First one of the year. Sunday morning, lying in bed and my feet hurt! And even laying there and not moving I can tell that my legs ache and that I have pulled muscles in my stomach and arms.

Yes, yesterday was the first craft fair of the year and boy, am I out of shape!! 

It doesn't take long for your muscles to forget that they are used to lifting heavy crates of china up and down steps, in and out of the car etc. and your legs forget very readily that they have been used to standing all day behind your stall! 

I have to say, I was so busy on the run up to Christmas that once the last show was over I simply shoved all my stock into the workshop and ignored it! So this week was the first time I had even unpacked any of it! I was slightly shocked at the lack of stock, I had sold so much, and really had not been in the mood to start work again since Christmas! That is why I had booked this fair at the last minute to try to kick start me back into making again. It worked!! I had hoped that I would have a fairly good amount left and that I would only have to make a little more to have enough for this fair. Wrong!! 

So this week I have been painting like fury! To cut a long story short, I managed to make enough to get me through, packed the boxes, put them into the car and off I set. Trouble was that I then spent the whole journey to the fair trying to work out what I had forgotten! 

I am never that organised, so there must have been something! But for once I was wrong, I had even remembered to bring things for other people! No-one could understand it, I am never normally like that! I was even on time too! 

So, I set up my stall and waited for the hordes to descend. Unfortunately it was raining half the day so it was a bit of a damp squid! There were actually quite a few people about but they all seemed to have super glued their wallets closed! 

The stall next to me was a rubber stamp one, which is rather dangerous for me, I tend to make the owner Wendy smile whenever she sees me coming as she knows that at least she will make a nice amount of money that day!! I have been known to spend all my takings and my float on her stall one time!! So after a few hours of riffling through all her stock, I came away with a really nice bag full of bits and bobs to add to my ever growing stock of things to take out and look at every so often and a super stamping book to drool over! She was happy anyway! 

o, then at the end of a long day we all packed up and went home, and I went to the pub for tea as I was far too tired to cook, and spent what little profit I had made! That's how it goes I guess!! We do it for love really anyway! Now, where is that stamping stuff? I want to have a go! Blow the washing, they can all go to school in dirty uniform!! Crafters Unite!!!! 

 

Jude