Mayday Underground (Spring 2015)

Mayday Underground (November 2014)

Mayday was awesome, as always! It continues to be my favorite show of the year! Here are some highlights...

Mayday Is Coming!

Mayday Underground is just a week away!

This is my face right now.

 These are some of the monsters I will be selling there. After Mayday Underground, whatever sweater monsters are left, I will be listing them in my Etsy Shop.

Mayday Underground November 2013

Some photos from Mayday Underground...

1. Me wearing a domino necklace I got from a trade with cloud9jewels

2. Another artist trade.  Traded a fox for a fox with PeachesProducts!

3. The owners of "Andy the Traveling Nubbin" visited and showed me pictures of Andy's most recent trip to Sweden and Finland.

4. Moustache Nubbins
5. This girl comes every year to Mayday and wears this awesome shirt!

6. A One-Eye Nubbin finds a home in the pocket of a happy customer.

7. "Gertie" plays with my hat.
8. "Sergeant Waffles" with his new friend!
9. Cool Doctor Who themed stuff from Cat Clay and Papersaurus Creative. 

Mini Mayday 2013!

Some quick photos of Mini Mayday from today!

We had some worries in the morning, since it was pouring rain when we got there to set up (and I was one of the few vendors who chose to set up outside).  But we still had some die-hard Mayday Underground fans show up in the rain with their raincoats and umbrellas to get the free swag bags!  And by noon, it had cleared up and was nice and dry and sunny!  And after borrowing some sidewalk chalk from the organizer (she'd used it to write a notice on the blacktop that there were more vendors inside) I'm feeling inspired to make sure I keep some of my own in my craft show supplies!  

Pictures from Mayday Underground!

Here are some pictures from Mayday Underground this past Saturday...

I was pretty busy most of the day (which is a good thing!) so I didn't have much time to take as many pictures as I would have liked.  You can go to the photo album on the Mayday Underground Facebook page to see photos of the other vendors. (a friend of mine took a bunch of photos of me & my booth, I'm just waiting for her to post them).  Check out the Mayday posts on the RNEST blog and the Jackbear Stamps blog as well.

(blurry selfie)

Mayday was the craft show debut of the Fox Nubbins and the Plaid-ypus Nubbins.  The foxes and barn owls were my best sellers of the day.

Before every show, I'm afraid I don't have enough product... then when I set up, I find I have too much to fit into the display!  My sweater monster trunk was PACKED!  I actually had to keep some monsters back behind the table until I sold some.

One of my biggest fans, Tree, bought one of my favorite recent monsters, Rigby.  I had to take a picture of him, since I never had the chance to before the show!

 And friends of mine, Holli and Ben, bought big Tobias, the super tall sweater monster who was over 2 foot tall.  He was my favorite monster I had at the show (you know, the one you secretly hope no one buys?).  It seems silly, but I'm glad he was bought by someone I know!

I made lots of sales, and I considered the day a great success!...as every Mayday Underground show is for me!  But it was exceptionally good for a spring craft show!  Thank you so much to everyone who came and everyone who bought something from me!  It couldn't have been a successful day without you!

MAYDAY!

The spring Mayday Underground Art & Craft Show is THIS Saturday!  My monsters are getting excited at the prospect of finding new homes!

I'm so bad about promoting my shows online the week before the show...because I am usually sewing like a mad woman trying to get ready and make sure I have enough. You know how people say "only x more shopping days until Christmas"?...well, there are only 4 more sewing days until Mayday Underground!

Will you be near Rochester, NY on Saturday? Do you like cool, unique, quality art & craft items? Come on down to the Village Gate on Goodman St to see me and all the other awesome artists who will be there! If you're one of the first 50 shoppers at 10am, you get a free swag bag! If you can't get there that early, they'll have a photo booth from 2pm-4pm!

RSVP to the Facebook Event!

Okay, I gotta go get back to sewing and stuffing monsters!

Monsters Have Invaded My Couch!

A mountain of monsters is threatening to overrun my couch. 

They are awaiting their hand-sewn details (eyes, lips, & hearts). 

(please forgive the not-so-great-quality cell phone photo!)

I am in full pre-craft show production mode to make sure I have enough for Mayday Underground in 2 weeks (Saturday, April 27th).  My goal this week was to machine-sew at least 3 sweater monsters a day.  A few days I only got 2 done (due to those annoying little distractions like laundry, grocery shopping, and cooking dinner)... other days I got 5 done...so it evened out.  One day this week, my husband came home from work and said "Oh my! Monsters are invading our house!" LOL!

