All packed and ready to go - part 2

Last week we were getting ready for the local Arts Club Christmas Exhibition and this week we are re-packing for the first of 2 Christmas events we are doing on the island.
Unfortunately the exhibition was a bit of a lt down as it wasn't very well attended and therefore I only sold a few bits and bobs but every penny will be going to the Bute Dialysis Unit Campaign.

Here are a few photos from the exhibition.

These were some of hubbies hand painted greetings cards.

Some of my handmade Christmas cards.

My hand sewn Christmas decorations.

My hand sewn covered notebooks.

I shall be taking these and some other items to the Christmas fair and am hoping for a better turn out although the weather forecast isn't looking too good. Never mind, hopefully the chance to see Santa will be a draw.

All packed and ready to go!

It is our local arts club Christmas exhibition and sale this coming weekend so the past couple of weeks has seen me trying to finish off my various projects and get them ready for the exhibition.

Everything has to be individually tagged and priced so that meant hunting around for the packet of tags I know is somewhere in the flat. In the end I had to admit defeat and buy a new packet!! Always the case when you put something in a safe place and then can't remember where that safe place was when you next want the item!!
Finally everything is tagged and packed up and ready for Saturday. Going to be an early start as we have to be down at the hall for 9am.
Thought you might like to see some of the items I have been working on for the past few months.

This is some of my festive bunting - all hand-sewn!

 

These are fabric covered notebooks and diaries. The covers are removable so when you have filled the notebook you can replace it.

These are some of my hand-sewn Christmas tree decorations. The hearts are made from scraps of tartan.

These are my new style of fabric brooches. Have been using up more of my fabric scraps making these.


These are something new that I have been wanting to do for ages but have been unable to find suitable frames here on the island but I recently found them online with delivery at no extra cost which was great.

The first 2 are textile ones, with yet more of my hand sewing skills on show!! The final one is a little mixed media one.



 

 

So as you can see I have been rather busy recently.

 

Hoping that we have a good weekend and get lots of people in to have a look at the art and craft work on display and for sale.

The club has a FB page that you can find here

 

 

 Happy crafting folks.

Not long until Christmas!!!!

Well, the last post I wrote here was just after the local Arts Club Summer exhibition at the end of July and now it's almost time for our Christmas exhibition which will be in a couple of weeks.
I've been making some suitably festive items and hopefully will be able to sell some of them to raise funds for our local dialysis unit, which is the organisation I am raising funds for this year.

Display has sometimes been an issue for me, especially as I don't have my own transport in order to cart stuff around but this year I have splashed out on a nice twig tree to hang these decorations on and I am sure they will look much nicer this way.

It's been nice doing more stitch work as a change from jewellery making.

Also made a small selection of greetings cards - still finding bits of glitter everywhere but hey ho, it is Christmas!!

Aswell, as doing the arts club exhibition I am doing a local Christmas fair the week after so hopefully I will be able to raise some funds for the dialysis unit

Right, now to get round to labelling everything!!