Boring Book-keeping

Updating the accounts today, which involves printing things out, and this attracts my lovely cat to come and spar with the printer.  So this morning he spent time out in the kitchen.  As soon as he was let out, he came straight over to the printer to try to get his paw in somewhere....

Would much rather be creating and making than book-keeping and fending off cats, but it has to be done.  Hope you all have a productive day today :-)

Had to share :-)

Found this in my stash today and had to share it because the statements are so true of me and others that are afflicted with the fabric bug:

I feel another project coming on now :-)

How long has it been?

Gosh, it has been a long time since I have been on here, hasn't it?  Got to work out a way of doing this more often, I tend to get as far as my facebook page:  www.facebook.com/daydreamingandsewing and go no further.  Must try harder.

So, anyway, first of all, I have a new website now, www.daydreaming-and-sewing.co.uk, which I'm busy developing and adding things to.  I am also busy developing new ideas and patterns.  This weekend I made two simple little quilts for a cot or pushchair, they are both backed with a baby blue fleece material for extra cosiness and the top is a farmyard scene bordered with a light blue gingham, so perfect for a little baby boy.

I am also about to embark on a new venture in the next few weeks.  So I am thinking that both businesses will come under the umbrella of Daydreaming and Crafting eventually, I haven't completely decided yet, as I'm not quite sure if both can be run under the same name, but I will keep everyone up to date with what goes on.  I am off now to set up a new blog with the new name, in preparation, and I have already set up a new facebook page:  www.facebook.com/daydreamingandcrafting  Feel free to pop along and have a look, although there isn't much to look at yet...

Busyness

One weekend a month is super busy because I have a stall at Boscombe Vintage market on the Saturday and then I'm at Lyndhurst on the Sunday.  The market at Boscombe is in its infancy, yesterday was the third one ever.  They have recently set up a website, http://www.boscombevintagemarket.co.uk/, which is pretty cool and I get a mention on there in the run up to a market if I am there (which I should be).  If you're in the area on the first Saturday of the month, pop on down and have a look.

I'm also going to get more organised at selling things online.  I have been recommended a shopfront for my  Facebook business page and am going to get that installed.

Lastly I have started a blog over at wordpress which for the time being, I will import what I write here over to there, thanks to Dom, who has told me how to do it lol.  So fingers crossed it is as easy as he says that it is...

New Fabric

Made it to the fabric shop today and as luck would have it, they had a sale on, yippee!  So I was able to buy a bit more than I would have done which was good.

Here are the fabrics I bought:

The last one is patterned with pawprints, which I thought I could use for bordering some of the cushions with (depends how far a fat quarter will stretch).

So tomorrow will be spent cutting the panels for the cushions and getting border material sorted out.  Quite looking forward to getting down to work :-)

Bit of a quiet one today

Lyndhurst was a bit quiet today, some were just looking, I guess that's January for you.  I did however manage to make enough to cover the table costs and a tiny bit of profit, so all was good.  Had one customer complain about the price of the glasses cases :-(, so I politely pointed out to her that my lovely Grannie makes them by hand (and to be honest, I think they are worth at least double what I sell them for, but I feel that with the pile it high, cheap mass produced tat that some are looking for, I wouldn't sell them at that price, more's the pity).

Here are some pictures of the stall today:

Both of the cat cushions went today to a new home :-)  and we're off to Hansons at Sturminster Newton tomorrow to see if they sell panels of animals so I can make more cushions aimed at children as they do seem to sell well.

A couple of the other stallholders were really helpful today too.  They advised me to go to the crafty stores in town with a selection of my things to see if they would be interested in selling them, so I will be thinking seriously about putting the plan into action and seeing what comes of it, whilst still having a regular stall at Lyndhurst to keep getting my name out there.  World domination will come my way one day lol.

Back on the craft fair circuit again

Tomorrow sees the start of craft fairing again.  So have been a busy bee for the past month, getting things together to sell.  I am taking a new direction in my products and have decided to make more cushions as they sold well over the Christmas period, and eveyone loves a new cushion, don't they?!

So, here are a few that I will be taking with me to Lyndhurst tomorrow:

The two cat ones are the same, I had enough fabric to make two of them, so they could go as a pair or seperately.

Fingers crossed people have money to spend tomorrow...