Between this pile and the pile of finished monsters that have settled into a chair in the other room, I have just under 50 sweater monsters (more than enough I think!).  This upcoming week, I am planning on focusing on making Nubbins during the day and then paring down this mountain and hand-sewing in the evening when I watch TV with my husband.  I've already reduced the mountain by 5 monsters this weekend.  I'll have to remember to take photos of them before the show!

I couldn't resist taking a picture of Hal amongst the unfinished monster pile and uploading it to Instagram with the caption, "They'll never find me here!"

(you can find pictures of Hal on Instagram by searching for the hashtag #adventuresoffhalthesweatermonster)

Mayday Scores

A couple things I got at Mayday Underground this weekend...

A necklace made from a vintage wooden checker from In My Head Studios.

A "Doctor Who" fandom pin from Papersaurus Creative.

I feel bad that I can't remember the name of the artist I got this cool little Twig Gnome from... since we have been at many of the same craft shows.  

Craft Show Recap!: Mayday Underground November 2012

Mayday Underground was great for me, as always!  And each year it gets a little better!  No other craft show has beaten Mayday yet (although Lyndonville's 4th of July show has come close!)

My booth!

 One of my new Big Owl Nubbins.

There were SO many adorable babies and kids around!  The mother of this baby came by my booth to tell me they had won this green Nubbin in one of the Swag Bag raffles, and that her baby loved it! (she may not look enthused in the picture, but a minute later she was smiling!)

This Mayday show was the Big Nubbins official debut.  I've made them as gifts or donated them to raffles before, but this show was the first time I actually had them for sale.  My fellow RNEST member, Michelle, brought her 11 month daughter over to pick out her own BIG Nubbin.  Michelle asked me to put the 3 I had left in a line on the floor, so Zoe could crawl to one and choose what color she wanted.  She went for the blue one first, but then seemed to changer her mind and grabbed the pink one.  We thought maybe it was that she wanted ALL of them, so we lined them back up had her choose again, and she went for the blue one first.  So that is the one she ended up with!  Michelle said that with the big heart on Zoe's shirt, she kind of looked like a big Nubbin herself!

The monster this little girl picked out was one of the newer monsters I had made and didn't get a chance to "officially" photograph before the show...so this is the only picture I have of it!   I made it in the "pocket mouth" style, but decided to put the eyes inside the opening. I liked this monster because it looked like it was a little kid wearing pajamas.   I told the little girl that, and when I saw her later (her mom was another artist at the show), she told me that she had named it "PJ".  So cute!

An adorable baby with one of my TARDIS plushes.  She was waving it around so much (and throwing it!) that it was difficult to get a good picture!  Mine all came out blurry...this one is courtesy of my mom.

Saying goodbye to one of my favorite new monsters, Flynn.  I liked the sweater he was made of and I liked that he was so BIG.  He's another one I never took a photos of before the show...so I had to take a photo before his new owner took him home!

Of course, my monsters aren't just for kids!  This lady had already bought two monsters earlier in the day, had gone home (she had to drop a friend off), and then ended up coming back for Flynn!

Cool TARDIS fairy door from one of the other artists at the show.  I heard a lot of comments from people who saw my TARDIS plush that they had been seeing a lot of TARDIS/Police Box incarnations at the show.  Doctor Who has become a lot more popular here in the US since the 11th Doctor, I think.

 My booth neighbor, Grey Owl Design (his name escapes me at the moment) made some cool modern wooden signs and came all the way from Vermont!  He and his sister were very nice people.

 A glimpse of the chaos "backstage" of my booth.

A suitcase of Nubbins that needed hand-sewing.  I worked on them between sales.  I was making a lot of sales though, so I didn't get many of them done!

My mom usually comes to help me at shows.  In this picture she is gathering up the remaining sweater monsters to pack up when the show was over (I only had 7 left!)  Yes, I only have 7 monsters left, and I have another show on Thanksgiving weekend in Medina!...so I have been busy, trying to build my stock back up!

(I apologize for being MIA here on the blog when I am prepping for major craft shows.  I was barely on the computer at all in the weeks before Mayday.  I'll try to be better about blogging more often, even if it's just pictures from Instagram.  Hey, Instagram pics are better than nothing, right?)

Treasury Tuesday: Mayday Is Coming!

I've been featured in 3 Etsy Treasuries this week!...2 of which are Mayday! Underground themed!

 Mayday! Underground Preview 

Mayday! Coming Soon

::Foxy::