It was fun! It's not a very busy place - I think there were only like a dozen people that came in, but I sold 8 items (not mine, but from the store) and apparently a lot of days it is a bit busier than that...
I really enjoyed it and I think I will do well there. There are 4 of us who sell stuff there and my style is definitely different than all of them, which is good..they don't like us to copy each other. The girl who owns the shop probably has the closest taste to mine, but I do mostly beachy/cottagey stuff with lots of white and blue and she is more colorful and likes to add quote stickers and cute words onto everything, so we each have our own trademarks.
I didn't put much in the shop yet, it is bursting at the seams and I felt weird shoving other people's stuff out of the way to make room for mine. Next week I will take another handful of items, I figure I'll just keep adding a few at a time rather than showing up with a whole trunk load...there is one lady who loves to come and overload the shop with too much stuff and I don't want to be like that.
Right now what I have in there is a white bench with a bird stenciled on the apron, some wreaths and garlands, a beach sign, and two chalkboards. I'd love to see your anchor idea! can I steal it?
I am working on a set of 3 wooden frames. I have an old school reader book I am going to frame images from, and the frames are a pale blue with some distressing. Super Super cute! And of course a bunch more stuff, but that is my current project.
I am delivering dinner to some families that just had babies. I made chicken in a sauce and rice, and a green salad. Dessert is pound cake and strawberries and whipped cream. Should I add bread or a veg? I feel like a plate of rice with chicken on top and salad is not enough.
I am delivering dinner to some families that just had babies. I made chicken in a sauce and rice, and a green salad. Dessert is pound cake and strawberries and whipped cream. Should I add bread or a veg? I feel like a plate of rice with chicken on top and salad is not enough.
I am taking dinner to two different families tomorrow night and we're on a tight budget. It's so expensive to buy two $5 graham cracker crusts after I just bought all the other stuff for their dinners and I don't have the stuff to make them by hand, so strawberry pie is out.
Anything else that's really good and uses simple ingredients I have on hand? I have a big box of fresh strawberries I'd love to make two nice desserts out of...
six?? WTF? Here they start at 9 or 10, which means that a herd of irly birds show up at 8:30.
I scored 3 wood frames, another 2 frames (these are all to refinish and re-sell) An old school reader which I am going to use the images from And a wooden calendar holder that I am going to turn into a chalkboard. Oh, and I got The 12 Tribes of Hattie and Casual Vacancy, both hardcover for $1.
I'm going tomorrow! Last time I scored a cool old mandarin orange wooden box, a coffee table to refinish, and a stack of picture frames. Oh and a Coleman juice/water dispenser for camping.
I bought a candle at target ; the scent is Island Moonlight. Love the scent, and it comes in a really trendy looking tin with a gold lid, but the scent throw is terrible. I like a candle to smell up my whole house, and this one faintly scents my living room and that's it. But I do love the scent so I am going to keep burning it until it's gone.
Also right now I am loving for my Scentsy - a ginger lime scent, and the Scentsy brand sunkissed citrus scent. my favorite for summer!
Older DD has long outgrown the rubber duckie, stacking cups, etc.
I know there are those foam things that stick on the walls of the tub but I hate ripping of 10000000000000000 pieces every time I want to clean the tub. And I am anti-bath crayons.
Any cool water toys for 3 and up? I can order some sets of stuff from my school supply catalog - a set of floating turtles that you have to match their shells by shape, a magnetic fishing set, and some crabs that click together with letters of the alphabet on their backs but they are pretty pricey.
She seems content to just take in some plastic animals or whatever from her toy bin, but I'd like to have some fun toys specifically for bath time.
We have had raspberries before....we plant them in a ring with edging material around them....you get tons more berries than planting in a row for some reason and it stays contained nicely.
My husband started traveling with his new job so I am thinking some sort of luggage? I also saw these collar stays on etsy that I thought were adorable:
I got DH a bag from Modern Man Bags for Christmas and it was so amazing! Great quality for half the price of everywhere else - he almost cried he was so thrilled! And they have amazing customer service and shipping is fast.
I just planted my strawberries today! I have 2 raised beds that DH made me - the other bed is going to be a row of beans, some purple carrots and a head of lettuce, a red pepper plant (Not sure how it will do out of a greenhouse around here, but I will try!), and a cucumber. Next year we are also going to plant raspberry bushes nearby. This is the first week it's safe to plant here...and even still I will have to cover them some nights, we can still have frost for another couple of weeks possibly.
-Holy crap, insanely high prices on some stuff! $50 basket? $59 sheets? I'll go with the $34 special at Costco thank you very much. $30 for a new patio cushion? I can buy a new patio chair for a few dollars more! $24 for a plastic gold necklace with plastic beads? WTF! A welcome mat was $30
haha, well I already work 50 hours a week so adding another 12-18 hours a month, plus all the hours of making stuff doesn't exactly equal all fun, but I need some sort of escape/me time and this job will provide that, plus some extra cash hopefully.
I wonder if I could get a huge sink like that that also has another small sink? What do you call those things...holes? Sections? A big one for washing and a smaller one to let them dry in...hmm.
So you wash and dry and put away your dishes right away? Like a normal person? haha. I am too busy/lazy I guess...I usually let mine air dry after dinner and then put them away in the morning. I guess I could get into the habit of towel drying again...when we didn't have a dishwasher I always dried and put away right away.
How do you like having the big single sink in the kitchen?? I love the look and the practicality of fitting big pots and cookie sheets in it to soak...but where do you put your dishes to dry? I hate drying racks on the counter so I don't know if I would like having a sink that style. I like putting my clean dishes in the other side of the sink to dry....
Thanks girls! I am having so much fun making stuff- I am refinishing a coffee table and made some rag garlands and more wreaths....I am doing a baby mobile next!
I am making one with a grapevine wreath and kids pinwheels from the dollar store! Saw it on a blog, either shanty to chic or tattered and inked I can't remember which.
I start tending the shop on Saturday! I am nervous to leave the baby for that long but also relieved too. It's only six hours and I have been really struggling emotionally and mentally since opening my daycare again. I am surrounded by a houseful of toddlers and babies, and when they go home I still have my own kids to take care of and it's just wearing me down combined with sleep deprivation. I am having some mommy guilt about leaving them but they will be with their dad and I need some sort of escape before I wind up in the loony bin.
The shop is pretty quiet so basically my job is play around rearranging stuff, dust and sweep, and sip coffee and read. This is coming from the owner:)
These are a few if the things I will be selling. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but its what I love. I also know none of it is super original but honestly what is anymore in the world of Pinterest and blogs? No one around here does anything like this so hopefully some people like my stuff!
Do you know how you are going to handle tax stuff?? I have no idea how that works yet....I am confused. The shop I am in has to charge PST - because the lady who runs it makes over $30k a year. I won't make over 30 k though, so I shouldn't have to charge pst on my items. But everything in the store is charged pst. SO confusing to me....I am learning how this all works on wednesday, hopefully it makes more sense after I talk to her.