Of markets and making

 We spent yesterday at the Watten Craft Market and enjoyed ourselves as well as having a successful day.

After the Pop Up we thought we could take along some things that hadn't sold, but also make some more things - like cards!

So my making this week has been mostly cards, but also some jewellery commissions.

I decided to make more of the flowers they have always been popular; and some sort of abstracted photographic ones that might suit blokes a bit better?

I am the world's worst at retail, and understanding what might sell, so who knows!?!? I made 4 of these and none of them sold, but I still think they are OK.

I sold a few of the flowers too, with a bit of interest in the hand stitched ones made using scraps, so I think the stitched detail made a difference for folk.

And then to the jewellery making. I sold a few pairs of earrings at the Market and a pendant so that was good. I don't have many pieces left which is also nice! I received a couple of commissions out of the Pop Up, so have to get down and get making, which I have done.

I need to make 6 small pebble forms, so here I made 7 just in case...

In high contrast, I also need to make a large pendant and a pair of large earrings. This means another 7 pebble forms, and here they are after soldering. I like the dappled light in the shed!

This is where I got to by Friday - pickled, polished and shiny!

And because art is life and life is art...

As I left a coffee shop the other day I noticed this wee scrap in the gravel. I picked it up and brought it home.

And then it became a wee bit of temporary art on a timber block in our window sill...