Showing posts with label markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label markets. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 November 2007

Value

I foolishly decided to sign up for a Christmas Market Stall next Saturday, hence not much posting, not much blog reading and not much sewing for the sake of sewing! I am trying to make 'stock'. 'Stock' being items that would have a general appeal. As a crafter, I am always attracted to handmade items, but is everybody else? I think sadly, the answer is probably no. (I'm also trying to prove to DH that ALL this fabric is worth something)

However here is a box of frogs, waiting to go to market :O)



I had a non-crafter friend to visit the other day and looking around my 'space' she said "Why don't you just finish everything you've started". Well that is the eternal question, isn't it? LOL. I could finish stuff, but as I don't like a lot of it (to sell), will anybody else (Is the answer again here, sadly, no?)

Here is a bad bad bag (centre of the pic)!!! So many things went wrong with this bag and it got thrown in a pile so many times, but I had resolved to 'finish things' and in the end I did. Even though I forgot to leave a hole in the lining so had to cut one before I could turn it right side out (Oh boy!!)



My DH loves those lateral thinking questions. Here's one about value...

Question: A man buys his wife a present. He pays $200 for it. She is delighted, but she has an accident with it and it gets damaged. Her husband replaces it for $20. After a while the wife tires of it so she sells it to another woman for $300. What is it?
What could be worth $200 or $300 to certain woman (not to all woman though), but have a real value of only $20???

((Is that like craft? If someone makes something is it valued because someone made it for you? Or perhaps because it was handcrafted? To some is it just something made that has no real value? - I am obviously feeling deep at the moment LOL))

Answer: A personalised number plate. (Car registration plate in US English? not sure what else it's called)

Anyway, I will get back to blog reading (and commenting soon). Wish me luck. I shan't want 20 doorstops living at my house :O)