St. Patty's Day blog giveaway winner!

Hope everyone enjoyed their St. Patty's Day yesterday!

Yay! The winner of my giveaway for an embroidered flower barrette is:

thecharmingfreak

Congratulations!

Thank you all so much for entering...and have a great weekend!

St. Patty's Day blog giveaway!

Just in time for St. Patty's Day, I am doing another blog giveaway! This time, it's for one of my felt flower barrettes. You get to choose which one you like best--I have various sizes, colors, and styles :) The barrettes range from about 1.5" to a little over 2 inches.

It's easy to enter--just leave a comment on this post below including your email address and which barrette (from the picture above) you'd like if you win.

You can leave your email address in this format if you like: pickychickybird AT gmail DOT com, just to avoid spam.

The lucky winner will be chosen at random on St. Patrick's Day--Thursday, March 17th. I will announce the winner here on my blog, so stay posted!

Craft fair takeaways

So I ended up doing two craft fairs this week, one at NPR and one at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in DC. Both were internal craft fairs, not open to the public, but they went pretty well.

I always bring materials so I can work on pins or other projects if things are slow at the table for a while. Yesterday this worked out great! I had a few potential customers come by who were interested in the pins I had, but wanted something specific--usually different sizes or colors. I was able to take their orders and make their pins right there, so they could pick them up at my table later in the day.

One of the requests was for a set of pins to wear for holidays--a pink/red one for Valentine's Day, a black-and-orange one for Halloween, a pink/yellow for Easter, and yes, a GREEN one for St. Patty's Day. Recall an earlier discussion with Brie where she thought no one would want a green flower pin? And I said they would for St. Patty's Day? Well I do...haha. So there!

I also got a few ideas from folks who wanted to see other animals/themes:

• ladybug bookmarks
• turtle pins
• butterflies (wouldn't a monarch be cute on orange felt with black stitching)?
• seals and frogs (a man came by who said he ONLY purchased things with seals or frogs on them!)

So my takeaways for the week?

1) Always bring projects to work on while you wait.
2) Make what your customers want! I seem to get a lot of requests for pink and purple pins for little girls...must make more!
3) Let visitors to your table know that you are happy to do custom work.
4) Brie is wrong about green things. :)