Posts Tagged ‘craft shows’
Happy 4th of July
Posted on: July 4, 2013
Today is a wonderful day to celebrate our independence in this great nation with all my friends. As always, I am busy, busy, busy making new things for my craft shows.
Despite the fairly disappointing turn out at Harbor Market, I have a feeling that things will improve as summer moves along. First of all, my display needed a little height on the tables so I made a portable riser, using PVC pipe, foam core and Velcro tabs. It works very well and they can be taken apart and packed away for easy storage and since it takes two cars for me to transport all my boxes and tables, it stores great.
Next up…some new products. How about crocheted and knitted bracelets?
They are all crocheted and knitted with wire. The first one was three strands of 26 g wire with crystals and each of the strands were chain stitches and a bead on each chain, braided and connected with a fastener. The middle one was 26 g wire, viking knit method and the larger beads that fitted in the middle of the bracelet. The last one made with 24 g wire. The wire was very flexible and easy to crochet so I made 2 rows of single crochet and used stretchy thread to bead the 3 beads on and fasten.
What do you think about having a make and take at my booth? I made 9 bracelets (of course, crocheted and knitted) that the customers could purchase and they could finish them with their own picture under a glass tile.
The last project was my minion purse. Since the movie came out yesterday, thought this purse might be a big hit for the kids.
Harbor Market has started!
Posted on: June 17, 2013
For the past month I have prepared for this special summer at the Harbor Market. It opened up two weeks ago and there were a lot of people attending as well as new vendors. It is nice to see familiar faces of vendors that I met last year and now making new vendor friends. Here are some pictures of last weeks market day.
my new sign and some new projects.
Cup cozys, water bottle holders, coffee mug carriers and glass holders
dog shrugs, dog scarfs and dog hooded sweaters.
barefoot sandals, and my purses.
Check out the riser that I made. I used pvc pipe and some foam core. Works pretty well and I can take it apart. I will take a picture Friday before I put the tablecloth over it and show you what it looks like. It takes two cars to fit all the boxes and tables that I have which leaves very little room for big bulky props, so making the riser that’s portable and easy to assemble will allow me to pack things better.
I do have a new model for my scarfs. I will take her this week to see if I can attract some customers to purchase my scarfs. 
Latest Projects For The Summer
Posted on: May 18, 2013
In two more week, my first craft show will begin for the summer. It will be June 1 at the Bark For Life, which is part of Relay for Life in my county. It is a worthy cause, and I will be remembering my sister and her fight of cancer and a survivor for 12 years. I haven’t had time to update my blog because getting my projects ready for the show is very hard work. This week was for me was checking my displays to put my items on, looking for new ideas to make my tables more appealing. Made labels, product signs, price tags. cutting them out and putting them on the items. I made tags for my felt flowers to display them on using a heavy-duty double-sided tape, but for some reason they keep falling off…any suggestions? I probably will have to put a stitch of thread through them. Yesterday evening I went to Lowe’s and purchased some PVC pipe to make a display for the felt flowers, and want to paint the pipe maybe purple. These are the last of the projects that I have worked on for the last 3 weeks. I have yet to open the box with my tent inside and hope the tent will be easy to set up.
For the girl dogs, a dog shrug
for the guy dogs, a scarf
stick pins for my scarfs
baby barefoot sandals,
headband tower, the headbands have changable flowers
I almost forgot to show you my sign holders. I used an old CD and curled the wire on top and bent the wire on the bottom to fit inside the hole from the CD and hot glued the wire in the hole. Then I cut 2 circles out of decorative paper and used Mod Podge to glue them on and coated it on top. I put a flower in the middle for decoration.
Price signs for the tables
Need to go, I have a church banquet to attend in 40 minutes, then traveling to Lansing to see Star Trek on a BIG screen with my family later today. God Bless!
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