It's Time for the Harvest Festival!

 

Woo Hoo!  It's the first craft show of the season...the Harvest Festival is coming to Las Vegas this weekend, Sept 5-7!  This show brings lots of excitement for vendors and customers alike.  

Don't forget to bring your discount coupon or non perishable food donation for Safe Nest to receive $2 off your entry fee.  The Country Register has a discount coupon on the cover, the newspaper has been running coupons as well.  

I've seen TV commercials every morning this last week and this week during the news on Channel 8.  Billboards are up too.  Let's hope it brings in lots of excited buyers.  

This year, I sucked it up and spent the money to get a double booth so I can feature Christmas as well as Harvest and Halloween.  With that being said...please...come shop with us!  We've moved locations within the show to do this, you can find us on the first row in space 128. 

The show will be at Cashman Center and runs Friday and Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday 10 to 5.
We'll see you there!

2014 Craft Fair Schedule

So far this is where I will be selling my wares.  

More will be added I'm sure.

Did you see the last one...yup...taking a leap of faith and having one here at my studio/workshop.

Fall and Halloween Blocks

I swear it feels like I've been working on blocks forever.  I cut them a few months back, finally sanded them in May and June and finished them in June.  Here are the Fall and Halloween choices for this year.  

These will be available at my craft shows.  The first one will be Harvest Festival September 5-7 in Las Vegas at Cashman Center

Harvest Festival

 

We had a great first show of the season at The Harvest Festival in Las Vegas!  I couldn't believe how many people came out to shop, Saturday was super crowded and crazy in our booth all day.  We feel very blessed indeed. 

We featured Halloween/Harvest/Fall and everyday at this event.  We just didn't have room for Christmas.  We'll be unveiling that at Art in the Park in just a couple of weeks.

 

Staff at the event said attendence was up 17% on Friday and 20% on Saturday.  Yay!  Hopefully, this will be a trend all year.  Thanks to all who came out to see and shop with us.  We appreciate all of you!  Now to get back to orders I took at the show. 

Harvest Festival is Coming!

Labor Day is almost here and right after that is...The Harvest Festival!

It's the big event that gets the craft show season started in Vegas and there is always lots of excitement and anticipation that goes along with it. 

I'll be there again this year along with my friend Diane.  Look for us in space G05.  We'll have lots of fun fall and everyday items for your shopping pleasure along with a bit of Christmas too.

We hope to see you there!

Already thinking about fall shows

Okay, is it crazy that I am already planning my fall craft show schedule?  Yes, that is what I'm doing already.  I'll be showing and selling my wares at Harvest Festival, Steve Powers Craft Festival, McQueen Craft Faire, and Art in the Park (jury committee willing).  There are always a few home shows in the mix, and then I want to add a couple of Arizona and California events if there is time and product. 

There is a huge stack of wood that needs to be cut into wonderful pieces to paint into treasures.  I said I would be more prepared than last year.  I plan to cut while the weather is cooler so I don't have sawdust sticking to my sweat covered body in July and August...honestly, there is nothing sexy about it.  lol  My bandsaw needs a new part and is just a bench top model, so I'll be loading up the trailblazer with wood and the dog and heading to my dad's to use his full size tools.  It's so much easier and faster to get things cut...just not an easy, quick event.  I like to get lots done while I am there so it seems like I'm there all day when I do that.  But, I come home with a week's worth of painting to get done so I guess it's all good.  I'm looking at doing lots of larger pieces this year so I'm excited to get started.

Show and Tell Friday

Whew, it's been a busy week.  I caught up on some household , met with a bride, and relaxed a bit.  Timm's been working on the dining hall all week.  I'm pleased to say that the outside lights are installed and working.  The facia is installed and the first coat of paint has been put on.  Last night we worked on the interior window trim.  It's looking awesome.  I've gotten 8 ghosts and 8 witches painted.  Chris has cut wood for me so I have more time to paint.  Oh, and we've had rain! 

I thought I would share some photos of our booth at Harvest Festival from last weekend.  Enjoy and have a great weekend. 

Harvest Festival Review

Excited shoppers showed up in droves this past weekend to the Las Vegas Harvest Festival eager to shop and get their hands on some great handmade products from an event filled with really talented vendors.  We filled our booth with mostly Halloween, Harvest, and general Fall items.  We offered a few Winter/Christmas items but really didn't have room for them.  Seldom was our booth empty...most of the time it was full of customers oooing and awing over things.  They were so excited to hear we were local and they could get on a mailing list and get more items in the future.  We passed out postcards of our upcoming events, added folks to the mailing list, and were pleased to have my scarecrow on the front cover of the current issue of the Country Register.  Thanks to Glena for the opportunity to feature a local crafter on the craft show issue.  I really appreciate it.  Our larger items sold like crazy, in fact I sold all of my posts, large BOO ghosts, and witch on moon pieces.  We would like to thank all our customers for shopping with us, we really do appreciate each and every one of you.  We need to work our tails off and we'll see you in three weeks at Art in the Park.   So until then, enjoy these photos of our booth from Harvest Festival.  

Join me at the Harvest Festival

Yup, that's right...I'll be showing at the Harvest Festival with my friend Diane this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Cashman Field.  It's the first craft show of the season for Las Vegas and really gets people excited about Fall, decorating, holidays and more.  Please come out to shop with us for some great new handmade pieces you'll surely fall in love with.  Look for discount coupons to the festival in the local papers this week.