Status Report

Progress Report

     I know I've been blogging a lot about my Sims.  But I have been doing a little bit of jewelry work, too!  Not as much as I need to be, but I ran hard on working on it leading up to a festival then needed a week to pull back so I didn't burn out.

    If you are local to Barboursville, West Virginia then you may have seen me at the Fall Fest on September 20th!  We had an amazing booth with great placement in the middle of the crafters, not too far or too close to the band and food court.  I was the jewelry lady with her foot in a bright green cast and a whiny teenager.  I'm sure you remember me now right?  Ha!

     Leading up to the Fall Fest, I was in a frenzy making a lot of new items and wow, I even impressed myself on a few.  Lots of skulls, two new triple wraps, and I made extra copies of a few popular items like the dragonfly bracelet & my Marshall University wraps.  

     The Fearless bracelet is one of my absolute favorites!  It sold pretty quickly at the Fall Fest and without any haggling.  That always makes me feel great!  Pricing handmade items is a stress that most of us crafters go through!

    So after the Fall Fest I (obviously) spent some time playing my sims, watching some deer that came into my parents' back yard, and catching up on some Netflix.

     This past weekend, my sister conned me into joining her in a booth at my niece's cheer competition and I had my doubts.  The crowd would be smaller than what we see at craft fairs and festivals and we had to smush her bows and my jewelry products onto one table... but I will be darned if I didn't do better at that cheer competition than I did at the festival the weekend before!  It helped that I was the only jewelry vendor and we were last to pack up so we got all the last minute business, too.

     A few ladies asked if we would be at the next competition or the big regional one in a few weeks.  We are looking into it!  Neither my sister or I have heard where we can get into the regional (the next one is outdoor and I don't think we are going to do that), but we are trying to track down the appropriate people.

     My to-do list for the next couple of days includes doing some repairs for some friends' items (and one that I made, I stand by my work!), getting a product ready to do a fundraiser for the local rescue, and I may be suckered in to helping my sisters and mom at the West Virginia Pumpkin Festival this weekend.  Unless there's a last minute cancellation, I won't have a booth.  We'll see what happens!

    Oh, I did buy some new pretty buttons last night!  Aren't these just so cute?  There's koalas and owls, timepiece buttons with roman numerals, and the Horde for the WoW fans.  I'm excited on what I can do with all of these! 

    I'll also be working on getting pictures of all my new products now that I've unearthed my camera from the boxes remaining from the move and checking out a new social media to start promoting my items.  Pinterest or Twitter?  Hmmm...

    Oh, and hey, check me out on Wanelo!!  I'm totally pleased with the activity I'm seeing there!  If you are a fellow crafter and haven't added your items to Wanelo it's totally easy and worth it!


Best,

Carissa
The Crafty Warrior