This is Saturday evening and the girls have gone to bed. I had to go and collect No 3 from her friends' house where they had been having a get together for someone's birthday. They are all growing up so fast and soooo tall. No 3 has grown again and is now a good inch and a half taller than me :( Not Good! Nos 1 and 2 didn't gain my height of 5ft 6 ins but No 3 is now about 5ft 7 and a half.
No 4 has grown as well and will soon be leaving me behind I fear.
So, if you are a regular visitor to my Facebook page you will have probably seen that I was very excited this morning to announce that as from the middle of November I will have a retail outlet at Trinity Road in Weymouth, right alongside the harbour. Ive Google mapped it and looked at the street view (love that I can do this) and have decided its well worth a day out so when its time for me to take in my first lot of jewellery I am going to drive down, will take me about an hour (according to google) and go to visit the shop in person. I am only going to hire one small shelf in a locked cabinet for now but its in a good place just inside the door so easy to see from the window and will have good lighting I hope. This will be the third retail outlet I have now and I feel really excited.
As a consequence I am going to have to visit the other two outlets now and do a stocktake as I have got to ensure that I know whats where, if you get my drift.
As I have five craft fairs now booked before Christmas and am still making stock for those it occurred to me somewhere in the early hours of the morning as most of my daft ideas do, that I needed to make some more stock for this new outlet. So I have had some designs sitting in my sketchbook for a while which I decided to put into action this afternoon. You can see these pieces on my facebook page but I will post them here as well
No 4 has grown as well and will soon be leaving me behind I fear.
So, if you are a regular visitor to my Facebook page you will have probably seen that I was very excited this morning to announce that as from the middle of November I will have a retail outlet at Trinity Road in Weymouth, right alongside the harbour. Ive Google mapped it and looked at the street view (love that I can do this) and have decided its well worth a day out so when its time for me to take in my first lot of jewellery I am going to drive down, will take me about an hour (according to google) and go to visit the shop in person. I am only going to hire one small shelf in a locked cabinet for now but its in a good place just inside the door so easy to see from the window and will have good lighting I hope. This will be the third retail outlet I have now and I feel really excited.
As a consequence I am going to have to visit the other two outlets now and do a stocktake as I have got to ensure that I know whats where, if you get my drift.
As I have five craft fairs now booked before Christmas and am still making stock for those it occurred to me somewhere in the early hours of the morning as most of my daft ideas do, that I needed to make some more stock for this new outlet. So I have had some designs sitting in my sketchbook for a while which I decided to put into action this afternoon. You can see these pieces on my facebook page but I will post them here as well
The top one is a hand forged Copper pendant with shell disc bead hanging from the inside top of the pendant and the bottom piece is hand forged pendant with freshwater pearls on a chain of hand forged links. This is silver plated wire but I would love to make one from sterling silver, sadly this will have to wait until someone orders one because the outlay is too high at the moment.
I think it will probably hit me, most likely at 3 in the morning again very soon that I have an enormous amount of work to do. Its a good job I have patient friends and children, friends because they are most likely not going to see me between now and January and children because only the basics are getting done and the dinners are slightly singed around the edges because Im in and out of the workroom whilst trying to cook dinner at the same time, juggling customers, orders and stock.
However I have to admit I wouldn't have it any other way. I love working for myself, still get a buzz when someone falls in love with a piece of my jewellery and buys it. Really love getting those "likes" under my pictures knowing Ive given someone some pleasure. And selling at the fairs is brilliant, I love meeting my customers face to face. I have met some amazing people and loads of great crafters as well in the other stallholders I come across. I never cease to be amazed at people's skill and ideas in what they make.
During this year that I have been selling through Facebook and building up my business I have also done a little bit of shopping for myself through some of these people who I have found through Hike Those Likes, so I buy jewellery supplies, have my business cards made, and have more recently been ordering Christmas presents. Facebook is a great community and speaking as someone who is the only adult in our house, its good to have some company in the lonely evenings as well when the girls have gone to bed. Many of you I have never met in person but still feel as though you are my friends.
And enough hours in the day, no certainly not, and if I don't get much time to be posting between now and Christmas, I hope you have a good one!!!
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