March 2009

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Credit - Sarah Cole Photography

Credit - Sarah Cole Photography

Yesterday was the 1st annual Spring Fling craft fair and the event was a fantastic success!!!  We had a great day and our hopes of getting at least 400 people through the door were surpassed when we reached 550 by the end of the day!  We are really happy and best of all we had some fantastic responses from stall holders who really enjoyed the day.  We also had some fantastic praise from members of the public who were really impressed by the quality of work on display.  

Thank you to all the stall holders who came, we hope that you all had good journeys home, some of you had come so far to be at the fair!

We had a competition for the best dressed stall and it was won by Janine of Dilys Treacle Treasures who made a fantastic effort with her stall, here she is looking lovely:

Credit - Sarah Cole Photography

Credit - Sarah Cole Photography

The stall looked amazing, but it was a really difficult choice as there were so many great looking stalls. Thank you to everyone who made such an effort.

Our mascot monkey made by Siansburys got a lot of attention on the day, she had prime position sat on the welcome table!  So now all that is left is to judge the competition.  Thank you to everyone who entered, there were some fantastic names!!!  It was difficult to choose but in the end we decided to go with…drum roll please….

Lady Candice – chosen by Jen

We liked this one because we already found ourselves affectionately calling her Candy for short anyway!

There were so many good suggestions though so we’ve decided to have a runner up prize too awarded to…

Mrs Fuchsia Greatly-Pinkerton chosen by Sharon

Please can you both email us with your address so that we can send you your prizes.

Thanks again to everyone who entered.

COMPETITION TIME!!!!

We have a fantastic new mascot thanks to one of our members, the queen of the monkeys; Siansburys!

Here she is in all her glory:

The poor little monkey needs a name though so we’ve decided to have a ‘Name the Monkey’ competition to co-incide with our Spring Fling Craft Fair.  

How to enter:

- Leave your suggestion for a name for our lovely monkey in a comment to this post, don’t forget to include your name and where you’re from so we can identify you when we announce the winners.

Entries have to be by 28th March – the day of the fair!

What can I win?

- We have some lovely prizes for you too – all donated by our lovely members.

We’ll be announcing the winner the day after the fair!

Good luck!

We have nearly 2 weeks to go to the fair now and things are getting very exciting!  All the stallholders have been confirmed and logos have started to appear on the Fairs mini site.  Go and have a look to see some of the folks who will be selling their fantastic work, more logos are being added all the time.  Most have a link to the website of the seller so have a look!

The flyers are also starting to go around Sheffield and the surrounding region to spread the word, look out for them.  Also you can download a flyer and lots of delicious little buttons to advertise the fair on your website or blog from here.