Another week gone already!!

Blimey! It's been a week since my last post. I didn't intend for that to happen. I've had rather a busy week, apart from yesterday when I was feeling poorly and didn't do very much at all.

Monday I went to visit my friend Laura and her little girl Alice. I love going to see them, watching Alice grow up and learn to talk is just wonderful. Tuesday I had an eventful one trying to fix the electric windows in my car. I won't go on about it because that's not very interesting is it? Anyway they work now, they shut as well as open haha! I've also sewn and printed and drawn up new badges and visited LoveOne.

This is quite cool, they are putting my bags in the window and so I was asked to write a little 'about me' I decided to embroider it which would have been fine, it didn't take very long, but my grammar went awry in the middle and it doesn't make sense! Take Two on that one!

Chris and I have also been busy trying to get the craft fair off the ground. It is really going quite well now. We are still needing stallholders so please do get in touch if you are interested. We have a website coming together. We've had quite a good response from interested sellers and have made a link with the local borough council which is brilliant. So watch this space!!

And the picture above is of Southwold. I have posted it because we are going on a little holiday to Southwold next weekend and I am very excited.

Craft Sellers Wanted

For several months now Chris and I have been thinking about putting on our own craft fair. As regular readers will know I have done a few fairs in the past few months and they have not been very successful! I have many ideas on why that is but the main one is that I think there are too many different types and styles of craft put together and that so far my 'style' hasn't fitted with everyone elses.

Luckily thanks to reading many blogs some of which based in my region (East Anglia) I know that all is not lost and there are people out there doing similar things with the same intentions. And there are similar fairs going on with lots of success!

So here is the first step of this process. We are looking for craft sellers who would be interested in having a stall at our planned fair. It will be in central Ipswich, and the stalls will be very reasonably priced as long as we get enough people. We want cool, fun, exciting, interesting, crafts and arts, we want to stand out from the usual craft fairs.

We are in the very early stages at the moment because we don't want to hire the venue and not get enough stall holders so we are just looking for people to register their interest with us so we can then say 'yes' to people and book the venue and give you a date and other info.

Please email imakefunstuff@googlemail.com to say 'Yes i'm interested!' thank you!

Busiest week ever!

Probably not the busiest week ever but my! have I been busy! I started working full time at the college this week which I haven't done in ages. Yes I know that is actually very luxurious but two days a week does not pay very well! Soon as I got in every night I went straight to my printing table and printed 7 new designs on 33 bags. I also had bunting to sew, brooches to make, signs to draw and all the other preparations ready for the craft fair tomorrow.

It has in fact been wonderful fun! There are 5 new large tote designs including these three and two mini bags for your book or lunch! I always put my books (especially my Persephones) into another bag before they go in my bag so they don't get scuffed and these little bags are SO cute!!

So I think I am ready for the craft fair at Ipswich Library tomorrow. I am really rather excited. I have some lovely things like cake stands to put my brooches on and little coloured price signs. Such simple things please me!

I hope you all like the new totes. There are some I want to keep for myself but if i'm lucky i'll sell lots tomorrow! Pictures of the event will follow. Hopefully with lots of busy customers in!!

Thinking and drawing and making.

So, as I said in a previous post, I am doing my first craft fair next Saturday at Ipswich library.

I have spent the last few weeks drawing up new ideas for tote designs. So here is a few for you to see. I have just started printing the first new design so fingers crossed that will all go well.

It is much harder coming up with designs when you have a big interest in whether they will sell or not. It's very different from just printing things I like and hope other people will like too. There's profit relying on these ideas. Oh the pressure!

I have also been sewing lots of polka dot bunting and union jack bunting. And making lots of pincushion brooches in several different sizes.

I've got to sort out a money tin and float, little flyers for people to take away with them. Display ideas. Prices labels. A banner for my table. And bags and packaging! So exciting.

I love productive days!

The picture to the left shows my recent charity shop finds, all in one shop in Hadleigh, Suffolk! A lovely blanket for £1 a piece of slightly hideous kind of lovely vintage fabric for 50p and a purple velvet bow tie for 50p! I don't need another blanket or any more fabric but that's not the point is it? You can see my dirty pumps on my thread covered carpet at the bottom of the picture.

In other news I have had a wonderfully busy couple of days. I've made two lots of polka dot bunting, two lots of union jack bunting and some new brooches. I've also drawn up loads of new designs for tote bags, the original large and the new mini tote bags for carrying your books or lunch! They are soooo cute!

I'll photograph some sketches for you to see soon, it would be nice if you felt you wanted to comment on ones you liked or weren't so keen on.

I have also signed up to have a stall at my first craft fair! It is being held at Ipswich Library on Saturday 25th and I am very very excited. I have been thinking about display ideas, flyers, products, little price signs and a stall sign. All the important things of course!

Chris and I had a debate about whether I needed bags to put things in once they are sold or not. I vote yes! And they should be cute paper ones too!

Tomorrow is our 3rd year anniversary of being together so we are off to Cambridge for a lovely day. It's meant to rain, but nevermind there's a Lush, a Paperchase and lots of beautiful architecture. Hope the weather is good wherever you are.