Success!

We did it!












The Renaissance Faire was a great success!

The first day was sooooo windy and cold. It was horrible. We actually took the tops of my tents to keep them from blowing away. The only good thing about it was that my wind proof racks worked! Nothing blew off and we were not chasing my product around park. I was proud of myself for designing and building them.

The final day was beautiful and very crowded. We sold almost every item I had. My daughter joked that if it went for a third day we would be sitting there with one table and 5 items thrown on it. It felt good! I worked so hard for months and was so nervous. We had a great time in our costumes too. My girls looked so cute!
Thanks for all of the well wishes and for everyone who stopped by my booth. It was a pleasure and we look forward to next year!

Autumn Visitor

I had a nice visit from a Road Runner this morning...

He walked right up to my office window and peeked in. Made my day!

Brooches

Some fun stripe patterned brooches for the Renaissance Faire. I hate to waste a good sheet of stripes so these are made with the little left over bits.

Of course I have to add some brass bits and some sparkle. I always love to add sparkle!

Sentinel...

New Dragon Sentinel to watch over tiny treasures.

This is on a slide top tin that I made into a necklace. A little Dragon's Lair with a red dragon keeping watch.

I tried these out at a recent show and they all sold so I am excited to make more for the Renaissance Faire next month.

A lesson in Listening...

My work space is such a mess...again. I keep telling myself to clean it up but I get sidetracked or busy or I think I will do it later, blah , blah, blah. I remember thinking just last week that when the kids start school I will clean my office.

The kids started school today and I went into my office to get to work and my chair hit the table and I knocked my clay/supply/cubby right on its head.

CRASH!!!!! 15million little jewels and brassy bits and clay cane designs all went flying. This is a small section of the mess. It went into the hallway and the kitchen as well. Think fireworks. Boom!

I just stood there for a good 5 minutes wondering where to start and getting kind of glassy eyed at the whole mess. Then I thought, oh, I should have listened. I kept telling myself to clean up and get organized but I just kept putting it off.  It really is not 15 million pieces but it might as well be. Now I have no one to blame but myself. Should have cleaned it up weeks ago and I probably would not be sorting through every last little do da on the floor. Oh , well. Lesson learned and now I know exactly what I have. Or at least I will know when I am done picking through the big pile of stuff. What a mess. Life Lesson # 4789- clean your room.

Picnik

I learned about this FUN photo editing site from the Etsy Forums.

It is free for general use and has lots of fun photo editing effects and fonts. I made this  post card to announce my upcoming show schedule.

There is an option to buy a membership which gives you even more fonts and effects.

I LIKE it!
http://www.picnik.com/app#/home

Mermaid

I have been working on some Dragon's Lair type Fairy Doors but I got sidetracked...
A really nice etsian had an idea for a Mermaid Door.
This is my first try and I am so happy with how it turned out. I can just imagine this at the bottom of the ocean with little sea creatures coming and going and maybe a mermaid or two.

Here there be Dragons...

Getting ready for the Renaissance Arts Faire