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Aunts Not Ants

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I love being Aunt Megan, even if most of my communication with little Mary is long-distance. Call me Tia or Aunt or mispronounce that as Ant. It’s fine but I’ll never call myself an ant. I’m a family member, not a bug!

alex and mary first snow

Look how cute that girl is with her Daddy!

I found ants in my desk drawer today. Not. Flipping. Cool. One crossed my desk and then another so I went hunting and found they found my candy. ACK! After a lot of flailing, screaming, squishing and swiping things now look like this:

empty drawer

Here’s what used to fill that drawer, minus the candy which went straight to the outside trash bin. crap in drawer Gah! I’m completely traumatized. Spiders can be scary, especially in movies when they’re HUGE. But as a rule they don’t invade by the dozens. They’d be terrifying if they did! Ants are soooo yucky. Anyway, I have been doing some sewing in-between shrieks. Today I’m working on a large Christmas tree skirt. Here are some of the things I’ve completed recently. They’re all in my etsy shop. duckie bibs double sided
pink d9p finished purple asian runner

Look for a post on marking quilts with frixion pens soon. I was going to write that one today but, well, ANTS! Ahhhh!

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Goal: Have a Sales Booth in 2014

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I made some new year’s resolutions in January this year. Usually I don’t bother but mine in 2013 really helped keep me focused. It was two things: be my own advocate and focus on the good. For 2014 I had some specific things in mind for my business. One was to have a sales booth for my quilting items sometime this year. Well, it’s happening!

I’m get to have a sales table during a quilt guild meeting on Thursday night. This is for my old quilt guild where I used to live, about an hour away. Due to some kinks in the new laws about non-profits, among other factors, the guild’s a little low on funds this year. So my proposal was simple: please let me help you by running a fundraiser. I love when opportunities turn out to be win-win.

So here’s the deal. Most craft fairs run for 1-2 days at six-eight hours not including setup. Depending on the size of your spot and how popular the fair is the fees to have a table can be upwards of $100. What I worked out with the guild is that they will get 50% of the sales from my card holders. Then they’ll also get 25% of all other sales. No money up front from me. If all goes well they’ll get more than the traditional $100 booth fee. No risk on either side of a loss… and an opportunity for both the guild I love and myself to make some moneys.

Sometimes it pays to be creative! I suspect that if I just asked to have a booth flat out the answer would have been no. What’s in it for them? Now there’s plenty in it for both of us. booth card holders

As you can see, I made a LOT of card holders! 108 to be exact. There’s actually another layer underneath the ones photographed. They’ll be on sale for $6 each and have been pulled from my etsy shop. I’ll get the leftovers back up on there after my sale. booth box 2 booth box 1 I’m busy organizing my inventory and adding price tags to everything. Above are two of the boxes-in-progress.

If I have time, I have five small tree skirts, 11 baby bibs, three baby quilts, two table runners, and four pincushions in various stages of sewn-up-ness. They’ll be added to the inventory as I finish them. If they’re not completed (and they can’t ALL be) by Thursday night no biggie. They’ll go up in my etsy shop for you guys just the same.

 

The December holidays are coming! Birthdays too. Let’s collaborate on the perfect gifts for your loved ones. I specialize in custom work. mrs.megan.null @ gmail.com Let’s talk.