The market is over for another 6 months
There was none of the awkward Progress Association bullshit after the set up day. The school table for the raffle was in the best place for it. They asked for one table for a raffle and they got the best spot for that. They also brought loads of second hand goods and had them stacked about. They ended up outside. Don't know if they sold much. I know the fridge went. But yeah, it wasn't Lorraine's fault and hopefully it wont happen again. As for the food thing, I'm not sure what their issue was. They didn't want them selling pies, said it was because they had told the new store owner that there would only be the sausage sizzle on one day and nothing else competing with them. The shop doesn't have fruit pies for sale. Ugh. I think they sold them from their house. Hope they did well. I know a lot of locals who'd buy from them. I would if I could eat gluten.
The market was okay but really slow. There were hardly any people compared to normal. I don't know why. We sold some knitted stuff despite the heat, had a couple of people say they'll email us about commissions etc and sold a couple of other bits. Not many of the paper flower hair clips went. We sold a couple of the badges but none of the art cards or postcards. Had a few lovely comments about the art which was nice.
We made plenty to cover the cost of the market and the few things we bought. It was nice to see the people who regularly have stalls at the market.
On the Sunday they were running the Artists Studio Open Day. Oh I wish I'd been able to go. I'd love to catch up with the artists etc. And on Thursday they announced that locals could go for gold coin donation. Arg. I could have afforded that but we had the stall to sit at.
I got two bobbins of wool spun before I ran out of combed fibre. Saturday night I couldn't get any more fibre brushed out either because I had a pair of scrap yarn mitts to weave all the ends in on. On Sunday I brushed out some fibre for a while and then knitted a cowl and a necktie thinger instead of spinning.
There was an exhibition opening at the Visitors Centre and we'd been invited to a BBQ/camp fire thing at Lorraine's place too but we were too beat. It's always exhausting dealing with people all day, being upright all day etc and the lead up to the markets involves a lot of work. There was also the hours sleep we lose on Sat night because of Daylight Savings. Oh and it was hot. Hot makes us both tired. Hot means my blood vessels relax further and so blood pools, my blood pressure drops, I get a migraine and my body dumps adrenalin trying to keep blood going to my heart and brain. Didn't remember to check my blood pressure and heart rate while I was out. Must get around to doing that.
Went to sleep before 11 last night and got up at some point after midday. Today has been spent doing not much of anything. Brain fog is bad and I'm exhausted. Just keep catching myself staring off at nothing for ages.
Ruth has sorted out the kitchen and done washing up and is making dinner.
I need to recover but it's very hard to do nothing. I have this panic that I'm not getting stuff done. I've not really stopped in the lead up to the market. Always working on something for the stall. Now I don't have to. What do I do with my hands. How do I shut off the panic and just rest? Sitting up is really too much right now. I may go lay down.
It's too early in the year to be this hot here. I know summer heat started in early September when we lived in the Hunter Valley in a tin shed but it's not meant to here. There's meant to be a cooler change come through at some point tonight I think.
We must move Matilda. Matilda is the new to us, old shop dummy we were given for the stall to show off a shawl. We also got a metal hat stand. Meant we could fit a lot more on and once we've sorted out the rust etc it will be great.
Queen Anne's Lace shawl on Matilda the dummy
The hall
One of the hats
some knitted carrots we made on commission for someone from the cafe.
Blister from my hot glue gun burn. The other two have gone down fine but this one isn't going anywhere. ugh.
More photos when I get them off my phone. I took very little this year. Didn't have the energy to find the camera.
The market was okay but really slow. There were hardly any people compared to normal. I don't know why. We sold some knitted stuff despite the heat, had a couple of people say they'll email us about commissions etc and sold a couple of other bits. Not many of the paper flower hair clips went. We sold a couple of the badges but none of the art cards or postcards. Had a few lovely comments about the art which was nice.
We made plenty to cover the cost of the market and the few things we bought. It was nice to see the people who regularly have stalls at the market.
On the Sunday they were running the Artists Studio Open Day. Oh I wish I'd been able to go. I'd love to catch up with the artists etc. And on Thursday they announced that locals could go for gold coin donation. Arg. I could have afforded that but we had the stall to sit at.
I got two bobbins of wool spun before I ran out of combed fibre. Saturday night I couldn't get any more fibre brushed out either because I had a pair of scrap yarn mitts to weave all the ends in on. On Sunday I brushed out some fibre for a while and then knitted a cowl and a necktie thinger instead of spinning.
There was an exhibition opening at the Visitors Centre and we'd been invited to a BBQ/camp fire thing at Lorraine's place too but we were too beat. It's always exhausting dealing with people all day, being upright all day etc and the lead up to the markets involves a lot of work. There was also the hours sleep we lose on Sat night because of Daylight Savings. Oh and it was hot. Hot makes us both tired. Hot means my blood vessels relax further and so blood pools, my blood pressure drops, I get a migraine and my body dumps adrenalin trying to keep blood going to my heart and brain. Didn't remember to check my blood pressure and heart rate while I was out. Must get around to doing that.
Went to sleep before 11 last night and got up at some point after midday. Today has been spent doing not much of anything. Brain fog is bad and I'm exhausted. Just keep catching myself staring off at nothing for ages.
Ruth has sorted out the kitchen and done washing up and is making dinner.
I need to recover but it's very hard to do nothing. I have this panic that I'm not getting stuff done. I've not really stopped in the lead up to the market. Always working on something for the stall. Now I don't have to. What do I do with my hands. How do I shut off the panic and just rest? Sitting up is really too much right now. I may go lay down.
It's too early in the year to be this hot here. I know summer heat started in early September when we lived in the Hunter Valley in a tin shed but it's not meant to here. There's meant to be a cooler change come through at some point tonight I think.
We must move Matilda. Matilda is the new to us, old shop dummy we were given for the stall to show off a shawl. We also got a metal hat stand. Meant we could fit a lot more on and once we've sorted out the rust etc it will be great.
Queen Anne's Lace shawl on Matilda the dummy
The hall
One of the hats
some knitted carrots we made on commission for someone from the cafe.
Blister from my hot glue gun burn. The other two have gone down fine but this one isn't going anywhere. ugh.
More photos when I get them off my phone. I took very little this year. Didn't have the energy to find the camera.