This is my newest addition to my Etsy online shop. I got the idea from my sister. She saw the vase and said I just had to make a flower pen with a white flower. She said that a lot of kitchen décor is Paris themed and people would love this vase and pen on their counter. I hope they do!! Crossing my fingers that I sell it!
The craft fair I planned on attending today was cancelled due to rain. At least I know where it is so I won’t get lost next month. I plan on participating in September and I wanted to see how others set up as this will be my very first one. I will just have to prepare the best I know how and learn from whatever I do wrong.
These are the supplies I use to make the Safari Floral Pen arrangement. I used to use a different kind of pen, but switched to Bic because they are better quality and they make the finished product able to be refilled with a new ink stick.
I had to get my mammogram done this year because my doctor made me. I am at the age where you need to get one every year, yes, I am 40…actually 41. Anyway, I went to the clinic and was given forms to sign. I looked for a pen and motioned to the receptionist that I needed one. She pointed at a pink rosebud flower arrangement and I pulled one out and it was a PEN!!! I was amazed, astonished, so tickled! If you knew me personally, you would understand. I love pink, I love cute things, I still love Hello Kitty! While I was waiting my turn to be squished :), I looked up how to make the flower pens, and vowed to my husband, who was there with me–thank you hubby–that I was going to make some for my desk at work.
Later that day I took off to Hobby Lobby with my niece and spent a lot of time deciding what flowers I wanted for my pens and even more time deciding what flowers to pick for my sister’s pens that I was planning on giving her for her desk at work. I found the right flowers, vases, and supplies and made them that night! I posted them on Facebook and got lots of likes and a “Wow” from my boss, so I made her one too.
I made the colorful one for me, and the other two for my sister and boss.
My boss liked hers so much she said I should sell them. She posted on her own Facebook that I was making them. Her enthusiasm sparked something inside me and I decided to go for it.
PLEASE GET YOUR YEARLY MAMMOGRAMS LADIES!!
What started it all
I made this pen set for my sister. Then my boss liked it so I made her one. When she saw it she went nuts telling me I should sell them. And so I took her advise and have been learning something new everyday.
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