Enjoying the Craft Fair and beautiful Spring weather!

What a beautiful day for our first craft show! We had a lovely location under a large shade tree and luckily remained in the shade from 8am until well after five o'clock! A ton of people came out to buy the locally made crafts, enjoy homemade food and relax by the shade trees and pond.  I was absolutely exhausted by the time we got everything loaded into two vehicles and headed home. While I was rubbing my back after loading up our  heavy tables (which I love and were not for sale) I was wishing I had taken the offers I had for what seemed to be the crowds two favorite tables. Even though one was my real desk and the other was a regularly used craft table, wrestling them back into the truck was not much fun! What was I thinking?!?!

 

My mom is very crafty and creative so we put our efforts together to prepare for the craft fair. We stitched, painted and created for over eight months getting things ready. The painted jars were a favorite of customers as well as a lot of the kitchen stuff and horse themed items.

 I set this section up and quickly took a picture. It took about an hour and a half to unload, unpack and set up all of the tables. The door had a very pretty curtain topper, I wish I had noticed I did not get that fully in the picture. The wind was blowing it though so it may not have really photographed nicely.(Unfortunately I was so busy I didn't take nearly enough pictures, only 10 total)

The dishcloth pants sold well. (Part of the bottom can be seen in the duck tub) Only two are pictured here and have yellow yarn bows on white and yellow dish cloths. My great great grandmother used to make these for gifts. They were traditionally given with bridal shower gifts, since they were actually useful once untied. A cute and useful handmade gift that is so easy to make! I'm sure you could find a similar directions on the internet, so I won't post them here.

I set this up at home beforehand and took a picture. I really find the painted cans and jars very handy. I use the cans at home for colored pencils, paint brushes and craft supplies.  They are perfect if you need to store items on open shelves and want them to look nice while doing so.

My mom made some fun Mexico themed items. One of my favorites is the yellow jar with cute donkey. (on the left.) I like it and am kind-of glad it didn't sell so I can keep it around a little longer! ha. My mom also painted the horse jars, which I thought really turned out quite nice. We sold three of the palomino ones, I guess that was the favorite horse jar of the day!

I will list the horse themed trinket boxes for sale on etsy. (Lower right hand corner) The one with the saddle is $12.00 or $15.00 (can't remember right now.)  The brown and blue ones are about $7.00.
etsy link here:  www.CardsAndAntiques.etsy.com

I have to wood burn some more spoons, You can see them in the background, however, I don't have any close up pictures at the moment. I'll probably paint more jars and list some of the ones I have left since they are very handy to store stuff in, people seemed to like them and they sold well.


               Although I felt like this when I got home,


after a good rest I would probably do another craft fair in the future.
Not tomorrow or next weekend but sometime in the future!