Stock Making

Most of my friends, who know of my disinterest in cooking will know that the title of this post has nothing to do with soup or stew. I've been making stock for Beggars Belief in Portsoy. They want some keyring letters & some of the wooden peg plaques.The trouble I have with making this kind of stock is not a lack of onions, but trying to predict which initials are more likely to sell, balanced with what I have to hand.

It's tricky keeping all the letters in stock too, so I made an impromptu chart to try & help. I'm going to print it out properly  with 'order up to' quantities for each letter plus what I have in stock, then just  subtract one from the other for the order quantity. This system flashed back into my mind from my days as a Dispenser with Boots the Chemist. Each jar & packet had a card attached to it with this info.on to avoid over or understocks. Frighteningly, stock control was something I always enjoyed at Boots!

Here's the Keyrings I made for Beggars Belief today.

Calling all Crafty Beggars

I would like to start a little crafters club, meeting monthly on the 1st Saturday of the month, 11.30 to 1.30 at Beggars Belief Coffee Cove in Portsoy. The idea is to bring along whatever you are working on at the time & meet for chat & general merriment. I thought it would give some of us a chance to learn different crafts from each other too, & to help us with any crafty problems we might be having. 
If you'd be interested, just post here or on FB  https://www.facebook.com/adoble1 & we'll take it from there.The name of the group just HAS to be 'Crafty Beggars'!!!
(this is one of the magnetic tiles I make for Beggars Belief, OF Beggars Belief!)