Our booth at the Indie Emporium

Here is our booth at the Indie Emporium. This was our first time to do this show and we were excited about it. It turned out to be a very interesting, enlightening, learning experience. We did not do as well as we had hoped. I ended up selling $2.00 worth of postcards to a lady. No, that is not an error. I really only sold $2.00. It was disappointing in that regard. However, we enjoyed spending time together and were able to see what really sold (people did buy from other vendors) and we had a lot of time to watch people and see just what they were buying. The vendor selling fake mustaches on a stick near us sold at least five of them that I saw. He made more on fake mustaches than I made the whole day and a half. That's a sad thing (for me, probably not for him). We shall perservere with our art and crafts. I saw exactly where the box was and will now know when I'm thinking outside of it.

Hot Cross Bun Mushrooms

What fun! Hot cross bun looking mushrooms.

Fuzzy Caterpillar

A cute fuzzy little caterpillar. He was in a bit of a hurry, but I managed to take one picture with a flash and one without. Not sure either one of them shows him to the best advantage, but at least you can check him out for yourself.

Barbie Sized Bedspreads and Throwpillows

Here are the Barbie sized bedspreads and throwpillows that I make to sell. My Barbie (that I've had for at least 27 years) is kindly modeling them for me. If you'll notice, some of the pillows and throwpillows are different in each picture. I have a lot of fun working in miniature. So far, I've sold a bedspread and pillow set and two throwpillows (bedspread comes with a matching pillow, then all extra pillows and throwpillows sold separately).

These, along with a few other crafts, were what I was working on so diligently for the craft fairs.

Pink Flower

"Pink Flower" painted 9/10/08

Lots of beautiful butterflies

Butterflies were rampant in early October. There were at least one hundred of these beautiful orange mini-butterflies flying around all over landing on the sunflowers to feed. We also saw a black butterfly and a yellow butterfly, but the majority of them were the beautiful orange ones. They made such a striking contrast to the yellow flowers.

Pancake Mushrooms

We keep running across mushrooms! These look like someone made mini pancakes and tossed them outside instead of eating them. Interesting.

Happy October Birthdays!

We celebrated some birthdays at Incredible Pizza on the 5th of October. Two little boys turned 5 (one on the 2nd and one on the 7th) and a little girl turned 3 (on the 18th).

We truly had a lot of fun eating and playing together (my parents and each of my sisters with their husbands and two kids apiece were there along with Pooker and I--thought for those of you who don't know my family, you'd appreciate at least knowing who you were seeing in the pictures). Pooker and I got our hands stamped before we went outside to hug everyone good-bye. Then we went back in and sat down and ate some more before we eventually left a good hour and a half after everyone else had gone. I'd recommend an Incredible Pizza birthday party--good times!

Sunset in early October

This is a sunset I saw in early October. (Remember, I've just downloaded the last 500 pictures I took, which was all of October!) I wanted to post this two days ago, but for some reason, Blogger was not working to be able to put pictures on my posts. And since pictures are worth 1,000 words and I like showing you what I see and do, I had to wait until it was working again.

Beautiful Flowers

I know I say beautiful flowers a lot, but that is how I think of flowers. To me, they are just so beautiful. A bright spot of color and life here and there, sometimes where you least expect it. I need spots of beauty in the midst of not so beautiful things.