Christmas is sneaking up on me this year, like a snake in the grass. Every year the stores trick me into thinking it's Christmas November first. Now that it's actually December I'm having trouble getting in the mood. I am blaming the extremely busy Fall season for this. Between book sales and craft shows and relatives we have barely had one weekend at home a month since August. I'm ready to lock the doors and hibernate! I managed to drag out all my Christmas decorations between crafting mania. Now we just need some cold weather! It keeps fluctuating between 40's and 50's with an occasional teaser of wintry weather. One thing that feels like winter is this horrible cold I came down with last week that's making my head feel like the rotten Halloween pumpkin sitting on my porch. At least it's forcing me to slow down this week. Yesterday I vegged out in front of the TV watching my Beatrix Potter VHS cartoons. It just made me want to give up the craft show circuit and so some illustrations!
My last two craft show have left me thoroughly discouraged by that avenue of selling. It's so much work dragging all sorts of display props and merchandise all over town and then make virtually no profit, especially if you consider all my supply bills from Joann's, Michael's, and Hobby Lobby! My experiment with trying mainstream craft shows has been a total bust. It's the indie market for me! The only thing selling like hotcakes are my mom's embroidered tea towels. Good for her, but not so good for me. All these shows have left with no time for special orders or gifts! With one craft show left this year (Deluxe, Oklahoma City, Dec 11th) I am looking forward to a long break and reevaluation of my art game plan for 2011.
Affair of the Heart Tulsa booth shared with Audrey Eclectic
Well, time to feast on this butternut squash soup I made for lunch...but wait...I can't taste or smell anything right now!! Booooo!
1 comments:
awww, poor rotten pumpkin beth! I feel just like you do about the shows. I think really its an economic thing. No ones buying and when they do, they want cheap. No matter if you made it, or an underage child in china made it. Its enough to turn any crafty girl into a scrooge ;) but we'll get through it!
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