Holiday weekend recap.

My oh my this holiday weekend was just beyond busy. Thursday we had the family over and we ate dinner early. It was nice, the kitchen was cleaned up by 6pm and we just relaxed the rest of the evening. Now in the late hours, I had to work on Soph's wish for a Frozen themed birthday. I was up until 2 am! Unheard of by the way. I try my hardest to make it in bed before 11 on most nights. Friday morning was nuts. I had to go pick up her cake at one my favorite bakeries. Swedish bakery never fails! We then spent the rest of the day celebrating the birthday girl. She wanted to bake cupcakes so I complied and baked chocolate cupcakes. Again, we decided to do something low key and it turned out perfect. Soph thanked us throughout the entire day for everything that we had done for her. The most exciting part of her celebration was the gift scavenger hunt. She loved it! She had been begging  for a Nintendo DS for the past year and well we gave in. Saturday, was my day. I got to escape for a few hours to the craft stores to take advantage of all the coupon bonanza! I made out like a bandit with my purchases. In addition to this, I shopped from some of my favorite Etsy shops. I love supporting small business owners, especially ones run by moms. Now today, I did a lot of clean up in the girls room. It was just toy mayhem everywhere. It was yet another reminder that my children don't need anymore toys. I purge usually every other month and my goodness every single time I get rid of at least one garbage bag filled with toys...overall a very productive Holiday weekend. 

The aftermath.

So the craft fair was Sunday and it was an awesome learning experience. I sold lots of my bows, headbands and hair clips. I even traded a necklace with another fantastic mom who makes natural products with essential oils. The crowd that came out wasn't that large and in part I blame that the horrid weather we had.  However I am super thankful because a lot of people admired my work and how nice my presentation was. My neighbor was lady that sold canned goods and I had a chance to chit chat with her and taste her yummy stuff. Which I of course had to buy. I am looking forward to signing up for craft shows and continue to receive support from my friends and family. In the next couple of weeks I will be focusing mainly on custom orders I have. After the holidays I will probably begin to make new collections. I have so many ideas in my head, I just need the time to sort them out and follow through. 

-A.

I have an explanation!

Ha! Why yes I do have an explanation for being so MIA on my blog!  I have been diligently working on a number of projects. Most importantly, the craft fair I signed up for is this Sunday. I have been on full prepping force for the past week or so. I'm exhausted. Working and coming home to do all of this has me beat. I'm super excited and nervous at the same time. I am scared that I have put in so much time creating things and I don't end up selling much? Is this a normal feeling to have? Quite frankly I don't know if these "jitters" I have are totally normal. I swear just the other night I was saying, "oh screw it I'll just drop out of it." However, I won't do that. I really have put in too much work to not see the end result.  In the mean time here is some stuff I have been working on. 

There is more...I just haven't had the time to even document the making of process....well off to bed I go. Not looking forward to that alarm that goes off every morning for my 9-5. 

-A.