good weekend

Well markets went well. Saturday was pretty quiet but Sunday was so shockingly busy. Everyone else reckoned they did badly next to last year. We did very well. But then tis coming up to Xmas and we were not there last year so we dont know what we might have made had we been. I am encouraged anyway. On the other hand most of the stalls were selling things for £100 plus and we are pretty cheap at £3-4 for most expensive soap and £1.49 for a giant bath bomb. Maybe even in a recession we will be competitive enough that people will buy since they are comparable items to many that cost a lot more! Had to make bath bombs for 2 hours before work today and M is going to buy some ingredients to enable me to be able to make more tomorrow cos we sold so much stuff I need to try and replenish for next weekend! have so far found we sell tons of lavender, floral and geranium bombs. I should ofcourse find this wonderful but having to work makes it hassle to make bombs! I suppose when I am finally self employed I will get a routine and it will al get easier. Right now I am trying to juggle a regular and very boring job with my own companys needs and its not easy fitting it all in. I need an accountant I reckon but no idea if we will make enough to justify the expense! I am now so far behind with company books its getting scary! Anyway the best sellers so far are packs of 3 mini bombs for £1 and the floral and Christmas bombs. Not surprised about the Christmas ones it coming up to Xmas but I am very surprised no one is interested in the Orange or Lemon bombs cos I love them and so does M. Still if there are some left we will have luxurious baths at xmas. Tho to be honest if there are none left I shall make us some! I am considering doing a promotion this week to get pepes spending something like spend £8 and get a free - something tho not sure what yet! Will have to see what we have lots of thats near end date maybe. Or maybe promote either the Lemon or the Orange bombs cos I reckon if I could get people to try em they would come back for more! Then I could promote something different the week before xmas! As for work ......am still not going to lunch in cafe and have started to go out now. They do not like it. Surely tho you should have freedom to relax away from work during your lunch break! It really is just too much being stuck in a greasy spoon ( tho they call it a Bistro! but really its a bacon sarnie type greasy spoon!) I think perhaps I am just an antisocial git maybe! Ah well. Why should I be forced to spend my precious lunch time with folk who cannot be with me when I eat without insulting me for being a veggie. I have put up with it for a whole year in an effort to try and be normal if thats the right word. I hate the food - they have hummus or hummus for me! They have poisoned me 4 times and definitely given me "off" hummus more than once and I hate spending my time there. Its just not a break. Besides the fact you come out smelling like a chippy! The problem is we are expected to go cos the company pays for lunch! I prefer to bring my own sarnies and have been eating far more healthily since I have started to so do not want to go back to their greasy food. Also the weight has just fallen off me and I have not even cut down. If anything I am eating more! Its simply unreasonable to be forced to go every day. If it was just one day a week I wouldnt mind. In my previous job I used to go to the pub with work mates every friday and it was a team bonding type of effort. It was not every single day tho! Its not as if I like any of em. I dont hate em either just dont really care! Other than that I am finally on last few stiches of my hood - for the jumper I have been knitting. It now has a tail like a pixie hat developing and I am really looking forward to wearing it. Then just got to sew up and do the neck edging and will have matching jumper and hat for xmas - well if I get it finished in time anyway. I am aiming for that. Then will start on this recycled sari yarn for a spring top of some sort tho unsure what exactly to knit as yet! Infact I have some piccies of jumper so will try to attempt to post here later. Hey life can only get better!!!!!!!!

markets

Spent this weekend exploring possible markets and have decided to start with Wellingborough market( Northampton). Its busy but not too busy so I should be able to handle it. Also it is possible to become a perm reasonably quickly. There is no one selling my kind of products there either. I am also interested in Donnington market which is one of the biggest in the Midlands but to do that one I will need to buy a stall which is a minimum of £135 and really I also will need a van not a tiny Fiesta!. I cant wait now till next saturday so we can get going. Will be needing to buy some thermals tho by the looks of things. This really could be the beggining of my new life. my main problem discovered from my only other local village market is I cant add up! I really need to find or buy a new calculator. I have several but no idea if I will find them in time. Anyway got to sort this one by saturday to avoid the embarrassment. I am still waiting for my stock to be delivered too and have a backlog of orders for bath bombs which I cant fulfill. Luckilly the guy who placed the order will wait a little longer but its a right pain. I dont really want to change supplier after the last time when the ingredients were second rate and I ended up throwing loads of stock out cos that is just expensive. I have a real problem with this tho. If the order doesnt come by thursday we are going to be very short of my very popular mini bath bombs.
Tonight I have my last website lesson. I have to decide whether or not to do the second bit. I am very keen to do so but what if it runs on a market day. Assuming this gets seriously going by February ( as in I will be able to quit my boring hateful job!)I may end up not completing the second bit and that will be waste of money. On the other hand if I do complete it I will be in a much better position regarding building my own website from scratch which will save me hundreds or possibly even thousand of pounds which I dont have! I have actually managed to put a web page up. Its a bit rubbish really but has a link to my ooffoo advert. Atleast now if anyone goes there they will know where to go to buy my soaps!

i have a yello belly!

Made ace bath bombs with natural colouring dye. Unfortunately I ended up with a yellow ring round my belly and round the bath and it wont come off the bath. It will wear off me! Other than the yellow bit ace bath bombs! best not to use turmeric by the looks of things.

INGREDIENTS:
500g bicarbonate of soda OR Sodium hydrogen carbonate.
250g of citric acid.
Water as needed!

Race is on till xmas to make this work and where then?