Craft Fairs & this weeks projects

Last weekend i did a craft fair weekend at Backridge Farm in Clitheroe.  Its not a place i have visited before but a lovely lady on Folksy contacted me and asked if i wanted a stall as i don't live that far away.  If you live in the area and haven't visited Backridge Farm go and visit soon. Its a lovely place with some fab craft and gift stores and a lovely tea room boutique.  They have animals, play equipment and a really nice restaurant.  Anyway back to last weekend so i had a stall on the saturday and sunday and met some lovely stallholders.  A good time was had by all and the weather on sunday was glorious.  Here's a pic of my stall..

 All but one of my tissue holders were snapped up.  Better get making some more for my next one

 Both These owls sold and are now off to new homes!

 My scented candles in jars were very popular...

 MY large teapot is my favourite wooden item at the moment.  I just love it.  If you haven't tried making wooden keepsakes before give it a go they are really easy.  All you need are blank shapes,paint, gel pens and embellishments.  www.daisymoondesigns do some fab blanks (including the teapot) if you want to give it a whirl.  if you don't want to make some yourself i have loads for sale in my folksy shop 

 These wedding day keepsakes proved popular too.

My next craft fair is next weekend so i need to get crafting and candlemaking as my stock is low after a busy weekend !

Looking to the future

As most of you probably know I have been trading on Folksy since earlier this year and things have been going ok. My shop has all my crafty makes in which are mainly fabric and wooden items. I recently started making candles (which has been on my to do list for like forever!) and have decided to start selling those too after a request on my facebook page. Now here was my dilemma do I add them to my original scratchycat shop or start a new one separately?. From a promotional point of view it would make things easier and make more sense to add it to my existing shop as that is now well established. However never being one to take the easy option I have decided to start up a separate shop in which I will just stock my candles, tealights ,wax melts etc. I think this looks better and is a candle onestopshop so to speak. Here are a few items I have stocked so far…

  Yummy smelling baby powder melts and fresh linen scented melts.

 Honeysuckle melts

 delicious chocolate scented tealights

 Lavender scented tealights.

I have decided only to use natural products such a soy wax and esential oils so that they are good to the environment. If you get a minute would you pop over and take a peek at it as I would love any comments anyone might have…..

All things smelly

Today's post is about a couple of new crafts i have tried out recently.  The first is candle making.  This craft has been on my list to try for years and i never seem to get round to it. Anyway after some fab advice off the lovely Lisa over at Kandipandi's pad i bit the bullet bought a kit of ebay containing soy wax,colouring,fragrance oil and melt trays and made some wax melts.  I have to say i can't believe how easy it was and now I'm addicted!!.

 I also made some heart shaped melts using a silicone ice cube tray.

 At weekend we went to visit my best friend in Kent.  i always like to take something homemade along so i decided to make some hand scrub.  Such an easy project it will only take you 5 minutes to rustle it up.

If you want to make some you will need 2 1/2 cups of sugar (i mixed brown and white), 1 cup of sunflower oil and 4 teaspoons of vanilla extract. Mix it all together in a big bowl and then put into a jar.

 I made this jar by taking an empty plastic jar which had a horrible red lid and added scrapbook paper to the lid then stuck a ribbon around the edge. then i decorated a wooden tag with paper and wrote on it in marker.  i made a paper flower and added a brad to the centre and stuck on the top of the tag then tied with raffia tape.