At the River

We love the river. We so love the river. We love the people who are here at the river with us too, which are the neighbors and friends we have me at our campground. We just finished up at the potluck dinner where everyone brings a dish and the campground provides music (tonight from an ipod hooked to the sound system), BBQ sandwiches, and beer. VERY NICE. We brought steamed veggies and there was everything from lazagne to mac and cheese to apple sauce and strawberry shortcake! YUM. So we arrive and it is so nice to here 'hey Sears family, what did you bring?' and we sat with our friends here. They are the nicest four other couples who are always here and all are the age of our parents. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but just saying of all the people we have met in the past year we connect with the older folks. Everyone else came and left in 45 minutes time but we all sat a talked and talked and one of the ladies asked Nicholas if he wanted to play catch with her and she and him walked over to the clearing and threw the baseball around a bit. What nice people!!

This morning was the craft show and there were seven other vendors besides myself and Allie who sold her girl scout cookies. She did well (Allie) and sold most all of them. However it was hard for her to sit in one place for four hours. So to reward herself she bought herself a new pair of fancy flipflops from one of the ladies here. They are fuzzy on the strap made with fun fur. They are purple!

I did well for a slow day. There were three other ladies who were selling jewelry. One lady was a rep for a jewelry company like premier but not them. Another lady was selling sparkly bracelets and necklaces that she crochets the crystals on silk thread. Very interesting and pretty. Then another one, an older lady who is an odd duck was selling some bracelets along with her other crochet blankets, doilies, washclothes etc, that she sells. She priced hers high and I don't think she sold much at all. In the past she bugs the mess out of me at these shows because she, while she is nice, she wants to trade stuff. Well, I crochet the same things that she does and I really don't want much of anything that she has, but she wants what I have. Like last year she LOVED my zucchini pickles and she wanted three jars and she wanted to trade. Well I couldn't come up with enough stuff that I wanted from her and then I felt guilty that I couldn't trade with her so I just picked stuff and then she wanted to trade some more stuff and I had a really hard time telling her I didn't want to trade. It was horrible for my psyche if you know what I mean. Okay back to the craft show.. .....So I sold beaded bracelets, necklaces,and earrings all for $5 each. Then I had my hairbows, dog pull toys and handmade card sets and the funny pencil toppers. I sold no card sets but everything else I sold some. I think I sold 8 or so pencil toppers, 8 or 9 pieces of jewelry and 5 or so hairbows. Oh and 6 or so dog pull toys.

The next craft show is in two weeks and I want to make a bunch more bracelets and finish off what I have of the fleece for dog toys. Last year I sold dog biscuits, canned pickles, relish, and fleece blankets and scarves when it got chilly in the fall. The other ladies sell sewn projects like wine glass cozzies, jar toppers, fabric wreaths, and crocheted blankets and washcloths, booties, bonnets, etc. And the flipflops. So I am wondering what might be a big hit around here. Help me out. I need some ideas on something that would be fun to sell that everyone would want one around here.