A day in the life - 5th July 2009

I've been meaning to do one of these posts for a while but have never managed to get round to it! This one fell on the day of my craft fair at the Lancaster Steiner School so I managed to detail everything for you.

6.30am The alarm went off but we snoozed it twice!

6.46am Got up and went in the shower

7.01am Got dressed and looked in my jewellery stash for something to hang my new (handmade by me!) pendant on - photos at some stage this week.

7.15am Kettle on

7.30am Sorted stuff into my new handbag as the old one broke in a Disneyland related incident.

7.31am Splashed fruit tea destined for my flask all over this list (handwritten at that stage)

7.36am Stopped faffing and ate breakfast

8.05am Loaded my stock into Bumble

8.45am Left home for the fair

9.15am Waved at another VW campervan - the first I've seen whilst driving Bumble :) I was very excited.

9.45am Arrived at the school (after turning into a tiny road that was a nightmare to reverse Bumble out of) and set up my stall.

10.50am Watched the girls playing in the garden

10.55am Got on with some embroidery

11.25am Made my first sale of the day - a chicken doorstop, 3 lots of tags and a set of mini envelopes!

12.05 pm Lunchtime! Veggie kebabs with quinoa (sp) salad, pitta bread and lettuce followed by a big slice of carrot and walnut cake.

Then more selling and embroidery until

3.00 pm Pack up at the fair

3.30pm Leave the fair and realise that my headache has turned into a migraine.

4.45pm Arrive at home and promptly fall asleep on the sofa whilst the girls play and Matt watches the tennis

5.45pm Matt wakes me up and sends me up to the Chinese for tea :) Such hardship!

6.05pm Teatime. The girls had chicken fried rice, Matt had Chicken Cantonese style, no carrots with fried rice and I had crispy chicken strips with salt and pepper with fried rice - it was yummy!

7.05pm Put the girls to bed after a story

7.10pm to 7.40pm Put the rubbish out for collection, washing on and empty the dishwasher.

7.40pm til 8.15pm Check emails, blogs, upload photos and pack up a Folksy order.

We watched the end of Back To The Future and then went to bed at 8.50pm - lightweights!

And I actually remembered to get some photographs of my stall this time!!

If you head over to my Flickr page then you can see notes on each photograph to see what all the goodies are.

This is where I will be tomorrow!

This is where I will be tomorrow selling my recycled goodies :) If you are in the Lancaster area then please do pop along and say hi. It's at the Steiner School which is on Lune Road. I'm off now to make some more goodies for the fair - a good root around in my craft room should help me find some inspiration!

Hope to see you there and this time I will remember to take some photographs to show you my stall!

Some new things

Some new gift tags - I love the beach ones which you can get here and here.


And some Peter and Jane ones.

And this set of Cinderella envelopes which aren't listed yet but will be soon.

I have 8 other sets of gift tags and another 7 sets of envelopes to list at some stage - soon!!

Pile of fabric

This pile of fabric represents about one and a half shelves worth of fabric. I have washed, dried, cut the selvedge off and pinked the edges of one and a half shelves worth of fabric that is now put away back away on the shelf. This lot will get done soon(ish) so that will be another one and a half shelves of fabric - 3 shelves in total. Only another 10 shelves of fabric to go :) And some people thought I was mad............

Tara's necklace

Tara received a jewellery making set for her birthday (with other fab things!) from the lovely Ruth. She was adamant this morning that she wanted to make a necklace and who was I to argue! She was very specific about the beads she wanted to use and the order in which I had to string them.

I think it has turned out nicely!

And here she is hamming it up for the camera! In the t-shirt my sister made for her birthday - love it!

I must be mad!!!

I think it must be the early morning from the other day but I have decided (whilst the UK is in the middle of a heatwave) to wash ALL of my fabric! I'm not one of those people who pre washes their fabric when they buy it (I do with stuff I buy at the charity shop though) and have decided to use the heatwave to help me wash and dry it all. I really should prewash all of my fabric to stop it bleeding if washed once it has been made up into something. And I am sure I will do from now on - especially if you take a look at the photograph below and see my fabric stash.

And this is only part of it! I think there will be approx 3 loads of washing per shelf and due to the number of shelves I think I will have about 45 loads of washing (there is more fabric hidden away)

Wish me luck and remind me that when I buy fabric to wash it before I put it away! And lets hop that the weather holds :)

What to do at 4am

Yep - I am stupid and was wide awake at 3.30am this morning and decided to give up trying to go back to sleep at 4am. It's Tara's party today and I didn't want to start cooking anything as I know what my family are like and would wake at the smell of food so I decided to ice the shortbread creams I made yesterday. Looking mighty fine I think!

This one was all mine - yep I have just eaten it at 5.30am. It was delicious too :)

The recipe is here if you want to try it out.

Cleaning ALL day

And when I say ALL day I do really mean ALL day. I'm knackered but at least the house looks presentable. Just some last toys to move and the hoovering to be done in 2 rooms and then that is it. I'm relaxing now by listing some more things in my Dawanda shop - the self employed never stop working :D

Photo credit - Dr_loplop

My creative space

This where I wish I could be today - at my kitchen table turning bits of unloved and damaged books into beautiful envelopes and funky gift tags.

Alas I have to move my stock from the front room and tidy and clean it all up instead. Maybe tomorrow?

Don't forget to check out more Creative Spacers over here.

Happy Birthday Tara!!!

Tara is 3 today - Happy Birthday gorgeous! How time flies :)

From this

To this :D