Has it REALLY been that long?

I'd convinced myself I'd done a couple of posts since December, but as I look at my blogging history it seems that I haven't! How on earth has that happened?
Sorry folks, I actually don't know what happened! I took photo's, I'd set out my text but it looks like I never actually posted anything! So I will post a couple of photo heavy posts about my recent crafty creations in addition to this brief post in the coming week and I will hopefully be better at timing!

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Craft Fairs, Craft fairs and makers fairs

I originally set out to write this post about my experience of booking onto craft fairs when on a small, tight budget. However, at the time of writing this post, I have completed two craft fairs, both very different and with differing results, so the scope of this post has widened and hopefully you can pick up a few tips for future reference. September is turning out to be a particularly busy month for me. Somehow I managed to book myself onto three craft fairs across three weekends on the run. I’ve managed to get myself confused, unconfused and confused again. Two fairs I’ve had my eye on for ages and couldn’t get on an earlier fair either because it was fully booked or I was simply booked for something else. Signing up to email lists has been both a great help and a bit annoying. It has helped me stay ahead of the curve and book onto fairs early but for the weekends I am already booked up or simply skint I’m annoyed I can’t book on. So what happens when that does happen...

Craft Fairs, Etsy Teams and New Directions

Well I realised that the post I thought I had written and published is still sitting on my desktop. The final fair of September was, for me, an unmitigated disaster. It was a vintage and vintage style fair which is generally well attended. The building we were in is a multi-use building housing a cafe, museum, small theatre, drama studio and a tiny cinema. I found myself in a large drama studio on the first floor with several vintage jewellery and accessory sellers, numerous clothing sellers and a couple of vinyl traders. Set up was awkward and to some extend ill thought out; because it was a drama studio, it was largely soundproof which affected everyone's card payment devices because they rely on good data signal (no reliable wi-fi either). Signs on the ground floor were few and far between - and having duplicate traders on the ground floor didn't really help either! Over the day there was, by my count about 30 people come in and look around. Few bough...

A Little Holiday Journaling

Last week I was on holiday in the lovely Yorkshire Dales with my parents (and the dog!) in a cottage and I took with me a fair amount of crafty supplies including art journaling and bible journaling supplies. And before you ask, no I didn't lock myself in a cottage and just craft! We went walking a fair bit, took some time out at a nearby lake. As most of the days I had time either first thing in the morning or while tea was cooking to do some art journaling. I took my distress oxide inks to have a play and experiment with plus some stamps that I knew could give a look of texture. The weather was so amazing and such a blessing I decided to try out a bright distress oxide-based page to see how it turned out. Overall, I'm not that happy with it, but I enjoyed the process and learned a few things along the way. My art journal is really a scrapbook that I bought at an artisan market in Sydney, Australia a few years ago and I never scrapped in it! Because of that, it h...

Bubbly Duck Handmade Jewellery

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