Vanilla coffee and paperwork...

It feels so strange not getting up on a Saturday morning, and packing for a market. 

It's 8:43am and I'm sitting infront of my laptop, drinking coffee and "watching" Big Bang Theory episodes.

There are more resin projects / orders curing on the work counter in the kitchen (because that's the room that gets the warmest right now), and the two and half dogs are playing and barking outside. 

There's incense burning and rock doves coo'ing loudly to eachother on the roof just outside the back door.

It's hard not to saturate yourself in days that feel like this.

Stretch...breathe....

Wow. That weekend just felt like it got away from us so fast.

The Henley Arms Market has come to an end as from Friday night. It's so sad to see that a venue gives crafties an opportunity to have a market FREE OF CHARGE, and no one takes part.
To those who have supported not only Wonder Struck Inc, but Heatherlynn's stall, Kopy Kat, and Astra's Pink Salt. Thanks guys! It's been much appreciated.

Saturday was the Pumpkin Weigh In at The Shed (@ Greens Greens on R59).
The Shed is becoming such an awesome venue, perfect all weather venue for those of us that try to brave the elements. It's an indoor venue and though very much a farmers market feel, also very heavy on giving stall space to handmade artists.
The "usual" market hours at The Shed were extended to 4:30pm, but wow, did that extra hour and a half kill us?!
It was worth it though, just for the atmosphere around the whole day. Thank you Carren for being such a professional organiser of this market, and always being available to talk to, to assist the stallholders and yea, to keep our potential customers happy.

one quarter of The Shed venue for the Pumpkin Weigh In.

We'll be at The Shed again for their night market on Friday, 26 April 2013.

This afternoon, inbetween garden revamp, "SPRING" cleaning and trying to stay awake... there's some serious... SERIOUS shop edits happening in the Etsy right now. Then I'll move on to the other online stores to do that same.

Hope you'll like some of the additional new photos/products/shipping cost changes and models wearing some of our new goodies ;)

We have some great local artists that will be supplying us soon... because we're not JUST makers of handmade, but we source fun handmade goods too for our store :)

Keep checking in to see all our changes and happy goodies.

For now, back to those shop edits and changes and maybe a cup of coffee to keep this sleep at bay *yawn*. Have a great Sunday humans!

~Zoo~

Post Easter buzz....

Well I hope everyone had a delightful and blessed Easter weekend.

We have now moved stalls at Wyetti Market, which was as busy as can be expected over the long weekend/Easter/Rand Show ...so sales were dismal. But the company was great...even under all the drizzle. At least we never got rained out.

Wonder Struck and KopyKat (Heatherlynn) are hoping to get stall space for the R59 Shed this weekend, and again for the R59 Shed's night market on 26 April.

If you want some low priced deals on some of our makery, follow us on Instagram: zoocatty

Also don't forget to visit our stores. All of them are linked here onto of the blog ;)

Caffeine...fuelled...

Tomorrow is the last working day of the week before Good Friday starts off the 4 day weekend.

Saturday, despite the potential lack of humans, we'll be at Wyetti.
Our stall is moving to a more enclosed area...which will hopefully be better in Winter's cold.
A lot of new stock will be on the table.
Spend R200 or more at our stall at Wyetti and you get to take any ring you want.... For FREE.

To everyone going to church and celebrating the actual meaning behind this weekend... Blessed be.

To everyone else. Enjoy the easter eggs and goody hunts. ;)

Later!

Seasons wither...

As cosmos lines the roads and dots the fields of grass in shades of oranges and yellows...yup Autumn has arrived.

As the weather gets colder we'll be wrapping up to sit out at the markets, but the next few markets should still be warm enough for hot outings.
;)

In 9 days we'll be at Wyetti Market in Henley.
The 5th of April is the night market at Henley Arms and the 6th of April is the market and pumpkin weigh in at The R59 Shed market.
We also have a night market at The Shed during April, so keep an eye out for the date once we confirm.

There's A LOT of resin stock joining me now in the next few markets. Come grab some for yourself.
Loads of freebies will be given away with purchases at the next few markets, which will be great for the tighter purse strings.

Loads of new signage, New tablecloths, new displays, New setups.
We're growing, after all :)

Can't wait to see you there!

