for a while now I have been making little odds and ends and selling them, mostly hats, gloves, shawls, scarves ect and little elves to babysit children (and grown ups!)
I am reluctant to link here, because, this is my private area, where I can forget about what others might think and I can say what I like! On facebook I do have a link to my shop, so anybody interested could email me, or something.
Anyway, I love to craft little things, big things are great too but they require focus which I only have after 8pm when all my little cubs are in bed or otherwise occupied. So the little things are best to work on intermittently, I can pick them up when I have five minutes, put them down easily pick back up where I left off.
I was really thrilled when I found a customer had left great feedback in my shop!!! I always get positive feedback luckily but this was really nice, from a customer who had bought a hat from me and lost it, but loved it so much asked me for another.
“Lovely seller, very quick and straightforward to deal with – and I’m especially grateful because she agreed to make a new item on commission after I lost the first one! The hat itself is great and very well made. Recommended”
How lovely!!! it made me feel great 🙂
So my family is also quite crafty…well mam is a sewer, dad is musical, my sister is crafty with words and figures. We decided to look into craft fairs, locally there is not a lot to be found, by local I mean in my town. So out-of-town we went, about 45 mins away up the coast and found a popular holiday seaside town with two craft fairs!
Had a look last week and chose one which seemed friendly and busy and lo we are booked!!!
In July we have a table and we will be selling things! Scary but exciting. The weather has been lovely this week so I have sat out in my garden, in my fave spot next to my herbs knitting and crochet-ing to my heart’s content. Crafting outside is the ultimate in recharging my spiritual energy levels! as a druid anything I do in nature feels so much more enriching and satisfying.
I also ordered business cards to have on my table. Feels odd but in a good way.
I don’t make much money for these things, in fact I usually get enough to cover yarn and not a lot more. I wish I could price things properly, like I should, lots of crafters take the price of materials and then triple it, that covers time, then add-on for skill. This is an ideal ratio, in these times, nobody would pay those prices, because people don’t understand how a pair of handmade  gloves could cost £15 when you could go to any big supermarket and get some for £2 which you could chuck in the wash! Its annoying but true.
So you have to make people think of the quality of yarn, organic british bred sheep, hand dyed with traditional dyes then spun by hand WILL cost more than acrylic made in china stuff. It also helps keep small business alive, so many independent folk are struggling because of the mess this country/world is in.
So briefly, what Im saying is, email me or comment if you would like to see my work 🙂
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