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Wow...I'm Really Mature...

My poor little husband's iphone4 power button was messed up so he had to send it in for a new one. Poor thing. Well, his new phone arrived in the mail today and I taunted him to no end about it. Enjoy....

Did I smash it? What do you think? You'll never know.

Our First Craft Fair!

Whew! It's over, now I have a sense of peace in my heart again. Sarah and I finished our very first craft fair yesterday. We had tons of fun and learned quite a bit. I thought I would share some pictures of our booth and a little bit of what our Friday and Saturday was like.

I don't know about where you're from but around here the Fall craft fair is the big one. It gets so crowded at all the venues that you basically have to stay in line to get from booth to booth. Considering that I didn't even know we had a craft fair in the Spring until Sarah asked me if I wanted to apply, I assumed it wouldn't be as busy. I assumed correctly. It was busy enough but not like we had hoped. I'm happy to say that we came out on top and we have enough inventory left to get us started for the Fall if we decide to go for it. 

Sarah and I are both introverted so we aren't the type of crafters that finagled people into our booth. I hate being guilted into looking at items I'm not interested in. I'm not sure what the common courtesy is but I'm sure not a fan of being trapped into a conversation with someone. Instead we stayed out on the edges of our booth and greeted everyone who did come in to look. We offered assistance when needed and stayed out of the way the rest of the time. When I shop, I like to be left alone to carefully consider my purchases so that's what we tried to do for our customers.

I have a confession to make, we never did a practice set up for our booth. We're both procrastinators as I'm sure I've mentioned before in previous posts. I'll stop procrastinating when procrastination stops working for me! We even had to have Sarah's husband Curtis run to get another table cloth for our back table at the literal last minute. He arrived with it as the doors opened and we had it on the table in two seconds and ready to go.

This is what our booth looked like the first day.

My friend Kim who works at a Salon let me borrow a few of their practice heads to display headbands on. Our metal headbands were displayed on a multiple picture frame that I spray painted blue and removed the glass and backing from. 

Aren't these flower clips adorable? They're so fun because you can wear them in your hair, on your shirt, on your shoes, on your bag, the possibilities are endless! Check Sarah's etsy out if you're interested in these little lovelies.

I brought this lovely lady the second day of the fair after we realized that people weren't really noticing Sarah's teething necklaces. I think she wore it well, don't you?

We did some rearranging on Saturday. I brought one more practice head in to display one of my bloom headbands on. What do you guys think of using heads for display? Creepy? Cute? A good idea so people see how the headbands are worn? Personally, I like them.

Here are a couple of my clutches. I'll be adding a few to my shop in the next couple of weeks.

Here's a couple more..

I thought this shadow box that I found at goodwill would be a cute display for my earrings. The earrings were pretty popular. I'll also be adding some of these to the shop.

We talked with a lot of lovely people who genuinely enjoyed our items as well as our booth as a whole. Our sweet friends came by to visit with us and purchase items, some even came both days. My friends are such a blessing to my life! I'm sad that I was too tired to attend the girls' night they were having Saturday evening but I'm so glad I got to see them anyway! :) <3

All in all the past couple of days have been really fun, and I have to say, doing this craft fair was probably one of the coolest things I've ever done. 

Happy Mother's day to my fellow moms! 

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. 

<3 Mandy

Love

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I just want to say that

I LOVE

all of the blogs I follow.

Behind every single one of them is a creative woman with wonderful ideas and a great heart. 

So, that's all I have to say today.

<3 Mandy

Time Moves TOO Quickly

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I

Am 

FREAKING OUT.

I need more time. :-/

I'm setting up for my first craft fair Thursday evening. The fair is Friday and Saturday and I am not even close to ready. I'll have approximately 200 items and my goal was double that. And you know how when you see something you've made over and over again that you start to not really like it anymore because you're a perfectionist and you pick at it to death? Well, that's where I'm at right now. I'm a mixture of emotions: excited, scared, overwhelmed, helpless, happy, and nervous, all rolled into one. 

I know that I'll do fine and even if things don't work out the way I had hoped at least I did it and I will have learned a few things along the way. 

-Mandy

What I Wish I Wore Wednesday

Have you noticed the grey and yellow trend? I have and I simply adore it. I stumbled upon these adorable grey wedges at Ruche and was inspired to look for something to pair with them. I googled yellow dress, searched Forever 21, and this is what I came up with.

Grey wedges from Ruche

Anthropologie- blogged about here.

Anthropologie- blogged about here.

Forever 21

Oh and two of the blogs I follow are doing a Ruche giveaway today, go check them out and enter to win! Selective Potential & Down and Out Chic.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

-Mandy

The Clutch

I've decided I've about had it with making headbands so I came up with a little clutch design. I've only made one clutch before and I followed the same steps when it came to putting it together but mine is a bit bigger (the dimensions are completely different), the outside piece isn't ruffled but the panel is and I didn't include a divider as I didn't think it served much of a purpose. I also squared the bottom corners so it seems to have more room and can stand up on it's own. Also, mine has a handle. 

I'll have a limited supply of these at the craft fair. I hope they sell!

I think I'll move the panel up a little on the next one. 

I'm hoping to make some canvas clutches, and possibly some iphone holders as well!

Please let me know what you think!