Craft Fair Booth

My mom is visiting. She helped me design and purchase the items for my craft fair booth. I need to make those hanging screen things for the sides of the booth. I will use them to hang up my original paintings. We also found sheer, textured curtains to use for the tablecloths in the booth.

Marketing

This morning I went to a marketing and branding workshop sponsored by Team EtsyRain. Very informative. I'm excited to implement the lessons learned.

Banner

I've been working on a new banner for my etsy site. I'm trying to use Gimp to create the banner. For some reason, it's fuzzy. Hmm... I will work on it more tomorrow. I'm also going to a workshop tomorrow given by the top etsy seller. I'm excited, it should a great learning experience.

Photos and Craft Booth

Today I went to vintage stores (aka goodwill and st.vincent depauls) and got metal "stuff" for my craft booth. I want to give a consistent look to my booth utilizing black and metal/concrete stuff. I'm going to put small black pebbles in the metal bowls and then use those to hold business cards. I also got a couple of large bowls/baskets to put my note cards in. I also ordered photographs of my paintings for my portfolio.

Wall Clock

I started posting the wall clocks to my etsy page today. I wanted a home accessories section, so I'm pretty excited. This is the first one posted. It's made from recycled magazine print and mdf. I hope people respond well. I love that it is different than what you typically see in a wall clock. I can see it hanging in a wall grouping with black and white family photos.

I Love Seattle Note Cards

Today I ordered new note cards from Vista Print. The image is from a painting I'm working on entitled I Love Seattle. I hope they go over well, I think people living in the Seattle area would be drawn to them. I'm thinking of also doing something similar with I Love Issaquah since I'm doing the Issaquah Farmer's Market and possibly Salmon Days.

DIMINUTION

Today I reposted Diminution, which is a painting a finished about a year ago to my etsy site. I also attempted to print note cards on my printer at home. Hmm....not looking great yet.