a different colour. The five colour combinations are: * Peachy orange icing with white lines * Pink icing with white lines * Pink icing with yellow lines * Purple icing with yellow lines * Yellow icing with pink lines We loved the bright colours, the hard crisp icing shell and the holes! We used to wear them as rings and eat them off our fingers as well as holding "ring races". These involved each child taking five rings and placing one on each finger of a hand. They would then proceed to eat them as fast as possible, with the inevitable danger of biting a finger a bit too hard. I used to also try to eat along the lines along the base...but then I was, indeed, a strange child... Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. This listing is for 5 party rings Please note that as each biscuit is hand cut and sewn, the squiggles, base embroidery and hole may very slightly in each piece. If you would like one single party ring or a set a set in other colours to match your scheme or theme please convo me for a quote. 2 inches or 4.75 cms in diameter 0.5 inch or 1.5 cms deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:25:03 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/116050 http://www.folksy.com/items/116050 Party Rings Set of 5 Recycled Felt Food Sculptures sewing,thread,felt,lilac,white,pink,set,purple,polyfil,yellow,peach,icing,biscuit,cookie,felt food,recycled felt,party rings The little favourite of British children's parties for over 150 years ;) In 1850 a biscuit company, Huntley and Palmer, tried out new biscuit technology but found that there new biscuits came out shrunken and tiny. Thomas Huntley liked the little biscuits and called them Gems. The public love the new little biscuits and they are a sensation! In 1910 little mountains of coloured icing are added to the Gems and Iced Gems were born. They are now made in Liverpool. Iced Gems were the first mini biscuit to be sold in bags...an idea that has now spread throughout the industry. Iced Gems have five colours, white, yellow, orange, pink and purple. The little points of icing have different fruity flavours. As a child I used to bite off the biscuit bases first and saved the little icing mountains to eat last...but, as you know, I was an odd one! Designed completely by me. Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. This listing is for 5 iced gems: 1 pink, 1 purple, 1 orange, 1 white and 1 yellow. Please note that as each biscuit is hand cut and sewn, the icing and base embroidery may very slightly in each piece. If you would like one iced gem, a larger set or a set in other colours to match your scheme or theme please convo me for a quote. 1 inches or 2 cms in diameter 1 inches or 2 cms tall britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:23:23 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/116042 http://www.folksy.com/items/116042 Iced Gems Set of 5 Recycled Felt Food Sculptures sewing,thread,felt,lilac,white,pink,set,purple,polyfil,yellow,peach,icing,biscuit,cookie,felt food,recycled felt,party rings Cola Bottles are a mainstay of British pick'n'mixes. Made up of brown and white variated jelly in the shape of a glass cola bottle they sit in children's sweet bags country wide along with jelly fried eggs and mini eggs. This listing is for 8 cola bottles. The second in the British Cream Tea range of pick'n'mix sweets... Use them as separate pincushions, unusual play pieces in board games, Christmas table decorations, table place gifts or display them in a glass bonbon bowl to brighten up a dull corner. They will arrive to you wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Remember you get 8 and each one is slightly different. 1.25 inches or 3 cms long 12/16 inches or 2 cms wide 6/16 inches or 1 cm deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:21:17 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/116026 http://www.folksy.com/items/116026 Cola Bottles sewing,thread,felt,brown,white,uk,polyfil,sweet,food,plush,candy,international,cola,recycled felt,soft sculpture,waldorf,bottles Vanilla slices are a firm favourite in British bakeries, cafés and cake shops. The vanilla slice, Mille-feuille (French 'thousand sheets'), Napoleon (U.S.), cream slice or custard slice (Commonwealth countries) is a pastry made of several layers of puff pastry alternating with a sweet filling, typically pastry cream. It is usually glazed with icing or fondant in white with brown (chocolate) strips The origin of the mille-feuille is unknown. The Hungarian city of Szeged may have something to do with its origins. Carême (writing at the end of the 18th century) considered it of 'ancient origin'. It was earlier called "gâteau de mille-feuilles", 'cake of a thousand leaves'. This one is huge, the size you would get in a generous café or cake shop, and contains a jam layer amoungst the puff pastry layers as well as lashings of vanilla pastry cream. You'd have to est it with the assistance of with a pastry fork!! Yummy ;) Designed completely by me ;) Made from recycled felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. The cake in the images is the one you will receive. 