Happy Monday!

Good Monday morning to you all. The sun is shining, the air is chilly, it’s really Fall here in Texas and we’re just 10 days away from Thanksgiving 2010!  Today is actually the day Kristen was due 10 years ago, it’s also Nan’s birthday (that’s Jason’s  Dad’s Mom!) but as you all know my little ‘Butterball’ decided she wasn’t fully cooked on that date and decided to wait another 10 days before she made her entrance!  Now that the craft fair is over I can start getting the house ready for her birthday and Thanksgiving dinner, that’s what I’ll be busy doing today and the rest of this week. 

But before I do that I promised I’d share pictures of the fair last Saturday. I always get concerned about the weather when we’re doing an outdoor market. The temps on Friday were 77 but for Saturday the high was only going to be about 68 and partly cloudy. Well, it was pretty chilly for most of the morning, but thankfully the sun shone brightly and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky all day :-)

This is the ‘old’ courthouse that was right opposite our booth – look at the color of that gorgeous sky!

Here’s our booth finally set up.  I’d worked all day Thursday and Friday in my garage trying to arrange things so we had an idea of how things would look. We were selling some of Cheryl’s mom’s seasonal wreaths and basket arrangements, as you can see on the left. We won’t always have these so we’ll be rearranging things a little for the next fair.

 

  Not only did we have the lovely view of the courthouse across the street, but this gorgeous booth was set up right in front of us too!

It was a really fun day and we did ok with sales . . . not ‘great’ , but ok is fine by us ;-)  Jason surprised me by showing up with Kristen for a little while. I hadn’t asked if he’d bring her over because I knew he would be working, but they did come and it really put a smile on my face.  Next month they are having a Christmas fair which we won’t be doing, but Cheryl and I want to take the kids along to it and be the ‘shopper’ instead of the ‘seller’ ;-)  We’ll start back up with craft markets and fairs next year in the spring time.

In the mean time I will be trying to list my goods on Etsy. And it’s back to knitting too – I have a few orders to make this week, so with that and housework I’m sure to be kept busy (as usual) :-)

Have a wonderful start to your week. Are you all getting ready for Thanksgiving? What are your plans? Going to see family or having family come see you? 

hugs

Denise