Craft Show

This is what has been consuming my time, energy and thoughts lately. The craft show is tonight and tomorrow. I've been so nervous, not knowing what to expect. Will people show up? Is there even a market for the things I made? How much do I charge? What do I do with pajama pants that don't sell? What do I do with 16 evergreen arrangements if they don't sell? Do I even have 16 friends to give them to? Do I really have friends? Does anyone like me? What am I doing here?! I'm such a foreigner! (Whew! Got a little carried away there... Actually, friendships are one of my very favorite parts of living here and it would be no problem to find 16 places to give arrangements.)

Anyway, I went today to set up and now I'm getting excited. There are quite a few sellers and I realized that I know more of them than I thought I would. And I get to be right beside Sue and her yummy homemade donuts.

Here's how my kitchen looked yesterday. I ventured out into the bush alone to cut these evergreen boughs and I made it back alive. I will not be showing photos of the rest of my house at this time since I have...um...let it go for the past little while.


I was happy with how they turned out. Thanks to Laura for the demonstration she did a couple years ago.


Here are the pajama pants and cloth napkins. (As a side note, I'm going green: I'm going to make cloth napkins for us to use. I hate using so many paper napkins. Is it actually "greener?" I guess you have to wash them. We could just resort to Eli and Evan's method of wiping our mouths on our shirts- they're going to be washed anyway.)


Here's a close-up of the napkin rings I made out of some sort of cable and floral wire. Now I'm really wanting to take a jewelry-making class.

There are also aprons, but I still need to set up that display before the show opens tonight.