It's been a frantically busy week getting ready for a stall at my own church yesterday. It was very quiet in the town so we didn't have many people but due to the support of a few loyal friends who bought most of their Christmas presents from me I did well.I'm still relatively new to craft stalls, and am still investigating how best to display things on what is always a smaller table than I think it will be in my mind! At the last one I went to I learned that displaying things properly makes all the difference - people need to be able to see your range of things clearly and also to be able to pick things up and have a look without being scared that everything else will fall over! I'd just spread everything out as best as I could last time but had run out of room and was unhappy that things were squashed and propped up against each other - if I'd been a customer I'd have been put off browsing. Perhaps in this case it would have been better to put out less, except you always want to show everything you have.
So this time I'd been up in our loft searching for an old towel rail I remembered having about 20 years ago - it ended up being perfect for displaying some of the bags, I tied some on with raffia and propped others up on the rails - it gave some height at the back of the table and yet I could still see through it and easily talk to people. All I need now is another one exactly the same (may take some searching around as they're now described as 'vintage' as they're not a modern style, and are therefore very expensive!) You can only see just the leg of it in the photo as I was in such a rush I only just snapped one picture.
Also in the photo you can see some pincushions -
I made them on Tuesday but after wet felting them they came out so dense I thought they were never going to dry in time - so I resorted to putting them on a baking tray with the door slightly open,
luckily we have an exceedingly gentle oven and I just left them for a few hours - it still took ages to get them thoroughly dry!
Your display looks lovely! Im really glad you did well, & your friends will have brought some lovely Christmas pressies!
ReplyDelete:o) Ive put beads in the oven before (I get impatient for beads to be dry, so I can use em)
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I thought it was only me that did mad things like that! Glad they dried in time.
ReplyDeleteNo certainly you are not alone in creative madness! Needs must. I also had them suspended for a while in a makeshift hammock constructed from a towel infront of the woodburner, I tried on the top of it but it was so hot I singed the towel!
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