Last weekend we did our last fair/market of the season for FinestImaginary, it was held at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester and organised by the Manchester craft mafia. It was deifnitely the best fair we’d taken part in this year, a great group of sellers and a constant stream of customers. Nice! It was held in a really bright, high roofed gallery room, too, which made all the difference.
The weekend didn’t go without a few odd occurrences, of course, on the Saturday I broke a filling on a soft mint (wtf is that about, a soft mint?! jesus) and on the Sunday a giant bird (a woodcock) flew into the window behind us at full force and perished. o.O Anyway, I took a few photos of the event. If you came along I hope you had a great time, and if you didn’t then you should definitely come next year!
There were more photos taken by a friend of mine who somehow got roped into being the official photographer for the show, even though he’d just dropped in to do some shopping. I’ll see if I can find out where they are :)
God damn, I’m so frustrated right now. I’ve been busy working to prepare for the designer market that FinestImaginary will be selling at on Saturday, and because of other people things have been held up. Take for instance my business cards, there’s going to be press and trade at the event so obviously these are essential. I sent my design over on the 7th of September, after two proofs and a corrected design I confirmed my proof on the 21st. 9 days ago. After sending over 5 emails to different people in the company who I’ve been in contact with, I’ve yet to receive a reply OR my business cards… AND they’ve charged my card. Losers. If I don’t get them before Saturday I will name and shame, for sure. I have plans for some low-fi home printed cards if they don’t turn up, though.
Secondly… 120 necklace chains are somewhere between me and my findings supplier. Whut. This isn’t good, not good at all. They were posted first class last Friday, stupid royal mail. Alas, plans are in place for emergency chains.
I hate it when people don’t deliver, it’s the most frustrating thing ever.
In other preparing madness, I’m making an appliqued felt sign for the table, so this morning before 7am had even hit I was cutting letters out of felt. Oh, life. Spanish was fun last night though, Muy Bien!
Courtesy of random.org, the unimaginative number picker. I’ve included trackbacks in the entries, too, so those of you who blogged/tweeted have an extra entry!
Congratulations to those of you who won! You get to chose one of the face necklaces as your prize, I’ll be emailing you all this evening with the details. Sorry to those of you who lost out! Don’t worry, though, I’m going to have another contest next month for another new necklace design!
***** OOPS! Slight entry change due to my newsletter capacity running out! Instead, just comment telling me your favourite item in the store at the moment :) ******
Hey kids, the celebrate the release of my new ‘faces’ range of necklaces, I’ll be giving 4 lucky people their pick of a face necklace! That’s right, 4 winners :O The four new necklaces feature the faces of our favourite epic people, who’s your favourite? Choose between the pirate, cowboy, ninja or zombie. They’re currently only available on the finestimaginary.etsy.com store!
To enter, simple head on over the http://www.finestimaginary.com and comment here with your favourite item of jewellery that we have in store. I’ll announce the winners next Wednesday, and they’ll be picked by random using the random.org generator.
For an extra entry repost this on your blog and comment with a link to the entry. Also, you should really add this blog to your RSS feed reader, it’s only fair, right? ;)
Hey guys, I did an interview for my friend’s cute blog the other day, it was posted last night so you can go check it out and read! There’s also a sweet giveaway at the end, pick your favourite finestimaginary necklace and win it! :O Anyway, head over there for more details and to enter :)
Hi, I'm Kim. Between being a web designer and making pretty things I'm mostly interested in Creatures (regular and crypto), geekiness, my inner domestic goddess, drawing and coffee.
