November will be a crazy busy month! I have five craft shows coming up...
Saturday, November 3 - Depew High School (site of three of my top five shows!) 😢 Record low sales
Saturday, November 10 - Lancaster Opera House show - first time doing this show... Did well, considering the weather was AWFUL!
Saturday, November 17 - JFK High School (doesn't have a good track record for sales, was considering dropping this one, but I'll give it one more try) - Dud... didn't make enough to pay for table
Monday, November 26 - a free show at a retirement village - first time doing this - a few sales
Tuesday, November 27 - evening show at a senior center - first time doing this show - weather was awful, but turnout was good. Had a few small sales, still not enough to cover table rent.
I'm hoping for good sales at this shows, which will add to my "must-make" list... as I get custom orders or need to replenish items that sold.
So my "Penguin Pail" for November is:
1) Finish Llama CAL
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| Done |
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| Done! |
3) Finish AMI-Along (an amigurumi crochet-along. I will find out what this month's pattern is around 11/5)
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| Chipmunks? Oh, yeah! I'm going to have fun with this one! |
4) Stick to the yarn diet! Work down that stash! (Success, worked down by 5#)
5) Make at least one project using buttons or beads (Used buttons on an owl custom order)
6) Keep up with craft show/Etsy orders
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| Got an order for this ready-to-ship playset... but realized I sold the mermaid last month! |
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| New Baby Mermaid finished to complete the set! |
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| Etsy order... shipped within 5 days |
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| Pig order... done |
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| Facebook order... ready to ship! |
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| Owl and Gecko done for custom order, working on blue cat |
Got two more orders this week... so keeping up with orders is getting more challenging!
7) Finish the green Super Scarf - DONE
8) Make five items from my "Upcoming Project List" (made 3 of 5... orders took precedence)
Speaking of the "Upcoming Project List"... I happen to love spreadsheets... being able to type up lists and sort them by different attributes appeals to me... so I typed up a list of projects I would like to make, and categorized by factors such as "yarn eater" (a project that uses up a lot of yarn), Etsy seller (something I think is trendy and will sell quickly on Etsy), Paid Pattern (patterns I have purchased or received as a prize, but still haven't used!), and "Use up Odd" (using a yarn that I have a very specific project for). The list is currently at 40 items, but I keep adding to it on a regular basis. I like the fact that I can sort through the list... such as "I really want to use up these five skeins of blue yarn... what's a yarn-eater that would finish them off quickly?" or "Scrap yarn is really piling up... what's on my list that will use up some small balls of yarn?"
So, let's see how many of these I can knock off in November! The more x's a line has, the more likely it is that I'm going to work on it!
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| A donut wasn't on my list... but I made one anyways! |
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| Purr-Maid (Mermaid Cat) - Done! |
