Busy, busy, busy!

Wow! I've had an amazing couple of weeks. After a long dry spell of almost two months, sales have taken off in my shop lately! I've had a sale nearly eveyday in the past two weeks! So, I've been sewing my little fingers to the bone to keep my stock up and work on new items. A few new items that I'm offering are baby babushkas and little helper apron sets.

The apron sets were, of course, inspired by my daughter as she followed me around the house, immitating everything I was doing as I cleaned the house. The set includes an apron with two pockets, a dust rag perfectly sized for little hands and a hair scarf (baby babushka) to keep the hair out of her face while she helps me clean.



I loved the hair scarfs so much that I decided to offer them individually, as well as in the set. I lovingly refer to them as baby babushkas because I think my daughter looks like a little european lady when she wears hers!

Other things I've been working on are my crayon rolls since I was recently contacted to have them featured on a blog called babybuyproducts.com. So I've been working to increase my stock in preparation of sales brought in by the article. I will also be donting a $25 gift certificate to a giveaway that they are having at the end of their buy local Chicago feature. I will most definitely write another post informing you of when the article comes out and when the giveaway will occur.

The ABCs of Me!

A cute little survey that I lifted from Life In The Lapadula House

A. Attached or Single? Attached
B. Best Friend? My hubby
C. Cake or pie? Pie
D. Day of choice? Saturday
E. Essential item? Soap
F. Favorite color? Anything in the blue/aqua family
G. Gummy bears or worms? Both!
H. Home town? Beach Park, IL
F. Favorite indulgence? A glass of wine after a long day
J. January or July? Either. I love all seasons
K. Kids? Nadija
L. Life isn’t complete without? Family
M. Marriage date? June 3, 2006
N. Number of brothers and sisters? 1 brother
O. Oranges or Apples? Either
P. Phobias? Spiders, Centpedes, Earwigs
Q. Quotes? "Dance like no one is watching, work like you don't need the money and love like you've never been hurt"
R. Reasons to smile? My husband and daughter
S. Season of choice? Spring
T. Tag 5 people
U. Unknown fact about me? I've never seen Ferris Bueler's Day Off all the way through. I know- shocking!
V. Vegetable? Broccoli
W. Worst habit? Biting my lips
X. X-ray or Ultrasound? I've had both.
Y. Your favorite food? Plain cheescake
Z. Zodiac sign? Virgo
Z. Which zoo animal is your favorite? Gorilla

Craft Show

I took my sweet time writing up this post about the craft show I did last weekend, but better late than never, right? I spent my week catching up on some orders, so now it's time to catch up on blogging. A woman's work is never done, but I digress!

On to the good stuff. After spending the better part of a week preparing for the show, I trucked all of my handmade goodness up to Round Lake Beach for their first annual craft show at their Beach Fest. I had the pleasure of sharing a booth with a friend that I met at the last craft show I did. Monica is an extremely talented, wonderfully delightful person who has a shop on etsy selling purses. It is definitely worth your time to check out her shop!

The show was a two day event at the new Civic Center in Round Lake Beach overflowing with talent from all different arenas. On the first day we were stuck in a dark corner that didn't get much traffic, but we made the best of it by chit-chatting and exchanging ideas and trying to soak in as much experience as we could. At the end of our first day we found out that there was an open space in a much better location, so we made quick work of making sure we could move there the following day.

Here is our little corner on the first day.

Our second day went much better than the first. We had better traffic, better light, better neighbors and better sales! We were beginning to feel like it was worth our while to be there! Monica did rather well the second day, selling quite a few purses and hand bags. As for me, I tend to have great expectations, so nothing is ever good enough! I learned a lot over the weekend though and am definitely looking forward to the next show.

Here is a snap shot of my table on the second day. Much better! Better lighting, better layout and much better display on my part! Unfortunately I don't have a picture of Monica's table on the second day, but luckily her free lance photographer hubby does! You can see his blog and additional pictures here.

Well, that was my weekend in a nutshell. Lots of fun, lots learned and lots of excitement about doing another show!

Thanks for reading!