not ready

On Friday evening I thought I would be at a three day fair all weekend. However, the river-gods were mad that night and it rained most of the weekend. At the fair on Friday night, a couple of my items got wet and I decided to take this as a sign and cancel my weekend attendance at the fair.

So instead of the fair I took care of family time (which was on my list of things to do) and I had a major brainstorming session about my displays for indoor and outdoor fairs (more on that later).

Next weekend I have two craft fairs on Saturday. Indie Craft Bazaar: Spring Fling 12-5 and then I have to be ready at 7 for The Trouble with Girls. I want to bring my game up since that last Indie Craft Bazaar. I'm going to bat this week, so watch out!

random tuesday

I'm pleased with any excuse to use my mason jars that are leftover from our wedding.



I can't stop shopping on this site. Everything is so well designed. I needed this geeky font necklace.



Right now, these are the bags I'm using for the fairs. Hand stamped all of them on both sides.



Sometimes around here compromises come in the form of carnations.

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Wellington is no vegetarian. This was his Thanksgiving dinner. The heart of that poor turkey we had. Mike's parents suggested it and I thought, why not? He loved it. It was slow cooked to add flavor to the dressing.



My sticker on Vanessa Diaz's guitar case. She had some cute looking shoes.



This is the piece that will have a new home after the silent auction. I was flying high when I saw it framed. It really dressed her up.

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I decided I'm getting into tea again. I stumbled upon a cute little shop. I bought some white rose tea and mango green tea. How cute is this tea infuser?



This was Friday night dinner. Just kidding, however, this was taken where I had dinner. Just cheese and wine. A feast in my mouth.

Just to show you that I mean business. I made room for the tea in my life. I'm still finding ways to use all the mason jars from my wedding. 2 down and many, many more to go.

My table at the last local artist craft fair. I'm getting pretty good at setting it up.

random tuesday

I finished the design of a coupon email, I'll be sending people who sign up to my mailing list. The next step adding it to mailchip for a mass email. This is my first time using something like this.

Sunday morning started with a french bakery stop near our apartment. Yummy and relaxing.

I'm all done with production for the year. This was the last of it. Posters of the same design as one on the towel series. I even have next year's designs in mind. I'm in motion to do two more fairs by the end of this year (dada bazaar and sunny side up). These will give me an idea of what kind of people my stuff attracts. What products I will continue with and which ones I'll drop. My goal is to have everything up on my etsy shop before Thanksgiving. 

Si. Mike also gets pedicures along with me. Something we picked up from our sisters, their husbands go along with them. :)

random in new york

Yup, rat trap

I love the city that never sleeps. Even if Mike and I were back at the hotel room by 12am. We walked, walked and walked around.  I was able to take a couple of pics while it wasn't raining. I realized there are a few things that I find to be random. To me they stuck out like a sore thumb even in New York.

Umm... in case you missed it in grade school. Please remember to look both ways. 

      

 Bumper Bully? This is understandable until I noticed the front of the cars don't have them. The back is protected but not the front. Awesome!  

A sushi boat on the ground... weird and where's the sushi?

How does something like this happen any way?

Burger king has computers and internet. 

Pubic restroom with a window view of a wall. 

Thanks NYC, we had a blast. Even if Irene came following us from Florida.  

tree down

"The best way out is always through." -Robert Frost

I'm just glad it didn't go through our office door.