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On Being a Renegade!
I’m happy to report that my very first Renegade Show was a complete success! I confess, though not superstitious really, I was taken aback when I realized my booth number was 13. I decided to think of...
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Easy Craft Show Display Tower Tutorial and an Upsetting Personal Realization
I’ve had a few questions about my new craft show display tower thingys. So I created a tutorial…. and had an upsetting personal revelation. These are not complicated (or revolutionary) designs but...
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To Blog or Not to Blog
To Blog or not to blog That is the question. OK, I didn’t mean to take a week off from blogging. It’s just……I just could not come up with anything interesting to say. The advice you always hear about...
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My Second Rose Bowl Swan Song
I know I keep saying “this is my last time at the Rose Bowl” but, like Cher on a farewell tour, I just can’t help coming back. As I mentioned last week, Sunday was my triumphant return thanks to my...
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Let the Holidays Begin!
Thank you all for being so positive and supportive of Maggie’s guest post! It’s such a nice, warm little crowd we’ve created here. And have I mentioned how pleased I am that she got more comments than...
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Karma?
Is it because I sold my niece into white slavery? Or perhaps because I toyed with the idea of trying to trick my 90 year old father into making more lazy susans for me to sell? Whatever the reason I...
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Captain Frazzled’s Holiday Checklist
It has been an amazing, wonderful and incredibly hectic Holiday Season for me and Cheltenham Road. I’ve been overwhelmed by good fortune, great friends, terrific customers and shop owners and I’m very...
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Another Easy DIY Craft Show Display
I woke up late and tired yesterday because all my dreams had been about not being able to fall asleep. Does dreaming about not falling asleep qualify as ironic? (Alanis Morrisette has screwed me up...
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Craft Booth Set Up For the Little French Market
Interesting. I left the corporate world for the bucolic life of a crafter. So how is that I am currently sitting in an airport with my laptop desperately trying to catch up on work during a layover? I...
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Published!
I’m back from Ohio and my dad’s 91st Birthday celebration. I had a great time and I was given more embarrassing pictures from my childhood! And now it’s back to work. Unique LA looms on my horizon...
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Portable Wall for Craft Show Display
As I returned home from loading in for Unique LA last Friday I found myself happily thinking “wow – it’s all loaded in! Booth looks good, most of my work is done AND I haven’t hit my head on anything...
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Old Door Becomes a Display Table
My stitches came out yesterday and though my thumb looks pretty bad it’s more functional now. The return of opposable thumbs is great because I’m in full-court prep for the big Patchwork Santa Ana...
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Easy Dimensional Map Wall Art Tutorial
I had an interesting discussion with a friend the other day about the danger of reading too many Home Blogs like mine. She confessed that, after a while, she started to feel inadequate. The authors of...
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Unique LA Summer Show and a Valuable Lesson
It was an exhausting week last week. I was in full court press to get ready for Unique LA’s Summer Show in Santa Monica (yesterday and Saturday) and for the Renegade show which is this coming...
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Renegade Craft Fair and More Fun with Really Useful Boxes
I finished Renegade Craft Fair on Sunday and sorta collapsed. With Unique LA happening the weekend before that was a lotta craft fair in a short period of time and I was dog-tired. So I’ve spent this...
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New Stuff!
As you may recall CoOp 28 is one of the first stores that carried my wares. Marci, the owner, has now taken over the space next door and is expanding yet again! The new wing is really coming...
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How to Build a Hanging Display Wall for Craft Shows
There is probably a 12 step program for people who keep making and remaking ways to display the same thing. And I should find it and join it. So, as you may recall, last week was the big Abbott Kinney...
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Christmas Is Kicking My Butt: 2013 Edition
Mine is a close and loving family but not a “chat on the phone” family. I actually told my sister Phebe if she ever did call I’d probably panic as it could only mean some disaster had occurred. Last...
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Trash To…Well Maybe Not a Treasure but Useful!
I’m still not dead! However, it kind of felt like it as I ushered in 2014 with a case of food poisoning that left me flat on the couch for about a week. Ugh. My first big (interrupted) task of the New...
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The Cheltenham Road Story?
My morale hasn’t been down but I’ve definitely felt it….flagging? I’ve been busy but factory-mode busy. Etsy has been slow but my wholesale accounts are stocking up for spring. It has been great...
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