Greetings all,
Well i can't sing a rainbow, i have an awful singing voice (tone deaf & fortunately i know it) but i can see all the colours of the rainbow around me right now . . . which is handy as it's ONE stressful week with major production for Handmade Market on Saturday. An impressive list of bloggers are coming as new stall holders or visitors, including Maxabella Loves - thanks for your support!!
Last night i picked up my girls from a sleep over at a friend's farm in Murrumbateman (thanks for all the lovely comments about the last post on twins, yes, i embrace my good fortune!!) & look what they have been busy picking . . .
crabapples in varying degrees of ripeness & . . .
quinces, my nightime photography not doing their greeness justice.
Then home to finish off a rainbow of products for the market, like children's necklaces.
Just in time, a shipment of amazing craft-enabling Tasmanian Oak knitting needles.
Lounge craft = hand stitching penny wheels & buttons onto headbands.
A splash of pastel, i'm thinking of doing up lucky dip jars with pom poms, bias, ric, rac, ribbon & other trim, plus buttons for a basket of fun on my stall. Brilliant way to share the love & offer up cost price haberdashery i can finally part with.
Today was spent making . . . 300 Liberty of London badges. I cut the fabric sitting in the car park outside school each afternoon last week & now i've sorted them into sets, plus some singles. I have this fabulous 1950s travel case to display all my Liberty printed goodies in, including hair clips, hair slides & buttons too. Kind of hoping it will be a show stopper.
I've made 16 tulle ruffled bottom bloomers, they took ALL Saturday & i'll thread the elastic in the carpark outside school this week (you safety pin the ends together, then do a mega elastic sewing session in one hit when you're next at a machine). Pricing these is difficult, they use expensive materials & take at least an hour a pair to create (as i restitch the tulle ruffles to the actual fabric). I've done 3 sizes but want to try to do another dozen, especially in the larger sizes.
Last market i didn't take headbands, new hair clips, coin purses or cosmetic purses - um, 4 of my biggest sellers, so this time i've come prepared with a tonne of each. The Hello Kitty fabrics sell well at Shop Handmade & the new hair clips will all be in Liberty prints!!
Another no brainer product i've managed to neglect for a while are simple gift tags, i normally have them with fabric but this time i'm doing stamps - vintage, Euro & quirky - in an 8 for $5 pack, mixed up colours & styles.
Phew, yes, exhausting & a very busy week ahead, but making the most of my rainbowy outlook, or i'd crack under the pressure i put myself under. I need to cut about 100m of fabric to feel like i have filled up my baskets from the last market. Have a beautiful & colourful week too, love Posie
PS the winner of the Handmade Business Summit All Inclusive Pass for this Friday in Canberra is Fiona, who is just starting up a small business now, Congratulations, you were randomly selected by Julie, Queen of Handmade, thank you to everyone for entering!!
EDIT: just found this drawing on my sewing machine from my rainbow boy!! The children were drawing & painting up a storm today. Bliss.
Phew, yes, exhausting & a very busy week ahead, but making the most of my rainbowy outlook, or i'd crack under the pressure i put myself under. I need to cut about 100m of fabric to feel like i have filled up my baskets from the last market. Have a beautiful & colourful week too, love Posie
PS the winner of the Handmade Business Summit All Inclusive Pass for this Friday in Canberra is Fiona, who is just starting up a small business now, Congratulations, you were randomly selected by Julie, Queen of Handmade, thank you to everyone for entering!!
