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"What if your hobby paid for its own materials?"
There is something genuinely electric about watching a stranger pick up something you made, turn it over in their hands, and decide they want it in their home. Selling at a Christmas market teaches you more about your own work in one afternoon than months of making alone ever could. You figure out your pricing, your pitch, and how to chat to a complete stranger from Roscommon who absolutely needs that candle. The cold air, the mulled smells, the buzz of it — it is nothing like a regular Saturday.
Tadhg (35), Ennis — site safety officer, makes wooden serving boards and the odd lopsided bowl in the shed
I'd been making boards for about three years at that point, giving them away as wedding presents mostly, and my wife basically told me to either sell them or stop buying timber.
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