Going Public

Maree worked hard. Inhumanly hard. Hand cutting the art prints, packing individual gift boxes, cello wrapping our prints, fussing and fiddling late, late into the night. And then finally came last Saturday, the Lady Game Kindy fund raising Art Fair. It was a cold windy unpromising day but very little gets in the way when mothers are involved and the organisers and the mums and all the participating artists made a great day. Our stall was a bit sexy if you ask me, with quite a few nudes and girls with falling stockings. No doubt the drawings featuring children's themes were a bit more popular. It was an amazing little big success and Little Branch was not the biggest seller (our price points were deliberately modest) but the most popular stand by far. We had some passionate buyers snapping up original art and some mysterious punters as well. Like the Asian looking business man who walked up to a very Danish looking floral and snapped it up like it was a bag of biscuits. He knew what he liked.





Today, almost a week later we are putting together the very first packaged sales kits to hit the stores of Sydney and it's that silent gathering mood that descends when you really need to concentrate. We are looking at our gift wraps with a critical eye. We are brooding over designs for Christmas (we both dislike green and red), and I am still obsessing about where I can print up five meters of cotton for two maxi dresses. Does Maree even want to wear a Little Branch Maxi? Maybe not. But I know she wants a silk skarf....and her birthday is coming soon.


P.S. To all those friends, relatives and cool mothers who helped with the Art fair, bought prints, cards and art works and came by to stuff envelopes we say MERCI!