I am going to GIVE IT A GO!!!!
After months of wallowing, today is the day!
Early this year a thread came up in my towns local onlline site calling for local artisans (I suppose) and offering space to rent in a soon to open shop, slap bang in the middle of town to which I responded.
The idea was to rent a shelf, a unit or space within this shop to display and sell your wares ... I thought I could do that so responded to the owner.
I showed my wares and we also discussed hanging a cot quilt behind the sales counter where it could be admired but not touched by sticky hands and displaying and hopefully selling my butterflies ... then the UK was locked down ...
In the last month Ken, the man behind the idea has got the shop ready, filled and he opened on the 1st of this month ... Was I there? Were my wares?? Was I hell!
I suffered as usual from a complete crisis of confidence .....
But TODAY is the day!
I have sewn and attached a temporary Hanging sleeve to the Cowboy quilt ...
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I have magnetised and found a way to display my butterflies, I have pictured them along with a brief bit of info and (most importantly) their prices in a book for people to peruse,
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I have packaged my coasters and found a nice way to display them and today is the day!
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I'm not going to devalue my (and Elvistoos) work and am hoping that having somewhere to display my quilts (£££) might lead at least to a sale or perhaps to a commission.
The Initial coasters I'm selling for £12.50 each, the mandala coasters for £10.00 and sewing cases (you might recognise your prototype
@Lilian ) will be £15.00 small £20.00 Large.
All the small things can be made to order with a lead time of a week, sent direct to the purchaser for £1.50 (thinking daytrippers/holidaymakers here) or collected ...
Im also hoping to set up a small... well tiny ... website as I have finally regained ownership of the name iminei.co.uk which is printed on all my cards ... So people could look through what I do .. and maybe order through there too .
So ..... Today will be the day!
I better post this before I lose my nerve ... I must be mad!