straycatfarm

Monday, July 16, 2012

Clark Creations

Clark Creations was a vendor at a craft show I did this weekend. I have done other shows with her in the past and not only is she a fun person to talk to and spend time with but she also makes a wonderful product.
This is how she describes her products
Welcome to Clark Creations - Natural, Vegan Skin Care "Simple Ingredients, Complex Humans" Everything is handmade by me, unless otherwise noted by product, and I take great pride in offering you customer service that goes beyond GREAT! I offer a 100% money-back guarantee. All my products are VEGAN, containing no animal by-products.I have tried her lip balm and her soap and you can easily see why she has so many return customers.
Her products are well made and very good quality.
Stop by her shop and check out her very affordable prices.

http://www.soapguildstores.com/clarkcreations/Default.aspx

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Advertising

Like most of you, I am confused on the best way to advertise my shops and get the word out there that I do have a quality product at a fair price.

I don't twitter anymore as I was mostly getting bot views from that and never knew what to say.

Facebook. I do put a few things on Facebook but wondering how to get more followers to your facebook page.

Anyone want to follow me I am

https://www.facebook.com/#!/straycatfarm

Let me know and I will follow you back.

We do treasuries and they are fun and do help us meet new friends on Etsy and I do belong to two teams

We do lots of craft shows and pass out business cards.

Sales are always great at shows because people can feel the quality of our towels and search through piles for a pattern that works for them.

We sell quite a few at shows as wedding and shower gifts and the favorite is a combination of towels such as, Christmas, spring, winter, Easter, or any combination looks fun.

Always working on pictures and that is quite a challenge, which I think you will all agree.

So any stories of sucess you would like to share with us, we would love to hear.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Blogging

Wonder if I am the only one here who has a blog and forgets to blog or is so busy doing other projects that they just don't seem to have time.
What does it take to make us motivated to get in there and actually write the blog?
I can see where it is a great way to share ideas and thoughts and find out new craft ideas and where the best craft shows are.
Keeping busy with my Etsy shop
http://www.etsy.com/shop/straycatfarm
http://www.etsy.com/shop/blackberrybarn
Have a website too but it needs far more work to make a good website and I just don't have those web design skills.
It is not easy to come up with topics to blog about either. Where do you get inspiration for your blogs.
Going to try harder to take some time and blog and read others blogs as they are often not only fun to read but inspiring.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Lighthouse Craft Show

Imagine being able to do a craft show at the foot of this wonderful lighthouse at Presque Isle, Michigan.

As you stand and look up at it, it seems so tall.

You look the other way and you see you are standing on the shores of Lake Huron.

Who could ask for a more beautiful park to do a craft show in.

The other vendors have such wonderful crafts in their booths that you can't resist shopping.

As you can see from the sky, it rained and rained and rained and we went home early.

In spite of the rain we were amazed at how many customers came with their umbrella shopping and looking.

All of us local crafters would have been glad to have you stop by and climb the lighthouse and check out our booths.

In case you did not make the show you can stop by

http://www.etsy.com/shop/straycatfarm

and

http://www.etsy.com/shop/cherylnchains

We are looking forward to our next show and really hoping for a little sunshine next time.

How are the shows doing for you this year?

Friday, June 17, 2011

Farm life

I think I am really lucky to be able to live in the country. Don't have a big cattle ranch or dairy farm, just a small piece of land to grow a garden and enjoy the outdoors.
Not everyone will agree with me and some of you enjoy the city life with the restaurants and activities.
Isn't it great that we have all the different options so we can choose the one we like best.
The picture is one of my strawberry plants in blossom. Can't wait for the berries to ripen and eat. Many never get to the house as we snack right in the garden on the fresh berries.
We can pick the apples off the trees and eat the fresh tomatoes right off the plants.
It is peaceful to just take a break and walk around for a few minutes or picnic in the yard.
There is so much in the country to inspire crafters but now we need to get inside and actually make some new things.
Anyone else enjoy the country life too or are you a city person?
The most important thing is we are happy where we are.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Blackberrybarn and Christmas

I love Christmas and wish it lasted all year long. Actually I sometimes forget to take down all the trimmings and leave some up all year.

We had opened blackberrybarn to sell of all of those craft supplies you get and never use and take up room in the craft room. Thanks to all of you who purchased the items that sold, but now are store is looking kind of empty and needed to come up with something to fill it.

We already have our http://www.etsy.com/shop/straycatfarm

store where we sell our crocheted top towels and tried and tried to think up something new.

Then we realized if we want to do Christmas all year why not open a Christmas Etsy store to do it. That lets us make Christmas items all year and sell them so we did

http://www.etsy.com/shop/blackberrybarn

I know that there are lots of you that love Christmas also.

We only have a few items in there right now but stop by and watch us grow.