Sunday 29 April 2012

Project light box....or maybe not!

Yuck! It's still effing raining! I love a bit of precipitation usually, and heaven knows the garden really needs it too, but there are days when the weather just gets in the way. I had planned to spend this weekend taking photos of my cake stands outdoors, so that I could add more alfresco shots to my Folksy shop. But, it became obvious yesterday that that was never gonna happen. So, time to investigate what I could do indoors instead.

Yesterday we bought a new lawnmower (ooh exciting, I hear you say!). Well actually it was, because it came in a large box. Last night I enthusiastically chopped up the box, and set about trying to make a light box, after an excellent tip from Monkey and Squidge who had pointed me in the direction of this set of instructions. 

Well, after about an hour of scoring, cutting, and getting sticky with masking tape, I had a sort of light box to test. Not 100% the same as the instructions, but the best I could do without spending any money or heading to a fabric shop. No sooner had I pointed my lamp at it, then I realised one massive flaw in the plan. The cake stands are massive and way too big to photograph in the box, without the sides showing. After all that effort, the results looked rubbish. Doh! 

So, time for plan B. AKA the " lets just try something else" approach. So, I rolled out some white paper, pointed my light at it, and hey presto...no sides! 

The rain was still coming down like crazy outside and the sky was so grey that the light is still not right, but I'm reasonably happy with these. What do you think?


 


Saturday 28 April 2012

Fan Photo!


Remember I said that I'd sold a cake stand this week and posted it up North? Well, here it is in fine company with an elephant and her calf. I just love it when happy customers send me pics! Thanks Lindsay!

Friday 27 April 2012

Did I mention that I sold this lovely cake stand this week ?


Farewell my lovely cake stand. I hope you like your new home in the north of England

Time for a make over!

Hey folks - I thought it was time to give my blog a bit of a make over this week. After all, what's the point of having a new logo if you don't splash it about?!

So, once I uploaded the logo I realised that I could do loads more with this thing, and I started exploring options. I've added some page tabs along the top, added some side columns and even added my twitter feed. I'm secretly quite proud of myself for doing it all on my own, without any help! 

Let me know what you think!

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Busy busy busy!!!

Oh boy, have I been busy since my last post!

First up, I have a lovely shiny new logo, that was designed by the amazingly talented Julia Barber. I really like it, and have been slapping it on everything I can think of!!

On 21 April I had a stall at the Vintagenie Vintage and Craft Fair in Newbury, which was great fun, but really hard work to get everything ready on time. I met some amazingly talented other crafters, and sold a handful of cake stands too, which is a bonus!  Now I've done a craft show, I feel much more prepared for the next one. Watch this space for details!




And today, I've finally got my products online, with a Folksy shop. It took me a while to get going, as I had to get arty with a banner, but now I'm up and running I can't wait to load up more cake stands.