1st Annual Fulshear Arts Festival

After last weeks awful experience with my legs caused me to miss my craft show scheduled last Saturday; it was with great relief that I was feeling well enough to attend my show scheduled this Saturday April 10.

It started off very windy, over cast and ended up being intermittently raining. This had my husband and I very concerned that we wouldn't be able to stay. After all many of my jewelry items are very wind sensitive, lol! and I'd hate to have any of them get blow away.

But we stuck it out even after a few of our 'neighbor's quit and by noon the rain was officially over and it was just gusty with wind. We had to tie the tent off to two separate trees to stabilize it because the cinderblocks weren't quite enough weight and the wind gusts keep trying to launch it. If it hadn't been for the first couple of sales totally $100 the first hour I would've given up by them. But the ropes kept the tent on the ground and the money keep me optimistic so we stayed.

Within the next couple of hours the wind reduced to manageable levels and my sales were very steady and strong! Overall a very satisfying day and much better then I would've expected considering the way it started. I even sold an art print not just jewelry!

Some of my new listings!

Just wanted to show off a few of my newest listing. I'll be taking all of these to my Greatwood Dickson Gifts Galore Fair on Halloween in Sugar Land, Texas and to my other 2 shows later next week. Fingers crossed that people are in a shopping mood this next week!

What did I do yesterday? Organized a craft fair!

That's right, as Guild Master of the Texas Artfire Guild I organized my first ever and Texas Artfire's first ever craft fair. It was small and intimate; more of an experiment but I feel confident stating that it was a success and everyone involved from sellers, customers and venue managers ended up happy with the results. You can read about it on the Texas Artfire Blog complete with pics of the attending Houston area artisans.

I started Texas Artfire with the primary goal of networking Texas artisans. If we pool our knowledge and resources we can create our own low/no cost venues and long term business relationships. Most of us love customs orders and what better why to find and create future business that networking with each other. If each of us has only one great idea think of the potential since great ideas tend to breed environments for more great ideas. That's the mission of Texas Artfire.