About a month ago I was asked by some friends to join in on having a garage sale where moms who make crafty things could set up a table and sell their stuff. People who don't have time to commit to the Farmers Market or other convention type events. We had such a huge response that my mother and sister-n-law offered for us to use their parking lot at one of their daycares. We had only a few weeks to get our crafting on and a few days to advertize. We also had to compete with several bigger craft fairs going on that day as well, but all in all we had a good turn out and most of all we had fun. There were so many cute vendors there, but I didn't have time to venture out to all the booths long enough to get pictures. Maybe I can find them and post about their things later.
At my booth I had my Shelf Reliance things (food storage, http://www.shelfreliance.com/); educating people about that and booking parties. I'm hoping to start a blog about Shelf Reliance after Christmas. I also made some pin cushions that I found from the website http://www.diydish.com/ (double layer cake pin cushions and the owl pin cushions). I also made platters from that website as well.
I add to put my own spin on the cake pin cushion by making a few to look like girls in dresses. By just covering the felt differently and adding a hat that you would use when making dolls it totally transforms it. I think another spin on the platters (which I would've done if I had more time) would've been to add some sort of vinyl silhouete design on top. I think that would be very cute. I basically was looking for something that was fast and easy to make. Also something that unique and could be given as a gift. Check out the DIY Dish website, they have so many ideas. 
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