Much excitement...for me!
I've had a super exciting day today, *squeals* my very first ever (as in ever, ever, ever!) order has been delivered to a new shop/gallery Urquhart Glass, here in the village! Eeek! Here is a link to the lovely Mairi's (of the Urquhart name) website, showing some of her beautiful glass, well worth a look! The shop's looking lovely and has a wealth of work by various local artists. Anyone heading through (or to) Comrie over Easter should definitely make the effort to stop and have a look!
And here's a photie of the exclusive designs I produced for her! I have another two or three designs (in my head....not even as far as the sketch book yet!) to work on. It's all very exciting, did I mention that!
Now I'm off to spend the rest of the evening with these......
also for Urquhart Glass (but may also put them into my Etsy shop)....and not a scalpel in sight! I AM using a glue gun though; hot, burnie, burnie glue as I can confirm!
Oh and a bit of random trivia for you......did you know Mother's Day in America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is on the 13th May?! I didn't until I sold another Mother's Day card to California! Well not TO California, to a lovely lady (with impeccable taste!) IN California!
And here's a photie of the exclusive designs I produced for her! I have another two or three designs (in my head....not even as far as the sketch book yet!) to work on. It's all very exciting, did I mention that!
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| Exclusive designs produced for Urquhart Glass |
Now I'm off to spend the rest of the evening with these......
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| Paper rose gift tags |
Oh and a bit of random trivia for you......did you know Mother's Day in America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is on the 13th May?! I didn't until I sold another Mother's Day card to California! Well not TO California, to a lovely lady (with impeccable taste!) IN California!
Christmas Craft Fair
My first craft fair is done and dusted. It was a bit of a rush to bring it all together in time but it was good fun and I had some really nice feedback from people, someone even told me I had the nicest things at the fair!
I thought I'd be doing well to make £30, but in the end I made £75, less 10% for the stall fee (which I rounded up to £8 as the organisers had bought some decorations from me) so I came home with £67 in my sky rocket, absolutely delighted with myself and feeling like I could conquer the world!
I also got a comission to make another paper star werath and a possible commission to make place names with paper roses for a wedding!!
I could have sold a lot more star wreaths, I'd only made 3 and I was surprised that I sold all the gift tags, I only really made them as extras. I didn't sell as many of the tree decorations as I thought, all the ones that sold were either heart shaped and/or the pinky purple colours.
What next on the business side of things? I'm not sure, I got really positive feedback from people and I've got lots of ideas for various other items but finding somewhere to sell them might be the biggest challenge, ho hum!
On a different note, it's snowing really hard outside! We had about 2 inches on Sunday night and there's about the same again now...we'll see what the morning holds!
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| The stall, all set up! |
I also got a comission to make another paper star werath and a possible commission to make place names with paper roses for a wedding!!
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| Paper rose gift tags |
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| Tree decorations |
On a different note, it's snowing really hard outside! We had about 2 inches on Sunday night and there's about the same again now...we'll see what the morning holds!