Time to Reflect

If I'm being honest, I came into this project with quite a negative attitude. As someone who has always been useless at threading needles I saw sitting for hours trying to sew as a complete waste of time and thought we'd never sell anything. The more I sewed, the more I complained (to myself as no-one else would listen) and the more I was convinced I was showing early signs of arthritis. I wouldn't go as far as saying I started to enjoy stuffing bits material with wadding, but the more I made, the more positive a felt with how our home-made goodies were turning out.

When we all put what we'd made together, it looked really good and we were all happy with how they had turned out. As we had spent so long making everything, the advertising had been left until the last minute which I would definitely change if I was to do a similar project again. Due to this our posters didn't get put up until the day before our stall, which may have given us less custom than we potentially could have had. The main way anyone knew about our stall was through the Facebook group made a week before the event, and by word of mouth. We did however have our handouts with sweets attached which seemed to bring a few waifs and strays heading towards our table of sickly pink joy.

I think we picked a good spot to sell our goods; right in the middle of the student union on a day where no-one else was around selling anything. This meant we had no competition nearby to lure those as forgetful as myself into buying a last minute mothers day present. People also seemed to think the prices were reasonable and liked the fact it was all hand-made. This may have been so they could claim to their mum's that they'd made it themselves, we'll never know.

On a whole I think we made a good team. Our main flaws were definitely our lack of advertising in good time, and perhaps the amount we spent on materials as we did have quite a lot left over.