The Inbetweens...

Well... on the odd occasion I get to sit infront of my pc early on a Saturday morning and update the blog. Like today.

And it doesn't matter that the only reason I'm up early is because puppymonster playtime started... on my bed... at 5am... no no no, I'm up early because I just HAD to let the monsters out and get myself a HUGE mug of coffee (insert zombie growlings here).

I have, however, come across a very very interesting Etsy store that just sets my "craft envy" a flutter, Sparrow Salvage.
At this very moment, her store is in vacation mode until the 15th (as per her shopfront announcement), but you can still peruse the feedback section and the sold items section to see just what this little shop does.
Funny enough, I didn't find this store via Etsy, but via the blog on the interwebs.
Yea, bad Zoo for not doing searches on Etsy, but look what I found! I am so smitten with what I've seen so far, and I almost cannot wait for it to be out of vacation mode so I can see what else is there!

As I wait for more goods to finish curing, and as my entire stock box is spread out over a table in the my tiny living room, I realise I'm swamped and the next market might only be the 23rd of March.
So... I'm going to do something very big (for the store), and I hope you'll take the leap and take advantage of it...

Ah yes... well, it's evident enough by the coupon code just where this might be headed ;) Hopefully you all will take advantage of this and buy out the shop as much as is possible.

If you don't know what our Etsy store link is (or if you can't quite click on the tab above the blog):

Wonder Struck Inc.

Please note that this code will only apply to the products and NOT to shipping (we use only registered/tracked postage), so you'll pay for the faster, safer choice all the time ;)

I haven't started an instagram specifically for Wonder Struck Inc., but there are bits and pieces about what I'm working:  Zoocatty on Instagram

These little ones are being listed on Etsy this morning, consider them One of a Kind.

Also, this pair is going up ;)

So yea, I may not be manning a market stall today, but I'm already being productive! Even though I don't feel like I'm "working".

Well, almost 8am, so let me start with what else is on my "to-do" list for this weekend. 

Have a great one humans, and if you're in South Africa, keep it safe at Ramfest guys!

Loving Sundays...

It's a chilly Sunday morning surrounding the Wonder Struck Inc space, and we've been up early to let dogs out and start on garden work.
A part of me nags to finish sorting out the workspace and organising boxes and tags and reminders.... etc.

There's a little big of a come down the day after a market, as least in here.
Sitting outdoors, and having a long day out surrounded by nice people, can be a little tiring.

But today there is a bit of a "to-do" list.
As I've learnt through this last year'ish, is that you never stop editing your online stores, blog, facebook pages. You never stop learning and improving and changing your way of thinking and working.
And the same goes for todays missions...

There's going to be some more small little (maybe unnoticeable to the viewers) edits going on in the Etsy stall, Storenvy and MyStall pages.
Inbetween the small little bits and pieces you'll probably spot some new listings going up, which we'd LOVE feedback on ;)
We'll also be gardening, so the whole editing and listing thing might be a little slow because... well... we're craving green thumbery.

There's also a tab open on Chrome to Moo, so that we can order some "special" cards for our online customers ;) because we want you to know how much we appreciate you for the handmade goods you give a home.

If you have seen the tabs we run ontop of the blog, you'll see there's a tab for each of our online stores, and our new SOUTH AFRICAN friendly MyStall tab is now also up there.
We'll only be running a small, limited section on there for now, as we "test the waters", because most of our online business has been from outside of South Africa. We hope you'll look in and give us some feedback :)
* if you're finding a few glitches on there, our apologies, the loading process has been a bit "here and there", so pictures and editing is still underway *

Between orders, anime, stock packing (which will only have to all come out again for The Shed's market in 6 days again)... coffee is being had, dogs are being fed and I'm blissed on knowing I get to make things that other people can love and enjoy.

Now... back to all this editing too.

Have a GREAT Sunday humans, I hope you're all enjoying it in the best way possible.

Pre market madness...again

In just over 12 hours we'll be at Wyetti Craft Market (11 Wargrave Rd, Henley-on-Klip, Gauteng), with a FULL set of new goods being displayed.

Here are just some of what you'll be seeing...

Like I said... this is just *some* of the stock coming with me tomorrow ;)

As always, we're at stall 64 if you stop by, come say hi!