Freedom Festival Day Three

Yes that is a wicker-work casket...

Day three started with one of the Freedom Festival reps coming around and telling us he hoped the day three crowd was good this year.  Apparently it has been hit and miss in the past.  We decided it would be a good day and started up.  We of course started the day with an amazing donut from next door and then the crowd began to trickle by.  It was a slow trickle most of the day.  We ran random specials ranging from $5 off a dress while Andrew was holding the sign to a clearance price of $10 per dress.  We were able to get some sales off both specials, but it was nothing compared to the fourth.  As I mentioned before we did have a return customer and she brought a friend. That was great! The return customer bought two more dresses and bragged about how much her grand-daughter had loved them. That was great to hear.

As evening approached so did the clouds.  We had decided to start cleaning up the things that were not selling well to make the clean-up easier for us.  While Andrew was taking a load to the car another vendor came by and said there was a high wind advisory in affect and they were tearing down.  When Andrew returned, we decided we should start closing up as well.  It is a good thing we did! Not twenty minutes later the wind started.  We were running the last load to the car and only needed to go back to take down the canopy when the rain started. We waited that out in the car for about a half an hour and we took the canopy down and headed home.

All-in-all it was a great experience and we did well with sales.  I did discover summer time is not the time to sell crocheted items, and that is just fine. I did have several compliments and told my work was very well done. 

Freedom Festival Day Two

 We started on the Fourth bright and early so we did not have to compete with the road closures for the parade and all of the traffic for those who had not camped out the night before to get their spot.  We set up shop and waited.  We heard the parade start, and we had a couple of browsers come through during that point, but once the parade was out the crowds converged on the vendors. As you can clearly see part of that crowd was a brunette Captain America.  He was not interested in dresses.  We also saw Spiderman, but wasn't interested in dresses either.

This was our most popular style of sundress, and I am pleased to say we sold out of them by that afternoon. It was great!  We had a woman come back on the fifth looking for one and was very sad we were out

Freedom Festival Day One

Day one of the festival arrived.  We find our booth space and Andrew proceeds to unpack two cars worth of stuff.  Unfortunately I could not be of much help with the unloading as I was given weight restrictions by my OB for lifting.  That turned out to be a good thing because Landon wondered off and we lost him for about 5 nerve-wracking minutes.  So I stayed at the booth site with him and set up what we could.  

Our booth was between a trinket booth (who was also selling sundresses) and a Mennonite group who made the best donuts I have had in quite some time.  That worked to our advantage later because people would line up to get a donut and they would almost have to browse our booth. 

On a side note Landon left with grandma today.  He told us both good bye and walked of with grandma like he was the king of the world.  I was surprised and happy, but a little heart broken at the same time.

More Festival Prep

When I get home from work on July 2, Andrew tells me he has homework for me to do. SWEET!  First thing I need to create two signs.  One that is the price list explaining the offer and the other stating we accept credit cards (Thank you Square!!).  Putting the signs together was a little more complex that I thought it would be.  Vinyl letters and free-hand placement get interesting. In the end the signs were readable and looked semi-decent.











My next assignment was to put together the clothes rack from IKEA. It was simple - minus one thing. The little tiny allen wrench they included did not have enough leverage to actually move the screw past a certain point.  Luckily Andrew has a tool set that I could raid to complete the job.

My last assignment was to pack up my little guy so he could spend three days with Grandma, or mamas as he calls her.  This was bitter-sweet for me.  It was the first time he has ever spent the night somewhere without us.  More on that to come.

Freedom Festival Prep

How many of you have ever prepped for a big event? Then you know what organized chaos looks like. The last minute where is my brain and how did it end up there? Well take that feeling and add moving to a new place, being pregnant, and still having everyday life to live, and you have what our chaos has look like for the last two weeks.

Moving was a fun adventure. We had to figure out where everything is and then make sure it is ready for the festival. Luckily we have been able to find almost everything. 

Next I had to out the finishing touches on the projects that still needed buttons or embellishments. Hooray for iTunes and movies!

I had to go through what I had and make sure it is ready for the public.

And of course this had to be done in the living room at 10:00 pm.  It really did take up most of the living room. Don't worry though I cleaned it all up before I went to bed.

The last thing to do now is find out if we need price tags in out items and finish up some last minute projects.

The Big Announcement...!

As many of you who read this blog know, I am a sucker for newborns and their photo accessories!  Sadly I haven't posted in a while and I am fairly certain my last post was about newborn sets.

Well here they are in action! This cite little guy is sporting the Dino and sock monkey. His sweet mom approached me  about making them. It was so fun!

What did I learn? I need to work on my gauge. It's still a little off, but I am getting there. Also I love creating sets like these.  I have one request I need to work on.  Watch for it coming soon.

In other big news-That Yarn Girl in conjunction with Blue Orchid Imports will be at the Freedom Festival in July!  All you Utah County fans come check us out!

Newborn Sets!

As you can see from the pictures below, I finally gave in to the Sock Monkey trend. It's not that I am opposed to the Sock Monkey, it's that I tend to stay away from trends because everyone else is doing it too!

Lucky for you a close friend of mine is expecting little one #2 and wanted the Dino set for him. Her older one already had a sock monkey hat , so she decided to have a set done for the next little one also.

These were very fun and super quick sets. I will get my pricing pages up to dates and you can order to your Geary's content.

Also, stay tuned for an awesome baby girl set!