Barry is home safe and sound! And I gave a really nice scarf and thank you note to the State Policeman who found my purse and made sure it got back to me. He was really nice.

So my first craft show experience was strange but I made some money and learned so much from the whole experience. And I doubt the next one will have a bomb so hey it’s gotta get better! Maybe I’m pushing my luck but I’ll be sharing a booth with Beth this weekend at the Route 66 Society for the Arts’ show that’s going to be at Isleta this Friday and Saturday. Here’s hoping that this one will go without the whole evacuation snotty el cheapo customers thing.

There will be a formal invite-only chichi artist’s party with sales this Friday night (I have a few invitations to this if anyone’s interested) and public sale on Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm. This show seems to focus more on the handmade aspect so let’s hope the people will be prepared for handmade prices. I’m not sure if it’ll be a funky handspun crowd but we’ll see. I’ll be putting anything that doesn’t sell in the etsy shop anyway.

I have some more photos from the show. They’re just cameraphone photos so still dark and fuzzy. These are projects I had mentioned but hadn’t posted photos of yet.

This is the felted bag I was talking about last week. The khaki yarn is Manos de Uruguay and the purple stripes are that purple alpaca sparkly stuff. I love this bag. I’d set it up in a display with socks and sock yarn. The purple yarn is some of my handpainted sock yarn. The scarf on the left is a fun striping scarf with eyelets that I strung stripey ribbon through. I need to get a better photo of that scarf.

These are the knit kit packages I had put together

Some have the gypsy scarf skeins I posted earlier, a few are patterns and a novelty yarn, there are bigger ones for the big shawls that come with the pattern. Each one has a set of bamboo chopsticks that I sharpened, sanded, and waxed into knitting needles and a fun label I designed and printed out. They got a pretty good response. I sold about four at the Zia Show I think?

Today will be fun if a little less traditional. Ashley and I are both work widows (Cody has to work tonight and her husband is in Idaho for work) so we’re taking her little boys to eat turkey at a local cafeteria then going to her place to play with felted beads and needle felting. The little boys will do the bead felting and we’ll be doing the needle felting of course.

Since I dyed yarn and roving last year, I like this new crafting on Thanksgiving tradition. The meals aren’t as great since I go eat at a restaurant but I get to enjoy the crafts all year! Way more fun!

In any case, have a good time today whatever you’re doing!