Wednesday, 19 November 2008

all work and no play make me a very dull boring git

Well sick to death of going to work 9-5 ( anyone who has ever stumbled upon thios blog before propbably is already aware of this. I was meant to check out some local markets last weekend but never got round to it!! Did manage to finally find a home for my ancient but almost mint condition flower faires collection. (Given to me aged 21 so never really played with!). They have gone to a friends daughts and I hope she enjoys playing with them. They are lovely dolls and really should be played with. i will post a few piccies infact later. Anyway going off at tangents here, Friends came round and we had a great day on saturday. Got very drunk saturday afternoon and woke up fully dressed and hungover on sunday and spent rest of sunday in recovery. has to be done occassionally. So now still have not checked out any markets. Going this saturday to both Wellingborough and also to see Loughborough so we will be doing lots of travelling. The idea is to decide which and then go for it the following week and get started truly trading. Advatage of Wellingborough is not too far from home and also not too close and its possible to beome permanent after 3 weeks whereas most markets its about a year before you can beome a perm. I have to sort this out now tho having spent ages making products so now its time to just do it and stop talking about it. Anyway have also decided to branch into organic unfragranced liquid soaps and shampoos which I didnt want to sell since not environmentallly frinedly but people keep asking me for. have to buy a laser printer tonight since inkjets cannot make good labels apparently. I need a new printer anyway. My lexmark keeps taking in 20+ sheets of paper and wont feed so I have to hand feed every sheet if printing in black and white. Strangely it works ok in colour! My canon photo printer gives good quality but is also an ink jet and currently I cant get any refills for some reason since everywhere has sold out! So anyway have to buy a laser printer. Then need to label everything up and launch business on the markets. Hoping that over xmas will make a reasonable anmount of money back to be able to buy new stock. If all goes to plan I shall be giving in my notice on 9-5 job around 3rd week of january and going it alone for real. Interestingly market traders generally only do 3-4 days a week and still manage to make a living so I am getting very keen on this. I can see it being freezing this winter but wonderful in summer so I cant wait to get started now. I suppose you spend the other 3 days a week doing the books, making new stock and packing stuff for the next market.

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