This was a very useful and positive day for me. Setting out your stall makes those things you have been fiddling about with at home become real and you see what you would and wouldn’t do next time.
The market was very quiet, though I did overhear customers commenting that it was good to see more stalls there than usual. As a farmer’s market it was more about food and I do wish that I could continue to go there every month but Friday is not a good day. Hopefully there will be the opportunity of a Christmas market or perhaps a Saturday. I would like to be able to support the people trying to rejuvenate Altrincham market and will do whenever I can.
Taking the loom with me was worth the effort (you can see the corner of it in the picture above). I usually have the problem of people not realising that I have actually made the fabrics on show so having the loom there gave a reference point to get this across.
Happily I was set up next to Annalise and her cup cake stall and so was sustained with cup cakes throughout the day. I am still dreaming about the lemon and raspberry.
Miss M was quite shocked to become a working girl at such a late stage in life. She coped admirably and behaved impeccably, well, she did bark and scare people off occassionally but she was provoked……
