Headed to the craft show

Ella lost her 3rd tooth this month. It's significant because it's her first space. The other teeth grew in behind the previous teeth she lost, so this is the first time she's had an open space in her mouth. She is very excited about it.

I haven't been blogging because January is by far the craziest month at our house. We have been busy getting ready for the big craft show.
Here's a picture of our flooring. Earlier this month I was very worried about how we were going to come up with $350 to rent carpet at the show. Yes, it costs $350 to RENT their cheapest grade carpet. Yes, it is mandatory to have flooring at the show. If you show up without flooring, they will actually charge you over $400 to rent their carpet.

Anyhow, we are really excited because we found this flooring at IKEA for just under $50. Since it was so old and scratched, we decided to paint it a fun Aqua/Green color. It looks new & shiny & most importantly we saved $300 on our booth flooring.


We have a big booth this year. Since we signed up for the show last summer we were able to get a very large booth for the same price as our small booth last year.


We made part of our booth into a photo opp. I also made some mustaches on sticks to help us promote & introduce our new mustache stamp set at the show.


I have to admit I've been really nervous about this show. We aren't in the new section this year, which means we will be next to large companies such as Martha Stewart, Hero Arts, & American Crafts. Hopefully customers can look past their big fancy booths that they spend tens of thousands of dollars to decorate, to my simple $30 budget booth. They will. Right? right?
Cross your fingers that we can attract some good customers this year. I'm not feeling too confident about my booth design this year. It would have been nice to have a slightly larger budget, or at least more time to create a better design out of some garbage.

Oh well, it's done now. Wish us luck. We're going to need it.