Directions

Hmm. March is here and things should be swinging, but still I'm faltering. The kids have been at school for a month now and the routine there is good, but once they are at school, I'm still floating on a cloud of procrastination. I did alot of market sewing last month which felt good after 2 months away from the sewing machine, but a dismal market means that I have no desire to sew this month, despite some great ideas. I'm also struggling with whether or not I should continue the market next season (we finish this season in June.) The Healesville market seems to fall on every long weekend this year, including Easter and Queens Birthday. Because of this, I've been unable to go away with D-man and the girls. It also means that the market crowds are low. Despite it being a very pretty place, Healesville doesn't seem to draw the holiday crowds like Mansfield or places by the bay. I'm thinking that the solution to this is to either find a new market that falls on a different time each month, or to continue at Healesville but return to being a casual stallholder so that I can opt out of any dates that fall on a long weekend. This is probably the better option as I really like the market setting at Healesville and I don't want to have to build my customer base from scratch.
I also said to myself that this year I would get my stuff in shops. I have been invited to sell my bags in some local stores but of course, I never followed that up. Now I fear that the door might have closed on a few of those offers. I think the best option is to put some kind of package together to send to shops that I would like to have stuff in and leave the rest up to them. I just have to find shops that are fairly local or interesting. I think the problem is that I just want to make stuff, but without the pressure of having to sew just to sell something. And I'm not good at networking and promoting myself, nor do I want to spend all of my time updating a website or online market site when I'm not getting the traffic to those places either. I guess I'm trying to tell myself to stick with old school selling. Face to face. I still get a thrill when I see someone at the market using a bag that they bought from me 6 months ago. I guess that's why I do what I do. I just need to convince myself.