First Craft Show!

I got accepted at my first craft show! :) It's at this place called Esperanza which is a school for people with disabilities. My mom used to work there so I've been to some of their events before. The event I'm selling at is called Summerfest and it's not a super big event or anything, but I'm hoping to sell some stuff. I wanted to start small and I'm just happy to have the experience of selling in real life. Let me know if you have any advice. I've already found a ton of advice on the etsy forums so I think I'll be overprepared. 

I was looking at the Esperanza site and sometimes they sell artwork from students. I found this really cool mosaic of part of a Van Gogh painting. It was made from a bunch of students working in a class and it's selling for $1,000:

I'm working on some new items. I made a box with pink flower paper that I really like. I'm working on another box that is an autism theme that I'm excited about. I always wanted to make an autism box to go with my autism journal, but never got around to it. I figured now is the perfect time with the craft fair coming up because a lot of people there might be interested in supporting autism awareness. I also made a journal with marbled decorative paper I got from Italy and a journal with a map of Chicago on it. I can't wait to list new items! I think I'm going to take photos tonight.

I organized a bunch of my items and now my craft area is pretty clean. It's really nice to have a craft area in my room. I might take photos soon. My drawer with finished items is almost full. I use two of the drawers for finished items and the last drawer for supplies and business cards. I also have another drawer somewhere else in my room with fabric and paper. Hopefully, I'll sell some items (at the craft show) and make a little more space for new items. If you have a shop, how do you organize your items?

I found this really cool site called swaptree. I was trying to find ways to make fast money (I'm kind of broke right) and was listing stuff on ebay/half.com. I found this site though where instead of getting money, you can trade for stuff. So you might trade a book for another book, a book for a dvd, etc. It's a lot of fun and really addicting. I have a bunch of CDs from when I was in elementary school, junior high, etc. that I never touch anymore and don't really have a lot of sentimental value that I'm selling. I also always wanted to build my DVD collection up and this is a good way to do it cheaply. If you click the link above, you can see my page and what items I'm selling and what items are on my wishlist.

My laptop is still broken. I just have really bad luck with it I think. First, there was just a problem with a hard drive and I finally fixed it myself and installed a new hard drive. Right when I was almost done putting all my backup files on the new hard drive, it accidentally fell off my couch and now the screen is broken. I'm hopefully going to get it fixed tomorrow.