Some really nice stuff there, and isn't selling both scary and exciting!? You have started a business - had you realised?
I have started a business. Busy, Busy. Back to the farmer's market on Sat. Thank goodness wonderful mate goes with me and helps set up the tent, table etc., while the little one moves everything around, puts sticks on my table, and kicks soccer balls at everyone that is setting up. I've been 4 weekends, and have been surprised that each one has been good. I have been stunned by the interest in the high end things. The market is aiming for a higher end crowd, and I guess it's paying off. I also found that I do better when I set up next to the woman who sells lavender lotions and facial scrubs and soaps etc. She has a great reputation, and between us we are a magnet for the female sector. This past weekend went really well, and the pearls seem to be being discovered. I sold the South Seas gold keishis, which was pretty surprising to me, and took an order for matching earrings, the strand of lavender pearls with silver, my second tourmaline strand, a lemon quartz necklace, 3 pairs of earrings, and took an order for a Tahitian extra long tin cup with siver chain. Not bad, and with lots of interest in other things. In addition to the market, I strung and strung for Mrs. Gould's strand (on another thread,), fell in love with that strand of crazy pearls on me, and put some of those keshi strands from above and other goodies on my web-site (gotta do the Etsy one too, some day). Also kept working on getting that pirate delivery. Wow, you'd think getting something from one island to another wouldn't be that difficult, but when you have 2 very remote areas, in 2 separate countries, one with a lot of Homeland Security, you wind up with a lot of middle man stops and problems. Hopefully I'll see them this week, but I told my husband it would be way easier just to fly over and get them next time. (I'm determined - maybe on the way to Hong Kong in March). So all that while I'm working on getting 2 plays going, teaching, mothering, wifeing (sort of), and spending too much time gabbing here.
I guess that's my cue to go. This is the lavender glow-in-the-dark second strand taken on me by me with Photo Booth, way too late in the evening. Cheers!