2.25 inches or 6 cms tall 2.25 inches or 6 cms wide 4.5 inches or 11 cms long britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:19:24 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/116010 http://www.folksy.com/items/116010 Vanilla Slice sewing,toys,thread,felt,white,cream,chocolate,cake,food,plush,polyfill,recycled felt,soft sculpture,dolls and miniatures,waldorf,vanilla slice,custard,napolean,mille-feuille An essential part of any British picnic basket. Sausage meat wrapped in puff pastry...baked until the top is golden brown and the slits made in its pastry have shrunk to reveal the meat underneath..... The history of the picnic dates back to the 14th century when medieval feasts were held outside before hunting. The name comes from the French piquenique, an informal meal eaten in the open air. The main foods were hams, baked meats and pastries. Sausage Rolls are perfect picnic food as they require no cutlery! Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each roll is hand cut and sewn, the slits, meat & browned top may very slightly in each piece. 4.5 inches or 11.5 cms long 2.5 inches or 7 cms wide 1.5 inches or 4 cms deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:16:19 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/115994 http://www.folksy.com/items/115994 Sausage Roll sewing,toys,thread,felt,pincushion,plush,polyfill,softie,sausage,picnic,felt foods,sausage roll Dolly Mixtures are a firm favourite of British childhood and corner newsagents. Made up of brightly coloured tubes and cubes of flavoured sugar paste they are marked with distinctive white stripes and dots. It is rumoured that they are a smaller version of Empire Mixtures which were multi-coloured marzipan shapes...but there is also a story involving the British Raj in India and the phrase "Dally Mixture"...who knows! This listing is for 10 dolly mixtures, 5 cubes and 5 tubes in brown, yellow, pink, green and purple. The first in the new range of pick'n'mix sweets... Use them as separate pincushions, unusual play pieces in board games, Christmas table decorations, table place gifts or display them in a glass bonbon bowl to brighten up a dull corner. They will arrive to you wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. These sweets are the ones you will receive. Remember you get 10 and each one is slightly different. Cubes: 10/16 inches or 1.5 cms tall 10/16 inches or 1.5 cms wide Tubes: 10/16 inches or 1.5 cms tall 10/16 inches or 1.5 cms in diameter britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:22:06 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/115842 http://www.folksy.com/items/115842 Dolly Mixtures sewing,toys,thread,felt,pincushion,uk,polyfil,sweet,sugar,food,miniature,plush,candy,international,recycled felt,tea party,soft sculpture,dolly mixtures,sweeties,pick'n'mix A butterfly cake is a classic British children's party cake made from a simple fairy cake. The top of the fairy cake is cut off or carved out with a spoon, and cut in half. Then butter cream, whipped cream or other sweet filling is spread into the hole. Finally, the two cut halves are stuck into the butter cream to look like butterfly wings. This one is in a polka dot "paper" case made from spotty felt ;) Made from recycled felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each cake is hand cut and sewn, the case icing and "wings" may very slightly in each piece. 2.75 inches or 7 cms tall 2.25 inches or 6 cms in diameter britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:20:32 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/115834 http://www.folksy.com/items/115834 Butterfly Cake in a Polka Dot Case sewing,toys,thread,felt,wedding,pincushion,uk,favor,cupcake,food,plush,polyfill,fairy cake,polka dot,play,international,recycled felt,tea party,soft sculpture,butterfly cake A great British classic chocolate biscuit complete with two layers of chocolate cream! The Bourbon was introduced in 1910 (originally under the name Creola) by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans, originator of the Garibaldi biscuit. It is apparently named after the House of Bourbon, an aristocratic French and Spanish family. Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each biscuit is hand cut and sewn, the 10 signature "holes" and wording may very slightly in each piece. 2.75 inches or 7 cms long 1.5 inches or 3.25 cms wide 0.75 inch or 2 cms deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:18:05 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/115822 http://www.folksy.com/items/115822 Bourbon Biscuit sewing,thread,felt,brown,uk,polyfil,chocolate,plush,softie,international,biscuit,cookie,felt food,recycled felt,soft sculpture,bourbon A great British classic biscuit! The Jammie Dodger was born when Joseph Burton and his assistant Cecelia O'Malley made his small family bakery into "Burton's Biscuits" in Fleetwood in 1935. Each biscuit is formed by two shortcake biscuits sandwiching stretchy, seedless raspberry jam with a heart shaped hole in the centre. Originally with a heart stamped design stamped into the top biscuit they were changed to the jam splodge in the 1990s. Jammie Dodgers play a huge role in my family's history and memory ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each biscuit is hand cut and sewn, the patterns and heart may very slightly in each piece. 2.5 inches or 6.5 cms in diameter 6/8 inch or 2 cms deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:12:38 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/115794 http://www.folksy.com/items/115794 Jammie Dodger sewing,toys,thread,felt,pincushion,plush,polyfill,softie,felt foods,jammie dodger,biscuit,cookie,jam The quintessential British breakfast, and perfect for breakfast in bed - Boiled Eggs and Toast Soldiers are a British culinary institution! Soft boiled eggs are commonly served in Britain in egg cups. The top of the egg is cut off with a knife leaving a jagged shell edge around the white and oozy yellow interior. Soft-boiled eggs have been eaten, by generations of British Schoolchildren, with buttered toast cut into strips, which are then dipped into the runny yolk. In the United Kingdom, these strips of toast are known as soldiers. Why is in issue...but it may come from Humpty Dumpty...or the way they line up ready for dipping?? The egg cup is a homage to Cornishware...probably the most iconic British breakfast china (mine has far less stripes though!!) Designed completely by me ;) Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each egg, egg cup and soldier is hand cut and sewn, the egg, shell and stripes may very slightly in each piece. Remember you get the Boiled Egg, two Toast Soldiers and the Egg Cup in this set ;) Boiled Egg: 2 inches or 5.5cms high 1.5 inches or 4cms in diameter Toast: 2 inches or 5.5cms long 1 inches or 2.5cms wide 0.5 inches or 1.5cms deep Egg Cup: 1.5 inches or 4cms tall 1.75 inches or 4.5cms in diameter britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:33:50 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/114718 http://www.folksy.com/items/114718 Boiled Egg and Toast Soldiers sewing,thread,felt,pincushion,uk,food,plush,polyfill,breakfast,egg,toast,international,felt food,recycled felt,tea party,egg cup,soft sculpture Britain's favourite biscuit immortalised in felt, complete with two layers of vanilla custard cream. Custard Creams are made up of two biscuits, the top one sporting a fancy lattice of swirls and a double diamond surrounding the name, sandwiching a vanilla cream filling. First made in 1908, the swirly baroque design of ferns harks back to Victorian times and indicates that the custard cream was then seen as a much fancier nibble than it is today. Custard Creams even feature in the Harry Potter series as one of the joke products that Fred and George Weasley invent. Canary creams look and taste like custard creams, but when eaten, they transform the eater into a large canary...hence the name... Voted Britain's favourite biscuit in 2007, the humble custard cream entered the Oxford English Dictionary in March 2008. I love custard creams. They may be simple but they are moreish... Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each biscuit is hand cut, embroidered and sewn, the patterns and wording may very slightly in each piece. This listing is for one custard cream only. The other biscuits and props in the last two photos are for illustration purposes only ;) 2 inches or 5.5 cms long 1.5 inches or 4 cms wide 0.75 inch or 2 cms deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:52:47 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/114642 http://www.folksy.com/items/114642 Custard Cream Recycled Felt Food Sculpture sewing,embroidery,thread,felt,pincushion,beige,polyfil,sculpture,embroidered,biscuit,cookie,felt food,recycled felt,custard cream An essential part of any lucky British child's lunchbox! A little spongy chocolatey cake with a hidden tangy orangey bit...Jaffa Cakes are circular and consist of three layers: a sponge cake base, a layer of orange flavoured jam and a coating of dark chocolate. The orangey bit forms a bump on the top of the cake under the chocolate and the chocolatey top is stamped with a crisscross pattern McVitie and Price first introduced the Jaffa Cake in 1927 following the success of the chocolate digestive. Its creation is largely credited to John Langlands, a director of McVitie and Price at the time. The cakes were named for Jaffa oranges. I love Jaffa Cakes, especially the orangey bit. I am certain that the sponge layer used to be harder and crunchier when we were children...or maybe they were always staler when we ate them then? Or maybe I am imagining it? Who knows??! Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each biscuit is hand cut, embroidered and sewn, the crisscross pattern and orange "bump" may very slightly in each piece. 2 inches or 5.5 cms in diameter 0.75 inch or 2 cms deep britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:25:45 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/114702 http://www.folksy.com/items/114702 Jaffa Cake Recycled Felt Food Sculpture sewing,embroidery,thread,felt,orange,british,polyfil,chocolate,cake,felt food,recycled felt,sponge,jaffa cake Conkers is a game traditionally played by children in playgrounds all over Britain in the autumn using the nuts of horse-chestnut trees. A hole is drilled in a large, hard conker and a piece of string is threaded through it. A large knot at one or both ends of the string secures the conker. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns to strike each other's conker until one breaks. One player lets the conker dangle on the full length of the string while the other player swings their conker and hits. We used to all look forward for the first fallen conkers and the game completely took over our break times and after school hours, and any walks were invariably undertaken with heads down whilst eyes searched the surrounding ground for a conker in its shell...and we lived in hope of finding the elusive giant conker that would beat all others... WARNING: do not eat real conkers...they are poisonous. leave them for the squirrels :D Made from recycled felt and stuffed with polyfil. The "string" is woolen yarn. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Remember you get two and each one is slightly different ;) They will arrive to you wrapped in a traditional stripped paper sweetie bag. Conker: 1.5 inches or 4 cms in diameter String: 9 inches or 22cms long britishcreamtea Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:50:43 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/114638 http://www.folksy.com/items/114638 Conkers sewing,toys,thread,felt,uk,yarn,game,food,autumn,international,britain,classic,recycled felt,soft sculpture,outdoor,conkers,chestnut,childhood,playground,horsechestnut A great British seaside treat complete with traditional block lettering through the tube so at one end the words are readable and at the other they are backwards! There is no documented history of lettered rock, it is folklore passed on from father to son. It is known, that in the early 1800’s, sugar boilers were putting patters and letters through sticks of rock and in the late 1800’s it was simply a question of adapting the industry to the demands of the market at the seaside. Blackpool Rock was first made in Dewsbury in Yorkshire. Ben Bullock, who was a sugar boiler with his own factory in Dewsbury, returned from a holiday in Blackpool in 1887 and made the first batch of Blackpool Rock. When the idea occurred to him or was suggested to him that he should put ‘Blackpool Rock’ through the centre of the rock he no doubt thought it was worth a try. Made from felt and stuffed with polyfil. Completely hand sewn and stuffed. Please note that as each stick of rock is hand cut and sewn, the lettering and stripes may very slightly in each piece. 1.5 inches or 3 cms in diameter 7 inches or 18 cms long Please note that as each piece is cut, embroidered and sewn by hand sticks or rock can be made in any colourway you want and with any wording, image or logo...please contact me with your requirements ;) britishcreamtea Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:40:39 +0000 http://www.folksy.com/items/68492 http://www.folksy.com/items/68492 Stick of Blackpool Rock sewing,toys,thread,felt,sweet,food,plush,polyfill,softie,candy,felt foods,blackpool rock