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We are proposing having a MONTHLY Craft Market on the first Saturday/Sunday in each Month during September, October and November, hopefully December as well.

To be able to do this we need reliable and friendly Crafters to commit to the three months trial period.

For either Saturday’s, Sunday’s or the full weekends.

If customers/visitors know the same people will be there every month they will come back time and again for the Craft/s that have taken their attention.

This will encourage more custom into the Mill/Fairs as the reputation grows.

We are prepared to offer this trial for £20.00 per Crafter for the three months. That makes it £6.66 a table per day each month. Therefore restricting losses if any to a minimum.. If you sign up for both days per month this charge will drop to £5.00 per table .

i.e. £20.00 for the Sundays £20.00 for the Saturdays or £30.00 for the full three weekends.

We really require 20 permanent Crafters per day to make this work.

All monies taken will be used for….

Advertising
More Signs
Better Directional signs etc

If after the three months we have made no headway then we have at least tried.

I think you would agree that a Central Permanent Craft Centre in Stockport would be a fantastic idea.

Surrounded by the small traders in the Shopping Village it would hopefully encourage new traders to set up permanent shops.

We have heard that the Reddish Canal is to be re-opened and become a centre similar to Salford Keys.

If we had a thriving Craft Centre & Shopping Village it would make a fantastic Family orientated attraction that could more than rival Botany Bay.

Perhaps you are now thinking that I live in a dream world, well yes maybe your right, but when my mother was alive she used to always say something to me that has never left me, these few words.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
You have to speculate to accumulate.

I want to venture and gain, and I am willing to speculate to accumulate, but I cannot do it alone.

The one thing I MUST stipulate is that our Craft Market is for HAND CRAFTED ITEMS ONLY and this means hand made by ourselves not by some unfortunate soul in a sweat shop abroad.

Please give this your consideration and who knows, you may be in at the beginning of something fantastic.

If you are interested, please email me and I will forward a new booking form/commitment sheet.

Light and Love as always

Sandra

To email sandra replace the [at] with @   Sandra[at]EnchantedWorld.me.uk

Read and post here http://www.craftsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2433 

• I start a new course next week.Im making a headband with a spray of swarovski stars, after I abandoned the idea of making a tiara with metal peacock feathers, way too much soldering!
  Ive worked out how much wire Il need and where to get the stars from.
• 2 days to go.I roped in my male boss to putting a paper crown on his head so I could work out dimensions and angles etc he looks very silly.
• Went to classes last night and got some help from the teacher.
  He looked at my design and suggested that I taper the prongy bits so I had great fun using the squishy wire thingy, to look more professional I will refer to it as a tapering machine..
  I cut a length of 2mm thick wire, placed it in a corresponding groove of the tapering machine, which looks like a mangle,reduced its height so it grabbed at the wire then turned the handle so it was drawn through, making it thinner and longer as I moved it down the groove sizes.
  Then it was hammered to get rid of any lumps n bumps, filed to try to get it more rounded then sandpapered for smoothness.
  I made 3 of those yesterday, they still need some work to them but its a good start.
  I thought Id plan ahead and weigh a section of metal Id thought of using for the headband.A smaller piece than I needed cost £17!!Add on the prong prices and the stars and it adds up to £50!! I think I need to rethink what I use!!

  Ordered some stars to add to my creation.Ive been parading infront of a mirror holding the wire bit and the star in place and seeing how it looks.

  Getting annoyed of filing these prongs, but it must be done.
  Finally they are done, all 5,hopefully they are smooth enough to use.I now need to discuss how Im going to attatch them to the headband.

• The first half hour  of this lesson consisted of  a few of us trying to get a bird out of a new bendy ventilation pipe, about 20 feet long, that was being installed.After fashioning a prodding device out of thick wire and a cushioned big yoghurt pot to ease it along the tubing it finally made its way out.It turned out to be a baby magpie.All together now, aaaaahhhhhhhh!

  At the end of the lesson I had 5 prongs soldered together.It was a 2 person job.I soldered while the teacher was holding the prongs together as the flux bubbles up and pushes the prongs apart.
  Today at work I attatched the stars I bought to see how it looks, quite pretty!
  I have to shape it next week and make the main head band.Hope I get it done, next week is the last week.

  Finally it is done.I made a simple loop crown.After alot of cerfuffle with solder cutters that didnt want to cut I finally got the prongs into place and positioned the solder and I soldered it into place, when i say ‘I’ I of course mean the teacher and me.
  I now have a prongy head dress.
  It cost me just under £15 for the metalwork, not too bad in the end.