Artisan Show Updates

Please come and find me here and the following shows!



24th Annual Tuxedo Artisan Show
December 1st
368 Southport Bvd
10 am - 3 pm
Admission $2, kids under 12 free.
Artisans are split between 2 buildings

Springs Christian Academy
December 7th 10am-4pm
Springs Church 595 Lagimodier Avenue
Admission $2

Annual Christmas Artisan and Trade Show
December 15th
10 am - 4 pm
1415 Regent Avenue
Canad Inns Club Regent
Admission is $2 or FREE with a non perishable food donation to Winnipeg Harvest at the door

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Thanks for stopping by!

Tannis

Winnipeg Centre Vineyard Craft Sale

I have been wanting to get into this sale since it started three years ago.

Finally this year I am in! Please check out the web site,just click here and come down and check out the sale. Support local crafters and artisans!

Hope to see you there!

Gearing Up for Sales

I spent weeks trying to find some craft sales to get into and nothing! Then all of a sudden there were many! Many is a common thought in my head! Some times I get too many ideas, have too many things on the go, and eventually I hit a brick wall because I have no where to go!

Anyway, I was thinking of some new ideas for two big sales that I have coming up, one near Easter and the two big ones for Mother's Day. Yikes I just realized they are back to back. I thought because one was in April and the other in May that I was ok. But it just so happens one is April 30th  and the other May 3st. Yikes! Wait until my husband finds out. Oh and the following Monday I am having my floors re done. You see, too much at once!  I digress, see how my brain works?

So here are a few samples of some of what I have been up to.....

And this......

Last night was my Friday night scrap booking class that I hold every Month and wow those ladies were quick! They are just getting that much better at what they do! I will post pictures soon of our pages so far.

Have a great, and enjoyable weekend everyone!

My Craft Room

Hello!

First I want to tell you how excited I am that I finally figured out how to add an option to my blog, that allows followers to receive my updates by e mail! I hope you will sign up for it, I would appreciate it very much!

On the weekend, my craft area was a MESS! My brother gave me a few shelves and such, that I thought I would use, and when I get something like that, I tear the place apart. No lie. My husband thought it would take me forever to get it looking normal. I knew it wouldn't take too long. It couldn't take me too long, because I have a Friday night scrap booking class with the Crafty Ladies! Yes I named their group!

Anyway, I just wanted to share my scrap booking and craft area with you! It is where I hold my workshops as well as my work area for my Cards by Tannis and my own personal scrap booking. And let me tell you, when I don't have a class going on, I use all the tables! Or when I am preparing for an upcoming sale. It can get really messy!



I move these tables often, depending on how many crafters I have





This is some of my on hand Creative Memories product




some of my CM stickers

This is my sale table of some Creative Memories product I am hoping will sell soon, so let me know if you are interested in anything you see here!

And this table is some of the new product. There are so many new things this March, it is unbelievable. There are many baby albums and quick kits, lots of new paper and these two beautiful albums!

This is another work area that I try to stick to when working on my Cards by Tannis products. I have so much stuff in this area, both completed and working on, that sometimes I get overwhelmed where I should start!

Dave made this area for me, a place to hang my stickers and ribbon!



I love my Stampin up Big Shot!

Well thanks for taking a peak of my scrap booking and crafting area! Have a good week, and oh, I almost forgot to tell you........



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Happiness can be found in a new journal

OK, I will admit that lucky things do not usually happen to me. But when they do finally happen, I assure you, I embrace those lucky moments, even if they are few and far between.

One of those lucky things happened to me yesterday! I came across a beautiful book that would allow me to make the most amazing journals! Well, I think so anyway. And here is the lucky part, they were on clearance! So I bought 20. The lady at the store thought I was crazy, but I could not believe it!

So I came home and I made a few journals out of those books! They are a sketch book, with beautiful natural pages, no lines. I have had a few customers request them, so this gave me a chance to make a few. I had my friend Dana in mind when I made this one, I don't know why, the paper just reminded me of her and I think she prefers this kind of book instead on lined paper, and she is very natural. I hope she likes it, but Dana if you are reading this at some point and you don't like the paper, no worries!

This is the one my daughter liked, of course because the flower has glitter on it and she loves anything glitter!

I love the spine of these books!

So I loved the quality so much and had all of these ideas of books and journals I would make, that after lunch, I went back and bought all of the rest on the shelf. I think I have enough to make over 50 journals. I just hope I can sell them all! So if you know anyone you would like to gift a journal to, or maybe one for yourself, let me know!

Last Friday, the "Crafty Ladies" met for their scrap booking class. I thought it was fun! We will have a group of six. We have an 11 year old sweetie in our group and a 79 year old sweetie as well, that is our age range, and it makes it very diverse and so great! Unfortunately I didn't get enough pictures, only 2. I will know better for the next class!

Elyse and her daughter Alyssa

Tamara

And the next day I had my weekend sale at the Assiniboia Downs, a fundraiser for MRDA (Manitoba Riding for the Disabled). It was a very interesting sale! It was more like a flea market, with antiques and collectibles there as well! My husband had a great time walking the floor over and over again. Each time, finding a new treasure. We each bought some things. My two finds were a box full of Martha Stewart magazines for $5. For anyone who knows me, they know magazines are an addiction for me and definitely NOT something I needed to buy. My other find was the first work of fiction written by Deepak Chopra, and it was an advanced copy! I got that for $3!

Anyway, I was also allowed to have a bake table, which I did! It was a great sale, we had fun and met allot of superb people!

Most people were not thinking ahead to the following  week and Valentines Day, so I came home with some of my gift packages, but sold almost all my cards. Of course they were hungry too, so I didn't really come home with much baking either!

My most memorable moment would be an elderly man working at a booth across from me, he came and bought one of my jars of salsa, telling me he didn't like the *#@! from the store because of the taste and all the preservatives in it! I assured him mine had no preservative in it and it was good. The next day as I was helping a customer, my husband came up to me and pointed. I looked to find the elderly man eating one of my chocolate caramel pretzels he helped himself to. He wanted to pay me I guess and not my husband. When I walked up to him smiling he said "everyone is walking around eating these things, I just thought I would try one. Do I have to pay for it?" He bought two, and at the end of the day, I gave him two more to take home!

People like him make my long crafting days all worth while!

Take care, have a great weekend! I have an all day scrap booking day planned with some friends on Saturday so I am hoping to get some work done on my albums! Hope you get to do something creative this weekend too!

Tannis