Bath Craft Show

      Grace and I were vendors at the Bath Spring Craft Show this past Saturday.  We were pretty busy at first but then things dwindled down by lunch.  There were plenty of people there but not many were carrying anything.  It was worth it to go, but i wasn't impressed.  I still think that if I'm going to do any real business that I need to leave this area completely. 

        Still, we had fun even though it was a long day!  Grace made me an embroidery sign and some business cards.  She was even handing them out to people.  I had asked her to grab some of my business cards at home and I watched her get into the right cabinet and grab in the right direction but I didn't look to see what she actually pulled out.  When we got to the craft show and asked what she did witht the cards, she gave me some blank index cards.  Whoops!  We did eventually find some cards in some stuff left over from the last craft show but the ones she made were pretty cute. 

       We got home around 6pm that afternoon, the boys got stuff loaded in, Kenny had hamburger on the stove frying, I finished making the tacos, had a beer and went to bed!

My Lovely Big Tote Bags

 

These are my lovely new tote bags!  My Aunt Rhonda made some of these for some of my cousins and they turned out so neat I thought I would give it a go.  They turned out pretty fun to make.  This is kind of ironic because i am one of those wierd women that has only one purse at a time, ever, and usually I am either just carrying my wallet or cash in the back pocket.  But I am loving the purses!  Again I am running into the problem of having more ideas than time.  What to do, what to do.

These bags are a generous 16"W X 20"H and has fleece sandwiched between the liner and ouside for a sturdier bag.  they also have 5 inside pockets and a magnetic snap closure.  I sold  my one and only OSU bag right off the bat and got orders for 2 more so now I am ordering more of the polka dot fabric because they are no longer carrying it at my local fabric store.  I can't wait till it comes in! 

First Craft Show

I had my first ever craft show Sunday!  My friend Amy, ASR DeZingns at http://asrdezigns.blogspot.com/, and I went together for backup support plus I offer embroidery on-site for many of her items.  We are counting it as a learning experience and that is primarily why we went.  We sold alomost nothing due to the fact that about 20 people showed up throughout the course of the day.  We knew that it was going to have a poor showing when we decided to attend, but seeing that it was our first time out, we decide to see it through.  The reason  was that we could make all of our mistakes at this slow craft show so that we would be better prepared for the bigger ones.  We have another craft show again this Saturday at Bath.  I heard that it is expected to be a good one.  They have been doing it for years and always have a full venue and plenty of traffic.  We are not yet considered "seasoned", but at least we aren't going to look like total idiots when we get there. 

That's Amy putting some finishing touches on one of her reversable bags.