Doggie Bandanas, Craft Fairs and Holiday Napkins!

As you may recall, Maddy and I took on
special little project recently -- sewing and embroidering.
I almost felt like Ma Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie -
but I admit, I did have electricity and sewing and embroidery  machines!

After a couple weeks of nearly non-stop sewing in the evenings-- well, we did
take bathroom and school/work breaks, the craft fair took place last

Saturday!

Mads and I were so excited and had quite a bit of inventory including

doggie bandanas, a few dog collar scrunchies and holiday embroidered napkins.

Yes, the napkins would go into the category of 

"what one thing doesn't belong with the others?"

but

we wanted to include them, as we loved them.

Yes, we are  those people who think whatever we

make (especially homemade) is fabulous!  :)

You probably can't tell, but these bandanas are really well made, have soft

coordinating-color flannel on the back for doggies and do not tie.

 Instead, we sewed a channel for the 

dog's collar to go through.  So, you slide the collar through and then clip

 the collar shut around your pup's neck, voila - the bandana cannot fall off!  

Doggies - beware -- there is no sneaking out of this bandana!

Back to the craft fair report - guess when the weather decided to change and snow 

decided to fall???  Last Saturday!

Soooooo, I'm attributing poor turnout to the weather 

and the people who did visit either didn't have dogs, had never

seen anything but paper napkins before and had no intention

of purchasing anything at the craft fair.

We sold maybe 5 bandanas and 1 scrunchie in 6 hours!
Big disappointment!  :(

While we were bummed, we decided we would try again some other time,
but NOT at that craft fair!

Dog collar scrunchie!

It really was not a waste of effort or time as Maddy told me

her favorite part was the time we spent on the production

line with her cutting and me sewing!

Some evenings she had me sewing up to 10 PM!

Maddy designed her own logo and
had a business card printed
We have an entrepreneur on our hands!
Shark Tank here we come!

Hello December - Hello Craft Fair!

For the past month, Maddy and I have been

getting ready for a craft fair that will be held  tomorrow (EEK)
on

Saturday, December 3rd!

Maddy and I will be selling homemade doggie bandanas (sizes mini and standard) and
dog collar scrunchies!
We have been sewing like crazy and spent over 3 hours
of Black Friday shopping at JoAnn's fabrics waiting in line
for holiday fabrics!

Some of our inventory!

We are also selling embroidered holiday napkins!
If you have a chance, please stop in.
Our napkins are similar to the one below - however, that one
was silk screened and ours are embroidered.
We've been so busy sewing, embroidering and ironing along with
all the usual school and work stuff that we failed to get
photos of any of our napkins!
No worries, we'll get some later!

Since we've never done anything like this before, we have no
idea how it will go, but Maddy is fairly certain we will
be super successful.  So much so, that
she designed a business card
for her Happy Hound Collection!
That girl!  She's such a little entrepreneur!
Sorry for the bad photo of her card -- believe me, it is super cute!

Wish us luck!