Long day

I was up at omg it's early (read 5:30am) this morning to finish off a commission before going to work this morning. Highly confused the dogs!! Spent all day at work wishing I was at home making cards or outside enjoying the sunshine and now I have to have a quick meal and then I'm out again to a meeting of the Dunfermline Wedding Co-op. I enjoy these meetings, but my brain's fried by 8:30 so not a lot goes in my brain by then - thank goodness we get copies of the minutes! I've also realised I've got to do some artwork for an advert I've signed up for, make up some templates because the dogs ate my memory stick which had all my templates stored on it. Memo to all crafters.......don't have mischevious dogs or hide stuff really, really well. On the upside, I got an email to tell me there is a space at my regular craft fair next month if I want it......yes I do!!! So I'll be out at Balerno on 9th May.....maybe see you there.

Commissions, commissions...

I had a commission to do a handbag card for a lady who lives in Balerno last week. She received it and was so pleased with it, she's ordered another card from me.....yay!!! I've also got to tweak a wedding invitation proof, so, I'll be busy today working out designs........I can think of worse ways to survive a Sunday.

Craft Fair, Dunfermline cont....

Wow, what a fantastic day yesterday was - fabulous footfall, who'd have known so many people lived in Dunfermline. We were packed all day long even after we'd finished for the day and were packing away, there was still people coming in. I've booked up for the November one too now and here's hoping it's, if not as busy, busier than yesterday. I came home on a high but absolutely knackered and was asleep in bed by 10......rock'n'roll lifestyle me lol. My friend, Carol, who shared a stall with me yesterday has a new business line too - encaustic art. Absolutley fantastic work and I've commissioned her to do a painting for me for a member of my family. I've seen a photo of it, now can't wait to get the real thing!!! As soon as she gets her website up and running, I'll post a link to it.

Craft Fair, Dunfermline

Well, going to an Arts & Crafts fair tomorrow and this time it's in my home town. You'd think it'd be easier since there's minimal travel but no.....there's no free parking, infact there's no parking at the venue so my choices are, take the car and pay for all day parking, take the bus and lug all my stuff on and off or walk lugging my stuff all the way there. I've decided I'm too thrifty to pay for the parking so I'll either be walking or busing it...weather dependent. I've also realised that I really don't need to take as much stuff as I usually do to craft fairs....so all in all not a bad thing. Here's hoping we have a good day tomorrow.

My friend Andrea

is such a fantastic friend. After driving myself almost demented trying to put a slideshow on my blog here, she stepped in and made it happen within minutes. She didn't have to, she has tons of things that keep her busy and has enough on her plate as it is without me and my witterings. Yet, she did and you can see the results to the side there. She's always there for me, a friendly, non-judgmental ear and a shoulder to cry on when necessary. She's also one of my biggest fans when it comes to my cards, but will tell me honestly when something isn't quite right......in the nicest possible way! We don't see each other nearly enough as we live quite far apart, but we talk most days - usually over the internet (what a fantastic invention lol).

So Twinnie.........thank you for being there to boost me up, a shoulder to cry on and just being a good mate!

The sun is shining and ....

It's such a beautiful day today - the sun has some heat to it and there's not much wind for a change, seems a shame to stay indoors but I've got loads to do today. Good thing I don't have work today! I had a bit of a panic this weekend. I got a commission to make one of my handbag cards for a lady and I couldn't remember what supplier I got the paper from..........help!!!! After much googling i finally found it, but it taught me a lesson. So today I'm going to organise myself. I've got a notebook and I'm going to take scraps of all my papers and note down the name and supplier of each one so I don't have this problem again. A little pendantic? Maybe, but I don't want to be caught out again. I've also realised I really need to stock up on 'out of season' papers when I use them in projects that are not necessarilly 'seasonal' projects. For example, this handbag card was made using a Christmas paper - not so easy to get in April! I also need to sort out my receipts for this month....the taxman sent me my paperwork and although it doesn't need to go back to him until October, i don't want to be sitting for hours working out my expenses for the year all in one go. I really need to get myself more organised.

T-shirt

I've just been online and ordered some new business cards and while I was on there, I got myself one of these