My First Fair

Yesterday was a challenge. Could I really get my act together enough to start selling my necklaces at craft fairs? My best friend hooked me up with the opportunity, but it was up to me to figure out displays, and bags and signs and price tags and all the other little things you just don’t need when you sell online.

Challenge met:

Somehow, I pulled it off. I’m still not really sure how since I’ve had this stupid cold for the last week and a half (almost gone now…almost). I didn’t even have to go out and buy stuff to make it happen. Everything I needed was either in raw materials in my craft room or literally waiting for a rainy day.

Oddly enough, those picture frames are from the 99 cents store. I got them probably 4 years ago. I know it was a long time ago. The idea was to use them for photos my husband had taken during our trips all over England, Wales and Scotland which I displayed in my front room. I also had a bunch of Medieval images on postcards that I’d never send, so why not frame them? Well, I’d filled up all my larger frames and these little ones were left over.

Had it not been for a real slap-job cleaning the house, I would’ve completely forgotten them.

My husband and I were trying to figure out what to do with some acrylic grapes I’m storing our best friend. As I stood there grimacing in my front room, my gaze landed on a stack of two trunks behind our couch. I knew one was full, but the other? I cracked it open and managed to fit just about everything in there. Only a few things left.

There’s a Victorian trunk on the other side of the room, so I had my husband open it. It wasn’t just full, I couldn’t’ve added a piece of paper or the lid would not’ve closed. Almost nothing but picture frames. Some empty, some full. The memory of hoarding came back to me. They’d been nice frames for cheap. I couldn’t resist because “I knew I’d use them for something…”

That “something” ended up being my very first fair. All I did was pull out the glass and replace it with cardboard which I spray glued different fabrics onto. Something tells me my hoarding impulse paid off pretty big on this one!

My Twilight’s Fancy necklaces just don’t display well flat. They need a little gravity acting on them. To see more, click here!

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