Market Day

My wares set out, ready to hawk.

Finally did it - sold at a market, and it went bloody well. Weather turned out to be fine that day, and as it was election day in NZ, the venue at Berhampore School was also a polling station. So there was a bit of extra foot traffic

Must say I really enjoyed the day - it was actually very stress free compared to printing and binding everything madly over the past 10 days or so. Basically, I just chatted to other stall holders, drank coffee and chatted to customers.

All up, I think I sold about 50% of what I took to sell so it was more than worth it, but on top of the money it was a real-life focus group for designs, colours & products, and let me see what people will actually ‘go for’.

Keen for more. Will have to hurriedly print more stuff for the upcoming Xmas markets that remain in Wellington.

A selection of the cards  - Xmas and not.

New for Xmas 2011

We 3 Kingz: George, Elvis and Halie Selassie - King of Kings

 After avoiding printing in favour of the Rugby World Cup this year (and co-running the related blog over at ruggerblogger) I have finally gotten my A into G and did some printing. It seemed like I have hardly done anything in the last 12 months ... thought about it lot, designed a lot ... but printed nada. Not any more.

Printed a whole new set of Xmas cards for this year, including the ‘We 3 Kingz’ in red, gold & green design above, plus I have handmade a whole lot of small notebooks; brightly coloured with different cover designs.

Became a case of now or never -there is a Xmas craft market about 750 metres from my house, and if I never got around to printing and selling some wares this year, well I might as well have just given up.

So ... things are afoot. I have loads more pics and designs to come, will post them after the weekend’s market. Also looking forward to getting a Facebook shop and webstore up to sell to wider audience, to see if this will float as they say.

I should add that New Zealand’s All Blacks won the 2011 Rugby World Cup and I am pretty bloody happy about it.