2010 Craft Fayres

All the accounts and tax returns are completed, apart from meetings with three clients for signatures and then for me to submit the returns online.  Phew I really didn’t think I was going to get them done on time and have time left over to get myself organised for our first craft fayre of the year.  At the worst I could have just picked up the boxes from December’s craft fayre at Cranham but I am tweaking again.  I do like to have different items at each fayre and I having been designing a new range of jewellery specifically for the fayres. 

Terry has booked four halls for this year so far and we are both astounded that we are almost fully booked with stallholders for all of them.  We need to check with a couple of regulars on Saturday who are coming to the Uley Valentine Craft Fayre to see if they want the available spaces we have left at Minchinhampton and Leonard Stanley.

We’ve had to say no to several crafters who are making and selling products similar to stallholders, who  have already booked, so that we don’t have duplicates.  We’ve also had stop taking bookings for Uley and Sheepscombe because they are fully booked. We could have taken another half a dozen at both if we wanted to squeeze the stalls in like sardines. That is something we are not going to do.  We want space for both exhibitors and for our customers to move around freely.

Terry and I both hate turning people away so we are now looking at bigger village halls.  It will be very interesting to see how the Minchinhampton Easter Market and Craft Fayre goes.  That is in the village market hall and we have booked both the undercroft and the hall above it so we have more space available.

This coming Saturday at Uley Village Hall we have a lovely variety of stallholders with our regulars and also several new exhibitors.  We are both looking forward to the day, it will be a lot of fun.  If you are in the area please come and join us, we would love to meet you.