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...

Its F-F-F-Freezing!

Well, the weather has got colder and today I decided to book my table at the Boscombe Vintage Market again on 18th December.  So now I'm thinking I am going to have to acquire some thermal underwear and some of those heat thingies to put in my gloves and shoes.  Oh, and maybe bring a blanket or something to snuggle into.  Last month was cold when outdoors for several hours, so am envisioning that I will become a block of ice in two weeks time.  All in the name of a sale.

I have been making new things with my waterproof fabric, namely washbags, only made a few so far, jsut to see if they sell or not.  Here are some pictures:

I also put the make-up bags on Folksy for sale, here is the link:  Folksy Shop

wow, how long has it been?!

Eeek, long blog silence, don't know where the time goes these days.  The past couple of months have been quite busy, with one thing and another.  I have embarked on the school christmas fayre circuit, with mixed results.  But keep doing it because the next one could be THE one :-)  I am getting my name out there which can only be good and at each fayre, my business cards have gone to a few visitors, so fingers crossed I get some business from that avenue.

Last week my lovely friend and fab photographer, Nancy, took photos of all my stock so I will be slowly putting them on here and on facebook and the website.  I have been tinkering with the website a bit this week, finally happy with the colour scheme.  The link to it is www.daydreamandsewing.co.uk  It is still a work in progress, I will get there in the end :-)

Here are a few of Nancy's photos:

I have also branched into making make-up bags.  A couple of weeks ago I bought some waterproof fabric to put inside them and here are my new designs:

and this one, my favourite out of the three designs, sold this morning:

Well, off now, hopefully I won't be so long next time coming back :-)  Check out my facebook page as I update that more often - www.facebook.com/daydreamingandsewing

Getting ready for tomorrow

After the mix-up last week, due to my dozy brain, and not writing the date down when it was given to me - doh - I am ready a week early for my next craft fair :-) Today was spent feverishly finishing off three bags that needed handles and making 4 purses from scratch. I am getting pretty good at making purses now and they don't take too long at all. I realise that I haven't posted new makes for a while, I haven't had the battery charged in the camera for ages, so photographed these from my mobile phone:

All is left is for me to pack them away with the rest of my wares ready for tomorrow morning.  Fingers crossed it is a good selling day :-)