The day is Tuesday, the word is Sunshine...

Well, how very exciting. Just finished my first trade show and am exhausted! Been at Harrogate Home and Gift for the past few days, really enjoyed it there and quite fancy doing another.

Had some fun setting up everyone's stuff, turns out I'm quite handy with a drill, but we eventually managed it. We're the stall on the right, the one on the left was called Dassie and they sold some gorgeous stuff - it was all fair trade from South Africa, they had some really nice old wooden chopping boards etc and knitted toys and beer bread (they brought some in and it smelled delicious) - and we kept getting a little distracted looking at their stuff lol. 

When it went a bit quite there would be one of the lovely guys from The Wee Tea Company would come round with samples of their teas that were almost nice (and that's from someone who hates tea so for normal people who like tea its probably delicious) and I even bought some so it must have been amazing.

We did get quite a lot of interest too, everyone we spoke to had lots of positive things to say which was great. I even got an order for my big necklace from Lloyd Waters (Haberdashery and Linens) which was very exciting.

The only bad thing was the air conditioning, because it had been soooo hot the air con had to work overtime to keep us cool and it struggled through the Sunday but broke on Monday afternoon! We got loads of fans in our hall which was great but on Tuesday it had broken in a few other halls and the fans couldn't keep it cool enough so the lovely organisers of the show got us some Bucks Fizz and little cakes. We had to sneakily go up to the food stalls and use our code word - Sunshine. I felt like some sort of secret agent lol.

 It was a really great experience and I'm so glad our college organised it, hopefully I wont be quite so scared when I do another one for real. Huge thanks to the organisers of the show too, especially Tom who was in charge of our hall, they deserve some Bucks Fizz of their own after the air conditioning nightmare!

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