Alston Craft Fair

I have been making and packing and sorting and pricing for what seems like weeks now and today I will be driving instead - to Alston to set up for the three day Christmas Craft Fair
The shed looks like a warehouse. I will try to take some good pictures to share with you after the weekend.

In the meantime, I have been coming to terms with a change in identity. Anyone who is interested has usually discovered what Chinese Year they were born in and will tell you they are an Ox or a Tiger or whatever. Well I found out that I was born in the year of the Monkey many years ago. I was OK with that - rather liked the image. So reading a bit more about this the other day I discovered that the New Year falls a few days after my birthday so I was really born in the Year before the Monkey. I am coming to terms with being a ............. Sheep.
now if you're still reading, I also thought myself to be a Fire Monkey. No. I am a Wood Sheep.
Hooray.
But anything is better than being born in the year that is about to start in 2008....... the Year of the (sorry Mum) RAT!!!!!

right - enough of that - off to pack the car

Comments

[Dad]

Mum, in common with the entire population of the Isle of Man refuses to use that word and always spells it out...R...A...T.

[Peter.T.Wintergreen]

i cant see see those photos so i can pass comment but i recon it will involve wool, the house, the woods, the dog, dad, owen, kniting mates, somthing from the oxfam shop, some kind of tasty food, martha, some shelves with the beano pasted on them, somthing you saw on the way back from work, a pretty spiders web, me, baby photos, the vergin mary, a bottle of gordons dry london gin, a bloody ear, miss marples at age 17, owens friends, somthing from spooks, a sunset, a sun rise, the lake with ice on it, the golden lion, a bacon sandwich owen made, the shed, some kind of felt necklace, annie, sue, a hurd of cows which are black and wight, the car, the pile of wood i mabe that is most class, a sheeps scull.
i could go on but i might not.
i hope one of the things i said is in these photos.
i´ll call u laters

[Lucy Locket-Pocket]

Good luck at the Craft Fair Katie - I hope it goes really well - wish I could come and see it but I think we are too busy! I'd love to buy some badges from you though so let me know sometime what you have left! Lucy xxx

[Milly]

good luck at the fair!

[Mr Peter T. Wintergreen's sister]

Hope you've had all the fun of the fair.
I have this issue with amazon: 20cm or 22 is not big enough volume to feed your future grandchildren, since this is a pot for life..
Shall I look further afield?
Also love. x x x x x x x x x x x

[marie]

The best of luck with your craft fair. I have some fairs coming up in December and today I have to sort out my stock ~ I had better get off this computer and make a start!

Marie x

[heidi]

Please tell me why people on Isle of Man spell out r.a.t.? Interesting!! Being a wood sheep sounds quite nice to me.....good luck with the 'change of life' - ha ha. Check out the dog sweater I knit this week!

[Dad]

Sorry to extend the discussion on such an awful subject but having been to the IOM a number of times I was particularly interested in this matter and can confirm that no IOM resident would describe a rat as we do. They prefer to call them...long tails...but r.a.t is common as well. Best of luck with the craft fair.

[Maddy]

My husband and I are Dragons ;) and I have an Ox and a Pig for son's lol ... I love Chinese New Year!

[heleen]

Nice to discover your blog. Have a good time at the fair!

[rosie]

Looking forward to hearing more about the craft fair! I'm a rat (1960) and always picture a nice fancy rat (very intelligent, don't you know?) rather than rattus rattus or rattus norvegicus

[carolyn]

Hope all is going well at the craft fair, look forward to reading a report later.