So, another weekend, another batch of making!
Not that I am minding the weekend working.
With the weather as it is (wet, wet, wet) – and after a lovely friday evening dinner and sleepover with my best friends, it felt good to be at home indoors, making progress towards next weekend’s stall.
Stalls are always a lot of work.
What people don’t see when they stand in front of your table, fingering your goods, are the hours behind the scenes that go into creating that moment.
Not just the sewing and stuffing and embroidering of the things on sale.
But the design-planning, supplies-sourcing, price-calculating, sign-making, float-counting, tablecloth-ironing, display-planning, prop-making, stock-packing, box-shifting, transporting, setting up, behind-the-scenes lot of it.
However, this particular stall is always worth the work.
Next Saturday’s Sherwood Christmas Craft and Food Fair will be populated by some of my favourite-ever makers.
I will be in the exalted company of some of the most talented artists and designers anywhere, including Ali Bee, Carly Dodsley, Anna Collette Hunt, Katrine Moye, Alys Power, Eloise Renouf, Hannah Sawtell, Helen Shere and too many more to mention here.
It’s a must-visit event if you’re in Nottingham. And I probably don’t need to say this, but…
Please be kind if you come along.
We’ve all put a lot of work into it, behind the scenes. ♥
I can’t imagine visiting your stall and not finding something nice to say about your work, even if I wasn’t planning on buying. *Particularly* if I wasn’t planning on buying.
You would be surprised at what people say Kate. Some seem to think that the table and two feet of air between them and you mean that you can’t hear their comments, and sometimes I wish that were true!
So wish I could be there to enjoy it.
Just because they say it, doesn’t make it true! But how rude of people…and no one deserves that.
I hope you have a wonderful sale and I wish I was on your side of the Pond…I’d be there, for sure.
Thanks Jane! I have an apology to make – I just realised that I have yet to post your bunny boy off to you! I will get it in the post tomorrow morning – so sorry about the delay.