Sunday, November 20, 2011

Finally had an awesome craft show!

Ok so I am going to brag on myself a tiny bit. I just got back from picking up what was left of my stuff at the the Paideia Art Visions.

I am going to admit that I was a little shocked how much I sold. I brought home only about 1/4th of the stuff that I dropped off. Now I have to get my rear and gear and get some more stuff made for the next show on December 3rd. This one is a fund raiser for the Atlanta Progressive Preschool. If you have kids you should come check this one out. It sounds like tons of fun: Crafts for sale by local artists/crafters, Wood fired pizza www.sjwoodfiredpizza.com and bake sale, winter and eco-friendly craft activities for the kids, the winter labyrinth, light room, bouncy house, face painting and more. http://atlantaprogressivepreschool.org/craft-fair/


I also am hoping to actually make some stuff for myself here some time soon ;)

Hope you have a great Monday tomorrow.

Peace Out - C




Sunday, November 6, 2011

Been busy working all week.

It seams like Halloween was weeks ago already. I spent most of this week working on getting new products ready to take over to HomeGrown and listed on my Etsy site. On Friday I was one of the featured artists at HomeGrown for the art walk as a part of the Decatur Wine Festival. Basically I hung out at the shop and had snacks and talked to my fellow artists and met some fun customers.

I managed to get some more of my big lunch bags ready and my display at HG was looking pretty spiffy. Forgive the slightly grainy and out of focus phone picture.



I also got these cool little pouches over there. They come in various sizes and range from $6.00 - $18.00 dollars. These are some of the items I came up with to add to the shop for the holidays.

I am doing 2 more craft shows this year as well as having my Etsy sight pretty well stocked right now. I have 40 items listed which I think is the most I have ever managed to get up there. I made 60 napkins yesterday and hope to make at least that many tomorrow.

Here are some better pics of the lunch bags. They actually could also be a make-up / toiletries bag rather than a lunch bag if you wanted.

On a few of the bags I tried to be a little extra creative and added some applique. The flower on this one is felt and silk.

For the fist time ever Fabric.com let me down a little. I ordered more strap material and it took over a WEEK! for my order to get here. I was a little desperate to get some bags finished so I scoured the house and found two old belts and was able to use those to make handles. 

Over all it was a long week and had some challenges. But now it Sunday and I have had a nice morning of puttering. Guess I better go get dressed.

Have a great week! Hope I am back to talk to you before the week is out. Peace Out!
C

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween was fun!

I have said a few times that Halloween is the high point of the year and that it all goes downhill after that. Well I still stand by that sort of. We had a great time last night, but Trick or Treating was cut short because M was not feeling well. I am pretty sure she is alright and just need some food and rest.

And please forgive me any typos today. I had my eyes dilated and am still not seeing quite right so typing is easy but reading the screen is giving me trouble. 


Here we all are in our Halloween finest. Eric looks a little more like a zombie than a vampire but I am going to blame that on the fact that he would not wear the fangs I bought him.

Miss M wore her sweet little monkey suit, I have to say I am sort of glad she is a bit of a tom boy and we did not have to deal with any of the issues of the fact that girls Halloween costumes (the store bought ones) can be a little tarty.

Yesterday on the way out the door she decided to add wings and a wand and be a monkey fairy. This pose in particular is a little reminiscent of the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz. But still painfully cute!
I wanted to make sure I showed you a good shot of her tail b/c that sucker took me an hour to make. It is so long and skinny it was hard to turn that much fabric and then stuff it. But it sort of makes the costume so it was well worth it.

I wore my big haired 50's gal costume. And it was a big hit. I wore it to work at the shop and got lots of comments. I was pretty fun. I basically just wore a shirt and sweater that I had. I made the skirt out of an old formal dress and added the shoes. Magically I happened to have a pair of socks that matched perfectly. Oh yeah and the wig and glasses. It was hard to see out of those things so now I have had 2 days of weird eye sight!

Eric's costume was more put together than made. The wig was all weird and sticky up and I never managed to bother to deal with it. But somehow it worked. I had only about 3 minutes to do his makeup and he would not wear the fangs so a little like a zombie / vampire. But he somehow looks so young in the pictures. Maybe he really is a vampire, the never get old you know!

Well now that Halloween is over I guess it is time to move on to planning Thanksgiving. Hope you had a safe and fun time last night and I will talk to you soon!

Peace Out - C