Saturday 14 April 2012

What a week!

Well it's been a week since I've become self employed and it's been hectic. I have discovered a few things:

1. Only one person mans the tax office telephones. (That's why I can't get through to anyone, right?)
2. I will have to extend my overdraft to pay for the unanswered but option filled phone calls to the tax office.
3. The people at the Job centre rock. They really want me to work.
4. The folks at Trading Standards also rock. There were some button eye issues, but after breaking into a sweat trying to pull one off, I'm pretty confident they're safe. I'm going to try a few creatures with embroidered eyes though.
5. The Tax Office sucks.

I managed to squeeze 29 hours worth of Jenny Sews related work in this week, which with a 4 year old off for the holidays was pretty tough. Not much relaxing this week for me! Thankfully my mum and sister took pity on me and took my wild animal beautiful daughter for the afternoon on Thursday and Friday.I'm not even going to pretend I'm not looking forward to school on Tuesday.

We did have a productive day today though, as she helped me build the new shelves for my stall.

She does not like the sound of the drill.




I have a nifty flowery hammer which unscrews to reveal all manner of different sized screwdrivers. I actually wanted to use that one myself but I was left with the regular ol' wooden one.



Once they were up I was very pleased.




As was Ruby. They also fit the kits on really well, but I think I'm going to rethink the packaging. Those cardboard tabs are already getting a bit tatty.




Next weekend is a big one craft wise, two fairs! Saturday 21st April I'll be at the Brymbo Enterprise Centre for the monthly Brymbo Community Market, I had a great time there last month and it seems the stallholder numbers have swelled dramatically, which is exciting.

Sunday 22nd April I'll be in the Guildhall, Chester for the How Bizarre Craft and Gift Fair, first time I've had a stall with this company, but I'm hoping it will be good. For further info, have a look on my website under "Fairs".


Now to spend the week sewing like a mad woman!



Ruby picked out her own outfit today by the way.

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