L to R: "I Do" choker, $24-NEW! earring tags-Plume dangles, $20I peck this post dry-eyed and caffeinated to the point of impending nausea, I have a meeting with a stockist in a few hours. This is not just any stockist, but my first and in many respects my favorite, Frances Vintage. Peep the [shop] and the [blog]. Local. Awesome. Cool.
The past couple weeks have been an exciting-sarcasm rolls from lip and drips into tepid cawfee-mix of student, sweatshop employee, and quality control specialist for me. As much as I love what I do, there is a level of tedium in the production process that makes for a most unsparkly me. So, guess what I did to combat some of the tedium of mass manual production. Give up?! I'll tell you what I did, I spread myself thinner than the jam on my orally hyper-sensitive person toast. I applied for a spot at a local craft fair!
This is when you say, in glee club like harmony, "Oh Tameka! Why, pres tell?" And, I -after giving the question much consideration- reply, with shrugged shoulders and a quizzical gaze.
Now that it's done, as I await my fate from the judges I've started to mentally prepare myself for the uppercut, roundhouse of rejection, all whilst working on designs and display solutions should I be chosen. I'm retiring the ticket earring displays for a more cost/waste conscious, sophisticated tag. They've been hand-cut from recycled, patterned, metallic holiday gift boxes.
Oh, did I mention the craft fair is to be held the week of final exams, and Jordan's 19th birthday? Fun times.
This is when you say, in glee club like harmony, "Oh Tameka! Why, pres tell?" And, I -after giving the question much consideration- reply, with shrugged shoulders and a quizzical gaze.
Now that it's done, as I await my fate from the judges I've started to mentally prepare myself for the uppercut, roundhouse of rejection, all whilst working on designs and display solutions should I be chosen. I'm retiring the ticket earring displays for a more cost/waste conscious, sophisticated tag. They've been hand-cut from recycled, patterned, metallic holiday gift boxes.
Oh, did I mention the craft fair is to be held the week of final exams, and Jordan's 19th birthday? Fun times.
Peace and preparation
5 comments:
things always seem to layer themselves like that... it is almost inevitable that when i have a show, something happens in the week or two prior that makes it impossible for me to make anything... you are going to do fabulously - you have work that is very identifiably you...
i do the same thing as you though - get over-committed at times... 'this too shall pass'... but in the case of the show, have fun - just look at it as people watching with sales involved...
I am totally feeling you on this post.. minus the children and school. I have 4 (maybe 5) shows coming up in the next 2 months, 2 of which I am either organizing or helping to organize. Plus I am working on a big new retail venture which has me a bit frazzled. Not to mention my online shop. Gah! I will be a sweatshop work for Halloween I guess. :) But we are strong resilient ladies and I know we can make it.
Well put!!!
Aww man, the fun is about to begin. You can do it! You can do it! ::chants from the sidelines::
Fall craft fairs and festivals are so hard to resist. Who can blame you for wanting a little bit of it. Hope you get in and have lots of energy too.
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