Rain, wind, and success!

This weekend was the Sandy Springs Festival here in Atlanta. It is usually the highlight of my season. Not only is it a good show from a sales perspective, it's a lot of fun! The festival is 5 minutes from my home and I love spending the weekend selling and visiting with friends.
This year started out as wonderfully as all others- and then Mother Nature made her presence known.

It rained, and then it poured, thundered, blowed, crashed and closed the rain or shine festival down!

The next day we returned to a collasped tent and a soggy, but sunny, festival.

It ended up being a great event - but I can't help but wonder what my sales would have been if I hadn't missed 5 hours on Saturday.

Still I am please to report my sales at 30 pieces of dillyjack jewels sold! Only 170 to go...

Have you bought yours? http://www.dillyjack.etsy.com or www.djbabyclothing.com

working for a living

With the economy being what it is, the news reporting bad news and just a general sense of worry, i'm addressing the thought of working for a living.

Now that both kiddos are in school "full time" (and I use that term losely), I have no real reason to not find some kind of part time job.

No real reason except the house, the errands, the food, the, the, the,.....
You get the idea.

So again I have to revisit my jewelry. How do I get it going? My personal challenge is to really give this my all before I say it doesn't work on a large scale.

So here it is I am going to challenge myself to sell 200 flowers between now and christmas.

It's the first working monday of September so it's as good a time as any to start.
I actually have a decent inventory made and some good craft shows coming up. I will give myself permission to count anything sold anyway (craft show, etsy, word of mouth, standing on the side of the road) but I won't count the three that were already ordered but not made.

So today's count is
0

Wish me luck!
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