Felting up some festiveness

The last time I was shopping for felting supplies I found some evergreen fiber and bought it with the idea of making Christmas trees.

They would look nice, I thought, sitting on the mantel with the collection of paper houses I plan to make....maybe using old Christmas cards....and illuminate with battery-operated tealights.  I have no idea when I'll get around to this.  Maybe in my next life.....if I decide to come back...

I hope everyone had a pleasant Thanksgiving.  Ours was very nice and included some traditional activities-- a jigsaw puzzle and a game of Scrabble.  Luckily I had some knitting to work on because I find puzzles tedious, and my brain works too slowly to play word games with Mr. Gadget and Big City Girl.

No sooner had BCG and her boyfriend left on Friday morning, than our nephew and his girlfriend--both college students in Massachusetts--arrived. Thankfully, we had plenty of leftovers.  Dylan, our nephew, was quick to express his burning desire to visit the nearby go cart track--something he had done on a previous visit--but it wasn't meant to be.  He had arrived on crutches.  Something about a rough game of frisbee.

So, we came up with an alternate plan which was to take a nice picturesque drive up to the old hotel to visit the craft show.  They seemed agreeable although I know they were just being polite.

Once at the hotel, I was eager to show them my craftiness.  But, alas, there were very few of my items on display.  Could most everything have sold on the first day?  Unlikely.  So I checked with the lady working the check-out desk and found out that, yes, it was true that not many of my things had sold and it may have been because some of them were in the basement being saved for the second weekend--this being the first time they've held the show for two consecutive weekends.

I'm not sure I'm happy with this plan.  It probably suits the show organizers because they can have a fresh show the second time around, and they can tell their customers to be sure to come back because there'll be new offerings.  But it doesn't suit the craftsperson.  Something might not sell the second weekend--something that could have struck the fancy of a first-weekend customer.

I like the fact that I can deliver my crafts to the show location and let someone else sell them.  But the downside is that I don't have a say in how they're displayed or, in this case, when.  Whereas in a craft show where I've rented a table, done my own set-up, and stayed all day to do the selling, I have more leeway.  I enjoy that, but the older I get the less I like to get up before the sun and schlep everything somewhere.  So I'll just keep my mouth shut....which has never gotten me in trouble before.