April - Hoping for better

I just realized it was April 4th, and I never put up an April post outlining my plans. Probably because March was such a miserable month, I was in a funk.

I had two craft shows in March. Both had record low sales. 😞 I had a few Etsy sales, but not enough to make up for the bad craft shows. It ended up being my worst March ever for sales.

Fortunately, my average sales for April are lower, so I won't have to work as hard to beat my lowest month, average month, and best month. I've had three sales already, which gave me a new high total for April, and the month isn't even half over!

Since I don't have any craft shows planned until fall, in April I want to focus on getting more items listed in my Etsy shop. I'm shooting for 100 new listings this month! Here's my progress:

1. Rag rug
Link to Rag Rug in my shop
2. Sunny Yellow Dishcloth
3. Chicken Butt Potholder
Just in case you're curious to see what this one looks like!
4. Angel dishcloth
5. Striped Elephant
6. Black "Chicken Butt" potholder - sold 😁
7. Little Pink Cupcake
8. Purple Penguin Gloves
9. Sleepy Dinosaur
10. Blue & Yellow Chicken Potholder
11. Rosie the Unicorn
12. Updated Ocean Playset listing with new critters
13. Sleepy Dinosaur #2
14. White chicken potholder
15. Chicken Rug #1
16. Chicken Rug #2
17. Cat Potholder automatically renewed... oops
18. Hedgehog automatically renewed... oops
19. Gingerbread Man
20. Superhero Doll
21. Spunky the Unicorn
22. Dancing Girl Doll
23. Pterry the Pterodactyl
24. Chicken/Egg Set Listing
25. Soap on a Rope Bags
26. Pizza Potholder
27. Bunny Lovey
28. Monster Pants

29. Taco Blanket

I'm only doing one CAL (Crochet-Along Challenge) in April, but it's a cute one!

Blanket section is done! 

And done...heading into Etsy shop soon! 

I also want to finish up the Pop Tarts Blanket #2 that I'm working on, get another section finished on Mandala Madness, and two motifs for the Owl Obsession blanket. (Nope on all three accounts... did a few more rows on the Mandala Madness, 0 on the Owl Obsession, and still have five small skeins of yarn to go on the Pop Tarts blanket)

Mandala Madness & Pop Tarts blanket - WIP Wednesday 4/4/18

Other goals are to get more exercise in (I'd give myself a C on this), work down my yarn stash (A on this), do some promotion of my Etsy shop on a daily basis (B on this), and keep up with housework... same old stuff that's always on my list.

So, here's hoping for a successful April on multiple fronts!

I made up this grid of 25 items to make, and have been working my way through it. When I finish an item, I move through the boxes, spelling out the item I just finished, and make whatever I land on.

Pterry the Pterodactyl