February 12th, 2010

This is a belated post as I’ve had a horrible start to 2010 and only just picking up the pieces and getting back to my normal routine. It feels odd that I haven’t blogged for so long, but I’ve been ill and so has my computer – I got the dreaded blue screen of death – luckily I found a local IT company who miraculously not only saved all my data and emails which I thought I’d lost, they also brought the computer back to life and made it shiny and new again.

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November 24th, 2009

I’ve been busy making lots of lovely button Christmas cards for my up and coming craft fairs – Christmas in the Loft [Adross Farm, Elie] and Magpie Market [Edinburgh]. I love my new printer! I bought it a while ago and not really used it yet. I bought a load of pre-cut/scored blank cards made from recycled card and have been pondering for a while what to do with them. But I got my thinking cap on last night and got productive.

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October 14th, 2009

I’ve just posted a list of the craft fairs and events I’m going to be doing in November on my homepage, so make a note of the dates in your diary and come along, say hello and do some Christmas shopping! Here is a handy list with a little bit more information on each event.

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December 14th, 2008

I was at Heriot Toun Studio yesterday for my 2nd ever Craft Fair and it was great. I arrived on Friday, so was able to set my stall the evening before and not have to fret about it on Saturday morning. So no stress this time around.

Here are some piccies of my stall:

The Full Monty

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December 14th, 2008

This coming week I will mostly be making lots of stuff to hang in our windows and around the house. So I’ve been looking online for some tutorials and found some fab stuff I thought I would share with you.

Beautiful Paper Snowflakes

This tutorial is on the Cut Out + Keep website and I made some of these for the Heriot Toun Christmas Fair yesterday, to hang up in the studio to make the place look nice and festive and they looked great. So I’m going to make few for the house too.

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December 8th, 2008

On Friday the 5th December I did my very first craft fair and all in all I think it went really well and I really enjoyed it…and I certainly learnt a few things too…

1. Don’t turn up late: I set off from home at 3.30pm which would give me plenty of time to get there for 5pm so that I would have an hour to set up before the fair opened at 6pm. I didn’t factor into the equation that I had to go and get diesel, that there would be roadworks and delays on the way and I also selected ’shortest route’ rather than ‘fastest route’ on my sat nav which meant I was taken via Edinburgh during the early Friday rush hour traffic and got stuck at every set of traffic lights on the way…so after a vey stressful lengthy drive I didn’t get there until 5.50pm. So I had 10 minutes to get everything out of the car and carry it to my table upstairs – I think I got the worst positioning because I was so late. All the stalls were downstairs apart from mine and another stall holder and we felt a little left out as we heard the buzz of people chatting below. Ho hum…
2. Don’t pack all your items, especially earrings, into tiny ziplock bags that are impossible to open in a hurry: I thought I would be uber organised and pack up all my items up individually so it would be easy to see what was what and get everything out and set up the stall in an organised fashion. As I only had about 10 minutes it was incredibly frustrating trying to get all my earrings out of these tiny bags in a hurry and I ended up having a mess everywhere and being totally disorganised because of it. It would have been far better to just bung all the earrings in one bag, bracelets in another and just tip one bag out at a time and set those items up before moving on to the next.
3. Attach price labels to each items before you go: As I had so little time to set up and I hadn’t priced my items beforehand, I had to quickly price things up as I went along which meant it took longer to set up, and I was getting in the way of customers at the beginning of the fair and having to apologise to them. It also meant that I left a lot of items unpriced and I think that put a lot of customers off as I’m told by people who do craft fairs all the time that customers prefer it if they don’t have to ask how much something is.

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November 26th, 2008

For last minute(ish) Christmas shopping why not pop along and see what milomade and other local craft makers have in store at the Heriot Toun Studio Christmas Craft Fair.

Date: December 13th, 2008
Time: 12pm to 5pm
Where: Heriot Toun Studio
Heriot, Midlothian, EH38 5YE
www.heriot-toun.co.uk

November 26th, 2008

milomade is happy to announce that on the 5th December, for one night only, she’ll be selling her crafty wares at the Cloudhouse Christmas Fair. Why not come along and bag yourself a few funky stocking fillers…

Date: December 5, 2008
Time: from 6pm to 9pm
Where: The Cloudhouse Cafe
23 Townfoot, Stow, TD1 2QN
www.cloudhousecafe.co.uk