Post craft show post

Yesterday's craft show went great - as usual, there were really busy times, and also slow ones. The word of the day was "cute", since this is what most visitors say seeing the little post-it-note purses :) Note to self - bring a calculator next time, since multiplication of prices involving quarters gets tricky! I'm just too excited while talking to customers to use the same brain to do math :D

This is what the stand looked like, including the picturesque pipes and doors behind it:

A few details:

I thought some kids were playing with instruments in a rather incohesive way, but then the curtains opened and a band showed up! They played some Christmas music and a few other pieces, and it was lovely.

And finally - an overview of the hall:

A new page in the art journal

After a while I have returned to my art journal - sometimes images or words go through my hands, and it's just nearly impossible to throw them away. So they end up in the journal, which is bursting in seams; looks like it's time to start Volume II!

The theme is my new fascination with cooking and baking, doing it "from the bottom of my heart" and not to just avoid starvation :)

And here is a work-in-progress photo if some post-it-not purses for Saturday:

Canada Collectionary

We returned from Canada a few days ago and my Collectionary - travel journal written on the road - is pretty much ready! 95% of the process takes place in the car; the passenger door in our Impala is equipped with a couple of very convenient box-like spaces, where I can keep tools and pieces of memorabilia. I was never able to finish a journal if I started working on it after we had returned, and this new method is amazing!

Almost nothing is forgotten, since it's put down in writing right away. I also stopped pack-ratting larger travel brochures, which don't necessarily relate to our trip as a whole; I cut what I need and toss. Another advantage is that I had a reason to buy a bunch of cool pens - Sharpies and others :)

Here is the cover that I put together yesterday - the background is made from a Lake Superior map, and the images came from miscellaneous travel brochures:

And here are a few spreads:

On another note - I signed up for another craftshow (beginning of November in Elmhurst), so I will be working on the little purses again!

post-show post

The show yesterday was fun - talked to a bunch of very nice people (met a lady who is going to Poland in a couple weeks, happy travels!), played with paper, craft-babysat sweet little Amanda (we used some heat-embossing MAGIC to make Mrs. Cat, Mr Snowman and some bookmarks) - and also made a little money :)

This is what the setup looked like...

...and the table...

...and the purses, my biggest hit - will be making more soon!

So - thank you to the folks that stopped by my table, and and even bigger THANK YOU to those who made a purchase!