Monthly Archives: May 2016

Another curry and some Whittakers later. Also some ferocious exercise at the pool where it does not matter that I have cried because noone notices, I have come to a decision:

I never want to go back to a market again!

I am SO sick of those awful pseudo creative people that interrogate me about my patterns (“Aha, aha, and how did you do that? What kind of stitch is this? I have never seen anything like it. What is this? Aha, aha, interesting!” and tell me straight to my face that they would not buy anything but instead go home and copy me. Happens very once in a while but once in a while too often.

Does anyone of those fuckers know how it feels to stand behind a table that displays their soul?
I feel I could as well be stripping on the same table- I doubt it would feel any different apart from likely walking away with more money in my bra!

I am also so fucking tired of people being to cheap to spend $70 on a loop that took me 5 hours to make and used up $50 worth of wool (that I got cheap so passed on the discount to the buyer) and then head off to buy a coffee for $5. You know what! Go and buy the cheap and scratchy Made in China stuff instead because I have had it!

Thanks so, SO much to my friends though for their invaluable support and faith over the last couple of years- I loved to crochet for you and will not stop!

The day after…

The day after…
I think I am having a midlife crisis! Here is proof: look at how I got dressed this morning. Mustard yellow! What sane brain would choose that colour???
Plus my home towns soccer team fan scarf- because there is hope they won´t relegate into third (!!!) division. Could sports life be any sadder? Not even the Phoenix can fall that deep!
Lucky for me Whittakers if bringing out 5 new bars of artisan chocolate today. At least I can drown my sorrow in chocolate!midlife crisis

Lucky me I have the best husband in the world who knows me well. In times of crisis there is nothing more comforting to me than indian food! So he sacrificed himself (not keen on curry himself after having had to eat way too many with me!) and brought me some for dinner!
So I had NO nightmares and instead was even productive and made a bunch of flowers before going to bed!

Now I am off to the Roxy- but I have to warn you: I just ate the leftovers from yesterday!
So if you come and visit me I will be happy and excited and probably a bit smelly (yum yum garlic, yum yum ginger!) ;-)!Curry

Every time before a market my nerves are starting to flutter. Have I packed everything? Will my table look interesting? Will people be looking at my stuff and buy something or will I go home with what I brought? And suddenly I am beyond the point where I find everything I have made absolutely awful and am already deeply ashamed by the sheer thought of putting it out for sale.
Tonight I will be having nightmares about not selling anything. Or arriving too late. Or both. Because I always do.

The good news is: once I have set up my tableI will be allright *knock, knock*. It´s just a weird form of stage fright!
So please, come along tomorrow because the best part of markets are all the people involved :-)!Diagonal Striped Gloves