Last sat signified lunabliss’ comeback in the local craft fairs. Again,this was at the school where I first held court more than a year ago. After spending all Friday night organizing, decorating cupcakes and making hampers (with bacon baking all night) I was dead tired come Sat morning. DEFINITELY NOT WORTH IT!

It was a horrible poorly-attended fair. Only 30 pax actually managed to show up in the 3 hour space..and it cost me £10 which made it worse. We only sold two baskets out of 8 that I had made, 1 cake loaf out of 6 …but half of my prettily decorated cupcakes went for £0.40,which was quite cheap. Well, seeing that stupid bacon being cheapskate had not put enough dough in each cup (preferring QUANTITY) , I was surprised that any of the cupcakes went at all.Must be due to my decorating skills.

My pretty cuppas

Loafing around

Cakes and earrings

Pretty easter baskets - that no one bought:(

The chandelier that no one bought:(

Corner display

(and that was when my camera died on me…so ta da no more pictures!)

As the punters slowly trickled in, a husband bought a pair for his wife, which I thought was really sweet.My second customer was a little girl buying herself a basket..I actually felt bad like as if I was conning her out of her moolah.And then my neighbouring stall discovered me. She actually runs an accessories shop somewhere north of Leeds, and seeing that I was selling my stuff for cheap, bought some earrings and necklaces from me to sell at her shop. Me being really clever, went over to her stall and suggested a couple of designs that might go with her existing necklaces…and promptly sold another 3 pairs of pearl & crystal drop.

Then my neighbour from the other side (selling to-die-for bodyshop stuff - I bought a lipbalm) popped over and requested a made-from-scratch pair of seagreen crackle glass earring.And then suddenly I got loads of attention from kids re: cupcakes and started to do a suprisingly roaring trade - I think I sold more than anyone else in that fair.Seeing that there was only like 30 customers walking around.

I’m glad I was neighbours with the shop owner (which did not sell a thing by the way) - will try to sell stuff to her via her shop..as she charges £30 for a necklace whilst I only charge £10.But it is so tiring baking and going round to fairs, I think I’ll only do this again in Christmas. At least I recouped the £10 rental, most people did not even have that and it is sad.Oh, also realized bacon is a useless salesman. He tried selling off my baskets below cost to customers towards the end..after spending ALL 2 HOURS reading newspaper and chatting whilst I was trying so hard to make a living.GRR.

Waking up at 6.30am is never my forte…especially after making earrings until 1am the night before.Factor in the freezing cold of the morning,crawling out of bed has never been so difficult,the lure of the business that lays ahead did nothing to change that.

After we both managed to crawl out of bed at 6.45,I stumbled downstairs to make a flask of hot jasmine tea to bring along. We were supposed to arrive at 6.30am…got there at 7.30 and no one was there..other than the men setting up stalls for us. Bah..kena conned again.

After an initial flurry of confusion on where are our stalls ect…

We’re in business!

Due to the harzadous working condition that this designer had been subjected to (poorly lit studio aka living room),I noticed that crystals on my earrings are not always properly matched..one side green,one side blue.

So I set to work in the freezing cold…you try working without gloves at 1c and let me know how much fun that is..

As usual, I feel like a big fat wonton.I had my beanie on all day that when I eventually came home, I felt that I still had it on.

We stood around miserably as our neighbours started making brisk sales…whislt our stall was customer-less until noon…that meant 3 hours of standing around looking at other people making money..I nearly cried.

So, due to our business-less business, I started taking snapshots..which actually attracted customers to the stall because they were wondering what the heck was I doing..

Sorry,not very clear. My pearl necklaces saved the day

Modern variation of the classic pearl strand..My first sale was this in ah lien pink.

Floating pearl strands..very popular

Bacon bliss…bwahahahha!My Business Developement Manager

Earrings that did not do too well that day, I sold 6 pairs of my £8 earrings only..those of blood,sweat and tears

You can see the ahlien pink strand that was my first sale still there..

