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Post by michelle on Dec 3, 2017 0:43:05 GMT
We are a group working to declutter our spaces. Please feel free to share your goals, projects, ideas, revelations or challenges facing you as you work toward your own goals. Also feel free to copy and past this intro, use our "CLUTTERBUSTERS" Title for the day to start the thread if you don't see it started.
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Post by michelle on Dec 3, 2017 0:44:10 GMT
Took the day off from the chores. Hooray! Just relaxing and enjoying the day.
Hope your craft fair was fun! Can't wait to here about it.
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Post by zenamidievel on Dec 3, 2017 4:36:53 GMT
Good Evening!
You deserve a day off, Michelle! Good for you!
Craft fair over! My friend met me there and helped me set up, was set up ahead of schedule, was able to run a test transaction, used DD's phone, everything worked, booth looked really nice and using the 5' ladder was an excellent/functional display idea w/table cloth draped over front and back. I used a big piece of cardboard duct taped to it, to give a bit more height and create broader surface area for the card display examples to be on. A school PTSA organizer came over and specifically complimented on my works, booth and donation items, she was all raves and it really made my morning! I had a good spot, prime actually, the weather was bad, and it was not super busy. However, a woman came and purchased all 4 of my remaining original mosaic pictures!!! This was very exciting and fun as I thought I was going to be hauling those home with me again. There were three birds left and an angel. People liked the hangers, but only one sold. Probably priced too high. Every mosaic picture I made, sold. Cards were still not a big seller, even with reduced pricing and not one sleigh sold even with the candy in it! People admired the pointillism work, but no buyers. I will have to do final reckoning to best of my ability, but I think I have made a profit, butI'm pretty sure it will be 2-300 over all. But It's been a blast. Thank you for being so supportive listening to all my crafting escapades. Now I have many holiday gifts, hostess, teacher appreciation and so on ready to dole out over the holidays. Neighboring booths around me said the felt the show was terrible, did not sell much and my neighbor who sells jewelry said it was slow for her and where she was selling as well. It has also dawned on me that I could give these two magazine racks to DH's brother and father for X-mas as they are cattle ranchers and they have a western flair to them. I will ask him about it.
I hope you had a good day!
Z.
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Post by michelle on Dec 3, 2017 16:41:07 GMT
Z, It has been so much fun to read about this process. Congrats! on selling the mosaics. Also you have learned a lot about what will sell and whether you enjoy doing that type of crafting. All of the things you did to get ready to do these fairs, the organization were amazing. The ideas and actually turning them into reality of cute items was awesome. You definitely deserve five stars ***** and the Clutterbuster drum banged *!!!/**!!!!
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Post by zenamidievel on Dec 3, 2017 20:10:35 GMT
Hee, hee....thank you Michelle, it was a learning process for sure. ALso I'd say that I will have a lot more sensitivity, not that I was ever insensitive I don't think, about a craft fair, the energy that goes into the producing, set up/take down, etc. and putting themselves out there, whether the goods are things I care for or not. I haven't really done this in earnest, yet, just peeked at a few things, I may really just end up breaking even. I'm seriously okay with this! DH thought that giving the magazine racks to his family would be a nice idea, and they really are nicely done. I can't believe no one bought them actually. We're not supposed to be spending money on the adults gift giving on his side and so it's a good idea as it's sort of homemade.
Today will be a day of organization, unloading the car, inventory, general pick up, put away, etc. which I am sort of really looking forward to! I have two magazine racks that I'd taken initial prep work on that I need to see if I can find/make storage for in the garage.
Don't know if you can stand listening to another "Creative" type thing. But my mom, who is 85, this year did embroidery project on cheese cloth type hand towels, from Wal-Mart for my sister in NYC. She said it is called "Red Work". If you go to Bing Images and put that in, you will see images of the general idea. She did "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and it really took a lot of time. Imagine 12 Lords a Leaping (all twelve), 8 maids a milking etc, a lot of little images on one portion/end of a hand towel, like toward the end/edge. THe images/embroidery are not super "fine", maybe a bit on the primitive side, and each also had the captions for the day, "Four Colley Birds" etc. underneath the image. It took her a long time and she was really exasperated at times. At Thanksgiving, before she shipped the finished things to my sister I took a picture of each embroidered part of the towel and cropped it to a square. First I tried "Shutterfly" gift products but they were limited in products themselves and they number of images you could put on a product. Then some of the image or captions were getting cropped out when I uploaded them to the product. SO then I went to Zazzle.com and found a 16 image fleece quilt option. So I put 4 of a tree I did for my friend, I'm not sure if showed you a picture of that one-it is maily brown, rustic, in the four corners. Then I put Mom's 12 days in the inside 12 images they are white/offwhite with red emboidery. Added personalization of , "MERRY CHRISTMAS" to the bottom. I picked the fleece because it most affordable, the image upload had no white border, the black goes right to edge of image which was better visually, and didn't crop out parts of the image as some of the rounded corner options did. I picked the tree I did for my friend because it was a different color than my mom's images and so separated themselves from hers, but accented, and used 4 of the 16 images. I ordered these for myself, my three sisters, my mom and one cousin for Christmas! I hope the quality of the item is fairly good, I really think it's going to be cute/meaningful gift. The only thing is I took some of the pictures at one time of day and the rest at another, so the light is different which makes the color look slightly different of the cloth, but I decided "done is better than perfect" and just went with it. Thanks for reading that if you made it through. Also...I think I'm going to look at melamine dessert plate options for myself on Zazzle with the same images. But I knew none of my sisters would want those. A blanketcan fold up, store, doesn't take a lot of space, and easy decoration to put over a chair/sofa at holiday time.
Today will be a day of organization, unloading the car, inventory, general pick up, put away, etc. which I am sort of really looking forward to! I have two magazine racks that I'd taken initial prep work on that I need to see if I can find/make storage for in the garage.
Have a great day!..Onward!
Z.
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Post by michelle on Dec 4, 2017 2:58:46 GMT
Z, What a delightful project! Having been raised by an embroidering/sewing DM I really get what went into that. My DM started teaching me to embroidery when I was 5 years old and I still have some of those projects. She believed that I needed to be able to do "hand work" as she called it which led to me sewing for many years. Nice to be chatting about how much love our DM's put into life for us.
Spent the day doing some chores. Then took Clair to doggy play day and class. She is so cute.
Hope you got your organizing etc done and you are enjoying your night!
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