Another Great Goodwill Find 2020

For some reason there has been a few more Goodwill stores opening up. There's on I pass on my way to work and I rarely find anything there. I don't know if it gets picked or they just get the new stuff. 
I got off work early, so stopped by on my way home. To my surprise I found this Dutch cow holding a a rose, which I haven't ever seen before. 
My daughter is getting married to someone from Holland and her grandmother's lucky charm was a brown spotted cow. Was just meant to be for me to would find this - well in my world. :)

New card rack at Cottage Crafts in Campbell - Coming in March

My cards for sale at Cottage Crafts. 

I was very sad when I had to close my card rack at Cranberry Hill. There were just too many card makers selling and the store hours made it hard for me to get in there to restock. 
After a very hard negotiation with Cottage Crafts, I'm setting up my card rack there in March. It won't be a money spinner but it's less of a risk for my to sell there. My cards are very different than the other card makers so there will be a nice variety. Plus my consignment booth is there so easy for me to restock everything at the same time. :) 

1960"s vintage owl glasses - SOLD

1960's vintage 14K gold owl glasses

When picking to flip goes right!  
I found a set of 8 vintage glasses at my local Goodwill store. I normally don't go down the clear glass aisle because there usually isn't anything vintage. The number one rule in picking is check out everything just in case. So on my way out I spotted these glasses. Thinking there had to be something wrong with them because it was in the evening and all the pickers had been through the store already. To my surprise they all were in great shape!  I purchased them on Friday night and sold them on Sunday afternoon for a nice little profit! I only had them in my booth at Cottage Crafts in Campbell for about an hour before they sold. Really made my day!

Creative Process paper weaving

First draft of the paper weaving sample

Many people think when we design for a card class, that we just sit down and make a card. There's a lot of thought that goes into what we design. The one big mistake I see new teachers and some big name people make is they design things that can't really be taught in the live classroom setting.  They do amazing cards and everyone will sign up to take the class but actually making it to match the sample isn't always successful. 
I do a workshop at FabMo once a month and I'm always looking for things that inspire me and can be taught. Since I never know who will be signing up and what level in paper crafting their at, I have to come up with simple designs. That can get very boring on the designing side.
I binged watched the Netflix show "next in fashion" and I loved it. Watching the design process and how they turned their ideas in garments is so inspiring!  One of the designers did a weave to create a pattern. That inspired me to pull out my random water color sample and do some paper weaving. This will be something we will do for this month's workshop. I love that everyone's card will be different and they will be learning a new technique.