Well, that was certainly a busy couple of weeks! First, I had to prepare things for the craft fair and then set up the stall, and finally sit with it and chat with visitors. We didn’t have a lot of visitors – probably because of the unusual heatwave we’ve been having recently, which seems to have kept people in their nice shady houses. But I didn’t do too badly – in fact I sold a lot more things than I expected to, so I can’t really complain! Rather to my surprise, I sold not only a good number of cards, but also some of the larger pieces that I’d just put on the wall to provide some colour
And I learned something interesting! If you follow this blog, you’ll know that I have a boring tendency to design things featuring lots and lots and LOTS of birds – and then of course flowers, as well as birds with flowers. I do so many of these that recently I’ve been trying to be more original and come up with designs of other, perhaps more “arty” things
But guess what most people seemed to prefer! Cards with birds and flowers! So that’s a lesson for me, and in the future I won’t be worried about too many birds
So here are a couple of pictures of the stall – not very elegant, I admit, but colourful and attention grabbing!
OK, it’s back to a more normal life now, and I’ll be back shortly with some more freebies
Your cards are all so pretty. Wish I could have been there. It would have been hard to choose, but so worth it to pick some out.
Glad to hear of your success! I’m partial to birds and flowers too!
WoW, that’s a Beautiful display. And I love Love LOVE whatever that “peacocky” looking thing is on the far left of the wall. My idea of oooooooh. I would have bought that!! Love you and your designs.
Congratulations on selling so many of your beautiful cards! Do your customers know that you’ve made every single item from the scratch: designing, digitizing and testing it, searching for the right colours, embroidering it and finally finishing the card? Such a big amount of work, and such esthetical results! Following your blog for some time, I know how creative you are. In my opinion, everything is “allowed” to create! Birds, flowers, both at once, abstract or highly complex designs- however. Isn’t this artistic freedom?