Saturday was a miserable day and that COLD weather turned WET.![\"doves](\"http:\/\/janmullen.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/week-28-4.jpg\")
<\/a>On Tuesday I started to rearrange the studio in preparation for a SALE. I have been building up to this in fits and starts for months – upstairs had become a no-go zone because of the untidy mounds of the ‘about to be ejected’ STUFF.
\nI happily and correctly use the word stuff in the olde worlde<\/em> sense of “stuff.noun: material, fabric, cloth, textile; matter, substance.”
\nI had a lot of STUFF to move.<\/p>\n<\/a>Then for the rest of the week it was about getting it downstairs, getting it to fit into place with viewing space.
\nIt was also about covering up things that are not for sale….then selling some of the covers!!!!
\nFinally it was about pricing decisions.
\nI wanted it to be bargain territory for buyers – as a lot of what needed to go was ‘stuff’ that I would happily share anyway.
\nI wanted to be generous and to let everyone get what they want without being pulled back by their purse.<\/p>\n<\/a>On Wednesday it was time to put all traces of creating away and in the almost cursory time spent, I pieced together and backed the three very s-l-o-w-l-y developing<\/em> cushion covers.<\/p>\n
\nI only had fifteen people through the studio doors – which was only a negative in that there was plenty wonderful things left for those that did not make it.
\nTo be realistic though, I<\/em> only advertised through my current database so that those that have been with me for many years would have the benefit…..part altruism, part laziness, part not wanting to deal with letting a pile of bargain-hunting strangers to my studio.
\nSometimes I am soooo hard core businesslike:)<\/p>\n<\/a>I\/we also raised money for ‘Auntie Di’s Ethopian Fund – which supports the School of St Yared<\/a>. A while ago I received a big donation of silk\/sari lengths and this week I gathered and added an enormous selection of fabrics\/scraps that I was happy to pass on.
\nIn the mixed ‘make a donation’ pile went anything that I had received by donation over the years – things like bags of fleeces that I won’t have time to spin in the near future.
\nI simply requested that money go in the jar for those items and a tidy little amount was raised by the lovely bods attending<\/em>.<\/p>\n