If you’re waiting for an order, I’m hoping to get them all sent out soon!  I am working on them as hard and as fast as I can.   If you ordered at the Cheshire Show, I’ll be posting your order out on Monday or Tuesday the 13th or 14th.  If you ordered at Capesthorne Hall Hot Air Balloon Show, I’ll be posting your order out on Thursday or Friday the 16th or 17th.

orders waiting

Your order will be sitting amongst this little lot, but I have made a start on all of them, believe it or not.  It can be a time-consuming business because everything I paint needs at least a few layers of paint and maybe varnish.  I tend to work in batches, doing all backgrounds, or all detail, at one time.

I may see you at the Stockton Heath Festival tomorrow (11th July 2009) - it should prove to be an excellent event.  Let’s hope for sunny weather!

What a fabulous day it was yesterday at the Cheshire Show.  If you were there too, in whatever capacity, I hope you had a great day too.

My customers were all fabulous!  Everyone was lovely.   Other stallholders were lovely too.  It was great to put names to faces of people I’ve met online on the craftsforum. 

The sun shone all day, but it wasn’t clammy like the day before.  It was a shame to be inside a marquee all day (although I could think of many worse places to be!) but it was lovely on the rare occasions I ventured outside for loo breaks.  Speaking of which, I was amazed and impressed that the toilet facilities were kept clean, were fairly plentiful, and replenished with loo roll and hand towels.  Doesn’t take much to please me does it?!

If you were one of my customers, or potential customers, thank you.  You all collectively put a smile on my face yesterday.

I’m sitting here at the Cheshire Show, typing this in between chatting to the earlybird customers.  It’s just gone 9am, and looks like it’ll be another hot day.  Yesterday was hot, clammy and airless in the marquee, which made people want to exit asap - not brilliant!!  However, it was a good (if slightly sticky…) day and enough people braved the clammy conditions to keep us happy!

Today is the second and last day of the Cheshire Show, but the Capesthorne Hall Hot Air Balloon Extravaganza in Macclesfield is hot on its heels.  It starts on Friday afternoon, and runs into the evening, is on all day and evening till 10pm on Saturday, and runs all day into the evening till 8ish on the Sunday.  Phew!!  Long days, but should be great fun.

As well as making up customer orders, next week will be spent replenishing stock so I can add names, dates, messages, etc., to items and gifts at the fair.  It’s all hand-painted at the moment so pretty labour intensive!

I forgot to bring my camera today, but I’ll try to remember it for the hot air balloons!  It’s the first one I’ve been to and I believe they are amazing.

Will you be at the Cheshire Show next week on 23rd and 24th June?  I’ll be there with some of the 1st Unique Gifts goodies - please come and say hello!  It’s a massive event - there’s more info here:

www.cheshirecountyshow.co.uk

It should be a great day out! Let’s hope for good weather - always improves a day, doesn’t it?