Wow! What a month I’ve had. Back in February it felt rather silly to be booking myself in to Christmas fairs and markets in November, but the year whizzed by and suddenly there I was half-way through October making cookie mixes like there was no tomorrow in preparation for all the bookings I’d made.
The fairs started with the NSPCC Christmas Fair at Castle Howard a two-day event with an overnight stay in the very friendly, peaceful and comfortable Thompson’s Arms at Flaxton. You can see from this photo of my stall that I looked very grand between the pillars in the Grecian Hall; my stall even over-looked by a bust:
Castle Howard was immediately followed by Saturday at the Dewsbury Homemade Festival and finally Sunday at Huddersfield’s Upmarket Sunday. All very different; all great fun. That Monday I slept ’til lunchtime.
The following weekend found me at the three-day Shibden Hall Christmas Craft Fair. You may remember my stint in the haunted bedroom last year; me and the orbs. This year I was outside the hall in an estate worker’s cottage. No pillars or bust this time, but a log fire to keep me warm on a very cold weekend.
It was gratifying to find customers coming to find me because they’d bought my cookie mixes at this event last year and wanted more.
No rest for the wicked! This week off I went to a mid-week Ladies Christmas Shopping Evening; a fund-raiser in aid of Ruddi’s Retreat and then a quick turn around and away to York Christmas Fair at Skelton Garden Centre for two days at the weekend. Phew!
Today I paid a visit to the hairdresser – yes, I had a day off.
Auntie Heather's Homemade 