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25 June, 2007Pile of Craft!
Oh my gosh I’m short. Pile of Craft went exceedingly well. I was so impressed with the show!
Here are a couple pictures of the stuff I had for sale. I ran out of business cards and promo buttons way too early and my addled, doofus self forgot to put my etsy shop address on a zillion tags (GRR) but other than that things went swimmingly!
I sold about half the lip balm I brought. Two new flavors: Cotton Candy and Bubble Pop! Check the etsy shop later this week for updates!
I had a ton of pins, hair clips and earrings all made with vintage buttons and materials. I sold quite a few of these, but I have some left for the etsy shop too!
I thought my bags would have sold better (only sold one) but there were a LOT of people there selling bags so these will go online and I’m giving a few as gifts. These were really fun to make. Most of the fabric is either Martha Stewart dish towels or vintage sheets and all the zippers are vintage.
Here’s an apron and matching patchwork kitchen towel that didn’t sell either. I might just keep this. The tennis racket fabric is vintage curtains that I repurposed. I just love it.
The sugar scrub was the most popular item, I sold out of them! I also sold a lot of the little cards I made. I took old letterpress designs and colored them on the computer, then just printed them on my desktop printer. They look really nice. I found the cards and envelopes at a yard sale.
I think our booth looked awesome (thanks to Amanda for about 99.9% of that!) and she had some really great stuff for sale too and made bank off this show! Check the A. Bel Studio etsy shop later this week for some updates. Yall are gonna like this stuff!
The beach combers were really popular. She found vintage slips and hand dyed them, then screen printed each one with a Chesapeake-bay themed design. My favorite was the ship’s wheel but she also had seahorses, crabs and starfish.
People went NUTS over her gnome stuff. She had ADORABLE magnet sets nestled into a flowerpot with a cute ribbon, label and mushroom charm. She sold out of those, I wasn’t surprised. The guardian gnomes were a huge hit too, and each one had its own hilarious and cheesy story on the back. I couldn’t shut up about them.
I bet these will be going up in her etsy store soon!
More awesome stuff from her. Pins, limited edition stickers and brooches.
This was the first show put on by the Charm City Craft Mafia, and they did an amazing job! The turnout was spectacular and the space (an old stone church with awesome windows and high ceilings) was oh so cool. They also held a raffle and were selling screenprinted posters. There were two rooms full of vendors and there were a great variety of different craft disciplines represented.
For lots more photos, go over to my set on Flickr. There’s also a Pile of Craft group where people are dumping photos.
I had a really great time, and definitely would love to do it again!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by, and the cool people I got to meet! Please go see the rest of the photos on Flickr!
Comments
Yay! We're so glad you all could come, and can't wait to see you again...thanks for adding your photos to the pool (they're so great, by the way, what is your camera?)!
--Heather, and the rest of the mafia
The camera's a Fujifilm Finepix F30.
Nice work! I love the wristlets. Glad there will be some on etsy.
One of the photos on flickr showed plush foods and other items with eyes. Was one of those a stuffed tampon?! Too funny. That stuff is adorable.
If you decide to sell that apron/tea towel set on Etsy, I just might have to buy it for a friend who is obsessed with tennis. I think she'd just love it. Congrats, btw! Everything looked great.
Shannon, yeah they are tampon dolls. Check em out here:
http://www.mypapercrane.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_17&products_id=1
Thanks for the link! I've seen her stuff before but had forgotten the site.
Wow, such cool stuff and that has got to be the coolest space ever!
I wish I could have come to that event. Very nifty. Amber, I got a question for you, where do you get your product labeling and stuff done? What the pricing like?
I must add I am plan checking out your etsy listing out and plan on buying a neat item or two in the near future. I liked several of your craft items.
BTW, if you are in Richmond any time soon, check out this place:
http://www.lavenderfieldsfarm.com/
They are pretty cool! They sell lavender ice cream and it is too die for! A tre cool place to get some nice herbs. :)
You take the best photos. I really love the new stuff you had at the show. Obviously the HRBT never slows Amber down... I want those stuff monsters. Let's make some.
I so wish I lived by you. I would have SOOO been there! Looks like awesome stuff.
You do look short but how tall are you? Your probably not that short the girl in red is probably just really tall. ;)
boo you never cease to amaze me.
i LOOOOOOOOOOOVE the chapstick you gave me.
its awesome.awesome.awesome.
and THANK YOU for coming to see me and eating sunflower and meeting my friends.
This looks like so much fun! I will pay top dollar for a cool apron btw.
(Oh my gosh I'm a giant.)
Yes, I'm the girl in the red, and I always look freakishly tall in pictures. My shoes only had like a 1" heel....jeez.
Anyway, what a fun show! Yay! Hope we get into the DC show too!!!
what's a beachcomber? they're pretty! i think i need one! ;-)
I stumbled across you from craftser.org. What a great time you must have had, and your items are soo cute!
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