Hopefully OorPatts can continue to grow in size and popularity. It has been a joy to continue to produce and sell my prints and greetings cards here online at OorPatts.com
It will be great to spend time again with ArtOnScotland in exchange square Glasgow ( On the dates shown)👇🏼
It would be great to see you there. I will also be spending a few weekends at New Lanark World Heritage centre at their outdoor market. A beautiful place to be and a fitting backdrop for my work.
It’s great to be back out there selling face to face again. It feels very different but at the same time, all too familiar. You still have great conversations, meet interesting people and have big belly laughs. You still have great trading days and the Celtic v Rangers game still kills trade.(Note to self… take Those days off)
I’m loving New Lanark, Outdoors Market and I’m super looking forward to being in Glasgow again ( First dates June 5th and 6th) Exchange square, Glasgow has been my business lifeline as well as my online store OorPatts.com
I look forward to meeting you at these markets or making up your orders from OorPatts.com.
OorPatt
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Buy any print get a valentines card free. Just tell me which one you would like in the comments section after your purchase.
Today is a return to normality for OorPatts and myself. The first day of face to face trading for months. 11am till 6 pm. Exchange square, Glasgow.
I’ve been busy framing and packing and signing prints and cards. I had forgotten how much work is needed to make a trading day. There’s lots of choices to make. What products to take, how many, what will my setup look like? Do I have everything I need. Sanitiser, kitchen roll, scissors, pens, water… it’s endless🤔 but has an end🤔😂
Then there’s the fun I have talking to people. Meeting old customers and new, friends and family, other stall holders. It’s just a great feeling. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a lot of hard work and there’s lots of standing in the cold, but it is well worth it. I wish I had started this earlier in my life.
I’m not carrying to many frames as they are heavy and I am…old😂😂😂 Here is an idea of what may be available and (if you buy an Unframed print) how good my art looks when it is framed.
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Saturday the 12th of December (Next weekend if your reading this… this weekend 🤔😳😂😂) in the outside Art market in exchange square Glasgow. This has been a long time coming. I’ve missed the whole event. From getting my work ready to sell. Packing the car. Setting up the stall. Having a laugh with the customers and the other traders. I even like breaking it all down and starting the whole process all over again.
OorPatts Christmas cards… just in case you missed them…
https://oorpatts.com/product-category/greeting-cards/christmas-cards/
These are strange times indeed… Halloween has passed and we now have Christmas to look forward to.
This will be my 3rd Christmas as a one man business. I have to say it has been a blast. I’ve met and made so many new friends during this time. The People you meet and interact with make this life. I am pleased to have met lots of customers in person. I have enjoyed the chats, the tweets and the laughs.
Since March it hasn’t been easy and I mean that for most of us. For OorPatts. The closure of the market in Glasgow where I sell face to face has meant a huge drop in income. Rishi Sunak decided not to give government support to new starts like mines. Happy to take taxes from me for the last 36 years. This has happened to 3 million individuals in the U.K.
…So. If you can. Please support any small businesses in any way you can. Buy a card, buy something bigger, Forward a Facebook post. ReTweet their twitter posts.Tell your friends. I say this for all wee businesses. We are in danger of losing vast numbers of talented people who run these businesses. If we do nothing, we will be left with only mass produced products from soulless corporations . We need to preserve the talent. Like myself many will have been burning through their savings. Many businesses have been lost.Many people have now become unemployed.
So as Christmas is coming… please give small businesses the support that the Westminster government have not given. Spend a few £’s on a card, a candle, a hand made knitted item, art, … anything. When you buy directly from small business. You get the personal touch. Your money is not funding giant corporations it’s helping pay the heating bills or clothes for the children.
So what a year 2020 has been so far. It started really well for my wee business. Great growth, products now in the hundreds and the next step up planned to grow into other markets. It’s not easy being a one man show but I’ve got to admit… I love it. I do everything from creating the illustrations to selling in person and dealing with the posting of orders. I work so hard that I am now on my 24 month long streak of winning OorPatts employee of the month. I know… I’m a star and I refute allegations of a fix by nobody🤔😂😂
So why so early with Christmas cards? Well… it turns Oot… i‘m no well and need a wee operation to sort Oot the madness within. I had hoped it would be sorted by now but it looks like it will be nearer November before it’s done and I will need to take a wee rest. My body is too taught for stitches, so a period of not moving will be needed… hence the early release of Christmas cards.
Anyhoo… here are some of this years Christmas cards for you to enjoy. Remember some can be personalised 😉 If your pal Betty is a bam… then we have a card for that.
Merry Christmas from OorPatts
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Christmas cards
