Cross fingers and toes please

OK its my first foray into the markets this weekend under the banner of Cloud Seven Design, am I nervous? Hell yeah.

This is probably more due to the fact that if I arrive there at a sparrows fart and they don't let me in I (and my husband) will be spewing.

I am hoping that the Showground ladies will be customers of mine from illahie, my just recently sold fabulous business and they welcome me with open arms full of love and encouragement........maybe a bit extreme but hey who says you can't manifest wonderful things, but thats another blog altogether.

So the biggest market all year up here on Mount Tamborine, very exciting, a regular market day here sees a sea of cars as far as the eye can see so maybe getting there at 5.00am won't be a bad idea, even if I don't get a stall site I will be able to do some Christmas Shopping!

So if you want a lovely day out, on a lovely mountain, 5 degrees cooler than down Coast or in Brisbane, have a nice drive through the rolling hills passed the horses and the cows, enjoy a scruptious lunch, check out the wineries and most important of all get to the markets and buy something from me at Cloud Seven Design - its the big red tent you can't miss me!

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Its the little stuff....

You know I have been working my butt off lately(unfortunately not literally) making my jewellery and what not to get to the markets over the next few weeks.



This is all good and well and the jewellery is really nice and all, but its the amount of hours that goes into making jewellery stand out. By this I mean the merchandising of our work and I mean our because most of us, crafters and artisans, it seems these days put a lot of effort into our tags, our gift wrapping and our image.



I must admit I am particular about this stuff, which is obvious given that I am blogging about it, because of my years and years and years of merchandising and retail. The people who knew my retail store, illahie home and lifestyle which I recently sold, know how image particular I am and I personally believe the same goes and should go for our market stalls and online stores. Unfortunately, as yet, I am not as good online as I am in the stall :s



So the point of this blog?? I guess I just want people aware that although you might look at an item and think "that price is a bit steep for a market ", think about all of the other things these crafters and artisans have put their time in, they haven't just gone to a warehouse or looked through a catalogue, they have sat and thought for possibly hours on that one detail to provide you with a not only stunning item but a well presented item too.

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This is what I have been up to this week....

......and its only Monday!

I have just put these babies up on my etsy site cloudsevendesigns.etsy.com.

I hope you like them!

Interruption

This is something to get used to, as a mother of three small children, my life is a constant interruption, so I squeeze in small bursts of creativity and now blogging is a squeeze in as well.

I am just about to run out the door with a fist full of new rings to sell through the Last Tango Boutique, up here in Mount Tamborine.

Jodie, the owner has been a fantastic support for my creativity and I am so lucky to have her on my side.

The new rings have been created from an old typewriter my father gave to my children. Since they have computers for themselves the novelty of pushing down keys didn't really capture their attention as he might of hoped (oopsie, sorry dad). Anyway, I saw that beasts potential and started ripping off its keys and low and behold jewellery.