In the interests of public service blog posts, please find my Man's Step by Step Guide to Buying a Handbag. Please feel free to share it with your other halves, to ensure happiness, peace and harmony reign on December 25th, as you receive what you had wanted, rather than what HE wanted...

This week is all about preparations for the Ballymaloe Craft Fair which takes place on 18 & 19 November - next weekend! And I'll be there alongside my crafty buddies Orinoco Creative Glass and Celtic Fairy Doors. Spread the word to your friends and family in County Cork!

It's all going on in Miltown Malbay this evening! 85 stalls - an enormous range of local businesses and community organisations

It's a wonderful, musical weekend in Ennis for TradFest, so Chapel Lane Market is looking forward to welcoming visiting musicians and music lovers as well as our lovely regular visitors

This Friday! 6-9pm at the Community Centre in Miltown Malbay

It's a blog day! To introduce the new Tara Bag, I've tried to explain How the Tara Bag Got Its Name...

The new Tara Bag has arrived! She's bigger than a Fely, smaller than a Carolina, and after three weeks of serious road testing the prototype, I can confirm she is the perfect handbag for shopping trips! It's big enough to carry your purse, phone, guide books, maps, iPad, bottle of water (refillable please!) and then all the little bits you pick up whilst out shopping. Or the crazy bits you need to be able to carry for your kids/husband/pets. This bag has been tested under extreme conditions in airports, on trains, boats and planes, and it has proved a total star. Come and meet Tara at Chapel Lane Market on Saturdays 4 & 11 November, Miltown Malbay Enterprise Town on 10 November and Ballymaloe Craft Fair 18 & 19 November!

Sneaky peak of the new Tara Bag, on sale for the first time tomorrow at Chapel Lane Market from 10am

A date for your diaries if you're in and around Ballymaloe

Another fabulous creative workshop is running at Chapel Lane Market this Saturday

Boo! Spooky Halloweentastic goings on at Chapel Lane Market on Saturday! Don't miss out -we open at 10

The bags and I are looking forward to attending this event so close to home on Friday 10 November... if you're anywhere around North or West Clare, come along and see all that Miltown Malbay has to offer!