Thank you for not being perky

I’ve decided that I am too wishywashy to accept custom orders. Right now that is. I think in order to do so you have to lay out parameters and stick with them and you have to have a selection, on hand, of choices for the customer. It can’t just be all nebulous like the one I am working on right now. I said something like, “oh, I’ll put some black lace on it”. But really, I don’t have black lace on hand that is appropriate and whatever black lace is in my vision may not be what is in the customers vision AT ALL. There’s no way to know. Now, if I had had two kinds of black lace and had them photographed and sent them to the client for her to choose then that would have worked out fine. ALAS.

So yeah, it’s a learning process for me.

Craft fairs, what think ye? Is it just me or were there like 45,000 craft fairs this season? I didn’t make it to all of them and missed the stupid crucible one! wtf?! I had it on my calender and the day of I was all, “we’re going to the crucible fair!” and then we didn’t. I don’t know what that’s about.

I did well and had fun at the BB. It is an established fair that gets a good turn out. I also did a tiny craft fair at a bar on Sunday night last. The Okalnd DIY one. It was fun and I could tell that the organizer worked hard to do all the organizing. However, it was at a dumb time and while I loved the venue as a bar it might not attract the right crafty buying sort of crowd. With more and better advertising it could work though. For the most part I was thinking, “WHY am I freezing my ass off in the rain on a Sunday night with the scungiest 20 yr old boy (not quite) hipsters on the planet in this dive bar?!” aHhahahah

Anywho. I’m not sure how people end up making a living doing this or if they actually ever do. Especially with out getting burned out. I’m kind of finally sick of making spats!

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