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How Not to Spend Your Saturday (sort of)
I did the third Abbeydale Spring Craft sale and it was a flop. I don’t even think it was anything the organizer did either – the first one was disorganized but the second was good and I did well. This one was well organized and I think the only table that did fabulously was the one with puppies!
Beautiful weather, clear, obvious street advertising. Vendors, a variety of stuff and prices. Plenty of lead time. And… nothing.
I did get the opportunity to encourage all the crafty folk there to try out Etsy, look into the Etsy Alberta team and generally network. The lady with the table beside me is FROM the small town I’m moving to next month. My mom picked up a fabulous purse from a talented artist there and I’m hoping I talked her into trading buttons for an artists roll.
This is the table in progress of setting up. The board on it is actually a hinged, shallow box now thanks to my stepdad. Totally awesome. It needs a bit more painting and sanding but I ran out of that. It will be fabulous next week at my Very Big Show with many more pendants on it and charms and dangling items on the reverse side of the arms.
As for the puppies, we bought cookies at the fundraiser bake sale. Chloe tells me she’d rather have the puppies.
The Shop: Flowers & Frogs
My main focus is elsewhere this month, working on the details and stock for my big show but there’s always good stuff in my Etsy and Artfire shops!
The newest little addition in my Claychicks shop is a frog cane. I love him in all his chubby green-ness.
In the bead shop, some of the items I had marked ‘made to order’ are now actually in stock (go figure) until I pull them to use them myself. That’s one of the problems with making beads I like… they get used. I remain my own biggest customer. At least I don’t bake, I guess.
I’m updating my ArtFire shop to reflect these new items as well and ArtFire offers the advantage of no sign up needed shopping so if you’d prefer that head on over there.
Happy Mother’s Day
Hallmark holiday or not, let’s give the mom’s a pat on the back today (and while we’re at it, the kids and dads too, I’m generous).
I spent the day making beads of course. It’s work and it’s a loved task. Dangerous combination. And then some of our favourite food for supper which goes to remind me that I am lucky in my kid. She ate pasta with veggies and chicken Caesar salad and cookies and presented me with a complexly folded origami card she just figured out the routine for.
Bowl Goals: What’s New Here
This pile didn’t make it to the bowl before it got photographed, fresh out of the clean off tumble with white craft felt:
A lot of green hearts in there, some of my sunshine and sea garden lentils and rounds and a few small swirly lentils that match the hearts.
My Big Show is coming up pretty quick and while I made my goal for bead production quite a bit ago, I find myself with fewer beads to work with due to the uptick in sales online. Nice problem to have I know. It does mean that I’m madly making beads. This new blue butterfly was to help my in-progress-but-stalled beads:
And finally the cutest of What’s New in my world is, while not mine, still darned adorable. My latest family member – a nephew, Liam Declan – was born just the other day:
Clay and Walking
This weekend was sweetly productive. Saturday and Sunday morning after The Regular Errands were spent cranking out little clay goodies like these cell phone charms.
And this bowl that I started after I stalled making some beads.
Sunday afternoon was an interlude outside doing our third Walk for the Kids Help Phone. From the chaos of registration to the start line and, of course, the yearly tshirt model:
A surprise bonus was the not bad shot of me! I’m one of the many who prefer to be on the other side of the camera to an almost phobic extent.
Satori Life, a local indie pop rock band played the fundraiser. They were pretty darned good! Except I now have the tune of theirs – that you can listen to on their site – that played endlessly on the radio last year STUCK IN MY HEAD.
