New Job Ahead

Today was my last day with Office Team. I have accepted a job offer from Cassidy Turley here in St. Louis. I am excited to start.

Last Saturday was the craft fair on base. It was 8 to 2 with set up starting at 6am. Man was it a HARD and LONG day. Business was slow. Sold a couple of things and barter for another. Bridgette and I decided that craft fairs weren't our thing. That we will just stick to Etsy. Now all I have to do is get all my inventory listed in my Etsy shop.

This is my attempt at a blue/silver animal print bracelet. Not too bad.

I am working on some spinning hooks. The hook that helps you pull the yarn through the orifice so that you can continue to spin. I think it's called an orifice hook, but that doesn't sound very good. I am making the hook out of 16 guage copper wire and then making the handle out of clay.

      Here is a picture of me and my best friend,

     Heidi at our birthday party. Her birthday is

     a few days after mine so we celebrate together.

Heidi is really into shoes and giraffes. This is the perfect Heidi shoe.

It's late and it looks like I will be up all night again.

The Art Museum

On Friday we went to the Art Museum to see the Monet exhibit. It was a nice day for it. We first went to the Dlemar Loop and had lunch at a place called, Cheesology. Great food. If you are in St. Louis you should try it.

Here Catie and I are at the statue of Chuck Berry.

Catie enjoyed her selection. The classic mac and cheese.

Don had the Loop dish and he liked it. I had a dish with sausage in it and it was fantastic. They give you so much you have to take half of it home to eat later.
I couldn't take pictures of Monet's paintings but I did take some of the other art work we saw.

This little guy is a Chinese dragon/dog statue. Scary isn't he. It looks like he has the little big dog syndrome.

This is a beautiful Egyptian collar/necklace. It has ahnks all around it.

Here is our little group on the stair case. Don't we look happy as punch to be there? We are put you must admit it is a goofy picture.

This is the Judgment of Paris. The contest that started the Trojan war.  Jealousy is nothing to mess around with. Also when you are a judge you shouldn't take bribes.

Time for bed.

Barbara



Halloween Pictures

I finally got around to downloading some of the pictures from Halloween. They are on my phone so I had to email them to myself.

We had such a good time. We were at Phil's, who by the way is a talented artist as well as an all around great guy. Heidi's sister Lori was taking the pictures. This is Lisa, myself and Heidi. These are the other two ladies in my book club.

We were laughing so hard and goofing around that Lori was having a hard time getting a good picture of us.

Finally we stood still long enough for a semi-decent picture. Of course Lori was a little blury so the pictures are a tad bit blurry.

This is Lori. When I took this picture we were at a club called Sevens. There was a costume party going on right outside and we were sitting just in the door was on a bench. This was a very good spot because we got to sit in the warmth of the club and see all the costumes as the people went by getting another drink, going to the bathroom, or just trying to get warm again.

 

Late Night and Wide Awake

Once again I am up with only 4 hours sleep. I blame it on my furry alarm clock, Khar-Pern. For those of you who don't know me, Khar-Pern is my cat. Yes, I know, a strange name for a cat. I was reading a Gail Greeno book when we got him and the main character was a large cat named Khar-Pern. The discription of Khar-Pern was so much like the kitten I just adopted I named him that. So that is the story of my cat's name.

Isn't he cute.

Work is going good. I seem to keep running out of data to enter. This afternoon they were scrambling to find stuff for me to do. I have a feeling that this assignment will be ending soon.



O'Fallon Band Booster Craft Show

Well it's all done and no one is worse for the wear. I will say it was a long two days. The show traffic was slow and not a lot of people were buying. I only saw a few people walking around with full shopping bags. Everyone in our booth made back our investment so that was good. But there was very little profit. But all in all we had a good time just sitting and talking. Doing some knitting.

Bridgette manning the booth

Here is our booth. As you can see it was very cramped. All 5 of us couldn't fit in the booth. So two of us were behind the table, one was beside the table and two were greeting people who stopped by to look. I learned a lot from Trish about sales. She is very good at greeting and interacting with people.

This is Trish, super sales woman

Joan hiding in the corner.



Carolyn modeling one of Brigette's Wowers.

This is the display case Don made me for my Pandora Style beads. I sold a few of them but a couple of other vendors were selling them for $1 a bead. I found out that they got their beads from a distributor and didn't make them. I thought it was a craft show where you made your merchandise.

Bridgette and I are going to be in the craft show on base and that one specificly says no vendors or merchandise that was not made by the exhibitor. It is on Saturday the 19th of November. Wish me luck.

Trish showing off her fingerless beaded gloves.

The booth is all set up and ready to have items displayed on them. I met the crafters to each side of us and they are very nice. Next year I will have some type of back drop display thingys. I wish I could sleep. It's 2:30 AM here and I still am not sleepy. Tomorrow will be a long day. I wil be taking pictures and I will post them here.

Barbarta

What a night. Setting up for the craft show was very strange. The people on each side of me are very nice. And I found out that 8 x 8 ft isn't really very much room. If I do this next year I will definitely get two areas instead of one. So many people had very nice display thingies and back drop doohickeys. Next year I definitely have to get some of those neat  things. Joan and Carolyn helped me set up, but funny thing, I left all my necklaces at home. So.....I will be setting the rest up tomorrow morning.

See how happy I am  that everything is ready for the craft show tomorrow.

Don and Catie are in MO this weekend. So I am alone for the weekend. It will be a tad bit lonely but  I think I can survive the weekend.

Getting Ready

Well, tomorrow is the first day of the craft show and man am I nervous. Set up is from 8 to 10 tonight. Joan and  Carolyn will be here about 8 and they will be helping me set up. Since this is my first multiple day show, I don't know if we set up our merchandise and leave it up or take it down each evening. So much to learn. Bridgette is teaching a knit a long class tonight so she won't be able to help with the set up.

This is one of the older bracelets I made that I will be selling.

I heard from an very good, old friend yesterday. I knew him and his wife in Tacoma, WA when I lived there about 10 years ago. It was very good to hear from him.

Barbara