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So I have a lot to say about my event this weekend, well I guess the first day, but I am dead on my feet and have to be up again to be at the show at 7 am! So, uh, here is the skinny: I did amazing. I made $2477 from 10 am to 8 pm. So many smiles, so much happiness! I am a little in shock...

I woke up early but fell back asleep until noon yesterday, and then when I woke up I felt nauseous and had a splitting headache. I haven’t had a headache in ages, and it did not want to leave me alone! I soldiered through it and made MisterMoonbeam an antlered headband & corsage set to wear on...

2 little flower crowns. They’re flower girls. 🥰 I told her she can get the baskets for them to drop petals. Something like this. I just made a ton of these for this weekend. I can bang one out in 15 minutes. In her colors though. These are some of the ones I made for this weekend. I sell...

It’s someone I know from my Blessing Box days - I have watched her kids be born and grow up. I reached out and offered to do free headcrowns for her daughters. She was excited and said yes, and then shared she didn’t have any flowers at all yet. I did some math and decided I need promo pictures...

I’m gonna do flowers for a wedding! This is so exciting!

DarkKnight had an audition tonight for a different One Act Festival and right after he got home, he got a message that a director had selected him to play the lead in one of the performances! So cool. He’s been really boosted lately by all of the opportunities coming his way. I’m proud of him...

I removed the flowers the client didn’t like and replaced them with something else and now she loves it. Yay! So this commission is complete. I have one more to do that isn’t wanted until later in the summer, so I am working on that AFTER my show next weekend. TheEngineer is actually printing...

I have three commissions ongoing at the moment. I finished two today, but the recipient on the first requested a change - which is fine - so I will need to adjust that tomorrow. She’s in another part of the state, and I have no idea who she is! The other one that is complete is this big bee...

Whoo hoo! I got the PA Ren Faire gig! She said she couldn’t pay my asked for amount for 50 headpieces, but she could do 20 at my price. Since I had done the numbers at like a million price points, I knew that wasn’t my floor, so I asked for the next lowest amount and she jumped! So I will be...

Saturday flower haul: I haven’t taken a photo of the total yet, but double it! We went to 6 different Joann Fabric stores. MisterMoonbeam got involved back home and bought me an organizational system in Hagerstown, and also checked out the one in Chambersburg for me! DarkKnight and I loved...

I am writing this from NY - DarkKnight’s birthday is today and we are taking a driving trip to see my nephew’s play. He doesn’t know we’re coming and DarkKnight is excited. :) I am too! We made zero plans or reservations, so we could do what we wanted. Tonight we stopped to do an escape room and...

Thanks! That was my cheapest one so far. $14 in materials (most flowers bought at Michael’s for 70% off). Took me an hour and 20 minutes. I pay myself $15/hr so time +materials is $34 on it. I sell them for $88. I going to take it to my next event but if it doesn’t sell there it most definitely...

I’m low key freaking out. I just did math. Here is all the math written out. General rule of thumb is that vendors should aim to go to shows planning to make back 10 times their booth fee. Also, about 1-3% of attendees will purchase at a booth. Those are the numbers I should be using to plan...

Someone in the chorus had Covid, and now a second person has tested positive. The original person didn’t stay for the reception as they weren’t feeling well. Ugh. DarkKnight had a fever yesterday and didn’t feel much better this morning. He masked up to go to work - he tested negative both last...

MisterMoonbeam and I went to a Silent Disco tonight and I had a blast! If you’ve never been, it was super fun. We were met at the door and given light up headphones. We could choose between three different stations, and the colors would glow signifying which stream was being listened to. The...

So much going on, so little time to write about it. :) We just got a wedding invitation in the mail for MisterMoonbeam’s niece, up in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Thank goodness it’s for the one weekend in October I don’t have anything on the calendar - and it includes the Friday he already has off...

I finished putting together an outfit for Virginia Ren Faire in June. I’m a chicken! I bought teeny-tiny little resin chickens to hand out as part of trinket trading. This headpiece is the very first one I ever made, isn’t it just insanely fabulous?! 😍 I also got my more recent Damsel in...

Whoo hoo! I only have TEN more parks to visit and I will have hiked at least a mile in each Maryland state park. Yesterday I went to Franklin Point and it was gorgeous out. TheEngineer and I did 2.5 miles on an easy trail and I wasn’t even a little winded. That said, my blood sugar wasn’t happy...

Finished the commission crown this afternoon, and bought a bunch of grapevine wire and ribbon. MisterMoonbeam and I went out to dinner tonight together, but he’s still not feeling the greatest. He’s going into the office tomorrow, so he is feeling a little better. TheEngineer and I are heading...

I received another commission last night - this one for a standard $48 floral crown. My seamstress is going to a faerie festival this weekend! I told her I would be interested in a barter, if she would agree to alter one of my corsets in exchange, and she quickly agreed! I’m so happy to do that...