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Wizard of Oz available on My Etsy

Now that my shows are over for the year, I will be listing various collages on Etsy. If you want prints, just email me, otherwise I will be selling the originals only. I will add a few a day, as time permits. Its best to space them out. I know that a lot of you ask if I have my things on line and now here is your chance to browse and pick some out. Hopefully, you will want something for Christmas........

Hope you check it out. There will be lots you haven't seen yet.

Meanwhile, I am very busy personalizing ornaments at the Christmas shop this month. I will return hopefully to post normally in January.

Spring Craft Show Discouragement

 

I really wish I didn't have to do shows in the Spring. They do so little for the ego, and less for the income.......lol. I couldn't even afford the neat things I saw. There were so many talented crafters, doing their own thing. I don't need another thing, but if I were able to spend freely, I surely would have purchased anyway.

This was my Alice display. I thought it set up really good. I am going to take it to the Craft Barn tomorrow. I may take some of it out of my etsy and do some new things for that.

I just got a few custom orders and I need to get those done, so I can work on summer show things. I realize that with working a part time job and running to shows, I will feel overwhelmed. I was thankful that I didn't work today, and will have to consider asking off the day after a show as well as the day before. Last time I worked the next day and didn't feel like I caught up for a long time.

  

I sold one glove dog...........*shrug*.......

 

Wizard of Oz always saves me from no sales. Someone always buys something. 

 

We sold one toad house and a bunch of mushrooms. *shrug*.........

My girlfriend set up behind me with the most darling primitives. I wanted to take pictures but I forgot. I wanted some of her bunnies and raggety anns......She didn't have a good show, either, although, did sell more than I........

We played cards the afternoon.....next year the show wants to go to two days.....WHy? I ask? We would have to pay more money and sit longer........I don't know what I am going to do for spring and fall income......

Have you done any shows? How are sales for you? I need to be sending money in for shows and so I need these shows to pay me.......Last year it cost almost $6,000 to send in for shows. They have your money for six months sometimes. Sometimes, I give them money for the next year before I leave the show.......sometimes, I think that works best because you just made some money, whereas, in the winter, it could be very hard to come up with it.......*sigh*

Tell me how its going for you.....I'd like to know what's working.........

Wizard of Oz Room Banner or Bunting

 

I noticed that there has been some banner making and that they are referred to as "buntings". I have had these really cool Wizard of Oz fabric squares and it occurred to me that they would make really neat window banners. I made a very large one---to fit a double or bay window, and then three smaller (single window width). I sold one at the Sparta show, but it encouraged me, so I will be making some more to sell at the summer craft shows. I might try to see if there is an audience for etsy.

 

 

 

The above one is the double one that I did first.

So, you see, I have been sewing, but also, one of my winter goals was to purge and re-organize. So, I hope to get that done, too.

We're Painting the Roses Red... First Craft Show 2010

 

"We're painting the roses red......we're painting the roses red........" This is some new display props I put together for my Alice in Wonderland section in my booth display. I have a 12 x 20 foot. I will take my camera and take pictures after I set up.

Unfortunately, I didn't think about taking pictures of packing up until I was almost done. This show can be hard because I haven't done anything since November and my things are packed up in a trailor. Memory isn't so good at this point. 

So, perhaps the roses will come up white, when they should have been red.....you know what I mean? I unpack my things and there is a little of this and a little of that, and its tough to make "ambience". Although I staged my set up as I worked this year, there was a lot still in the trailor that I don't especially remember was there. The last show was Christmas oriented, so I had to remove trees and things that won't really speak "Spring"....but that leaves a lot of holes in the display......

 

I purchased new garlands to hang above my display panels to cover some of the wiring ugliness and also, it softens the metal panels. My other garlands were somewhat beat up from use and also, more fall oriented. I found these at Wal Mart yesterday for $2.50 a garland! What a find! I was so lucky to be looking for them yesterday.

I made some fun Wizard of Oz garlands to sell, but forgot to take pictures....so, next post I will show them in the display, and if I have any left will put them in my etsy store. 

 

I managed a whole basket of bunnies and doggies. I am excited to bring them. I dressed a few of the bunnies, but left a few simple.

 

I made some hearts that can either be pin cushions or just hanging to be sweet. I also have one quilt garland.

 

Since I lost my framer, I have had to come up with other ways to use my calligraphy where I don't have to purchase frames. I have lots of odd sizes to use up, but my prints will have to start selling unframed for now. I am enjoying the variety, though, and its quite a challenge to keep changing what one is doing. Working at the Christmas shop has given me courage though, because I can see that there is a buyer for everything, eventually.......

 

I also made some new blocks. These are a little bigger than the last ones, but they are black and beige. I intended on doing some Wizard of Oz quotations on these, but I didn't have the artwork prepared for them, so I just did a few Alice quotations for this weekend. I have lots more blocks to design.

I just wanted to blog before I leave and I think the next post will be just as interesting. I plan on doing a before and after the show post for every show this year. I think that the Team-Wist, and Wist-etsy people will enjoy hearing about the Wisconsin Craft and Art shows, if they check out the blog.

After I come back, I will be listing things for the etsy shop because I have another month before the next show. See you Sunday nite!!!

Wow, things come and go so quickly........

 

That's a line from Wizard of Oz, of course.......Dorothy exasperated from all the goings on......

I can't believe that a week can go by without me blogging. It's unheard of....all I can say is there seems to be a lot going on.....working feverishly for coming shows and trying to keep my etsy shop interesting. You can see that I added some new things today.

Also, I set up a an etsy shop under the name Shebrews, which I plan to put other things I make. Once my fabric collages expire, I will move them to the etsy shop. I do this for continuity and also, I wanted my shop to be Shebrews, but didn't want to lose my history of sales and positive comments. I have over 200 sales and the SHebrews shop will start without any history, except for a link to Ohmy1.

Also, I continue to work at the Christmas shop---still working on inventory. Imagine spending hours looking for ornaments on trees to match numbers on a sheet of paper. No particular order......painstaking....but I am learning the product and where it is and if it exists....lol. All this, and blogging, too.

Well, this for now. Enjoy. I will be back soon with some other projects I am working on........love the comments. Please let me know you stopped by. Your blogging friend.......shebrews......

new collages for my love of OZ......

 

  

 

  

  

  

This is half of what I did today. THe other collages are not finished so I will show them later.

I am planning on opening a new photo album that will feature work for sale. It will be an album that will say For Sale. I will have description and price and you can purchase and pay through paypal or emailing me to tell me you will be sending me a check and I will remove the photo. I will be slowly adding pictures to this new album.

While I am "on the road", I often get asked if people can purchase on-line, and while I have my "etsy" shop, this way I can change things more often and mix it up. Let me know if there is anything I have shown that you were thinking about purchasing, and I can include them (possibly) when I make this new album.