2011 craft fairs - Bridge of Allan and David Lloyd

I realised I haven't posted about 2 craft fairs I attended this year. The first was the Bridge of Allan Art and Crafts festival. This was held on Nov 5th this year, and was the first time Bridge of Allan, just outside Stirling in Scotland, had held this sort of event. I grew up in Bridge of Allan so it was great to be able to take part. There were 3 different venues in the village, and I was in the Royal Hotel.
This is the facebook page for the festival: click here
It was a great success, with loads of different artists there. I had a lot of lovely comments about my jewellery, as well as some sales. I also had some ideas to expand my range after suggestions from interested people. If I met you at the craft fair, thanks very much for looking at my work and stopping to chat. I received so many nice comments from people, it was really encouraging!
I even made it into the paper as a result of the fair...

That's me, bottom left of the page!

I also took part in the David Lloyd Anniesland Christmas Fair at the start of December. Unfortunately it was less of a craft fair than just a sale - mostly manufactured stuff; I think I was the only one selling hand-made items. Which meant I was quite a bit more expensive than everyone else! However, I made a sale which more than made up for my time there that evening. Thanks to everyone who took a business card and stopped to chat :o)

Hopefully in 2012 I'll attend some more sales, and I'll try to post advance notice on this blog for anyone who'd like to come along. I'd really like to get a stall at a high class craft sale, but we'll see what comes along....

The end of 2011...

2011 is almost over! I'm hoping to make 2012 the year of my jewellery - at least as far as I'm concerned. I hope to be able to update this blog more frequently, and also post more pictures of my jewellery pieces. I'm hoping to expand my soutache jewellery, and also start on my bead embroidery pieces as well - I've made a few but not enough to put on the website yet. This is my resolution for 2012!

I'm also going to occasionally post some reviews of bead shops around the world. This might sound a bit odd, but wherever I go I always like to try to find a bead shop, because you never know what you're going to find. So I go to local bead shops in Scotland, but also far away bead shops, like Las Vegas, Rome and Vancouver!!