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…..

First Fair of the year and some Fathers day makes

Yesterday I did my first fair of the year. It didn’t start off well as when I arrived I found that they were also holding a car boot sale on the same site as well as the Scarecrow Festival. Had I known that I wouldn’t have agreed to a stall as car boot sales don’t really attract the kind of customer that is willing to pay a fair price for handcrafted goods. Anyway I was told to set up my stall in the field next to Linda who is a lovely soap maker. When I asked about cover they said its ok if it starts to rain you can come under the marquee we are saving for the Mayor!!. Bear in mind the Mayor wasn’t attending till 3pm to announce some competition winners!. After a lot of messing about they finally let us use half of the marquee. In the end I did ok and sold quite a few items but we ended up packing up by 12pm as it was raining quite hard so all the carbooters had gone and with them the customers!. We also got a £10 refund for the stalls which I think was quite fair given we had paid £25 each and the car booters paid £6!!. Anyway here is a pic of my stall….

This Sunday is Fathers Day and last week I was really busy making Fathers Day related orders from my folksy shop and Facebook page. Here’s a few items that may give you some idea’s that you might want to try and make yourself and if not feel free to visit my Folksy shop.

Touching Base

Just i quick post tonight to touch base.  It has been such a busy week.  i have a craft fair on sunday and typically have had a really busy week with lots of orders to make up.  So far this week i have had 20 orders which don't get me wrong is fab but as i have a craft fair to do on sunday it is eating into my stock so i have spent most of the week trying to make up more stock.  Anyway here is a few of the things i have made to replenish my folksy shop stock.

 Meet Maisy the sock mon key.  If you want a copy of the instructions to make your owm just drop me an e-mail to scratchy.cat@hotmail.co.uk