Ideas and plans for 2016...

  I have lots of plans and ideas for Hunny Crafts Primitives in 2016.

 

To begin with...

 

 I just want to remind everyone of my 50% off sale in my Etsy shop, which is running until the end of January. I will be adding more items to the sale over the next couple of weeks.

 

Now for my ideas and plans...

 

I am planning to hold 2 or maybe 3 Open Houses at my home this year and if they are successful I will make them an annual event.  At my Open Houses I will not only have my items for sale I plan to invite guest crafters to display their wares also.

 

I will still be organising the Craft Fayres at work.

 

I am also planning on holding classes and workshops in sewing and cross stitch to begin with both at my home and where I work and I will expand on the class and workshop subjects as the year goes on.

 

I have been gathering ideas for cross stitch and needle punch designs from literature and my photographs. I will share these with you in due course.

 

Works in progress...

 

I have picked up my knitting needles again, I have two works in progress, a blanket and a pretty vintage sweater from my 'Knit Vintage' book, the pattern dates from the 1950's.

 

book front

 

the sweater I am making in teal

 

the back

The wool I am using is 4 ply mohair which is not the same as the book but I think it will have the same look.

Craft Fayre Success & Craft Club in the making...

The Craft Fayre I organise at my place of work which took place on June 18^th during the lunch period, was a great success. I don’t think we had as many folks through the door as we have in the past but I still had some great sales. Unfortunately though I took my camera I forgot to take some photos, what a der brain I am!!!

I have also been in discussions with someone to set up a Craft Club that people can attend in their lunch break, to meet like-minded people and to work on their works in progress.  We will also organise talks, demonstrations and classes. My next step it to write the proposal to get the go ahead.

Business tips and ideas...

I've been looking for ways to improve and build my little business. I purchased March edition of Country Living magazine the other day and they have started a new series entitled Let your Talent Shine. This Month is The Crafter. It is very good article full of useful and helpful hints and tips. I will certainly be giving some of these a try.

 

It spoke about doing craft classes, which is something I am very interested in doing and I am in the process of organising some to be held at work in the lunch break. These classes will help raise funds for the Breast Cancer Unit at Southend Hospital.

 

The article also gave some very useful websites to look at:

 

craftacreativebusiness.co.uk - for starting up and social media.

 

creativecraftbusiness.com - for new business e-course.

 

I hope those of you trying to do the same thing as me will find to helpful too.

 

Blessed Be

Julie x