Craft Show

Well my Mom wanted to share my designs and products with her friends, so we held a craft show at her house this summer. It was a lot of fun to meet everyone and I am looking forward to doing another one around the holiday season. I am thinking of screenprinting my designs onto tea towels and possibly napkins, mainly because I want to have some of my own, so why not create them myself, and if others like them then that's great too!

School is back in session! I have mixed emotions as the kids and I had a great summer, but now there is more time for work. I did several custom t-shirts over the summer, which was a lot of fun and allowed me to learn more about the screen-printing process.

New Products

I am entering a new dimension...I'm learning to screenprint my designs onto fabric, specifically shirts and scarves right now, but fabric is fabric and who knows what else I could print on?! Right now I use a product called PhotoEZ stencils, which work great for now, but I think I'll experiment with painting directly onto fabric.

The only problems so far are limited funds, since there are so many shirts I want to buy from Alternative Apparel! I have a ton of ideas and am excited to see the evolution of this new adventure.

EtsyRAIN Craft Show

Come on down to EtsyRAIN's first ever craft show!!!

Saturday, May 9 (the day before Mother's Day)

10:00am - 4:00pm

SodoPop (across the street from Starbuck's Headquarters)

2424 1st Ave. South

Seattle, WA 98134

I'll be selling cards, pendants, and prints of my original acrylic paintings. The prints range in size from 5 x 7 to 8 x 10 and are professionally printed on Somerset Velvet Fine Art paper. In addition, I have started screenprinting my designs onto tshirts and scarves and I love how they are turning out. They will be on sale at the show as well. Pictures of the prints, tshirts, and scarves will be up on my http:/sweetnaturedesigns.etsy.com very soon!

A Successful Show!

The craft show was a success! Well I only made a few sales...it was a slow day for all the vendors, but the "experience" was a success and I am looking forward to the next event.

One thing about these craft shows (in my extensive experience) is that all the vendors seemed ready to support one another. I met several who also sell on etsy or who were just getting started, and others who have been doing shows for years. Everyone was very welcoming and ready to offer encouragement and ideas. Even without the high sales this made the day a success for me. I left with lots of ideas for my "booth" and locations for future shows.

My first craft show!

This week I am getting ready for my first craft show! Other than helping my daughter sell girl scout cookies, and working at the Gap in high school, this is my first "in-person" selling adventure with MY designs. Hopefully this will be the first of many shows.

I will be at the Rat City Rummage in White Center - Seattle WA on Saturday, March 28 from 12 - 6 pm.

White Center for the Arts Building

The Big Blue Skate Rink

9639 - 16th Ave SW

Seattle WA 98126

I will be sure to post any helpful hints from this show asap.