Folk House a success!

Yippee yippee! The sun was shining, people were mooching and the cards were selling. The folk house flea market fundraiser was a great success! The sales were nice and steady (no rugby scrum like last week!) and I sold about 200 (wooohoo!)

OH MY GOD, I could actually earn a living from this!!!!!

The fair was lovely, 40's jazz playing, loads of vintage frocks and hand made things - high quality bric-a-brac (mmmm I love a good rummage)

There were also some gorgous things for sale (ahem, I spent quite a lot of my profit).

In the words of Mary Poppins, "Here are a few of my favorite things.." by ceramicist Julia Davey

"This time next year Rodney...

...we'll be millionaires!"

In true Del Boy entrepreneurial style, I've contacted the printers and I'm thinking of doing another 30 ish designs and then a great trade fair called Top Drawer in that London town. There be big buyers there and thems are the kind of people I need.

Of course it could all go tits up and I'll be paying off my credit card for the rest of my life, living in a house made of boxes of cards. It's a massive gamble in a recession but as Del Boy would say, "You've got to speculate to accumulate my Son".

I'll see how it goes this weekend first, if I sell 2 cards I might have to revise my business plan!

Bristol Folk House Craft Fair

This Saturday I'm at the Folk House in Bristol for a craft fair. Here's all the info, it's at 40a Park St, just up the alleyway from Nomad Travel. Click here for a map.

They also do yummy organic local food in the cafe which I'm looking forward to tucking into! I'm also loving their chalk board.

I'll be selling my cards at the bargain price of £1 each - it only happens at a craft fair, they're normally £2.35 in shops across England. So if you're down that way, come and say hi!

Rainy tea party

We never let the good old bank holiday rain put us off when it comes to tea parties! After all those sales it was time to celebrate with my lovely friend Charlotte who was holding a good old fashioned birthday tea party.

I was probably the gibbering mad hatter in the corner as I was so tired! Here are some yummy cake pics and Charlotte's even yummier shed!

Green Walk a blinding success!

Blinking blimey flip, I cannot BELIEVE how well I did over the weekend at Green Walk Arts festival. I sold 500, yes 500 cards!!!!!!

I couldn't keep up with the sales, it was like a rugby scrum. I'm soooo happy because I've spent nearly a year trying to get this off the ground, I've been ridiculously skint, confused, frustrated, really down at times, I've nearly given up 4 times and had a little blub more than a few occasions.

Then suddenly, like a little ray of sunshine it all just happened. Everybody loved my cards, some people bought 15 at a time (ok, they were also cheap!). The feedback was so positive that now I feel really confident to go for it and get another (expensive) print run done, then do a trade fair in autumn.

Here's a rubbish pic of me selling my wares on a coffee table. I had a flashback to when I was a little girl and I used to play shops on my grandma's coffee table with a little vintage tin full of coppers and lots of packets of tea from her cupboard. I think I just came full circle!!!