What I made yesterday

The fair yesterday was good in terms of what I made - not as good in terms of sales but lots of business cards were handed out. Here's what I made.

A batch of 4 chickens with their zips sewn in.

A batch of 3 chickens, also had their zips sewn in.

And I took apart some button rings (an old product that were just languishing in the sale basket) and used them to make a button chicken. Aptly his name is Ringo :)

If you see the sales fairy then send her my way as I'm back in Nelson today and tomorrow!

Come and see me!

I am going to be in The Ace Centre in Nelson today, tomorrow and Sunday, selling my wares so pop along if you are in the area! And if you do come then be sure to say hello!

Ah and wish my baby sister Happy Birthday - she turns 30 today!

My Creative Space

This morning I spent time setting up my stall at The Ace Centre in Nelson. It was actually nice to be able to set it up the day before the fair and not be worrying about opening times and getting ready before the customers come round! I took my camera along and decided to show you my setting up routine.

This is the 'I've lugged everything out of the car' shot. Everything gets dumped on my table when setting up even though I have to take it all off to actually get started! I still do it every time though!

The table cloth stage. The lump underneath the cloth to the right is normally bigger than this but I forgot the wire basket that goes underneath. I improvised with a wicker basket that wasn't being used :)

The pincushion/paperweight chickens and the gift tags are usually the first things to be put on the table as they don't often move from that set location. It gives height and means that the chickens are seen from lots of different angles too.

The screwdriver often has to come out to steady my doorstop chicken rack. *Note to self, look for a new one online......*

I haven't yet made any of the new notebooks I'm been promising for a while so there are none to display here, and the old ones are half price in the sale basket, so there is more room on the table. Here the large envelopes, chicken doorstops and cards are out.

And this is everything out - badges, bunting, mini envelopes and stickers.

My stickers are now displayed in this wooden box I got in the charity shop for £1 and it works well as I can get all of my sticker sets out at once. Hopefully customers will think so too!

And the old adage about knowing your customers well? This box should bring local people to my stall! Well that's what I'm hoping anyway and it will help me shift some old stock.

I'm really not sure how this fair will go as it's in a town not famed for it's love of craft - I can only try though and it's not far from home and I work while behind my stall so..... It's a 3 day event over the weekend and Mary Portas is due to be visiting Nelson on Saturday so the organisers are hoping she will pop in. She is in town as Nelson is one of her pilot towns and the fair is advertised on her website so fingers crossed :) The fair is in The Ace Centre and the Victory Centre and both are in Nelson so do pop along if you live nearby!

Joining in with Creative Spaces today.

Wordless Wednesday

My in-laws garden!

P.S. Creative things are happening I promise but I'm getting ready for a 3 day event that starts on Friday so....... :)

Quick post

I had full intentions of joining in with A Day in the Life yesterday but my laptop died! So you are getting a picture of the bunting I was making at swimming lessons last night instead :)

Well it will be bunting soon :)

Dear the world.....

A message from Tara.

Dear the World,

Do be grateful for all the things you've got.

From Tara

And she's only 6 :) Imagine what she will be like when she gets older!

Sunday Snippets

Tara writing song lyrics

Sunset at the in-laws

Pond view

On a teeny bridge with mustard brogues

Some pictures from my week. I'm taking part in Sunday Snippets with Tinniegirl.

My day in drinks

I've been inspired by the article in The Simple Things called My Day in Cups of Tea :) Although I don't actually drink that much tea it seems so I've taken pictures of my drinks throughout the day. Exciting huh?!

This was taken at breakfast, and yes, our table is always that messy :) The tea is cranberry, raspberry and elderflower.

The next two cups were taken while I was reading last weeks Week magazine and then while checking  Facebook. This tea was made in my teapot and is Strawberry and Kiwi :)

This is the teapot and the aforementioned tea.

This is my tomato soup at lunchtime - whilst watching ER.

And this is my strawberry water, also at lunchtime.

And this Pepsi Max was drunk when the girls were having tea and I was cutting out envelopes in my pile. Matt was out so we ate tea later!

I also had another strawberry water while chopping out the last of my envelopes but I didn't get a picture!

Now don't tell me that wasn't riveting! :D

Break time

Today I am hoping to crack on with a lot of half finished jobs that I have lying around in the front room. I have heart bunting, envelopes, stickers and chickens to finish off, photograph and list and I don't think I am going to get them all done today (or even this month!) However, when I have a break today I will be looking at this magazine.

I bought the first issue and wasn't sure so I thought I should buy the second issue just to see if I did like it or not. There certainly seems to be more in it that I like this issue so we will see.

I had a sneaky peek and this image is gorgeous - just imagine how much light would bounce around. It might be just the thing for our dark hallway!

Garden fun :)

It was another beautiful day here yesterday so I decided to get out in the garden and do some digging! 3 hours later and the patch where the rhubarb plant is going is clear of plants and so is the patch where the tayberries and gooseberries are going. Want to see some pictures?

The patch at the front is where the rhubarb is going - I just need it to arrive!

I'm in two minds as whether to move that camellia/magnolia bush at the front there as it's exactly where I want the rhubarb to go!

This is some sort of alpine that I planted when we moved in - it's still going strong.

The bin was rather full! Luckily Matt was gentlemanly and moved it round to the back for me :)

My bench needs re-oiling but doesn't look too bad from this angle.

Even though it hasn't rained for a few days it was still muddy out there.

Dirty fingernails - the sign of a good gardening session!

Oh and I haven't forgotten about the giveaway which ended last night. I asked Matt to tell me a number between 1 and 25 and he chose 19 which is Say It Says. Congratulations and I will be in touch to find out your details!