Tuesday, June 2, 2009

What a Good Idea!!!

Okay, so I was sitting and pondering the other night about what I could do to help myself at the Craft Shows. See my cheesy table cloth's are from the dollar store and they are very thin (not making enough money yet to afford real ones) so when the wind blows they lift causing my light hair clippies to go flying. I feel like a fool running to catch them or customers running to catch them (sweet but even worse). So I came up with this idea...I used pieces of old fabric and created these cute little nine patch quilts then stuffed them with pellets and fiber fill. I added a piece of ribbon for a loop then purchased the name tag clips from Walmart...WaLa Table Cloth Weights!!! I am pretty proud of myself. And they are cute too.

I have another show next Sunday at Peddler's Village, PA in Penn's Purchase Center from 11am - 5pm so come out and see me Under My Tent...LOL (No more sunburn for me thanks).

Thanks for reading.....Show me the $$$$$
Jen

Monday, May 25, 2009

One Crispy Memorial Day Weekend!!!

Well I had my 1st show this weekend at Penn's Purchase in Peddler's Village, PA. It was sort of slow, but I believe it was because of the Holiday. Most people were probably at the shore...Hopefully! Sales were okay, not great and I got the worst sunburn I have had in years:( I haven't slept in days. The tops of my ears are so burned and swollen...I even used sunblock several times but the sun was just too strong. I guess I will put up my tent next time...Dah!

I met some really nice ladies and had fun just talking to customers and relaxing without the Schmave for a change. Isn't it funny how much you complain about your kids but when you are away from them you miss them terribly!LOL The rest of the weekend was very relaxing. We started moving some things into the new house and played outside the rest of the time.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and aren't too upset about having to get back to work tomorrow.

Smile it could be worse:)

Jen

Monday, May 18, 2009

Gotta Love Gettin Older!!!

Okay... so I ran out of my favorite lipstick and when I went to read the label on the bottom I almost died...I couldn't read it. It was all blurry...Wow! I have always had 20/20 vision, I never thought that I would need glasses but...TaDa! I went for an eye check-up and I needed reading glasses.. Nothing major only +125 but I still can't get used to it and everytime someone walks in the room I whip them off quick cause I'm afraid they'll laugh...Time to put on my big girl panties and realize it's inevitable, it happens to all of us eventually... This is another new Clippie Holder that will be added to my website's soon...Ella Elephant Clippie Keeper. She is available for $5.50 and can be found here: http://www.littlepagsboutique.etsy.com/ or http://www.logcabincrafters.com/ So if you are local I will be attending a Craft Show this coming weekend 5/23 and 5/24 form 11:00-5:00pm at Penn's Purchase in Peddlers Village, Pa Come and check out some really great vendors and shops and say hello.

Have a Great Week Everyone!
Jen

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Never a dull moment in my life.....

Ha Ha had to add this picture of Ava on her 1st ever mall ride. She was terrified! Pour kid...No I didn't make her stay on it more than 2 seconds for this picture. I wouldn't want to scar her for life.

I have always been a big Eyore fan because I can relate to that big black cloud that follow's him around raining on him all of the time.
I am just shocked at the amount of mean, money hungry, selfish people there are in the world. Doesn't anyone believe in God anymore and believe in the Golden Rule and just plain kindness toward each other? Once again I have been a victum of a creep looking for money from my family that he does not deserve. How do these kinds of people sleep at night.
We are moving AGAIN....Hechtic but totally worth it for the space. BUT before we found this place we were looking at another place and thought we liked it after being rushed through it, then went to meet with owner to sign the lease and again were rushed and he sent his partner who was a double talker, liar and all around swindler. We reluctantly signed the lease and gave him a ck, he never gave us the lease.
The next day we walked around it outside and saw a ton of safety issues and called him and told him that we no longer wanted to rent it and why. He waited 2 days and called us threatening to take us to court and then demanded money from us so that he will just go away. This is shocking, I am not made of money and the only money we have to spare right now is to take our family to SC to see my son graduate from the Army. It just makes me sick...Thank goodness we took pictures of the property to prove the hazzards to our 2 y/o if we lived there because they were made aware of them twice in week and did nothing to fix it.
On a better note: I have my 1st show at Penn's Purchase in Peddlers Village coming up on May 23rd...Yah...Can't wait. I love meeting new people and seeing how much they enjoy my products. I have been creating tons of new clippies and necklaces etc.. I have been busy writing letters to Sean and creating handmade cards for him. Here is one of the cards I made for him this morning:

I am so excited to see him graduate and I can only imagine how handsome he must look in his uniform. I buy almost all of my graphics from Digiscrapkits. Her graphics are awesome!!! No Commercial license needed for her graphics ever!!!!! Well worth it. Anyway I am also working on some Military goodies, like necklaces and plaques. You should see them in my shop within a month or two depending on how well the move goes....LOL

If you have any thing in the Military Line that you would like to suggest let me know by leaving me a comment. This is new for me so I would appreciate the suggestions. It is also a great way for me to connect to other Military Moms, Wives etc...

Thanks for looking & listening!!!!