Yesterday I had a Craft Show

Yesterday I drove down to Alma, WI for the 6th Annual Art and Music Festival. It was a fun-filled day of music, food and meeting people. My friend Nancy and I decided to go in on the booth fee together. She has awesome jewelry that nicely compliments my bookmarks.

Of course, the day didn't go off without some mishaps. We got to the show and there were some very nice gentlemen willing to help us carry our tables and supplies to our spot. Very sweet of them.

So then we start to put up the tent. Now mind you I did not put it together the night before, but I did take the pieces out and really thought I had all the pieces. Famous Last Words.

I'm frantically trying to find the little pvc connector piece that says Gable - Gable. The nice gentleman is trying to pair up magic marker numbers with matching numbers, I'm getting frustrated, Nancy is trying to help, Finally I realize that the second Gable - Gable piece is missing. "How embarrassing!"

But being the make do people we are, we decided that it was a very nice day out, no chance for rain, so who needed a tent anyway!

Otherwise the day was really good. We were first in line on the left hand side of the show. We were surrounded by trees, there was a nice breeze, a flint knapper was next to us which was interesting to watch), all was good! We didn't get rich but had fun anyway!

Plus who could complain about being on the Mississippi River with a breeze over the water. We were at the park that is on the right hand side of this photo. (photo from the Alma Wisconsin website.)

Creatively Displaying Bookmarks at a Fair

So I've been trying to come up with a creative way to display my bookmarks. Also to ship them when I sell on etsy. I debated about:
1. wrapping them around something.
2. Send them in bubble wrap.
3. loose in an envelop
4. connected to a business card.

None of these ideas seemed right, and I decided in fact they were pretty lame. So I did some googling for box templates. One of the first sites I found was: http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/templates.htm

They ahve some templates you can print out and use. I first looked at an icicle treat holder, but the bottom was empty, and I didn't like the idea of a tale sticking out. Then I found a diagram for a chopstick holder. I printed the template, worked on some modifications and found it to be almost perfect.

I have some leftover 8" x 8" scrapbook pages with designs on both sides. I took these and folded up a bunch of them to use for my current bookmarks I have listed on etsy. The only thing left to do is to figure out how to label them.

I also have to think about what I will do at a show if someone wants to take it out and look at the whole bookmark. That could get tedious replacing a lot of bookmarks back into their holders. But I will have to think about that for a bit.

If you read this, let me know how you think it looks. Thanks a lot for visiting!