Well things are slowly getting easier at work, which is good news for my stress levels and I’m just managing to relax a bit more.

Christmas present shopping is nearly completed too, just a couple more to get tomorrow and the royal mail to do their job and delivery the remaining items.

Its the Maltings Christmas market on Tuesday as well, so busy getting things organised there.  I’ll be in a different location with a different table layout, I think more room!  So that will be interesting working out how to set that up on the day!

The Market, although not technical the correct date, marks 1 year of first meeting my Girlfriend! Wow, where has that year gone!  Must have enjoyed it!!

Well still got photos to print and things to sort out, so better get on with that I suppose.

Its getting to that time of year again.  People are putting up their Christmas decorations, some people since October!  Shops are getting busier. Days are getting colder and nights are getting cosier! (is that a word?)

Also the pressure of trying to get Christmas presents, either thinking of what people might like, or getting lists from people to help out.  Luckily I seem to be doing well with getting mine and have a few ideas and bought quite a bit already.  This is partially to do with an early Christmas event this year to try to get some of the family together.  Its always tricky when several families are involved.

This time of year also means Christmas Craft Fairs!

2 at the Farnham Maltings in December (6th & 16th evening) and 1 in Farnborough this Sunday.  So its a busy time!

I’ve been able to create lots of news designs too by going through my images again a picking out some that haven’t been used.  That’s the advantage of taking so many, you can always pull on new designs even when you haven’t taken many new images!

What another busy weekend.

Saturday we were up at some silly early time to get backed up and head to the Farnham Maltings market. The morning was quite busy before it slumped at lunchtime leaving a quite and slow afternoon.

The new display for the rulers worked well, and people were taking time to look at it and ask to see some of them.  I sold 2 of the new ferrari rulers and one of the new barn owl designs.

Then it was pack up, get home unpack, then jump back into the car for an unexpected trip to the IOW.

Yesterday was spent relaxing, visiting the Butterfly world, where actually I was surprised at the amount of butterflies flying around.  I didn’t expect to see many, but there was a few I hadn’t seen before.  And of course, the big Asian Atlas Moth!

Now I’ve been on the car ferry many many times, and have travelled on the ‘new’ ferry a couple of times too, but this time something unexpected happened.  We got to the ferry at 5:30 for the 6 and found we got on it straight away.  Nothing unusual, but when the person took our ticket, he put a small slip of paper under the windscreen wiper.  Strange I thought, never send that done before.  I expected another attendant to remove it at somepoint, but we drove on to the ferry and up to the second deck, using the narrow side slopes!  Parked up and still the slip was on the screen.  So on getting out the car, I thought I see what the piece of paper said.  I removed it from the screen and read it.  It said “Do not remove this piece of paper”.  Ooh, so I put it back.  At the end of the crossing it was still there so on leaving the ferry I removed it and thought, how strange!