Sunday 1 December 2013

No rest for the wicked!

So, during the past few weeks, i've been the busiest i've ever been! While getting a full time position at the company i worked part time at during university, i also signed my name to take part in a craft fair in Hart Village ran by King Crumpet. This meant working from 9 till 6 and then rushing home and spending the rest of my free time manicly creating new designs and making new pretty things to get my business started. However, i can't complain because I love what I do! (i'm just really looking forward to doing nothing for a night or two.....)

So! It's been a really hectic few weeks getting everything together and it really has finally all paid off. I took part in my first craft fair and it was much more successful than i thought it would be! It was really lovely to meet such lovely and talented people, and hear comments about my work. 


Running up to the fair i was panicking about the amount of work i had been able to produce in the short time i had, but when it came to setting up my table i didn't even have enough space for everything i had brought! That gave me a huge boost of confidence because i'd been so worried about having a very empty, sad looking stall.




A lot of the customers had some lovely things to say about my work which is always really heart warming when you have worked hard at something you love. Unsurprisingly my glass wing necklaces where the most popular and i've ended up with only one left!

The other stall holders were incredibly talented and inspirational, and any money i made on my own stall i ended up going round and spending it on the other peoples work ! Two stall holders were Rachael Armstrong from PoppyCock Illustrations and Hannah Butler from King Crumpet . Heres some pics of them looking beautiful at their stalls - really sorry about the quality of the pics!




Their work is so quirky and cute! Keep an eye open for the talented duo in upcoming christmas events around hartlepool.


Now, not only was it my first ever craft fair but also my graduation!! I celebrated getting my Bachelor of Arts in Textiles and Surface Design in the Middlesbrough Town Hall. It was a great day, getting to see everyone from my course that i hadn't seen for months since our final show. It was really nice to end three of the most important years of my life with a great ceremony, and walking across that stage in front of all those people (although i was completely pooing myself!) I felt a lot better when my name was called out and i heard the full of the Applied Arts class and my family shouting WOOOOO!!! That was a good feeling :D

I feel so lucky to have such wonderful people in my life. The constant support and love I have received from my nearest and dearest, particularly Thomas Arnell, Emily Scott and Amy-Rose Tucker is really overwhelming. And believe me, I know i'm not the easiest person to live with!

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