A very busy weekend following a hectic week. It's definitely a feet up and watch television evening - well, it will be once I have done some more work.
Yesterday I took part in the Play Kenya Craft Fair in Pirbright and a great day sales-wise. I sold my lovely black cat jute bag, as well as one I made in the week with a Scottie dog on a red sequin lead. My mini-cards were a great success and I also sold one of my cuppa-candles. I completely forgot to take photographs and my cake-making friend, Linda, took some instead but they may have to wait for next week to be posted on my blog. The craft fair was pretty near to 100% handmade, which was lovely.
Today it was the Wedding Fayre at the Frensham Pond Hotel. I have taken part in a wedding fayre at this venue before and it is always very well organised. Mala, the Sales & Events Organiser, regularly visits each stallholder throughout the day to see how their day is going; there is always good follow-up after the event and a really nice touch is that we get vouchers for tea and coffee and a sandwich. Lots of interest in my wedding stationery, a request for a quote and I hope there will be follow-ups once the brides-to-be have ploughed through the large bag of promotional material they collected during the event.
Earlier this week Mala asked if I could produce some wedding stationery to go on their welcome table - their colours were going to be purple and white. I produced an invitation and place name card. Mala also asked if I could produce two menu cards for the table, which I made in similar colours to the invitation and here are photographs of them:
The following are a of pic of my stall and a sample invitation I was recently asked to produce :
One of the highlights of the event was this cake:
Isn't it fantastic? All those lovely vegetables. The picture doesn't do it justice. The cake is made by the brilliant Cruikshank's - have a look at this website and you will see the gorgeous cakes he makes. I asked him if I could take this photograph and promised I would add his details as a thank you.
It's over to Handmade Harbour for me now to catch up with everyone's week. Thank you everyone who commented on my blog post last week - as always very much appreciated.
A slightly quieter week for me - hopefully - although I do have two events to make for on Saturday, but thankfully nothing on Sunday.
Have a good week everyone.
Jill
