It's been a while....

since I updated my blog. I've been so busy lately between my day job, family life and five....yes FIVE wedding fayres this month! I don't know if people are postponing their weddings because of the recession, but the four I've attended so far have been very quiet. Of course, you get the usual...'oh I'm making my own invitations, but I thought I'd come and get some ideas' which are a wedding stationer's worst nightmare. I'm sorry, but I work very hard to come up with designs, I don't need you to steal them. Ok, rant over.

I had fun at the fayres though - it's lovely to meet all the brides-to-be and hear their plans. It takes me back to when I was planning my own wedding just over two years ago.

Back in January this year, I joined the Dunfermline Wedding Co-op. Such a lovely bunch of people and very helpful too. I couldn't attend the last wedding fayre as my son was in a show sponsored by the National Theatre Scotland. I mentioned this to a couple of the people in the Co-op and they told me if I went up to the venue during the day and set up, they would break my display down and bring it back to Dunfermline where I could pick it up - how nice was that!

I've changed the way I lay out my table too - although I still have plans for more changes. However, that will have to wait a bit until I get the money to put them into action .... watch out here for updates in the near future. I thought you'd like to see my table though so I've added a couple of pics.

Panic mode!!!!

I realised yesterday that we're at the end of February (for some reason I though we had another week to go!). That means my first wedding fayre is this Wednesday...........aaaargh, I'm not ready yet! I've spent the morning up to my eyeballs in glue, card and printer ink and come up with a couple of newbies. Hope you like them. There's a few more, but you'll have to visit my website to see them ;-)

I'm back

Not that I've been anywhere, but this time last week I wanted someone to take me out back and shoot me I felt so ill. Anyhoo....I'm better and ready to go back to work tomorrow. I knew I was on the mend when daytime tv started to seriously get on my nerves, and I started to notice the mess in the house again. Once I started to feel better though, I did some work on my site - re-branded the whole lot and re-did some of my designs...and I think they're a lot better now. I did have to cancel going to a meeting tonight because I didn't want to push my luck - knowing my luck, I'd have a relapse and I can't take any more time off my dayjob. Frustrating having to cancel the meeting as I really enjoyed the last one - ah well, thems the breaks.

I also managed to do another design for my wedding stationery line - hope you like it.

Craft Fairs

Well, I'm now booked in for this years craft and wedding fayres. The first one will be at Balerno Farmers Market on Saturday, 14th February. I love doing this market, it's such a friendly atmosphere and because most of us are regulars, we've all come to know each other. Ben loves coming to this one too and helping me out........he's good at it too - a real salesman in the making!

The next one's I'm booked in for are in March. Three evening wedding fayres,

4^th March Kingswood Burntisland 6.30 – 8.30

5^th March Pitbauchlie Dunfermline 6.30 – 8.30

11^th March Victoria Kirkcaldy 6.30 – 8.30

I'm really looking forward to these ones. It's a different atmosphere at wedding fayres, although they're fun to do, they're a bit more serious. Plus, it's always a kick talking to the brides to be about their wedding plans.

....and a few more

Finally got my creative juices flowing again

It's been a while...........I seemed to be stuck in a quagmire of no inspiration at all. Fortunately, I seem to have got myself out of it.

New Toy

My printer died a death at the weekend, so we gave it a decent burial and went out and bought a new one. I love it........it's got so many buttons to mash I don't know where to start. I eventually, after humming and hawing in the shop for ages and driving the assistant mad, bought the Epson Stylus Office BX300F. It prints, copies, scans and faxes.....now I just have to figure out how to get it to do the dishes and walk the dogs and I'm sorted.