Yesterday was was one of those days when you feel like everything is going backwards, my first "Downer" day in a long while. I get the impression that some people are a little disappointed by the fact that we are just using one section of the barn and not the whole length. But I guess not everyone has looked at the website.
Being as this is our first year we wanted to start with just one section to see how it goes. It would have been a huge commitment to knock the barn through and then try to find enough money to stock it as well as finding that amount of crafters in such a short time. After all it was only in June that I got the go ahead to start the project. But I'm hoping that we will expand and open 5-6 days a week in subsequent years.
Anyway by 8pm last night I was feeling rather miserable and sorry for myself, until I got a phone call from a lovely lady who was so enthusiastic about the barn and is really keen to display her creations there. This reminded me of the reasons I started the project in the first place, that its for the crafters as well as ourselves, and all new ventures have to start somewhere. So thank you Loraine, you lifted me out of my gloomy evening !

The painting has finished and at last I can visualise it as a shop. The space is 20ft by 20ft but its pretty hard in this first year to judge how much furniture I'd need in there, but I bought lots and am now in the process of playing around with layouts. It looks so nice in there now that my Mum was thinking that it would make a lovely room to live in.