Hi Tammy, If you can bake a basic sugar cookie, a cute idea is a bag of Leprechaun Kisses. I used a sugar cookie recipe that asks you to form the dough into a small ball on your cookie sheet... and I made really small balls, about 1/2" in diameter and pressed a Hershey's COOKING Kiss (which is much smaller than silver foil covered Kisses)into the center of each ball, which flattens it a tad.Bake until they are barely bowning,or per your recipe, and remove to cooling rack. Put 6-8 in the St.Patrick's Day motif cupcake paper cups or just use white ones, and stack 6 cupcake cups full in a cellophane bag ($ Tree) with the shamrocks on it(I used a piece of thick white cardboard from new shirts, cut in the exact rectangular dimensions of the inside of the bag,and placed in the bottom of the bag, and between each layer of cookies, to give the cupcake cups of cookies more stability, and keep the bag upright. I punched 2 holes near the tops of the bag and threaded green and white curly ribbon thru the holes and added a decorated tag that had the Leprechaun Kisses poem on it!I'll try to find the site on the net for the poem,and e-mail it to you, and you can go directly there and print out the tags. I made these for my daycare moms and dads, too, and made teeny weeny cookies with a Nestles' semi-sweet morsel stuck in the top! They were the cutest...just a tad bigger than Goldfish. Oh, I sold the tagged and bagged ones for $4/bag to the Teamsters,in DC where my sister works... and I had so many requests for "normal sized cookies" that I made the standard size cookie with the regular Hershey's Kiss in the center and sold them as "Bunny Kisses for Easter !(2 Doz for $4! Enjoy !

Karen! Look what you've started!! This chalk thing was my project for today. I made some tiles using the white pearl clay and chalked with a rainbow of colors. Ahhh... Rainbow is my FAVORITE color! :-) I really like how they turned out, but I didn't make enough to do a bracelet or anything, so I haven't scanned them yet. Then, since I had some black scraps on my work surface from yesterday, I had to find out what would happen with bright chalks on black clay. I used copper PearlEx, too, and left a heavy dusting of chalk on the clay. Below is the link to 2 of my finished experiments. Thanks SO much for sharing this technique! I LOVE it! There were my clay and my chalks just a shelf away from each other in the craft closet and I would never have thought to put them together! Here is a link that might be useful: My chalked black clay things

I am so glad to hear of all the successes on shows! Christopher...you are so so right on the tips you gave! I have been doing these shows for 20 years and the BIGGEST and I mean the BIGGEST tip I can give anyone is STAND UP and GREET every and I mean every customer that is at the table! Even when kids come to look, talk to them, they will then go to the parents and ask for money! I am a stickler on that. My Boyfriend of 4 years goes with me and helps me so much. But at the beginning, I had to tell him to stand up, talk to people. NOW, he sees exactly what I mean! I know at the end of the show you will be tired but better to be tired wth a full wallet than relaxed with an empty one! The other thing I HATE is to walk up to a table, and see the Vendor with their mouth full of food. OMG that bothers me. When we eat our lunch or what have you, we walk away from the booth one at a time to eat. My other advice, always straighten up your display! People will pick things up and then almost always not put them back the way they were....I am constantly, when there is not a crowd, re-arranging and straightening out my displays. I have learned in all honestly, that the more items I display, the more I sell. I have things priced from $1.00 to $35.00 and if it wasn't for the smaller priced items at some shows, I'd come out with nothing. Anyway, just a few tips too! I hope you all do well at your shows. I have another show this weekend. It is a smaller one and a first time show for me, so we'll see how it goes. I had nothing else scheduled this weekend so I thought I'd give it a try Wish Me Luck! Marci

I think that is a Bessie print-I got it so many years ago. I've moved it to my guest room now. Knot holes-they still show-I wanted the ceiling to still look rustic, but they're now less obtrusive. The PO was a smoker, so I had a lot of leak thru of nicotine before I put the second coat of paint on. I was really worried about that, but the second coat did the trick. The ceiling has some 'holes, where the know holes were chinked out, but that adds to the charm of the old pine ceiling. The floor is just a low end laminate-if I ever need to turn it back in to a bedroom, I'll have carpeting put back in there, but for now, the laminate cleans up well. The chair was painted with primer for plastic, then I went over it with just white spray paint. I'm debating doing a chalk paint finish in pink, I kind of like the white. I was going to make a slip cover for it, but discovered that there was a fabric covered plastic backing, so I was able to use a flexible putty knife and push the fabric deep into the crevices-no sewing whatsoever! The arm pads just unscrewed, so a bit of stapling, hot glue and rescrewing it back on, they were done. It literally took me less than 30 minutes to recover it. So far the paint is holding up well, I specifically chose plastic spray primer. I'm going to paint the top of the desk in pink chalk paint, and wax the whole thing. A year or so ago I painted the sewing cabinet with chalk paint and I love it, so I think the desk will take it well. I did add crystal knobs to the drawers and some crystal knobs to the farm house table-my little bit of bling. I finished decorating it this weekend, and managed to get ALL my craft supplies back in, with barely and room to spare. I bought some cute glass jars to hold a lot of my crafting supplies, and I used vintage glass salt & pepper shakers to hold glitter. I have vintage pottery & silver holding a lot of my other supplies-it's just so 'me' in there.