Christmas Market Stall Is Begun

 Our small FAME mini group is going to do a group project over the next few weeks, as each of us is going to create a Christmas Market Stall, in time to display for the upcoming holiday season. Marilyn cut out the carcass of the stalls for us, and it will be interesting to see what interpretations we come up with.

Colour scheme is cream on the inside, and for the shelves, with a pale green for the outside, the same colour used some years ago for my Christmas room box. I've been checking out ideas on the internet, and have come up with a sketch for my stall. The roof will be either corrugated or shingled, with snow on it, of course. There are going to be Christmas lights around the roof line, as well as an evergreen swag. The stall is intended to have a fabric awning, and a faux "metal" roll-up front opening. Across the front will be a natural wood shelf, for display and commerce. The door into the stall will be suggested, i.e. it will not actually open. There will be a sidewalk with a couple of extra display surfaces, and snow and icicles, of course!

I've been collecting items for the stall for some years now, and this rather poor photo shows a bunch of them. Some are components to make things, but there are two wooden bow-type wooden decorations as well as a very tiny shaved wooden tree, which I bought in The Netherlands years ago for this stall, at the Arnhem show. It takes me time to actually make things, sometimes....

A number of these items will require painting, as the current paint job is a bit slapdash. There are several sets of ornaments, purchased and gifts, that require display boxes. I saved foil wrappers from Christmas chocolates, years ago, which will be rolled and packaged as gift wrap for sale.

This stall sells Christmas decor items, and I had made some floral and candle arrangements for the stall last year. I need to decide how wide and tall my shelves will be, hence everything being pulled out. Now I get to go back through my large collection of magazines, and make some of the perfect items to go into the shop that I've been considering for years.

 We hope to get together to work on them this coming week, but may have to do it by Skype rather than in person, as Covid is rearing its ugly head again in our area. We're back to limited gatherings and masks being required indoors.

This should be another fun project, small enough to require only a reasonable amount of time -- I hope!