Showing posts with label Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Market. Show all posts

Sunday, December 6, 2009

I am a Mousketeer!!! :)

The Tutus and Muddy Shoes/Knitwish stall at the start of the day. Looked pretty cute I thought!:)
Dresses, skirts, nappy pants, shorts

Fairy Floss singlets, Dummy Chains and Ruffle Buttons


Not alot left at the end of the day! :)

Well, Saturday has now been and gone.... and it was.....Fan...tas....tic!!!

I had a ball... really! :) Even hubby came along, and I think he had a ball... lol

It was really hectic in the lead up to the BrisStyle markets.... every spare second was sew, sew, sew.. lol get it... go, go, go...sew, sew, ... ok, that was lame. lol anyway... I was sewing right up till the night before the market... just a few more things I wanted to try.... but of course the later it got, the tieder (is that a word) I got... the more I couldnt sew straight.... so I packed it up happy with what I had to take.

What a night we had before... I went to bed about midnight. At 4AM, yes 4! Our daughter awoke and decided that it was morning, even after the bottle she wouldnt settle back to sleep for a good hour.... I must of been having a bit of a dream and thought to open my eyes and noticed it was light outside.... hmm, check the clock..... 6.34am.... OMG, I had set the alarm for 6. What happened??? No time to think about it... its 6.30 I yelled to Russ as I jumped out of bed.... I ran to the shower and started getting me ready.... He got up and packed the car.... then we got the kids up and were out the door...
I quickly texted my stall buddy! "I'm Late!!!!"
We got to mums and did a dump and run with the kids.... good luck she called as we jumped in the car.... We got to St Augustines about 7.45am... not bad. A little later than I wanted, but not bad.
The lovely Steph from Wimcee was lending us her market umbrella, so I located her and the umbrella and we were off.... well sort of... the umbrella was up, the table was up.... geez, where was the table cloth....at home on the table where I had left it...
My husband is always telling me, dont put things under my wallet or under whatever... The tablecloth was the first thing in the pile of "stuff" I was taking to market... surely you would grab everything in the pile.... ??? lol, oh well, lucky Rach and I decided we would both bring a cloth. She got there 2 minutes later and we were away. We had our stall set up in no time... and It looked pretty cute! :)

The day went quite fast until about 1pm, then things slowed down alot. We had alot of lovely customers come buy and oohhh and ahh at our stuff.... and alot of lovely customers come by and show us the money! :) We had fun! It was such a great day for a market, apart from the occaisional gust of wind. :) We also got to meet a few of the lovely BrisStyle girls which was great! :)

I am really happy with my first ever market and all the lovely feedback I got. It was alot of work, but definately worth it!

So now for pictures!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

17 Sleeps.... no not till Xmas... till the BIDM!!!







Wowee! Reality is starting to hit! In 17 days I am going to be doing my first ever market! I am a pretty shy person, so this is going to be huge putting myself out there completely to be judged, on what I love to do...sew!



I am excited and nervous and sewing like mad... when I get a chance. How much stock do you need? What if nothing sells? What if I am like one of those people on Australian Idol... you know, the ones that can't sing, but think they can... arrrghhh. Maybe my friends and family have just been being kind to me all this time.... who would want to buy my stuff.... the thoughts that race around in my head daily!!!



I feel reasonably prepared... I have a bit of stock and have a plan in place for how much more I would love to have... only thing is... thus far I have always fallen behind in my plan.... lol Oh no!



It is my daughters first birthday on Thursday too, so we have a party to plan, and host.... my newly engaged sister is up for the weekend.... (it is also her birthday on Thursday- my sister and daughter share:), so there will be much celebrating next week with birthdays and engagements, it is the hubbys work Christmas do on Saturday, so this weekend is a goner... on paper it looks bad. I really should be sewing instead of typing... on a good note... I tried something I have always wanted to yesterday. Growing up I loved loved loved my shirred dresses.... so finally I made one for Keeley. She looks adorable in it. It is a really vibrant purple.... the pictures don't do it justice..... She wore it to the park today to watch Braith play sport and the great model she is, we sold one already! Yay! ...so now, off to continue shirring! :)