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Prettycat191

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So, if you're wondering where I've been, I was contacted last weekend to have a booth at a craft fair tomorrow; so all week I've been making items and getting what I need to set up a table at the craft fair! It's a fundraiser for a local chapter of a charity called LoveLifeFoundation. This event is called LoveLifeWrapping, they wrap gifts for donations and have a Santa for kids to take pictures with, and the craft fair tomorrow (or later today rather); the booths are free to vendors, they only request that we donate 10% of our profits to the foundation. I'm still working now to get some items made and finished, and getting everything together that I might need tomorrow. It's been a lot of work, but it's all for a good cause and may bring my shop more sales, so well worth it. I'm excited but nervous at the same time lol, I've been to a lot of craft fairs, never had a booth at one before! It is a small one, when I talked to her today they only had 11 confirmed vendors, but they also have less space than last year and this is only the second year that they've had it.

Hopefully I sell a lot tomorrow (I'd love to come home empty handed, but I have a lot of items too lol), the more I sell the more I can donate! It would also help a lot to be able to get some money for Christmas...

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Glad everyone is doing well, sorry for those of you having a tough time now :( Hope everything looks up soon!

Hope I can get caught up this week; but I need to finish up Christmas shopping and need to deep clean the house before Christmas Eve, so it's looking like yet another busy week!

Still looking for a job, and need one yesterday, please keep me in your thoughts ladies!
 

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Skeeter, so good to hear from you! I'm glad you made it through (but never had a doubt)!

Prettycat I hope the craft fair is/was a success. Better to have a lot of items than to run out part-way in, I suppose. I hope it gives you some extra money, too.

I've been making and wrapping caramels this weekend. I got a bunch of nice tins at the nearby dollar store and will be filling them for friends and neighbors. I've just about made myself sick from eating so many of them already...
 

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Skeeter, so happy to hear you are doing better. I'll bet that 6 weeks seemed like 6 months! or longer......

All this talk of shopping and baking is exhausting. I'll be glad when you're all done. :lol:

:laugh::laugh:

Has Pretty posted about how the craft fair went yet? Inquiring minds want to know!

I bet she is exhausted!
 

Prettycat191

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Sorry, at the fair all day yesterday then worked and crashed last night, and another full day of work today too! I earned the drink I'm gonna have later tonight!

The fair was a HUGE flop! It was awful! Very very few people showed up, and those of us that were there barely made any sales! It was advertised, but I guess not very well. I was eclipsed by the 2 booths beside me, the one lady brought her dog because she thought it was outside (several people brought their dogs for the Santa photos, including the lady running the show), and her dog was so CUTE that people would get distracted to look at him instead of what I had; and the girl on my other side had a flashier booth that all of the girls flocked to first, and only barely looked at my stuff. I made 3 sales totaling $14, only 1 to an actual customer. The lady running the fair bought something from everyone, so that was one, ths adorable little girl with her own money bought a little dog charm, and the girl in the booth that all of the girls bought from had her little 3 year old daughter with her (I spent hours just talking to that little girl lol), and she bought one of them that her little girl liked. There were only 10 vendors there, and I was in the back (it was a small empty shop space, I imagine people had a hard time finding it); and it was COLD! I was in the sun, so I was the only warm person there lol; they couldn't turn the heater on because it would trip the breaker. The lady who was taking the Santa photos had a TON of stuff plugged in, so when we turned on the heater, the electricity went out. Almost everyone was contacted the same way I was, only 2 were there from the previous year. They had a huge success last year, but this year was definitely a flop. I'd probably do it again, but I'll be more prepared and have more than a week to plan for it next time! At least I have a lot of items to list on my shop now, but my camera takes such bad pics and getting the pics takes so long that I don't get stuff listed very often. Maybe if people hadn't kept getting distracted I would have sold more, because there were several that just loved some of my items! They'd get distracted by their friend or the dog and forget, so maybe they just weren't that memorable...

I spent more on the show than I made :(
 

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He was a cutie, his name was Charlie. He was a chihuahua terrier mix. She had dog sweaters and some shrugs and scarves that she knitted/crocheted, and she had him in one that matched her outfit. Definitely a dog lady lol. All of the people who have dogs bought some of her stuff, it was all really cute, but I can't imagine torturing a dog that way :p It might be fun to put one on my cat though lol!
 
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