December 2011 – Another accomplishment for The Craftshed
Bendalls Farm Day Care have set up their own enterprising craft group called The Craftshed, which made a successful appearance at a recent two-day event hosted by the Priddy Good Farm Shop.
The Craftshed is a not for profit concern within the Bradbury House organisation whereby our services users make a variety of rural crafts and produce from scratch and then sell them locally. The unique crafts include bird boxes, hand blown glass, beeswax candles, willow craft and homemade preserves.
The Craftshed hosted a stall at the two-day event, organised by and held at Priddy Good Farm Shop. A number of people from Bendalls Farm and The Old Rectory attended the event to sell produce they had made and assist in running the stall. The Farm Shop made it an especially festive event with offerings of mince pie and mulled wine.
Customers and stallholders alike were in high spirits during the festive wintery event. Our stallholders worked especially hard. Lacel added up the stall’s sales on his calculator and Dan proved to be a natural, with the stall up and running like clockwork within minutes. Leon and Richard chatted to customers about the handmade crafts and handed out the free mince pies.
At lunchtime, our enterprising Craftshed stallholders decided to treat themselves to a break with a lovely pub lunch enjoyed by the warm log fire. Feeling refreshed, they returned again to the wintery cold to enjoy the festivities and sell more of their lovely handmade crafts and produce.
The Craftshed has made a great success of its stalls this year and we hope to plan more for the new year – watch this space!
“I really enjoyed talking to all the people about the things that I made and felt very proud that they were so impressed and wanted to buy things off me.” – Lacel
“I love working on market stalls as I used to help my family out on the weekends doing something similar, I really enjoyed getting out for the day and mingling with new people.” – Dan
“Can we do another one next week? I really enjoyed it! I felt really proud!” – Richard