Well didn’t we have a wonderful day weather-wise?  And didn’t we have a wonderful day on the Market?

Sunday was just amazing and we cannot say a big enough Thank You to Traders and people who came to support our enterprise. Debra and I knew that local people would support our local enterprise, the extent of that support just absolutely was out of this world and we are still in awe.  How do you say Thank You? 

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you …. ad infinitum (as they say).  We are just so grateful for all the support given to us both.

Our Promise now is to get better and better each market.  With more and more choice from our wonderful local Artisans – we were approached by so many people wanting stalls – you are all amazing.

The Market is never going to be a money maker as we pay high amounts for advertising and want to invest in our own Market Stalls.  We started the concept on a very small shoestring and had to beg, steal and borrow Gazebos to start the Market – well we didn’t really steal any, people were very generous.  To grow the market we need to get more gazebos – so if anyone knows anyone who has any to kindly lend or donate please email us on happyvalleyartisans@gmail.com.

The Artisans at the first market were:

Shiela Cunningham	Framed Fine Art Paintings
Ann Fogg	Shabby Chic Furniture and Candles
Anna Barker	Walking Sticks; Driftwood and beaded Jewellery
Suzanne Gill	Sea Glass Jewellery; hand painted Glassware; Fused Glass
Jane Ewington	Porcelain White Nancy Pots and other gifts
Helen Dewhurst	Textile Artist
Fiona Reynolds	Polymer Clay Jewellery
Lisa Kirk	Handmade Quilts and Bunting with other gifts
Claire Whittingham	Handmade Goods by the Guides
Debra Tracey	Mosaics and Fused Glass
Helen Wright	Pottery animals and other gifts
Chris Connick	Framed Fine Art Paintings, cards and other items
Sandy Milsom	Hand Painted Silk items and cards

And not forgetting Alex from Bollington Balloons who came along and supported us in the morning.  I didn’t get chance to see him making the balloons but I did see a very large yellow octopus being floated on high.

All the items were of impeccable quality, original and unique. 

We would like to thank all the Traders for taking a deep breath and supporting us on our very first market – which was hugely successful, but could just as easily have not been. THANK YOU!!! XXX

Debra and I have decided to have a Star Trader at each Market.  The first Star Trader (yes I know it sounds like I stole it from the Great British Bake Off – but it does sound good ha ha xx) is Sheila Cunningham.  Sheila wins a bottle of wine for all the extras she did for us both at the Market.  Sheila and her husband turned up almost at the same time as me, to help put up all the Gazebos and then stayed on to help us take them down and tidy up.  I know that all our Traders went that extra bit on Sunday helping to make it very very special.  But Sheila almost beat me there in the morning and I turned up at 7:30 am.

The winner of the raffle prize of Jewellery was Lin and coincidently (we did pick blindly you have my word on that) lives at Clarence Mill.

The winner of the raffle prize of a Loom Band Kit was a young girl (we think it best not to put young people’s names on our blog) who belongs to the same pack as Claire and the Guides who had our Charity Stall and who came along to support them and the Market with her parents.

We have still to work through the Feedback Forms and I will get back to you on this asap.  Thank you for taking the time to fill in a form.

Our next step is to try and get some funding so that we can build and build on what we have started.

THANK YOU ALL

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 Watch this space later in the week for more photos and more of our NEWS !