Craft Fair Mojo - Four Part Series - Revived!

It has been just over two years since I have started this little blog. I have spoken about a lot of things in that time. I missed my little blogs Birthday on February 9th, so to celebrate I am bringing back some of my favorite posts.
My friend Stacey from Ellebelle on Etsy reminded me of the posts I had made for Craft Shows!
Since it is beginning to be that time of the year again when shows are abundant, I thought I would revive them for some fun reading!
Craft Show Mojo - Part 1 - The Beginning
Craft Show Mojo - Part 2 - How to get going
Craft Show Mojo - Part 3 - At the Show
Craft Show Mojo - Part 4 - Uncomfortable Situations you will experience

Through the last two years I have done quite a few shows. I recently noticed I needed to go back through and reread these myself. A refresher course if you will. I still find them helpful as a reminder. Please let me know if you have any tips or tricks you yourself have learned over time!
Have fun reading!
Happy Last day of March!

Technology Misfire

Well... it looks like blogspot isnt recognizing some of the photos I have in my blog. For this, I apologize. Im a visual person and it isnt fun without photos to look at!

Hopefully blogspot will rectify the situation soon. Ahem...

Movie Night and Ornaments

New Whale ornaments are coming. The gray one is William the Whale. Wilma the Whale is the blue one and then there is Polly the chicken! I got a few of these little guys stitched last night while I was watching The Great Race with Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis (The Movie is a long time favorite of mine) If you havent seen it, Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate is hilarious! These little guys will be listed in the store soon but I am giving you all a sneak peek!

Jerry the Party Owl

Jerry the Party Owl is finally available in my store. Months and months ago I had painted him and gotten cards printed. The Holidays happened and I never put him online for all. Well he is up now! You can see him HERE or below is his bio:
This is Jerry.
He is an Owl.
Jerry is dressed up and ready to party. Can you tell he is super excited?
Apparently they will have twister and cupcakes at this party. Rumor has it, the cupcakes have sprinkles. He can barely contain himself.

Original painting by Red Marionette printed on professional white cardstock. Measures 5x7 and comes with a linen white envelope.
Inside is left blank for your own birthday/party wishes.

Shipped with a protective cello sleeve and in a rigid mailer.
Photo has Red Marionette watermark which does not appear on print.

Printable Joanns Coupons - Stackable! 20% off entire purchase!

Hello out there!
I was mailed some great Joanns coupons today that I had to share!
the regular 40% off coupon can be printed HERE
And you can combine it with your 20% off your total purchase for you and for a friend HERE

Including these with the ones mailed to you in the flyer you can get some pretty awesome discounts!

Happy Shopping!

A few of my Favorite Things

I was in the shopping mood today so I did some window shopping on Etsy! As usual I have a few of my favorites I always go back to drool over. I oogle. I paw. I sigh deeply.
Here are some of my current obsessions:

1. Autumn Gatherings from Jellybeans
2. Milk and Bread Pendant from melaniefavreau
3. Reversible Hobo Bag from Retrofied
4. Glue Guns Are Greater than Guns by Mixed Species
5. Pumpkin Coach Artisan Perfume by Poison Apple Potions
6. Two Peas in a Pod Necklace by sudlow
7. Caffeine Necklace by Molecular Muse
8. Vintage Upcycled Cat Bed by LoveNostalgicWhimsy
9. Squid Attack Photo by FriendlyMade

Sneak Peek! Brand New Red Marionette Wall Art!

UPDATED! Just added Violet the Sleepy Owl and Ryan The Owl to the brand new Wall Art!


Brand New to the Red Marionette Family!

Wall Art!
Herb the Hedgehog is featured here on a linen pattern Birds and the Beans fabric!
Attached securely to a 6 inch embroidery hoop and hand stitched to the coordinating fabric! Herb will be available in my store in the next couple of days!
More designs to come soon to the Red Marionette store, but if you could take a minute and vote on what might be your favorite animal to see on wall art, it would be appreciated! (See the poll to the right of the screen)
Hope you all are having a wonderful Monday!
Prices vary on character and size.

Biodegradable Seed Pots Update!

Tomatoes and Basil and Green Onions, Oh my!

Here are my little paper pots in action!
I filled the origami cups with potting soil and these little guys took off!

Another week or so and they will be ready to go off in to their own big boy pots and grow!



HERE is the link for how to make your own!

Wood, Willow and Whatknots

A couple of weekends ago we went to the Bay Area Renaissance Festival (You can see the site HERE)
It is always inspiring to go and see all of the crafters and artists at places like this. It was just stunning the amount of costumes and clothing people make. The leather work was amazing and as usual I found some awesome incense I wanted to share with you all!
The store is called Wood, Willow and Whatknots. They hand make all of their incense sticks, potpourris and oils. They also have woodburned artwork. Their website is HERE Their incense is pure and some of the best blends we have ever purchase. We tried out the Sandalwood, Blue Moon, Mystic Forest and Cosmic Minstrel. All wonderful. We will be ordering from them again in the future!
It is always refreshing for me to wander around and oogle at shows since most of the time I can get away to go to a show I am a vendor.
The photo is of Kyle and I with a Pirate that was part of the Pirate Dinner Adventure located in Orlando. Their fight sequences were kicking up some serious mud (literally) They are some superb actors! If you make it to Orlando, try to check out their show! Visit the site HERE

Have a wonderful Saturday Morning!

Spending Hiatus, Hiatus. Erm....?

Holy rusted metal BATMAN! Joanns is having a coupon commotion weekend where there is darn near a coupon for everything you might need!
HERE is the link to the online coupons you print off for the store. They are valid now through Saturday the 13th.

Now, I know I am on a spending Hiatus but I shall take a hiatus from my hiatus. Is that possible?
Well in my blog it is!
So, I will spend a little for a couple of very important things I need for the brand new wall art idea I have for Red Marionette. (I will make my prototype and introduce that this weekend!)

And I need a nice set of pinking shears, I have been waiting for a good coupon for that - 50% off is a good coupon I would say.
Tip: Always purchase good quality scissors. They last longer and you can get them sharpened.

So if you have goodies to get then hurry scurry to joanns. Remember you can stack Michaels coupons, Joanns Online and Flyer coupons.
Do it up! Share what you got!

Ive been bad...

I sincerely apologize for the long lapse of time in between blog posts.
One wants to keep things fresh, right?
Well, not too much to blog about as things have been pretty busy in the personal realm and not so busy in the Red Marionette Realm.
Kyle started Firefighter/EMT Training yesterday. He is knee deep already!
I have been working on a fun personal project for myself and Kyle. The Brown Chicken...Brown Cow.
What do you get when a Chicken and a Cow star in a XXX Film? Browchickabrowcow!
Yeah, its corny.