Well Let me start off by saying it was a good but busy week. Having a show that ends on Monday really shortens everything and seems to cram in everything to s much shorter amount of time.
Monday was the last day of Mayfair, and may I say, I am so thankful that I could get the tent put away dry, and tear down without getting soaked to the skin!
Tuesday and Wednesday I mostly helped my best friend shop for a new van. She is a crafter like me and needs a certain sized so her display fits and needed to be sure the van could take the stress and strain of being more than a passenger vehicle. She had it narrowed down to about a half dozen possibilities and the her and her husband too it from there. Other than being insanely hot, I really had fun! I love this kind of voyeuristic shopping, it is the same reason I love going to realtor's open houses, and garage sales, you get a little peak into how someone else lives. In this case, how they treated a vehicle can tell you a lot about a person's life and lifestyle.
Thursday I began to catch up on things. Dad went to the farm market and I got lotion bars made. I also got the newsletter sent out and the pile of paperwork on my desk began to clear out. Lots of end of month things to do- sales tax, federal tax, expenditures spreadsheet, show applications, and the list goes on and on.
Friday the rain held out for dad at the Bath Farm Market. He had a great day there yet again. I got the house cleaned up and finished up in the garden getting things planted and ready for the season. I am super excited and hope to have lots of tomatoes for canning and other things as well. Already harvesting tons of peas and lettuce. I think I am turning into a rabbit.
Saturday was the St. Luke's Community day at Anderson Campus. Dad did it and had a great time. He said that the set up and dismantle was easy. It was pretty breezy and that made it hard on other people there but his displays are pretty solid so he didn't have a problem. It was a profitable day and he met lots of new customers and saw lots of familiar faces as well!
While he worked the craft booth, I scoured the garage sales of things useful to the business. This is where I get most of the baskets I use as gift baskets. I must have come home with about a dozen of them, all really high quality baskets for fifty cents or less. Some even still had the shredded paper in them, and fancy bows on them, so I will recycle that too! I found a great porcelain rubber ducky that I got just for fun;) The find for the day was a heat seal machine for only $5. I use one to seal the shrink wrap on the soap samplers and when I make gift baskets, they are ex-pen-sive so although I didn't need one right now, I couldn't pass it up either! We also found steps my ancient cat can use to get into bed now, and a cat carrier for the new fur baby, so he can travel with dad more too!
Sunday we tried to relax some, it didn't always work as well as we wanted it to. And now I am off to label those lotion bars and make some soap and fizzys. Busy day!
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