Our Image!

     My how time flies when you're bogged down with work, work, work! But this type of work is quite enjoyable so it's very easy to get lost in creating and forget to come up for air ever now and again.

     So what's been happening in the past week or so? Well we have decided to 'come out' at the 100^th year Dorrigo Show in late November, with a very individual looking stall. The look we are after is one that is quite rustic, organic and having a bygone era feel to it. The 2 trestle tables will be covered with a natural coloured hessian on top and a chocolate brown hessian wrapped around the base, with black thread stitching joining the 2 different coloured materials. I spent all Sunday creating the first one from scratch, not really knowing what I was doing but going through a lot of pinning and un pinning of the the 2 materials. We thought that it would be easy to stitch 2 bits of material together but the amount of material that we had, the fall of it over the table and the rounded edges of the table made the work a lot more time consuming than expected. After a full day of it I ended up being covered in scratchy hessian all over, but once the first one was finished the effort was well worth it. ( Photo of full table decked out coming in later posts ). The earrings will be displayed hanging from wrought iron hooks that are nailed all around into a cut off tree stump. Our business cards will be leaning on wrought iron swirls that are also nailed into branch off cuts, therefore giving everything that rustic organic feel.

Business Card Holders

     As for the marquee we are torn between getting a lovely cream and black marquee with wrought iron work on the frame, or getting your run of the mill brand and then adding our own stamp on it later on. You see the problem is that the first one is from Bunnings and not really made to pop up and down on a regular basis, it's more for making it once and drilling it into the ground. But the problem with the second one is that it's BORING!!! Therefore if we buy a standard marquee we would have to add a lot of our own character onto it to get it up to scratch and give it the rustic feel. But at least with the second one we wouldn't have to change or add to the structure so that it becomes a pop up and down marquee. So either way we would have to work on what ever marquee we get. That one is still on the drawing board!

     The next thing was our image.....this was so much fun because I got to do a bunch of 'girly' shopping, and trying on a lot of funky layered clothing. Steve was the perfect partner and instead of getting bored and complaining he just kept on bringing more and more outfits for me to try on. I'll post the final looks later, but to give you an idea of the outfits they were 8 items that could be intermingled due to the layered effect that we want. The colours used are black (of course! Ha-ha) maroon, cream and forest green. Think of a mixture of 'Little House on the Prairie' (layering) mixed with 'Hippy Punk' (colours) topped off/below with black boots! So I'm now decked out with my look but Steve's is going to be a bit harder because I'm going to have to actually make it from scratch! When he went to Finland this year he popped over to Sweden and bought all these patterns to make traditional viking outfits, eventually I'll make my own more traditional ones too but we need something for Steve to wear or else he'll get arrested at the show! Well we've bought calico material and dyes for the outfits but later down the track I will try to tackle making his loose flowing shirt and strange ballooning pants.........god help me!

We have also created our business cards............

Front

Back

Front

Back

and also some tags that will be attached to the cheaper items sold in plastic sleeves...........

These tags are designed to be bent and folded from the middle so the logo is at the front and the info on the back.

     

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We know that plastic sleeves are not traditional at all, but we also don't want sticky and oily fingers tarnishing the jewellery! So there have been a lot of compromises in the final look of 'natural, rustic and traditional', but hopefully when we do have our stall up and running the final look would be so appealing that market goers will just be automatically drawn to us.

Well our next project is in creating more items and jewellery designs!!!

So cheers for now xo