Busy Busy Again

I feel like I have been busy, although I have had my eldest off school for a couple of days so not sure how busy I have been or if it is just actually shortness of time? Anyway he is much better and off to school again so yay!

What have I been up to? well, I have sold a few things from both my Misi and my Folksy shops which is great also had a couple of custom orders, been asked to sell my goods in a proper bricks and mortar shop (more on that another day) and been offered two weeks work, an actual proper job, being a Stage Manager which is the job I did before kids and have done on and off ever since! So things are looking up. :)

I have also been busy making some recycled crisp packet pouches. I made a batch of them ages ago and took them to a craft fair where they sold really well and I have finally got round to making some more to list on Folksy.

Here a few photos, yay! I also took some photos, maybe I have been busy after all!

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Craft Stall Photos

Thought I would share some photos of my stall :-) These photos were taken at the Killearn Gala Day on 12th June. It was a lovely day, great weather and lovely people - what more could I ask? These photos were taken by my friend Suzanne of Fieldy Tweed





You will see in the photos I have managed to use my bunting from earlier on in the year, I wasn't sure if it would work or if I would be able to get it to stay on my cloth but hey it worked! You will also see the letters on the bunting that I showed you in this post so a few things came together and I finally got myself together to do another craft fair yay!

I will be closing my Folksy and Misi shops in the next couple of days as we are off on holiday soon (can't wait)

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Birthday Books

It was my birthday recently and i therefore took the opportunity to buy myself some amigurumi books :-) These are the first two:







I don't have much time for bloging just now as I am doing a craft fair on Saturday, I haven't done a craft fair for six months so I have lots of stock to make and signage to sort out!

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Busy Doing Nothing

You know when you feel you have never stopped yet there is nothing to show for your efforts? Well that is me just now.

I have had to buy a whole load of supplies to make stock for my forthcoming craft fairs - but none of it has arrived yet and I have been working for what seems like ages on a new banner but nothing I have tried looks any good.

I have had several attempts but nothing is saying YES to me just now. I was getting so frustrated that I have been browsing a few 'custom banner' packages but I am not sure if that is what I need. I love tinkering with stuff I just wish it would work ha ha. The picture in my head is great, fantastic and perfect and the image on my screen is bleaurgh!

Well I wish I had something to show you, I like blog posts with photos so instead of a crafty photo I will add a photo that I was printing up today, it was taken on holiday in Pembrokshire about seven years ago!



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Onwards and Upwards

Well well well look at me - I've booked a craft fair! It is not til October and I haven't had official confirmation so I won't give away any details in case I have to come back and deny everything. I will have to make some stock too. All good news but I keep having "oh no what have I done' moments. It will be nearly a year since I last sold anything face to face, I might be a wee bit scared eek!

I have a couple of ideas to make over my blog, I am not liking my banner anymore (I am SO fickle)and I am currently working on a wee website to tie together my blog and my shops and my contact info etc. so I am going to redesign a couple of things. Actually one of the reasons I am thinking of changing it is because my youngest son was looking over my shoulder, looking at my banner and he said is that you? - yes, how old were you? - five then he said - people will think that everything you are selling is made BY A KID! and then he skipped off like small children do, I am confident that people will appreciate that the photo is old but then I thought maybe they won't and then I thought I am not sure it works anyway as I don't have a particular retro feel to any of my items aargghhh image is SO difficult, so ....watch this space while I redo my bits and bobs AGAIN!

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Busy Busy

Today is Wednesday but it feels like it has should be Friday. Why? I have been busy! Yes me. Not only the usual cooking and cleaning that is just perpetual in my life. I have spent a fair bit of time sorting out made by val things.

I have had a few sales recently through my online shops which has been great and given me a bit of a boost and recharged my get up and go. I hadn't sold anything for a wee while and when I checked my emails and saw the first sale I actually got a bit of a fright!

So I have sorted out all my receipts just need to square up my bank accounts and then I can do my tax return ::joy::

I have sorted out all the financial bits and bobs from the shop I sell to.

I am trying to spread out all the stock I had made for craft fairs between my various outlets although something makes me nervous about not having a craft fair stock sitting here even although I have no current intentions to do any more fairs so that is all a bit daft. I do however still have a large stock of cards that I need to sell, so I might have to concentrate on photographing and listing them.

I have also been introduced to Stumbleupon through the Folksy Forums. I have signed up, you can find me here Stumble Folksy and here Stumble Misi I appreciate all 'likes' hint hint.

Phew what else? Oh yes I bought myself a book and it arrived today - yay!



I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but I am excited hee hee.

Off to busy myself again.

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Long Time No Blog

Weeeeeeellllllll I am being super rubbish at this blogging lark aren't I?

I have sold a few things through my Misi shop recently which is great, I have had a couple of custom orders too. I have recently sold lots of I Spy bags so today I cut out loads of I Spy 'blanks' which I hopefully will get made and listed early next week. I have started doing fortnightly craft fairs so that is keeping me busy too.

Sorry this is a short post just wanted to pop in in case everyone thought I had fallen off the edge of the earth :-)

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I'm Back!

I am back from a wonderful holiday in Brittany. I have enjoyed the break and survived over two weeks without internet access. I am refreshed and rearing to go! Well my mind is buzzing with crafty ideas but my body is still in a relaxed do-it-tomorrow mode! It is a local bank holiday here today so there is still a weekend feel to the day.

I am going to try and crack on with some stuff from tomorrow, working carefully around the boys of course, but I usually manage to get more done with them around, strangely, as I can get stuck into things without having to clock watch and do school runs all day!

I have bought some more resin so I am going to make some more bottlecap magnets, I will probably make a giant batch so I don't need to keep going back to the fume mask. I love the result of resin but I hate the fumes!

I need to get stock sorted out for the shops I supply and add more stock to my Misi shop and look at other selling avenues. I also need to book up craft fairs for the rest of the year, but hey thats tommorow. x

See?

I am being so rubbish at this Blogging lark!

I am hoping to pick myself up with my craft stuff this week. The boys have had so many days off school for holidays (May is just peppered with them!) I haven't felt I have done very much or indeed had the time to do very much this month, but actually it is all really just an excuse isn't it?

I now have all my receipts sorted, so I can do my tax return, it would be good to get that out of the way, I have a plan to reduce the amount of stuff I take to craft fairs too. I don't drive so rely on walking and lifts to get me places, so I thought perhaps if I was able to reduce the stuff I take to fit into a suitcase rather than the boxes on trolley arrangement I have now that I might be able to take the odd bus or train, we have quite a good local train network, I really should use it more.

I have been in contact with a Craft Fair organiser so I need to sort out some dates and get back on that track again.

Oh and I need to make more stock. The boys are back to school tomorrow so I will make another list and erm, ignore it :-D

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More Recycling

Thought I would have a go at another crafty recycling project. This time using Capri Sun juice pouches!


It was a much faster project than the sweetie wrapper bracelet. This one is a prototype because, as can be seen in the photograph, I managed to cut through the front of this pouch before it even got near the sewing machine. doh!


My five year old stole this one immediately after I had made it to keep 'stuff' in. I had to steal it back to take the photos!



It is the perfect size for bank cards and loose change and, it turns out, small items needed only by a small child :-)



I am thinking of booking a craft fair for June so I think I will make a few more to sell there, might even add one to my Misi shop I think they are quite quirky.

Would like to say thank you to my followers and commenter's (is that even a word?) it is lovely to hear from you :-)


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