Our friend Mary, asked if we wanted to come along to a antique show that she exhibited at and bring some of our handcrafts! Since it was a primitive show and there were other crafters, we thought, sounds like a great time!
We worked for a long few days to get ready, including finishing up a bunch of rag rugs! Jessy worked on some of her lovely chainmail jewerly and Maggie gussied up some of her wood work!
Mary brought her lovely fiber products from her alpacas and rabbits! They were so beautiful, these batts ready for spinning. I could not help myself and had to buy one of the purple and blue sparkly ones!!! Can’t wait to give it a spin on my wheel!
Jessy has been making these beautiful wire chainmail bracelets and key chain bobs… they are so neat! She loves to do things that involve patterns and such… she’s awesome at origami too!
She also made some little hemp bracelets with fun saying on them in alphabet beads… just fun stuff.
My rugs really sold well… they are big and beautiful and people really like to match them up with their primitives and their country antiques. Unfortunately, my table mates did not fare as well! It was very very cold that day and I think it did not help matters… Mary and Jessy did sell a few things but I sold 5 of my 6 rugs! These two went pretty quickly… I love that purple one…. I need to make some more of those for sure!
I found these hand shears for sheep shearing at a booth and just had to get it. Only $7! They were so sharp still I accidently cut my coat showing the dealer how they worked! She didn’t know what they were.. thought they were for cutting grass. I guess you could use them for that, but nope… they are old sheep shears!
And another lady was selling lots of lovely kitchen things and I just LOVE wooden kitchen things… I actually bartered a small table runner for these fun little artifacts! Love them…
Oh, and my beautiful wool batt from Miss Mary and a clever little hand painted muslin carrot that I just thought was adorable. I thought I did fairly well… made over $150 and only spent $25. The remainder went into gas and groceries! Thank goodness because this past winter has sure depleted us in so many ways. I know that I need to get weaving more lovely rugs… they just always sell. I only have one left! I’ve been cutting lots of strips over the winter… now it’s time to weave them up and help the budget recover!
I’m glad that Jessy was not discouraged by the lack of jewelry sales. Jewelry is such a hard market. Everyone liked and touched the pieces and were just finding them a delight, but I guess they were there for big expensive antiques and such, so they were holding on to their folding cash. I think her items will do lovely in our Etsy shop… look for them soon.
And I think we will be doing a few more craft fairs here and there. It’s really a fun day out and the making a little cash part is not too bad either!
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Lovely posts. I so have enjoyed reading this last year. Tell us what your etsy store is called so we can see your wares.
Patty