What A Niche Weekend.

Oh My!
Talk about exhausted!

The Niche Market has been and gone - in an all mighty gust of shopping wind (or so it feels!)...
My friend Ebony (who did my other shoot) came along on the Friday, with her camera and took some snaps of my stall.


I have just counted how many button earrings I have left - 42 pairs. Not bad, not bad... considering I had made 263 pairs, and in the first hour of the market on Friday, I sold at truck load - yay!

I ended up doing a massive "quick" shop/trade at the end of the market on Sunday, I got so much - gorgeous tea towels by Red Wren, jams, hair clips and cute fabric purse by Black Eyed Susie, a couple upcycled journals by the lovely Isis, Christmas Doves by Dick & Dora, earrings from Pop Glass as well as Sewn Earth, vintage posies by Emma at Life As A Bird, big gorgeous upcycled soy wax candles by 3 Blind Mice, wine from Iron Pot Bay (consumed a bottle last night!) yummy cakes and biscuits from Hungry Kitty and of course.... an abundance of goodies from Annie at Red Bamboo.

I got a stack of candles from Annie but also a yummy bath bomb... which I was instructed to use in small doses - break bits off, you know? Well, I got home after the market, unpacked (actually, more or less dumped everything into my bedroom/factory) and showed off my goodies to my mother... then I heard the bath calling my name, poured myself a glass of Iron Pot Bay Pinto Grigio and grabbed the bath bomb (before mother could claim it!) and ran a nice hot bath... At first I chipped off bits of the bomb into the bath whilst the water was running, then I thought: "Hmm, what they hey!" - and threw the whole thing in!
IT WAS AMAZING.
My skin felt like silk the whole time in the bath, out of the bath and even this morning! And it's aroma was delicious.
Yum. Thanks Annie!

Thanks to all who came and checked out The Niche Market and for supporting a worthy cause - St Giles Tasmania. See you at the next one hopefully!

Thump. Thump.

My head won't stop pounding.
I actually think that I have worked myself way too hard.
I went to sleep last night with a thumping ache behind my right eye... woke again with it.

First day of The Niche Market was crazy - I don't think us little stall-holders quite expected it to be that way for a Friday! It was overwhelming! I worked out that in the first hour of the market being open that I sold 39 pairs of earrings. INSANE.

Today is day two.
Obviously.
And I expect to see you all there!

10am - 4pm, Academy Gallery at Inveresk, Launceston.

Photo's will come... maybe tomorrow evening, or maybe during next week.
Maybe when I feel more alive!

Time For Sleep

What a day...
I always leave things to the last minute - which includes packing up for a market the next day. I had my hair straightener on (for my hair - obviously) and the iron on to smooth out the well embossed crinkles in my cloths for my market table... and I was flitting from one room to another...

Straighten a section of hair.
Iron out some crinkles of cloth.
Straighten more hair.
Iron out more crinkles.
You get the idea...

I am pooped.
(and still nursing the head cold, which has now moved to my chest.)

(I wish this was my bed, kitty and all, but alas it is not!)

Time for bed.
The Niche Market kicks off tomorrow morning - bring it on!
See you there!

It's beginning to look a lot like Niche-mas...

It is almost here!
The countdown is dwindling down to a matter of hours before set up tomorrow!
Oh yes!


And guess who scored a head cold Monday morning.
Yep, all my days and nights of hard yakka and working my "Bread & Butter" job finally caught up with me and I have been cooped up in bed, for the past two and a bit days...

But as everyone knows...
The Show Must Go On!

I'm in the final stages of putting earrings onto their cards, making fridge magnets (hopefully!) and packing everything into their designated crates. I am so grateful that I have had an extra pair of hands - especially last night, Nathan came around to help stamp all the bags - what a legend! Goodness knows how many he actually stamped, he was a Top Stamper! Kudo's to him...

See you all at The Niche Market!

Am I Prepared? I Think So!

Oh man Oh man OH MAN!
Where are the hours going?
I am working my fingers to the bone, getting ready for The Niche Market as well as finishing up some wholesale orders too.

I am going to be super duper "prepared" for The Niche Market. No joke.

I ran out of red and black ribbon for the Wrap Bangles... so I decided to be a bit adventurous (and colourful!)...

Tangerine, Grape & Watermelon.

These three colours are so HOT! I am tempted to keep them all, but seriously, what would I do with nine bangles? I would look a bit strange wearing them all at once. But how awesome are these summery hues? I can't wait to see them truck out at the market! *wink wink!*


This may seem like an interesting photograph... yes.
I told you that I was getting really "prepared" for The Niche Market.

BAM!
263 pairs of button earrings.
Surely that'll do me for the three day event?!

AHHH!
Back to getting more blisters upon blisters.