shipping boxes for towels

Remember this face? I decided to make it part of my branding, it's displayed on my etsy shop banner, I've  made stickers that I give out at fairs, I've even made paintings. Crazy it all started out of a doodle I made while having a lazy weekend on the couch.
After bouncing ideas off of a friend he suggested I also incorporate the face onto the boxes I purchased from Uline. These boxes are prefect for shipping my screen-printed tea/kitchen towels. On the side with no printing I'll place all the shipping information.
If presentation is everything, I think I nailed it. What do you think?

all the way to japan

My sister went to Japan for work related reasons. Because this was her second trip to Japan she knew what is customary there. She wanted to make sure that she took gifts for when she did a home visit; in Japan it is considered impolite to go to someone's house without a gift. My sister thought it would be nice to take some of my handmade pieces. Above is a photo of my canvas bag and the happy host recipient.

a merry indie craft

This is what my table looked like at my last fair of the year. Its been a great learning experience this year being new to the fair world. I've come a long way from my first fair back in October. I now know that I want to grow a business based on screen printed tea/kitchen towels. I started the fairs with 30 towels, three different designs and I sold out at the Indie Craft Bazaar. By far the "tools of the trade" towel is the best seller. I plan on reprinting those for sure and making a series of different ones. I've also been selling handmade and upcycled jewelry made of old mac keyboards and those did very well. I also plan on getting active an etsy shop, which up to now has taken a back seat because of the fairs. I feel the fairs have given me direct interaction with my customers and I now know my target audience. All in all, this fair was a great way to end the year. 

charity event

I'm just thrilled to be a part of this Art Basel Week Charity Event Benefiting Paws 4 You. I'm donating one of my screen-print "monkies" to the Silent Auction on Saturday. Sadly, I won't be able to be there because of the Holiday Indie Craft & Gift Show event  (where I'll be a vendor). Either way, this is so exciting for me. Look, my name is on the flyer! It's looking like a pretty busy week around here.

custom stamp

I ordered a custom rubber stamp (with my blog name, for branding) made of clear polymer from etsy scribbling club. I'm glad I did. I was able to blast it all over my earring display, the back of my paintings and even the inside of my tote bags.

first fair a success

Here are my thoughts:

Wow, what a thrill and success my first fair was. All the hard work and preparation of the last two months paid off. ahhh (I see more in my future).


Setting up the tent and pegboards would not have gotten done so smoothly without Mike's help. Two hours of setting up was plenty of time to have everything ready. I must say I'm glad I took the extra steps days before to make sure I made zip bags labeled with the necessary hooks, binder clips and price tags for each display on the pegboards as well as for the table. It also made it easy for breaking down time too. We opened and closed our new tent the day before to make sure we knew what we were doing beforehand.

This was my first craft fair and I came out well over even. Craft fairs are one of those things that take time to perfect, but I'm happy with the first effort. I think that I was very thorough. I might change the position of the pegboards and put the table on the left side of the tent for the next fair.

As far as the people my tent attracted, I approve. They looked a little shocked when I mentioned it was my first fair. Anyway, people who bought my canvas paintings enjoyed talking about the underlying meaning of each painting. There was even someone who related to my roster gallo towels. I think it took her back to a nice time in her life. So the one-on-one connections were a bonus. (I honestly wasn't looking forward to it at first).


Overall, this was a great experience. Thanks to my family and friends for the support and most of all to my husband who sticks by my crazy crafty ideas.