Yesterday I sold at my second and last Christmas market for the year - the Winter Fair at Lewisham Arthouse. It's a beautiful pillared building that, despite having driven past it several times, I've never really noticed before. In between dealing with customers I spent much of the day chatting with the other stall holders. Many of them had been selling their wares for a number of years and were old hands on the market scene. Most of them knew each other well from having sold

Today I sold at my first ever Christmas market. I suspected it would be a small one but thought that might be a good way to ease myself into the market scene before my next bigger one in a couple of weeks. Having set up my wares on the table allocated to me I nervously waited for 12.30 pm when the doors were due to open. 12.29 pm and counting… five, four, three, two, one - open the doors! In trickled one confused elderly lady who looked like she had got lost on her way to the

This year for the second time I will be spending Christmas in Sweden. Before my first Christmas in the land of The Bridge, Pippi Longstockin