Modest Sales! Exciting Developments?

Very excited to hear my items have been selling locally in the shop! They are hosting an event tonight, and it appears that what I brought with me yesterday is on trend as it were. Some of it will even be featured as “exclusive early access.” ::grins::  Definitely excited to hear how that goes.

Seems I will have to keep an eye on what sells, and what sells quickly. The “monster” earrings were fun, and so were the mermaid scales, although let my stupidity be a lesson. Always wear the correct protective equipment for the job. I thought I was working in a well ventilated area and… nope. I’ve got the ventilator and forget safety glasses, I should buy goggles. Ouch, my eyes smart long after the fact. Rather worrisome, actually. Dragonet caught pink eye; wondered for a while if it was going to develop into that but instead it remains sore and gritty, and no other telltale signs. Perhaps time to be a grown up, yes? (But who likes going to a walk-in?)

Mostly excited that I may have “regular” items to make and keep in stock.

In other great news, the prints I mentioned last entry have been printed and mailed ::grins again:: My stickers for labels as well as… ::drumroll:: corrected business cards! MOO is so awesome and fixed them for me! I cannot say enough good things about them; they are fantastic!

I’m also thinking I should have bought… more stickers than I did :P Probably going to do that once they arrive, too.  See if I can get a few more drawings done before the end of March to make it worth ordering again.

Lastly, some of my supplies arrived earlier than expected in the mail, so I am back to designing packaging for it. Fingers crossed my file didn’t get eaten with the random virus I caught on my computer… I can’t seem to find it. Sigh.

Life happens.

Hope you’re having a great weekend :)

Business Cards! (and craft sales)

There I go, disappearing again…

November brings with it an extra year on my driver’s licence.

I was brave, and signed up for two more craft sales. I’ve attended one and broke even, so I should not complain. (I’ll be honest, it’s difficult not to question what I’m doing!) The second is set for the end of the week. Nothing has been unpacked, so set-up should be relatively easy, in theory. I’m nervous to find out there is a larger venue scheduled the same day, but the last one had a great turn out for being in a suburb at the far end of town.  I can only do better, right?

I’ve been knitting to pass the time… it’s been good for me. With my phone broken, (again!) I have something to keep busy while traveling. I actually replaced it with an old one while I wait for the Note 8 to come out, but it has limitations :P I spoke with the office staff at my daughters’ school and if none of my scarves sell this weekend, they are more than happy to accept the donations. So win-win for me in a way. I either recoup my costs, or I help my community. Even better if I can do both ;)

With Black Friday creeping into the Canadian shopping calendar, I scored a deal on business cards from Moo.com <3 What do you think?

elvenassassins_business_card

Granted, I should have had this design sitting and waiting, but I didn’t actually figure out what I wanted in a business card, until a couple of days ago, so… the digital version was flung together in a few hours. I think it’s good for what it is. (although I just realized there’s a typo. Can you see it? Oh dear.) 400 typos being sent off to the printer… nothing to do now but grin and bear it. ::laughs:: 400 typos at a 30% discount at least! I have two weeks to mull over what kind of white-out works best, heh. The nifty thing about Moo is being able to upload up to 50 different designs. I managed 33, so I’ve got quite the variety to hand out. I’m still rather happy.

Lastly, on the general topic of dragons… I made several dragon-be-speckled ornaments to sell. The girls have picked out which ones to decorate for themselves, and the very worst case scenario is keeping them for myself? (Oh, the hardship!)

Fingers crossed I do well this weekend!