My first craft fair
I’m getting ready to exhibit at my first craft fair in two weeks. I’m starting to get nervous. I know I don’t have enough inventory yet, so I’ve been very busy making goodies. It’s been fun. I did a mock set up last night on our dinner table with all of my things, and I think it will look really good. I have two tablecloths, one red and one orange, that I’ll use, and I think they’ll really stand out. Erik doesn’t think there will be many "shoppers" there, since it will be on base. I think it will be okay, even if it’s just an opportunity to hand out my business cards.
I had some wonderful pocket mirrors and bottle opener keychains made up especially for this event. Kate at badbuttons.com made these for me. She did an awesome job, and I highly reccommend her. Her turnaround is faster than lightning. I wanted to make some vintage military buttons, and ended up at the Library of Congress website and found all these wonderful campaign posters from WWI. They’re all in the public domain, now, so I could use them. There are six images, for now, but I can’t wait to do more.
I’ve also been making a bunch of my soft cloth baby shoes. They’re coming out so cute! I’m doing all one size right now, but I’ve been getting a bunch of requests for larger sizes, so I’ll do them soon, too. Here are a couple pairs I’ve sold recently.
I have a couple purses made up, too. I have a ton more upholstery fabric, and I’ve been debating whether or not to make more. This has a lining of some wild vintage kitchen fabric. It still had the selvedges on it, but it reminded me of curtains or sheets from the seventies. It was way cool.
Then of course there are all of the baby clothes I have in my shop. These will all be coming, too.
I also want to make:
4 or 5 Mei Tais. I’ll be wearing Gavin in mine all day, and I always get lots of questions about them.
Pillowcase dresses. They’re just so cute!
Bibs–but I think these will have to wait.
Can I do all this in two weeks? What would YOU want to see?