Sunday, May 16, 2010

Market day

So today was market day. Carrie and I got to the market at about 7 am to set up. It was a really cold morning - as I drove down Limestone Avenue, I saw the thick frost on the ground and thought "Crap, I hope I'm going to be warm enough".

We were all set up by about 8.30. The market officially starts at 10 am, but we had our first sales a little after 9. Luckily we'd had time to get coffee before those people arrived, or it could have turned ugly - an uncaffeinated, tired, cold Michelle is not good! Here's what our stall looked like before it was decimated by yarn-hungry knitters and crocheters. (The scarves at the back aren't ours - they are another stall's.)

Stall after setup

And here's the lovely Carrie. She was awesome fun to share a stall with.

Carrie from Fibrewebs

Michelle loaned us her amazing tree. We decided to make it the tree of greenness.

Tree of green

We had a table of sunshine, with orange and yellow yarn, fibre and bags.

Table of yellow and orange sunshine

I only managed to make nine sack bags in time, but they looked so cute on their top shelf. They were all sold out within an hour of our first sale. This, in itself, was pretty incredible. You'll notice, of course, that the other shelves are arranged by colour (we love our colour, we do!). Every yarn skein that went into the wire fruit bowl was sold very soon after. It was our freaky lucky fruit bowl, we think.

Shelves of colour

After lunchtime the huge numbers of people had left, and it was a lot more relaxing. Our friends Jacqui and then Bron turned up to help out - much needed relief for loo, meal and shopping breaks, and excellent company to boot. Admittedly Carrie and I were going a little crazy with exhaustion by this time, and we weren't making much sense to anyone. I have no idea how Carrie gathered the energy to tally up the till at the end of the afternoon, but she did it, and she's a trooper, and it's one of the many reasons why I think she's awesome. There were a few yarn purchases of the Polwarth and possum/silk variety, even though I'm as allergic to possum fibre as I am to cats. It was just really pretty and I couldn't help myself.

So it was a great market. Insanely busy, yes, but also a great opportunity to meet some of my Etsy customers, fellow members of Ravelry, and people who read this blog. Thanks for coming by and introducing yourselves, and I apologise if I looked a little dazed and confused.

I don't think I can face my sewing machine for at least a few days. I'm going to put my feet up, crochet a lot, and catch up with my poor neglected Mister. He's been cooking me dinners and making me take it easy when he saw stress take hold this last week, and I don't think I could have done all this without him.

(Better not forget his birthday on Wednesday then, shall I!)

19 comments:

  1. Wow the stall looks so amazing and am so glad you had a succesful day! Wish I could have been there to see (and purchase!) in person.

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  2. Your stall looks beautiful, and what a great idea to combine the yarn with your beautiful bags and pouches. Congratulations on a wonderful day.

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  3. Wish I could have been there, but had a plumber coming to fix some taps. I need to get my hands on one of your new sacks, they sound great. Maybe I could start using some of the yarn I bought at the last two wool days I went to.....

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  4. I'm so sorry I didn't get to see it in the flesh... Migrane monster held me captive this weekend. I knew those sacks would be a winner!

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  5. dude! your stall looked amazing! Even though you said it had been busy I had no idea til i saw you pictures just now - look at all those gorgeous skeins and bags!
    Thanks for a fun afternoon!!
    xo

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  6. Your stall looks so good. I am so glad that the market was such a success for you.

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  7. your stall was by far the most beautiful!

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  8. Sounds like you had a great day, the stall looked lovely.

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  9. Well done! Sounds like a great day. I do love the thought of a fruit bowl with special powers! :)

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  10. it was a beautiful stall, well done to you both.

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  11. Your stall looked lovely. Was sad to miss out on the sacks, but expect my order when you can face your sewing machine again!

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  12. Lovely to have met you in person, Michelle, and Carrie too. Beautiful stuff on your stall. I succumbed to another sock box and look forward to buying on of your sacks once you can face sewing again!

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  13. Sounds like the Market was a resounding success as were your project bags. So happy that you had a good day after such a busy week getting ready.

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  14. Glad you ahd a lovely and profitable (if exhausting) time. Congratulations on selling all you new sack bags.

    Take the Mister somewhere special for dinner - you'll both enjoy it!

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  15. Hi hi!
    Thanks Michelle - I really loved our day yesterday. I would have had fun even if we didn't do as well. thanks to others for the nice comments too! Cant wait until the next one on the 11th of july (after a bit of rest too of course)

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  16. Love the colour theming. The stall looks great. Sounds like the new bags are a big success.

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  17. Glad you had a good day, man you moved like lightning speed from the prototype to stock for sale - I'm WAY impressed!

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  18. I'm really glad the day was a roaring success! I'm sad I couldn't come and support you in person, but I promise I was thinking of you throughout the day!

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  19. We all knew the stall would be a hit :-) Sorry to have missed those sack bags and the gorgeous yarn, I'll just have to stalk the etsy shop instead!!

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