All in all, £100 gross profit of that day…could not find the organiser when we were clearing up, so did not pay the £30 rental! Hahaha..Yeah, I cheated,so what?

It was not really worth the biting cold…but it’s a good first proper try.What did I expect from a geriatic village?I told my mom that it’s filled with old people thus lunabliss is too hip for Morley,and she said that I should design to cater to the crowd..I explained that it was like selling earrings to my grandma and that shut her up.Hehe.

I miss my shareholders…*sniff*

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Woohoo!

We are going on sale again.This time at my neighbourhood Morley Christmas Fair.Crowd expectation? BIG.

Temperture?Freezing. I can’t believe I’d be outside all day this weekend..from stall setup at 6.30am until closing at 7pm. All for £30 a day.We’ll see how well I do on Sat,and decide if I still want to do it for Sunday, as Sunday I’d need to close early due to Si going out of town for work.

In the meantime, gotta churn them earrings out.Si’s off tomorrow as we are due at the registrar’s office,with him around,I can’t seem to get anything done properly,so here’s hoping I get at least 10 pairs of earrings out tomorrow

I seem to be running out of stock of the essentials as well,which is not good..i.e. hooks and headpins.This weekend might be a good time to get rid of all the pearl necklaces that I have in stock.Heck, get rid of all my earrings since we’re at it!I can’t wait to sell them all off..even though every single one is a little bit of me

As usual, no more fun and games for me till sales day..hopefully,this time it’ll be better than my last dismal sale of only 6 pairs of earrings

No more blogging,if I can keep my hands off the keyboard!

Ahh..the sweet smell of failure…

Arrived at hickstown high at 6.30pm…small litle hall mostly filled with fat,well-fed students smirking around with their chav-like hugeass 9k gold earrings. Oh god,am I screwed.

I must say, at the profit of £37 (excluding the £5 rental fee), I did pretty ok comparatively…the Ann Summers booth outside did not even draw a glance from the horde of grandmas and soon-to-be chavettes.I could’nt believe the nerve of one teeny chavette when she pointed to me real south sea pearls and told her friends ‘Oh,look at what I have on my neck’ and proceeded to show off her plastic pearl necklace

Enough bitching.

Learnt a couple of things…first, I need to make cheaper earrings. People snatch those up like hotcakes…although, admittedly, at £5 each or two for three, I ain’t exactly selling them for dirt cheap.

And then I need to make sure I’m not placed at the entrance. When people walk in, they are intruiged by my items,but are more interested in checking everything else out first,since I AM the first stall. And then they promptly forget,or have spent all their money on other things that they have none left

It’s quite touching and funny to see people spend money on you. One customer wanted 2 pairs of my £7 earrings and one £5 pounds. Obviously the £5 will be the free one.Poor girl only had £10 left, so I obviously could not give them earrings to her. She digged into her purse and found two £1 coins, and gave all her money to me and asked me what can she have.

I do feel somewhat guilty of charging at times like this.

Tomorrow will be the maiden voyage for {lunabliss} uk! I’ve booked a store at the neighbourhood Burntcliffe High for their pre-christmas/ladies nite fair.Getting quite excited and working my poor fingers overtime to ensure that I have enough earrings to sell and that packaging/pricing/display is all tip-top

Not actually anticipating many people though.It’s quite small,with only about 20 stores. They charge for entrance as well (wahlau just like clubbing ok), and thus far they had managed to sell 150 tickets,so depending on how well they do, will probably not exceed 200 people actually attending the fair.Will be a good first experience for me.

Ooo I’m so excited..I have about 100pairs but it seems so little when I’ve hooked them up on my display unit.Yep, don’t play play, I have a display unit ok! Mouahhaha

Wish me luck folks..no more blogging until after the fair..and no more Playboy channel too..

*reluctantly pulls herself away from the bouncing tits on telly…