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What a lovely day out we all had on Saturday. I don't know if I can do it much more justice than Isobel already has, so here are some of the pictures - more here. The weather was fantastic and the location felt as if it were made for us.
our 'shop'. You can just see the terrace there behind the 2 trees where you can sit out and drink coffee or have lunch.
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A year ago I wrote on a piece of paper that I wanted to get my creativity out in ways that others could receive it, get serious about my writing and into some sort of form, and be supported financially as I did this. This is the week where I realised how much of that had come to fruition - what with the writing course, pretty much non-stop freelance work - and now the opportunity to sell some of my cards at the Country Living fair on its first time in Scotland - thanks to Jane of Snapdragon.
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Yesterday was the wee green fair at Killearn. I went for a sort of spring-like Easter theme on my table. I haven't quite got the right hang of displaying my wares - I really don't like cardstands, and I feel if I put them stacked in boxes you can't really see the individual cards. But I'm working on it.
You wouldn't think I once had a stint as a store designer!, "height" being the mantra of getting it all nicely stacked up and full looking.
I dressed up a couple of old egg boxes with some chocolate eggs, and they made quite fun stands. I did a few more of those photo notebooks, and although popular on the blog, I didn't sell any to the Killearnites - so plenty left if you'd like one!
It was a nice fair. I wouldn't say it's the most I've ever made financially, but certainly not the worst (Suzanne, Portobello? where I didn't even make the table fee!). There were lots of stalls selling lovely cakes, bread and eggs - and for a small village it was a good standard of stall and a reasonable turnout. By 10 o'clock in the morning I'd demolished a cream meringue.
Here's Jane with her lovely wares (against the village hall colour scheme!). That's the edge of my stall in the background with the pink rose, and although Suzanne couldn't make the fair to trade, she was there in spirit with her old curtains covering the table in blue check. Now I don't feel so bad about driving around for weeks with them in the back of my car!
It felt very sociable, and it was lovely when friends Susan, Pat and Suzanne all dropped in. There were a few connections, so it became more of a social than financial do. N's measure of a 'good' fair is to ask "did you sell anything to people who weren't your friends?" Er...yes, I did. Anyway I now have a bowl of Easter bunnies to wade through.
Spring is definitely in the air today, we sat out in the garden at lunch, and for the first time in 8 years...
...I was able to hang some washing out. I ran in the house to get my camera with this pink against the sky!
Going back to some full-time work tomorrow and have another course assessment due on Friday, so posts may be a bit short next week, so I may do a bit of a photoblog to document my happenings for a while, while my words are busy elsewhere.
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