Driving into Upottery – image from http://www.upottery.com

I did the Upottery Village Christmas market on Saturday with the toys and my able assistant Natasha (aged nearly 8!). Not so busy this week but not sure how many people knew it was on. I didn’t mind this week though as I handed out a few catalogues and chatted to some friends, took a few sales.

Upottery War Memorial, centre of the village – image from http://www.upottery.com

The village hall is the venue for the Yummy Mummy market I’m putting on in March so it was actually a great chance to see how many tables they got in there and how many sellers we could potentially have. I also got the number of the flower lady so we’ll invite her to have a table in March (with her spring bulbs). I couldn’t resist buying a beautiful beech bowl from an older couple who make wooden items, so we’ll see if they want to come as well.

Best contact was Adrienne, a lady who says she passes us everyday on the school run – her kids go to Stockland school and ours Upottery so our paths cross twice a day! She said hello and we got chatting. It turns out she’s just been training for two years as a holistic therapist, doing reflexology, indian head massage and aromatherapy. So she was very interested in our Yummy Mummy event.

Saturday afternoon was a lazy one after our busy morning. Nanny came over to see the kids then I think we all ended up watching Star Wars! Then Tasha and I made some cakes on Sunday for the preschool Christmas Bazaar which is happening this afternoon. We wanted to make some homemade sweets but didn’t have the right ingredients so ended up making tiny cupcakes instead. Who would have thought evaporated milk was so essential to sweet making!!?