Bloggin'

I seem to be really really bad at this whole "keeping up the blog" thing. It's a good thing I have no real goals in life, or my friends and family might be horribly dissapointed in me. 
Let's try this. I'll write up a whole bunch-a blogs, and then time them to come out every day or so, so that if I miss a day/week/decade, I won't feel so bad.
Clearly, nobody reads this!

T-minus 4 Days

Somehow, somehow I made about twenty purses in three days.
That is more productive than I have been in about three months. Not to mention made a bunch of magnets (which maybe I will actualy put on display this year) and I have a few record CD organizers ready to to be put together. It looks like I might not need to panic anymore, though I would like to get a few more purses put together before Friday when we set up. 
I've also redone all my jewelry displays with a black backdrop, instead of that awful beige and tie-died blue. It's really not all that surprising that the black makes all the earrings, necklaces and pendants look 100 times better.
I'm almost broke, and I sort of really cant wait until Folk Festival next weekend, partialy because I think I'll do really well this year in sales, but mostly because is signifies the end to a summer that turned out to be pretty hectic durring the times when I wasn't laid back watching it fly by.
I'm hoping too, when it's all said and done, I will be able to refill my etsy shop with new product, because I've been neglecting it for months.
Good luck to me!

Regin Folk Festival

Well, I'm finally back in town, and all I have left to do is finish cleaning my appartment, and gfet jiggy with my sewing machine. 
I had a fantastic weekend, full of great music, hitchhiking, meeting friends, buying stuff, and hangin' out. 
Now I have to get my ass in gear, and sew relentlessly until next weekend, when I'll be setting up in beautiful Victoria Park, Regina, with my Partner in Crime.
As I said last time, I perfected a purse recipie, and I've started up.
Yesterday my mum took me to Value Village and I bought a gargantious bag of tough purse fabric.
This morning in the the and a half hours before work I pumped out four purses, and I am totally going home to finish up with a few more before I have a nap and start all over again.
Fun!

Hits andMisses

The Ness Creek Music Festival was a hit!
I took up approximatly thirty purses with me (almost all I had) and I came home with three. Three! Plus I sold 75% of all my LP Notebooks and CD Organizers.
Concidering that purses are my best seller at any festival I go to, I'm going to need to get my ass in gear in the week between when I get home from Pemberton, where I am now, and the Regina Folk Festival, which is in two weeks.
Good thing I have perfected a reverible purse recipe that seems popular amung most tote purse wearers!
Thats all for now. There wont be much available on my Etsy shops until after all the hubub of the summer dies down!
PS, this Pemberton Festival is amazingand from what I understand, the booths are relitivly inexpensive, since they include the cost of your tickets and camping into the fee for the booth!

Merchandice

I've made a decision. 
Finaly, after three years of practice, I have perfected the over-the-shoulder, messenger style bag with the flap. Alot of people like the flap. My partner in crime and I had some dissapointed returning customers this May when we didn't have any purses with flaps for sale. 

So I have perfected, not only a lined purse, with a lined flap, and a reversable strap (with lining and outer fabrics) I have perfected rolling all of these into one pretty grand purse.
A purse which will be the norm from now on, I says. 

Which brings me to my next decisions. I'm going to stop making shirts, for now. 
I'm sick of dealing with shirt displays, hauling mannequins, dealing with hangers, with the ribbons I need to make the shirts tie up (and always tangle together) I'm sick of not being able to sell as many as I can make, so I'm giving up shirts, and focusing on purses and record books from now on. 

I'm also sick of bending wire. All I can seem to come up with is uninspiring, mostly looking pretty alike pendants and earrings. I love making jewelry, I love to sell it, and sometimes, it does sell, but not as often as anything else. Also, again, I hate dealing with the display end of things. I always loose one earring, or accidently bend a necklace, or else something is falling over. I hate it, and I'm not dealing with it anymore. 

Too bad.