Kalaya Steede

This past few weeks I have been working on many things especially on my booth display.  I do not know about all of you but this is some serious work!   I wanted to make my own earring display.  It looked easy enough.  Just take some dowels and drill some holes and place them in a base and Voilà!  Instant earring stand but drilling holes in the correct place on both dowels was a challenge.   Scratching that project! 2nd Attempt I was given about 5 desk drawers over a year ago.  Hobo gave me the weird look when I accepted them.  He said, "Now what do you need those for?".  Well...I do not know but they are cool!  They are small drawers.  Look at that wood?  It has aged to almost perfection! Okay...this is scawy!  I will have to drill holes in this perfect, aged, old drawer.   I was bound to mess it up.  Before drilling into this wood I did a test run with a cigar box and figured something o...

at Freret Market !!! Oh what a day it was... Music, cool weather, old friends, new friends, and just enjoying that journey. Getting ready for the market. Inventory    ✓  Tables  ✓  Tent   ✓ Display cases...somewhat checked Table cloths...not checked at ALL! I headed out Thursday morning to make my "chocolate table cloth". $60 to make it myself...NO!  Strike #1 Walmart...NADA!  Strike #2 Was I panicking?  Believe it or not I was not. Target...Oh YEAH! I wanted to try to keep my booth display costs as low as possible and that I did.  The cloths were on sale for $4!  Can you believe it?  Total cost for table cloths...$12!  Friday I spent a good bit of time ironing out those creases.  Who does that anyway? Now it was time for the market... 10 am...claim your spot and set up! That EZtent was not so easy but my friends managed to put it up with some help from some seasoned ...

Happy Hump, Hump Day! So far my morning has been pretty calm.  It is the calm before the storm.   I am currently getting ready for my first Art Market this Saturday...EEEEEeeee!!! Yesterday I finished up making some torch fired enamel earrings.  First you must frost zee cake. Then you must torch zee cake. Now...listen closely...next you MUST play a bit! hahaha!!!  I kill myself sometimes! Okay now lets get serious...NO NEVER! I also worked on my booth display. I decided to bring in the tables (after freaking out the night before) and play with my display.  Monday night I was trying to visualize my booth and how I would display everything and it just did not flow!  Maybe it was because I was trying to force things and that does not often work for me.  So I dragged the two tables out into the studio and went to work. You must imagine it with a chocolate cloth draping over the tables with a cream colored runn...