My First Market.....

...was a flop :(

The primary school across the road had a big sport event on. It was for all the schools in West Auckland so by 9:30am there was no parking for miles. How do I know this? Lovely friends who were coming to support us told us this because they could not find a park anywhere. I was so incredibly bummed, but will try again next month.

I spoke to a number of the stall holders that were there and they all mentioned how incredibly quite it was. One of the ladies hadn't made any sales at all and said that a normal quite day for her was about $100 so I'm guessing that it was extremely quite. Also 1/2 the stall holders did not turn up.

The ones that did though gave me ideas for setting up my table. I didn't really have time to think about this so will work on this for the next one. Will also try and get more stock made.

Here are some photo's though of what I did have:







Fingers crossed for next time.

xx

I Must be Completely Mad!

I think the word 'Mad' has appeared in the title of my posts a few times and I have decided that it is completely true.

This year I decided that it was my year to start making a few pennies with sewing and was blodding along at a nice speed tinkering with various things. But then a friend and I were talking about Markets and one thing led to another and we are sharing a stall at the Oratia Settlers Market next month.

Sounds great, but I have NO stock, and when I agreed to it no idea what I was going to make. So in the space of a week I have ordered business cards and labels. Sorted fabric and what I will make. I need to finalise some patterns but it's all steam ahead. I'm slightly freaking out but also very excited at the same time.

Watch this space, I promise to take photo's of all the crazy craftiness that's going.

Wish me luck!