Craft Fair Season

It's craft fair season again and lots of fun projects are in the hopper, still being dreamed up and some are even completed and ready to sell. What a concept! :) I'm just doing 2 shows this year but always procrastinate so it's crunch time as the first show is Saturday in Beloit, KS at the high school. It's 9-3 so if you're in the area, please stop by.

Wooden ornaments colored with prismacolor pencils:

Grateful - mini treat bag

Good times ahead and lots of cutting, coloring and gluing in my future!

Happy stamping! 

Holiday Pencil Packs

I'm back! I hope everyone had a good week! I took a holiday break to spend some time with my family. It was great to be home for a few days. Now it's time to get back to craft fair season and the work world and everything else. :)

Here's one of my new craft fair items. It's a pencil pack - 4 holiday pencils in a handmade holder. What a cheery little gift or stocking stuffer! I had a hard time keeping the pencils from my youngest niece and nephews as they LOVE pencils! The sentiment is from a│s mini holiday messages and the cute little snowman is from a│s holiday tags. These are great sets that can be used so many different ways.


Have a wonderfully creative day!
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Ornaments and Magnets

These little ornaments and magnets are so fun to make and have on display. They're part of my new craft fair items this year. I may even get my etsy site open and post some there but we'll see how time works out for that. :) I used the A Muse Studio school days set, the TAC Hello Snow set and the A Muse Studio polka dot paper in many of them! I love snow globes and this ornament gives that effect with the snow inside.What do you think?

Here are the magnets! Great way to brighten up a file cabinet or refrigerator or any other metallic surface! 

And, here are some of the ornaments! Check out the button and ribbon hanger on top. love it!

These are great gifts to add to a stocking or tie to a package or to give to a co-worker, don't you agree? I will try to post a few more of my holiday treasures soon.

Have a wonderfully creative day!!

JC Craft Fair

We had fun on Saturday in JC. Here's me and my dear friend, Debi, hanging out in our booth early in the day. We had to try a new set-up since it was the first show we weren't on a corner but we made it work! We're lucky. We have fun creating treasures for others to enjoy and we get to hang out together while we're sharing the love of craft. We had friends "next door" and other friends close by so we could wander back and forth between the booths and we had several friends come by. good times!

And, because of this craft fair, I now have Snowman Soup for sale at Sisters & Co in Paxico so if you're in that area, stop in and check out their store!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Craft Fair Ideas

Hello Friends! Once again, I apologize for being out of the loop. The conference was last week and I survived - whew! Two more craft shows are done and how fun!! Thanks to all who have made it by. We have one more in Abilene on December 5th!

Here's something that was one of my best sellers early in the season (I am not currently making them for shows as another friend has some super cute tea bag holders and several of us share the booth. But, if you're interested, I take orders). :) This was part of a special order of 100 for a soup dinner. I hope they were a big hit! These have a tea bag on one side and a Ghiradelli chocolate on the other. The tag toppers feature the TAC Tea Talk stamp set which is only $16.50 with a $30 purchase. The embellishments vary from the various floral accessories from TAC as well as the floral punches and some additional dew drops and bling. They're great to add to a birthday card or as a small thank you for a kindness shown.

Happy Stamping!

Craft Fairs, Classes and Football - Oh my! LOL!

Hey all - so sorry to leave you hanging for a week. I've been super busy (conference planning, stamping, Wicked, K-State football, bowling, my stamping class projects and craft fair projects and that's just been the last 7 days!) and am having a blast and have lots to show you once I have some time to get pics taken and downloaded. However, here's a pic of my great friend, Barbara, and me (I'm standing) at the Beloit Holiday Fair. What a wonderful day! We had a blast and were "next door" to Heather so got to chitchat a bit with her too! (thanks, Heather, for the pic of our booth!) :) And, it was wonderful to see so many good friends from back home where I grew up. Thanks for coming out!

I'm working on re-stocking my part of our booth for this Saturday at Buttons and Bows! If you're going to be in Manhappiness on Saturday, come on by our booth in the gym (across from the church)!

Happy Stamping!

A Christmas card and craft show wrap up

Another Christmas card! I think I'm up to 7 or 8 now. ridiculous because Christmas is just around the corner. sigh. But, last year I sent cards in February and friends wondered if they were late for the year before or early for this year so really...I'm covered until February again. right?! hee hee!

So, back to the card...this is inspired by one of Heather's Christmas card designs. Hers used Ready Set Snow and was on lavendar - super cute. Mine uses Holly Swirls and is on bazzill blues monochromatics. Crystal stickles add the shimmer to the design. Love the stickles!



Last week-end, Debi and I worked the booth for the Holiday Craft Fair at Abilene for ourselves and two friends, Vicki and Dona. Our friend, Heather, had her button jewelry booth right behind our booth. We had a really good time! Thank you to all who stopped by our booths in Abilene in December and in Manhattan in November!!! We hope to be there again next year!
This is me being silly.
Debi preparing for business.
Heather and her buttons!

Happy Stamping!

Buttons and Bows

Oh my gosh - it's been over a week since I last posted and that's just crazy. It's been so busy but that's good. Buttons and Bows was last week-end and it was soooo much fun. It was the first craft fair that I've done in years and the first time with papercraft items. 4 of us put a booth together and it was fun to watch which items caught the attention of the shoppers. We learned that we really need two booth spaces so that's on the agenda for next year. :) We're also hoping to get into another show in a couple of weeks so it's going to be an intense month of crafting (again!). yea!

Here's what our booth space looked like. We definitely had a lot of things to look at and a lot of things in a small space and learned how we need to organize differently for future shows.


My friend, Vicki, and I got these great Christmas card displays to use to display our cards. I think it's a cute way to show off a group of cards at once. Don't you? Wish I could find more!


I can't wait to see how the next show goes! I used to do these kinds of things by myself but it's sure a lot more fun to share a booth with others! These are really fun ladies so the day was full of laughter and chitchat. ;)

More soon (hopefully!). Happy Stamping!