Let's Flea It Up!

As in flea market that is! I remember when I was a little girl my parents used to drag us to flea markets and yard sales. I would get car sick because I insisted I was too bored and, like the nerd that I am, read my books while driving. Not a good idea. But as I got older I learned NOT to read in the car and actually enjoyed finding new old treasures for dirt cheap prices. I found lots of books especially. I remember my mom buying me the entire Babysitters' Club collection at a flea market. My life changed forever after that. 

We then progressed to selling at flea markets and it was so much fun! We got to make money then spend it all in the same day. My inner shopoholic was born!

So it has been literally years since I have been to a flea market, to buy or to sell. I am excited this week because there is a flea market going on this Saturday and I am determined to get a spot and sell my hair accessories as if they were tiny hotcakes. I'm mostly going to be selling my older barrettes that I made a few years ago. I've been wanting to get rid of them so this is the perfect opportunity to sell cheap and get my name out there. Hello marketing plan! 

I have immersed myself in making new tags for each barrette so that whoever buys one will have my shop's web address go home with them. It's been a tedious process, but the end result is pretty cool:

Taggy goodness

Do you like it? I used to have them attached to a bright cardstock and enclosed in small ziploc bags. Not every attractive. So I had to take them all out and reattach my new tags. Exciting I know! :/

My Bunny Collection

Well I stayed up late last night to take photos of my latest yoyos, The Bunny Collection. I wanted to get started on listing them for sale as soon as possible and I knew if I waited to take the photos until today it would never happen. I love my kids, but hey are a MAJOR distraction! Breaking up toddler dramas and fights takes a lot of finesse and timing I have to say ;)
I am really happy with how the photos came out. I used some cream colored tulle circles and laid them atop an open page of my kids' Bambi book. For some reason this particular book ends halfway through the real story and only includes the happy bits. I found it strange the first time I read it, but it was nice not to have to read about him yelling for his dead mother for the hundredth time.
The illustrations are big and colorful and the words are very descriptive talking of hillocks and meadows and what not... like poetry. My kids are totally obsessed with Bambi so it was nice to use it for this purpose. A sort of personal touch.
Ok now I'm way off topic, right? Sorry. Here are a few samples of what you can find my Etsy shop:

I have a lot more finished and even more that I have to put together and photograph. I will be adding new items a few times a day to my shop. I try to keep it fresh ;)
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!