I cannot believe it has been almost a week since Clutter City already. It was wonderful this time around! I got to meet so many of my lovely online customers in person which was a real treat. Though I was struck by just how many of these local people had to go all the way to London to find out about my work - I really must do something about that.
I spent ages on this display but I'm afraid the pictures of it aren't brilliant because when I got my camera out at the fair I realised I had left the battery charging on top of the bread bin at home...what a muppet. Thank goodness for iPhones.
Anyway, about that tree:
I knew that I wanted to have some sort of tree in my display but after many lunchtimes spent trawling the (frankly rubbish) shops in town all I found on offer was god-awful shiny Christmas tat that I wouldn't have associated with my products in a month of Sundays. But then came the wind! Truly awful for many people in the North, but every cloud does indeed have a silver lining, and this one came in the form of entire branches broken off by the manic wind littering the ground in the park outside my house. I wrapped up warm, went scavenging for twigs in the dark and came home looking even more like a crazy witch than usual with wild hair and armfuls of wood enough to make ten broomsticks.
I then proceeded to fight my way up the stairs with them and tied them into a trunk at the bottom with about a mile of string, all the while doing a stupid sort of twirling jig to keep mad Maggie-cat from destroying the lot. After this little mini-drama I was left with a floor littered with little bits of bark and mud, various scratches on the ceiling, and a massive, beautiful twig tree. Totally worth it in my opinion. I stole a basket from the bathroom shelf and wedged my tree in with screwed up newspaper, then hung all my hoops on it sat beaming at the whole thing until silly o'clock, massively impressed with my own inventiveness/frugality! A lovely stylish centrepiece and all for the price of a reel of string.
However, getting it to Norwich for the fair in my friend's Mini was not so much fun! We somehow managed to get it there and back with not too many snapped twigs though (and only a few tantrums on my part...). Another argument towards my growing need for a Land Rover methinks. If only my darling tree didn't make such an appealing cat toy, it could stay in the house all year round.
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Since I got back I have been feverishly re-stocking the kits I sold out of to make sure there are enough to go around in time for Christmas, so if you see that a kit has sold out, the chances are it will be back in stock a few hours later - I am making them up as fast as my little hands will go!
Back soon,
Delilah x
