Stockholms miniatyrmässa april 2014 / Miniature show

Först vill jag bara säga ett stort tack till alla som besökte mitt och Annas bord på miniatyrmässan i Stockholm i söndags. =)
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Thank you all who visited our table at the miniature show in Stockholm!!
And a warning to you all; there will be a looooong text here.. keep scrolling if you only want the pictures =)

I couldn't keep my promise, to take lots of pictures on the fair.. I did borrow my husbands camera, since mine is all messed up and only works when it wants too.. But when I had taken a few pictures the memory card got crazy, deleting all pictures on the camera and said it needed to be reinstalled. (My husband could recover them later) But, you wont be seeing lots of pictures since I had to stop taking more pictures after the card got crazy... =( But I took some, asked if I was allowed to photograph and they said yes (I said yes to every one that asked me too =) I think we should be prepared to be on picture when we enter a public place like this.. but it's nice to be asked =) )
Anyway, I was so busy I couldn't get any time to take pictures, so its not just the cameras fault..


I got to meet Anna for the first time, I felt like I knew her already since we have been talking a lot on the internet, but its nice to meet in person too =)
She is a lovely person in real life, just like I thought before =) And she is very talented with miniatures and a generous person!
I'm so glad I got to do this with her!! I'm also glad I brought my mum, she was a great help this day. Great company on the train, and the bus home, and she handle the money and counting while I was to stressed to count (I hate counting)

You know by now how easily I get all stressed up, so I was really stressed on the morning of the fair, I couldn't sleep that well the night before (even do I got to stay at mum's friends house and they cooked and baked fresh bread and gave us breakfast and drove us to the hotel where the fair was..) Long story short, they were lovely and gave us very great service! =) But I missed my husband and daughter that stayed at home..

My Sunday started of great, first mum's friends bought stuff, before the fair =) and then I sold at least 4 things before they even open the fair. And then the costumers kept coming =)
I had a "Fyndlåda"/bargain-box with small stuff I didn't need, 1kr or 5kr each, that people loved, and bought almost all of them..

A picture of my side of the table before the opening:

 

The bed on the left is made by Anna, and the tablecloths is made by my mum, the rest is my stuff, I brought so much stuff I didn't even have room for it all =) But I never agreed to the saying: Less is more... ;)

My animals 

I have already sold two teddy bears, a giraffe and a sheep. And my favourite dog, the one in the left corner sold just after I took this picture, before the opening..

Many of this small stuff is still with me.. But the kitchen, all ice-cream cones, nativity scenes and one cactus is sold.

Here is a pictures of the whole table at the beginning, we weren't done yet, Anna is unpacking some lamps, and my 5kr-bargin-box isn't in place yet.. but I have already sold my favourite dog on this picture.. 

Anna's things on the left and mine at the right (except the bed, that Anna made)

Picture taken with my old cellphone, Anna's lamps are in place =)

There were many people looking at Anna's tiny Lundby houses and her cute guinea pigs (I have bought one before) And a lot of people looked at my miniature schnauzer, but noone bought it. Almost all my cats are gone by now, but the dogs were harder to sell, I'm not to sad about that.. you know me, I get attached to my things and have a hard time selling them. But so many people told me how they fell in love with an animal and had to buy it, so that was wonderful to hear!!! 

Then there was this lady buying a LOT of animals, for her shop, I was very sceptic, I want to sell to people that love my things and not to people that want to make a profit out of my work. But she said she will place them in her store and have my name at them, and she got a lot of business cards to go with them, so I hope they will be picked up by people that love them, eventually. I forgot the name of the shop, but if you are in "Gamla stan", Stockholm, seeing my elephant, giraffe, cats and teddy bears feel free to leave me a comment with the shops name... =)

I got a lot of comments from people telling me the prices were to low, I should have respect for my work, so from now on I'll raise some of the prices ;)

OK, I could go on and on about this day. It was truly a big day for me. I realize I'm not a great seller, and I get very stressed doing things like this! But I got to try this, and I think I will do it again, some day, but not this year (There will be a new fair 12/10 2014) and maybe not even the next year, but I will be back =) And next time I will know so much more, how I want things and how to get even better, so this was a great opportunity for me, and the costumers were all so lovely!
I will open an Etsy shop, soon. But then I will focus on making things for my self for awhile. But I guess I can't resist selling some animals now and then ;) But it's very stressful to make more and more things, and then have to part with them and sell them, maybe I'll feel better looking at the money, but, money can't buy you happiness, but spending time with my family can, the family will come first and the hobby next, and selling as a third place ;)

Now I'll show the few pictures I got to take on this lovely fair =)

Maria Ganders table

More from Maria

Still on Marias table =)

The next table was Crazy4minis

crazy4minis

The table opposite ours had these lovely dolls, I admired them last year too and bought one last year.

The table belongs to Ewa Lindow-Bäfwer

Our "table-neighbour" Lissie Ankarberg, very nice people =)

Gör-det-själv-bordet/ Do-it-your-self-table

Wonderful roombox made by Gia. I love the floor!

Ruth Andreae-Aus is building a wonderful house, here is a small roombox showing the dolls she got frome Anne Collin.

Birgitta Karlsson made this beautiful room in a bag =)

Eva Malmsten

Elaine Mossberg

I had my hands full all day, but me and Anna got to take a quick look around too =) And I did buy some things =)  (I thought I didn't buy anything, but I did, I was just a little of, and really focused on being a good seller, so I was a bit confused looking around on other tables. But there were some lovely things there. I wished I had stayed a bit longer on Hannah Roet's table for example.. and I did go back for more to Johanna Sandqvist, her paintings were amazing.. and I just had to have this carpenter's level from Dockvrån, and the carpet from Miniatyrmama. So I got what I came for ;) And a bit more and I got to sell so much more than I had hoped for..
A BIG Thank you to all of you who just stayed and said hi, or bought some thing of mine. =)
My findings:

Like I said I was focused and stressed so I don't even know what I said to Kikka =) But I was so very happy to see you and I'm very happy for the gift! Look what she brought me:

Me and Anna made a little swap at the end, I got these wonderful shoes, I love them! And this little Lundby house , so cute! And a tablet.

The shoes have moved in already =) The rest have to wait until I clean the house...

My daughter saw the boots from Millimeter and thought they would look great on her doll..A bit big one might think, but they weren't that expensive, so I'll let her have them, at least for awhile ;)

I saw that Skala minimal published some photos on her blog, so if you are interessted in more pictures from the fair, go check it out =)
http://skalaminimal.blogspot.se/2014/04/bilder-fran-stockholms-miniatyrmassa.html

And  Kikka have pictures too (even a picture of me in the first link) =)
http://pienisammakko.blogspot.se/2014/04/tukholman-miniatyri-messuilla-1-at.html
http://pienisammakko.blogspot.se/2014/04/tukholman-miniatyri-messuilla-2-at.html

Last but not least I was thinking, is there anyone out there that would like to swap something?? If you know a special thing you really would like, leave me a comment and I'll see if it's possible to swap. Otherwise I'll make some packages (I think 3 would be enough, the postage is too high to swap with all of you I'm afriaid..) and take a picture and ask in my next post if you are interested and then just leave a comment and we will swap =) swapping is so much fun and I have a few things left to trade =)

Thank you for looking at my blog, and take care =)
Hannah