I can't even keep up with my own blog. I've been what really feels like EXTREMELY busy for the past two weeks. My friend Kara started a new business where she does vinyl lettering on well, just about anything. I thought it would be a fun adventure to help her out on so I thought I could contribute by making some little Snuggly blankets so we could put together some gift packages for people to purchase. These packages would contain a snuggly blanket, the baby's name on either blocks or a plaque, bows or binky holders, Tinkle targets, and pee pee tee pees with whatever else we could think of.
So we have been working like non-stop all this past week to get ready for today's first "show". Today was Founder's Day in Maricopa. Kara reserved us a booth space about a month ago, but we of course procrastinated until just last week to get enough things together. We had both figured that today's showing would probably not bring either of us any profit, but we thought oh well, it would get our name out there. So back to our crazy week. I think that I was over at Kara's at least 4 out of the five days this past week just trying to make sure we had enough "material" to show the people at Founder's day. We made some extra holdiay things for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and even Christmas. So we figured we were pretty set.
Well, today was our first show. The set up went well enough other than the wind was insane...quite aggrivating to say the least. But we were able to get our tables filled with stuff for people to see and hopefully buy. Well, once people started moving on in, we figured we'd get some serious interest right away. We had a ton of people take our business cards, but no one was quite willing to customize their orders for vinyl sayings. Until like mid-afternoon, nothing. Then finally someone ordered their family's name on these 4x4 blocks. So cute. Then she also ordered her unborn son's name on the blocks too as a separate order. We were so excited. She gave us a deposit-so to speak on the blocks so we told her we'd get them to her within a week. She was so excited. So were we!
A little while later another lady had come by and ordered something to replace another little something she had broken. It was a shadow box that held a little bottle of Jack Daniels Whiskey and the saying on the glass front read-"In case of an emergency, break the glass". Well funny enough she didn't have an actual emergency, the box simply fell off the shelf where it was kept and the glass broke. She wanted us to recreate this little thing for her, so Kara is going to have to go into town this week to try and find a smaller shadow box to complete this ladies order.
I realized that no one was really interested in the little snuggly blankets. I want to keep a few of them to put them into the baskets for other shows but I think that I am going to try to turn my attention to making purses, small clutch like purses, handbags, and those types of things. I think that those are the ticket to making actual money for the hard work we've been doing. Our next show is October 25th. It is an actual craft fair so people are going to be looking for something to buy. I think that even if they don't buy what we have there they will certainly make orders for customized products. Hope that turns out better than this did...although I am quite sure that anything after the windy day we had today, will be like a ray of sunshine!
