Amazing Day

Today was such a good day for me i was at Craft Fair at King's School Maccessfeild and it went really well i sold a lot of my jewellery and Christmas Decorations plus baby cardigan and booties from my other shop (www.nansknitts.folksy.com) and to top it off i won bottle of Champagne (real stuff) from the raffle i was so pleased just hope next week will be just as good (fingers crossed) now need to get back to making, with big smile on my face :)

Christmas Fair

I did christmas fair at Cheadle Green on Saturday it was a grate day and lots of items sold so im very happy, i wasn't sure this was going to happen as there was another four people selling jewellery so i see this as a plus. The down side i now need to make more items before next weekend as i have another craft fair in Maccesfeild at The Kings School at 1:00pm lets hope this goe's just as well.

Tea Swap

I few weeks ago i took part in a Tea Swap arranged by Laura Figiel: http://www.shedraws.folsky.com/ what you have to do is send a verity of different teas of any sort to someone and they do the same back my swap person was Clare Stovell: http://www.prettygreen.etsy.com/ i have had some lovely teas from her and i can say they taste good as well, there was creme brulee, mixed fruits and my favourite honey and roobios tea Clare also added some materials for me which had a tea theme I'm not sure what I'm going to do with these yet but i will defiantly use them:

i would just like to say a big Thank you to Laura for arranging this swap a grate idea and a lot of fun and also to Clare for being a grate swap partner and i hope she likes what i have given her.

Liability Insurance

I have a lot of problems when it comes to this i know where i can get the insurance but what annoys me is if you are doing your craft just as a hobby and then making little money just to cover some of the cost back then why must you have this on top of paying for your table at carft stall and most of these are £30+ so little tip there was a craft event i really wanted to take part in as the table was £12 and i know i can make my money back on this plus extra but at the bottom of the application form it said 'must have liability insurance' so i decided to contact the organiser and see if there was any way of getting round this she also arranged that liability insurance is very expensive and you will need to do quite a lot of events to get the money back and because i don't have any stands and not selling chain saws on my stall i could come a long without liability insurance fantastic, down side if someone does fall over my table i am liable but I'm willing to take this risk i have done quite a few craft events now and have never had any problems like this so i am more than willing to take the risk just thought i would tell you all so don't be put off if they ask for liability insurance some people are willing to meet you half way. Also someone a while a go told me about this site its defiantly worth taking a look I'm thinking of going with them next year i have done quite a lot of events this year and have made some really good contacts so thinks it about time i got some insurance now it also means i can do events with the council as they insist that you have insurance www.nmtf.co.uk

Craft Fair People and Lampwork Artist's

While i was at the Craft Fair last weekend i met some other crafter's hows work i thought was grate and thought i would share with you below is the link to there page: Decorative Crafts by Sarah Clitheroe - Unique Hand - Decorated Gift Items: http://www.decorativecrafts.co.uk/ Hand Made Glass and Mosaic designes by Jackie Coyle: http://www.moonagemirrors.co.uk/ Specialising is Portraits by Kirstie Turner: http://www.kmturner.daportfolio.com/ I also use a lot of lampwork beads in my Jewellery and as i cant make them yet and have to by them from other lampwork artist i thought it was about time i gave them some recognition for there work as well: VeeBeads by Vicki Bowring: http://www.veebeads.etsy.com/ Lala lampwork beads by Helen Mitchell: http://www.lalalampworkbeads.com/ Tillybeads by Gail: http://www.tillybeads.co.uk/ I also like to buy my beads from Georgiebee but she doesn't have a web site at the moment can be found on ebay.