When I first started to think of what I should sell I had fanciful ideas of clips, and earrings, and headbands, and skirts, and dresses, and rompers, and bloomers. After all these are all things I make for my own children and as gifts for those I love.
I managed to knock out this little ruffled cuteness for a baby shower last weekend!
Then I reminded myself I am just one person and my kids don't have a pause button. For future markets there will be time for me to add all sorts of things, but mostly I just want to fill my table with bright colours, and hairclips are my favourite thing to make my girls.
So I have been madly working away at making enough sets of hairclips to fill an entire folding table. Each night when my darlings are asleep I can be found cutting out circles, folding delicate petals, and hand sewing til my thumb is a funky shade of ouch.
An unexpected addition to my stall is earrings! My first order of covered button kits arrived only to be a fraction too small for my flowers. Never one to be beaten, I quickly ordered the next size up, along with a bag of earring backs. Having never made earrings before I figured some research into the best kind of glue was in order.
The best part about this is I now have three pretty new pairs of earrings myself! I wore each pair all day, and in the shower, and slept in them overnight to make sure the glue was going to do the job well. Having decided which glue to use I set about assembling all the little buttons I'd covered into earrings.
There's one bag, pre-assembly. I do love me some covered buttons! My glue sure does work a treat too, it took me half an hour to unstick myself from the tube once I'd finished.
The markets are on Saturday, February 21st from 3pm - 7pm at Deception Bay North State School for anyone who wants to come along and high five me!
Happy Days!
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