Day 5 !

I know this post wasn't actually on the fifth day of my challenge but I wanted to wait till I had done the craft fair and show the pictures from that day..So it was Saturday along Tottenham Court road (central London) in a church hall and it was really successful for the group as a whole I think, more customers and sellers too which is always fun, here are pics of my stall with my new cakes and birds, the cakes are in my Etsy shop now and I am putting the fabric birds on as soon as I have taken individual photos of them..

Day 4 !

Another day has come and gone, more positive and I got some things done, lots to do tomorrow though, haven't even planned my trip for saturday yet either which I have to do first thing. And I also have to make two commissioned christmas cards and design a cd cover for my cousin who is in a band and they are recording their first album very soon so it has to be done asap ! busy busy busy but here are pics of what I have done today, a small mitten ornament as influenced from somerset life magazine and my birds finished two with removable pins to wear and some more cakes in progress..
see you tomorrow when I will have made more mittens, christmas cards and jewellery ...

Day 3 !

Heeeeeellllllllllllooooooooooooooooo.. today was awful at work felt sick the night before knowing I was going in..but that's it, no more, I have decided that I have wallowed and moaned enough and I have to take a more proactive approach to getting things done and take my own advice for a change, (although I'm sure I will have another moan at some point)

Things to do ...

1. I am going to add to my blog on a regular basis and make it look more professional
2. I am going to write up a 'creative timetable' to keep me organised and motivated
3. I am going to send off submissions to magazines
4. I am going to do more to market my work
5. I am going to write a book (or two)
6. I am going to keep up with replies and comments on flickr and my blog and get more 'involved'
7. I am going to try and start an 'Artfest' UK event
8. I am going to try and teach classes
9. Make a success of my business so I can do it full time !
10. I am going to find my style
11. I will take better more magazine like pictures of my work
(12. ......and lose 3 stone !)

I have given myself loads of challenges so that I can at least accomplish a few in 2009, they are not really resolutions but a plan and I hope that you will all get on my back and hassle me because I have no will power sometimes and I need harassment !

There a happier more positive post and I am going to get on with making stuff I enjoy tomorrow rather than what I think other people will like.

As I like to put pictures on my blog posts but haven't any new ones today I will add these oldtime 'royalty free' dover book images that you can use, I am not sure how they will come out your end but have a go if it doesn't work very well I will try again next time..I have loads of these dover book I can't keep out of the place, they have a HUGE book for £120 which I am sorely tempted to buy on the history of the 'Circus' and it is packed with pictures I must get it for myself for Christmas !

Day 2 !

Today has been crap ! I spent all day in my pyjamas which was good but I got practically nothing done, I had lots of ideas but didn't know what I felt like actually making so I read craft magazines and books all day as well as the odd dvd and it is now 10.15pm and I have nothing to show for it and the fair is on saturday. I have to go in to work tomorrow which is making me feel sick thinking about it but I have thursday and friday off. But I also sold three items over the last couple of days which is good. I think I have annoyed a customer though as I put the wrong email down for a paypal account on one of my sites and I spent the last two hours or more sending paypal and the customer messages about trying to reverse the payment, it turns out after I called paypal that I had another account with that email address after all which I don't remember opening so I didn't need to send any of those messages or hassle them at all, I bet they wont buy anything again after that, I'm such an idiot sometimes.
I have also realised a problem with they way I make things and what I create, I am too focused on what I think will sell and what people will buy when really I should just make what I like however long it takes and sell that, I am a bit too obsessed with creating a viable business asap rather than becoming a recognised crafter or artist and getting sales and interest through that..
Anyway here is the only thing that I have completed today, embroidery on one of the larger white velvet and silk birds...
Conan the Barbarian is on at the moment too , how rubbish is this film !

Day 1 !

Ok, first daily blog.. today I have been a little distracted which is annoying because I have a lot to do and can't seem to get it together even though I have been overflowing with ideas these past few days, I am still up at 11.18pm here writing this and watching Along came Polly ! love that film, I feel I'm a bit like her but mostly like Michelle Pfeiffer in Frankie and Johnny that is so me, like my art styles and methods I am a complete collage of totally different things myself and sometimes I am not sure who I really am as a person because there are so many different bits to me...sorry getting a bit deep there so here are some pics of what I have been doing today, making more birds in a vintage colour scheme and making a miniature dress as well as finishing the coloured birds. You can't really see but the natural birds are different textures and fabrics, linen, cotton, velvet etc and I am going to embellish them with ribbon, crystals and maybe some embroidery.