Exhausted but delighted!

Today was Stash reHash, and what a day it was. So much fun, so many people, and lots and lots of sales! It was fabulous, but very exhausting. Apparently there were people lined up around the block waiting for the doors to open at 11am, and when they did there was literally a stampede of women (and a few poor men that had been dragged along) jostling for all the best bargain fabrics, new and old. The picture above shows me just before the mayhem began. The pic below shows just how many people had streamed through the doors in literally the first 30 seconds!

My wonderful sister Jane helped me get my stall together for my first ever market. We spent the half the week and most of the weekend making fat quarter bundles, designing the layout of the fabrication stall, and of course gossiping as we went. It was great fun, but it did seem like a lot of work for a 3 hour market. It all paid off today though, and I'm so glad that we did put so much effort in, including mocking up the stall on our back lawn yesterday (see pics below - even Thomas was in on the act). We certainly seemed to be rewarded for it by the number of sales we made.

Unfortunately, though, Jane had to work today, so it was my trusty best friend Mary to the rescue. I literally couldn't have done without her today. She was a fabulous assistant and helped make the event a huge success. Here she is looking lovely behind a stack of fabrics.

Today was a huge confidence boost for me. After a few slow weeks on the site it proves that I'm on the right track with this fabric thing. There are lots of you out there that love the fabrics I love and want to buy them as well. And now, so many more people know about fabrication, so hopefully that will lead to more sales, more cashflow to buy more stock, and more beautiful fabrics filling NZ. So, to everyone who purchased something from fabrication today, thank you!!!

And finally, an extra special thanks to Deidre who organised the event. She has put a huge amount of time and effort into making Stash reHash the huge success that it was for all stall holders and shoppers. She deserves a medal for doing such a great job of getting the event promoted on a tiny marketing budget. I can only hope that she is on as much of a high as I am after the event and wants to do it all again. Fabrication will definitely be in if she does!