Just booked a stall at Keele University Christmas Market
http://www.kusu.net/christmas-market/articles/christmas-market.html
Tuesday 8th December – Food, gifts, Santa’s Grotto, live reindeer(!), mulled wine.
Open to students and the public. Hope to see you there!
Spent most of yesterday getting our new website sorted. I’ll probably add to/change things around before I’m completely happy with it but it is now live.
HouseOfSalvage.co.uk
Our event dates are on there, contact details, about us, pictures of our products etc. Essentially it’s to make it easier to give out web details (one easy to remember address) that links everything else (blog, etsy etc)
Our new email is: enquiries@houseofsalvage.co.uk
Our Twitter name has also changed to “HouseOfSalvage” but shouldn’t affect anyone who’s already following (other than seeing a different name on their feed)
Should probably go and make something now, lol
One rainy day at the craft fair Danny got bored and made a pom pom. He then wanted a hat to put it on so we made him one in his team colours.
Commissioned scarf for Helen to match a pair of gloves she bought from us a few weeks ago.
We were at Sheffield Hallam University today. They’ve just started having a ‘mini-market’ in the entrance hall of the Student Union building. Lots of interest in our products and reasonable takings considering it’s a relatively new event so foot-flow could have been better (and hopefully will be once the students get to know that it’s there). Students seemed to really like our stuff as well which is fab!
Now we’re just hoping that the rest of the weekend is as good haha.
Finally got a picture of the mohair gloves before selling them!
Thanks to a very nice lady called Carol from the UK Craft Forum for giving us a massive bag of yarn so we could make some more of these fabby mitts!
http://www.craftsforum.co.uk/
Put our first lot of items on Etsy today.
Buy Salvage: www.salvagecrafts.etsy.com
More will be added soon but the camera batteries ran out so couldn’t take any more pictures.
Today was a little better than yesterday. Fingerless gloves are big sellers – especially teal mohair ones. Really need to find more of that yarn. Also sold our first tea pot cozy!
Lots more people trying things on though so hopefully with the cold weather coming and people starting to actually buy christmas presents (rather than just browsing) things will pick up in the next few weeks.
We revamped our stall today. Added more height with the help of an old bookcase. It seemed to work as a lot more stuff was at eye level. Didn’t sell any more but more things were noticed/commented on which has to be a good thing.
Still pretty slow but people have to start buying for Christmas soon, right?
Back in Bakewell again tomorrow.
