Finally clayed again!

Another first for me! Bought some pearl x powders today and was reading the instructions and they had a couple tutorials on it. So I read up on covering light switches......so with drill in hand I robbed the girls of their cover and went to work! It was fun. I haven't baked it yet, so will see how it works out after the baking process. But so far am happy with the results. The girls love it, so that is all that matters right?!!

Fall goals

September is here. Kids are in school. One has full days in grade one, and the other is in kindergarten, which will start everyday next week. She only goes until 11:30. So I am going to be finding myself with 2 and half hours EVERYDAY all by myself. What will I do???!!! I am the best list maker...and then the best procrastinator ever invented!! I know that I can easily putter my time away and then have nothing accomplished. BUT this fall it WILL be different (yeah...have heard that before)...but it really will be! A few goals I have are home partys. I have mentioned that before, but have nailed down a few dates already. YAY!!

One will be in October...but no date yet
November 1st in Nanaimo....6-9pm...address to follow

I would like one a week starting in October until 2nd week in December!!.....And am asking the world to help me out with that!! so that will be around 10 partys....too much?? Perhaps....but even if I get 1/2 of those will be worth it!!

Wish me luck!!

Testing again!!

Ok.....I played around with some clay this morning...in the midst of taking my house back (anyone wanna help??!!!) I know the colours are ick. But I didn't want to waste anything good. It makes me nervous to try new things when I don't really have a clue what I am doing!...so....here it is...forgive the bad pictures, that isn't my calling! I have NO idea why the picture is first.....I wanted the words first...gotta try and figure that out.

Oops forgot the update!

Well.....not the same as last week!! Was terrible...windy, cold and rainy. Not good things for market night. about 2/3rds of the vendors didn't show up, so we were all spaced so far from each other, it looked quite bad. So few people out and about. But we had fun!! Drank some tea and ate some soup!! Doesn't get much better than that! It was chilly, and when it got dark the lamp made our tent warm(ish).

So, market it done. That is a good and a bad thing. I will put some bead things away, and take back my house for a while!! We can eat at the diningroom table again!! That will be a strange concept! My family does put up with a lot. But now I will focus on stock piling finished pieces. Getting ready for fall sales! YAY.

Tuesday night market - last one!!

I haven't been writing a whole lot on here!! The week has flown by. Tonight is my last night at market. I sure hope I do as well as last week!! I am now working hard at getting things ready for the Christmas season. I didn't do anything new for the market this week. I am trying to stock pile for November! That is when I am in Christmas shows. There will be more on that at a later time!!

Another thing I am going to try to do this fall is home shows. I am a bit of a chicken at asking people to take me things into their stores. I have read and re-read and then read again, peoples stratagies for getting into stores. But I just can't do it. I need to grow a thick skin. Hard not to take rejection personally. So for now....I just don't! I do have some things in stores, but was fortunate enough to have them contact me. In my perfect world that would be the way it happened!! One of these days I will get the guts to do it!! SO.....I thought that perhaps home shows would be the way to go. I have done one....2 years ago...I was so excited and spent a couple hours setting it up just so it would be perfect....and...waited and waited...NO ONE showed up. Of course I went home with my tail between my legs...and Doug told me it wasn't MY fault it turned out that way...because of course I personalize everything! Well....I swore I wouldn't do it again. BUT that was so 2 years ago and I am ready to try try again! Wish me luck!

Will report on last market later...hope rain holds off!

Nothing of interest to post, so thought I would post the picture of the very first pendant I made from polymer clay and I still wear it!!

Update on Tuesday market

Well....I just couldn't wait till the morning to post!!! We got rained out tonight. People were GONE by 8. Everyone was packing up but we were determined to stay to 9. Then we realized that no one was around and we were just getting wet. My husband bought a lantern at Canadain Tire and in lit our booth perfectly. So once you stepped out of the booth...I couldn't believe how dark it was and how we were the only ones there!! So by 8:15 we started packing up.

Was it a good market?? Remember last week how bad it was...well tonight even though so many vendors didn't show up, and it was windy and cold and then wet....it was my best night so far this summer at the market!! I couldn't believe it!! Very exciting for lil ole me!! And I got a custom order still to go! YAY. So I am off to curl up in my warm bed and read for a bit!!

One market to go....wonder what next Tuesday holds!!