Well after weeks of sewing, screenprinting panicing & preparation the day finally came! Here's the entire stall with both mine and Lucie Maslin's creations :)
The craft stalls were selected to be part of the 'University of the Arts London Alumni Summer Fete' held at the parade ground at Chelsea College. Most of the other stall holders were graduates with their own small companies so there was a really vast range of work. And we soon became aware we were the only LCC-er's to many peoples surprise...
We did okay on the day, sold more than one item anyway as a certain someone had predicted :P Turns out theres a few Bowie fans and stamp fans out there- a rather niche market i guess. Spread the word a little about the lovely cut-out screenprinters as well hopefully :)
Came away with a profit (enough to buy a steak each and Daim cake to celebrate with in the evening :D), but have enough left over to plan for an actual craft fair. That seemed to be the problem on the day- the majority of the people were distracted more by the free stone carving and screenprinting activities going on at the same time. However, we met some lovely people, traded some good advice and shared a lot of random banter....
All in all, a good way to spend a summer's day.
So due to the fact we seem to not want to rest this summer, me and Lucie's next plan is to have a stall at the Euston-based 'Craftwerk' on 1st August. Plenty of time to make more things before then, and maybe time to put our feet up somewhere along the way.....
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