Look out! Run for the Hills!

The town I live in is right on the Loddon river, or Loddon lake should I say…

In all the time I’ve lived here, I have never seen the water so high that it touches the bottom of the bridges! We are apparently on high flood alert as of last night and it’s looking like there will be water over the bridges soon! Eeep!

That red line is where the bank of the river usually is!

I don’t think our house is really in danger, we are at the higher end of town so there will need to be a lot of flooding before it gets to us :)

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I also wanted to say thank you to everyone who commented on my market disappointment post. You guys seem to understand markets a lot more than me! It definitely was the wrong audience I think. So I’ll research some of your awesome suggestions and see if I can find one that suits my craft!

Thanks again everyone who made me feel less of a failure!

:)

Disappointment

I didn’t sell one single piece of jewellery at the market. Sad face :(

A few people came and had a good look and some took cards, but no buyers unfortunately.

 

I did sell a couple of headbands though, which was nice.

I’m not quite sure why people didn’t buy. Perhaps the price was too much (though I don’t know how cheap people think sterling silver should be!). Or maybe people just weren’t looking for that sort of thing.

I dunno.

I’m not going again anyway, it was absolutely stinking hot and the site I had wasn’t big enough to set up my shade tent. Actually I couldn’t have swung a cat in that tiny box! :)

Yesterday, deflated, I sent all the jewellery I had down to Melbourne with a friend, she’s hawking it to all her friends for me :) She was amazed that none sold at the market and declared that she could sell it in the blink of an eye!

I’m pretty sure she’ll be a much better saleswoman than I am. I’m happy to make things but selling them makes me squirm with embarrassment! What I love is making and just giving away… but that doesn’t allow for more buying of silver and my darling Hubby may kick up a fuss :)

I need to get up some guts and bravado and ‘represent’!

Anyone else out there a *maker* and not a *seller*?

 

Headbands galore…

I gave in. Having all these flowers sit around idly just got to me :)

To market to market!!

 

I heart Flowers… literally

 

I made all these pretty flowers to scatter around my market stall next Saturday. I think they will up the ‘chic’ factor :)

Then I got to thinking… what if I put them all on stretchy headbands and actually had them there to sell? Hmmm…

Should I make that extra effort or am I just confusing my customers as to what I actually want to be known for selling? (my jewellery and jewellery trees)

Please help, oh wise bloggers out there!

 

Turning an old book case into chic market shelving

This book case has been around since forever, it was in my brother’s room when we were kids. When my Mum asked me if I wanted it, I said yes thinking I’d give it a quick paint and it can live in one of the boy’s rooms.

But then I needed some shelves for my market stall and came up with a quick solution…

Chop chop and a quick sand

An awesome paint colour And tada! Some VERY cute shelves!

  I couldn’t resist scuffing them up and making them look slightly worn. Here’s some of my necklace displays, made from wire, blue fabric and stretchy lace…   I can’t wait to put my stall together and wow some customers!

:)