Well well well...

It seems this years key word has been change. Not just with the election, but with a lot of things, for me business is changing and growing, I am changing and growing, and my art is changing and growing. I know I keep saying I am gonna blog more, but somehow I never seem to get to it, so I am not gonna promise to blog more, I will blog when I feel the need, when I remember, or when I just have something to say I think should be here. Well now is one of those times.

So a couple of weeks ago, I was thinking about how do I switch the balance from supplies mostly selling, to jewelry mostly selling. I filled up my consigners' store down in Venice with new jewelry... Uptown Girls Boutique... got a few sales last month from that... started looking for other stores to approach with my line, but before I get too far I figured I better ask the universe what to do, because I could find more stores, and fill them up, not a problem. I am sure I could find many places in time to take jewelry from me. But was this the right path to sell my stuff? I don't know. I am sure some would sell, even just from a number standpoint it IS bound to happen. So I figured I better ask the universe, because my other thing was maybe I should be doing arts and crafts fairs. Every time I go to one, I feel like, "I should have a booth here!". So I asked the universe... do I concentrate on getting into more stores, and building that way right now, or should I do shows, and concentrate on that for a while? Well let me tell you info on how to get into these shows has somehow avoided me for a while. I have tried before to find info, and never got a thing. The only reason I got to do a small, crappy show earlier this year, was because my kid's teacher told me to go to a site that had local smaller shows listed. All these bigger shows, I keep feeling like I should be in, I never found anything on how to get in, only how to go as a shopper. Well after I posed my question to the universe, I felt like googling shows, so I did. The first page I went to out of the list was a dead end, but the second one lead right to a vendor application page... so I looked further... this was it, the info on how to apply for ALL these shows I keep going to, and a lot I've never been to. This was a promoters page that puts on shows all within about an hours drive from here, on most weekends through-out season! So I guess the universe answered my question. And the main thing I learned from the one little show I did do was, ask if they allow resellers there... I am an artisan and can not compete with resellers, nor should I have to. I should not have to explain that I create these items and that is why they are not $5 for two pairs of earrings... I learned by that, you need to be in a handmade market. Well the first rule of these shows is no reselling! "If you don't make it, don't bring it!" is what it says. Very good! They also want pics of your displays, so now the thing is I need a display! Well that came too, my BF and I were at wall mart and we saw the perfect canopy(or one that is good enough anyway), and he bought it for me... not something he normally does, so since he did that, I went ahead and bought tables, and started scouring places for things to turn into displays... I found quite a bit, and as it stands now, the last thing I need is material to make table cloths with. I am going with all black, and I got jewelry tags that are white with black lettering... so, yeah the universe spoke and I am putting my money into it, and following it to see where it goes! I will have to post pics of my display once it is finished! Yeah that is IF I can figure out how to post pics here???? I am not a pro blooger or anything as of yet, I just write, the rest I know nothing about. ;)