little birdie bye bye

Does this look familiar?

It should if you've been following my blog. This is what it looked like last time you saw it.

Only problem is, without my bling it looked really boring. Since I was taking it to the market, boring was something I couldn't have.

So I decided that the cage area needed a bird. And a nest.

The nest was easy - I rolled and looped and stitched some jute string into a nest, added some pearl beads as eggs and voila. Nest.

Then I made a bird. A little floral pink bird. From a pattern I thought up in my head.

Turned out it wasn't quite right. Cute, but not right.

 

So, like that joke - what did God say when he created Adam? "I can do better if I try again" so he created Eve -

I tried again and made this little cutie.

Much better huh?

Here is the little canary in the cage with its nest.

 

I'm proud to say this little canary has found a new home with Kylie who also had a stall at the Shabby Market. You may have noticed the little birdie I got from her in my post yesterday...

Cute huh?

z

spam comments - help!

I've been getting emails telling me of new comments on some of my blog entries. All anonymous and all spam - they're basically links to dubious websites. The last one I got was to a porn site.

I never click on the links, never even clicked on the link to see the actual comment on my post, thinking it was just a spam email that would unleash a vicious virus and destroy my computer if i clicked on any links in it.

But its not. Its actually a spam comment on my blog! Now I'd have to go back through all my blog posts and weed them out and delete them.

Is there any way that anyone knows to actually stop spam comments on a blog on blogger? I dont really want to resort to the verification text thing...

help!

z

simple christmas decorations

I'm not all that into the big traditional Christmas thing. I've never had a Christmas tree since I moved out of home. It seemed rather pointless when living on my own. Then, later, something small and slightly offbeat seemed a better way to decorate the house for Christmas.

This year I had some bedsprings I wanted to do something with. I bought some wooden stars and put them together to make these:

Aren't they gorgeous? So simple yet so interesting!

Well, I took them to the market with me thinking I would sell them. I'd keep one for myself and sell the others....

It seems I'm the only person who finds these little beauties irresistable. One person picked one up and looked at it, not even asking for a price. No one else even seemed to notice them! 

How strange.

Maybe it was meant to be. I mean, I loved them so much I was torn over selling them in the first place. Maybe fate steered everyone away from them so I could keep them.

Then again maybe it was the way I growled when anyone went near them that put people off!

z

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the shabby market

The Shabby Market has come and gone. Some of my things came and went with it, others went away forever to new homes.

I'm actually really happy with how I went with my first market stall ever. But I learned a few things along the way too.

For one thing, I suck at setting up a stall. Sure, my stuff is all so different it makes it hard to set things up with any kind of uniformity. On the other hand, I simply suck at putting things together in a way that makes sense and displays things to their best advantage in 1.5hrs.

Another thing I learned was that the layout of the stall I chose was probably not the best. I had to set it out in a manner which allowed people access to the window where I had the suncatchers and windchimes hung. Next time I'll make a 'tree' of some sort to hang them off. As it was, people had to enter and walk around my U shaped stall to see everything and when I wanted to wrap something I had to kneel on the floor struggling with paper and rummaing under tables for sticky tape and string.

Not a pretty sight.

Next time I'm going to do it differently.

I'll be more organised. I'll start labelling, pricing and packing the week before the market.

I'll set up a table to wrap on and a chair to sit on that's not in the way.

Next time I'll find a way to display things in a way that people can see them better.

Still, all in all, I did pretty well and sold lots. Even traded a couple of things with other stall holders!

The market was a success. Lots of people came despite the fact that it was an unusually hot day for Hobart and was so windy most of the outdoor stalls had to pack up early. 

It was the first Shabby Market as well, so not its not yet well known, still we had quite a few people go through. 

The hall looked fabulous with the stalls and the banner made especially and the way it was laid out. It was a great day and I loved meeting some of the ladies I'd only ever seen on Facebook.

I'll definitely be doing this again.

But next time I'll be more organised.

z