yesterday...

well yesterday's adventure to the wilds of crouch end was interesting...
i sold absoutely zilch at the crafternoon but the crowd/stock just didn't fit and i'll know for the next one (eastertime).  both myself and the girl next to me that had handknit items sold nothing - but girlie across from me with the most awesome machine knit felted monster stuffed animals did really really well.  her stuff was the cutest and i wish she had a site to link to! i traded her the salt and pepper mustache below for the cutest red plaid monster...and i'm gonna see her again soon as she'd like to learn to crochet - in fact, i had more interest in my crochet clinics than anything else so i'll be doing more of those for sure!

and note for next time: take more amigurumi and jewellry items rather than scarves and bunting...

still, it was a lovely day full of crafty vixens and old friends - and on the way home i spied a couple of my old iknit homegirls in the window so popped over to say HELLO. they'd not seen me in ages and were amazed at my long natural coloured bettie page hair and UK size 8 body!
 (last time they saw me i was probably a still a size 16-20)

crafternoon today!

still not sure what you are up to this afternoon or you are going to be around crouch end anyway?
well the lovely ladies of happily ever crafter have crammed me in a last minute stall at their crafternoon today because they "frickin love" my skully pirate crochet stuff...

so if you'd like to buy some or just hang out then pop on up to the hornsey vale community centre this afternoon...and experience the spectacle of cherie matrix outside zone 1 for two weekends in a row!

of course this means another saturday evening that i miss my gypsy dance rehearsals for the brixton hafla in december. i'm really torn as now my crafty vixen time is really fucking interfering with my bellydance time. however, with the latest knee problems i wonder more and more if i should slow down/give it up altogether? i "frickin love" the bellydance girls and musicians that i've met, and would miss them too much. luckily, the crafty vixen communtiy is just as interesting and loving so i'm replacing one with the other - FOR NOW.

sometimes there just really isn't enough hours in the day to squeeze in everything that i'm interested in - when this happens to you, how do you choose?