Preparations for November Craft Fair

We have both been thinking about how to mount our canvases at the next craft fair in the castle.  We had assumed that we could use the pegboard again, but last week Alison said she thought they would be needing it for their own use.  We had also been offered a new site - on the staircase!  It was dirty, dusty, off the beaten track and smelled of cat pee.  So we said it wasn't suitable.  It wouldn't have been suitable even if it was clean, well lit and in the main area because there was no way to show our canvases!

Last weekend Alison said she would 'up grade' us to the Baron's Hall where apparently  the charges are higher.  This still left us with the quandary of how to display the canvases.  We finally settled on using two framed tressils joined with metal tubes for stability and rigidity.  The final assembly would need to be leaned against a wall, just as the pegboard was.  We bought the bits and pieces on Monday and assembled it yesterday and it looks good.  Disassembled it will fit in the car easily along with the canvases.

Yesterday and this morning I have been printing three copies of ten different greetings cards.  It proved impossible for me to print out the cards using just Elements11 tools, so I eventually tracked down a couple of templates, one for upright and one for landscape cards.  These worked fine with a couple of 'nudges' towards the middle.  I have now printed them all out, put them with envelopes and a business card into cellophane sleeves and they look very swish.  I made a temporary box to hold them and maybe it can be used for display.  I'll leave that to Luke.

So all I have to do now is print out a few more notices, then tomorrow pack all the canvases I have at home ready to take down.  It looks as though it will be dry tomorrow for set-up day, thank goodness, and in fact dry for the whole weekend.

Unfortunately, there is also a 'Christmas fair' at Shincliffe nursery on Sat and Sun, but I don't think it'll be much competition - seems to be Santa's grotto and foodstuffs mainly.  So, fingers crossed that we will sell even more than in July.