They Came!

I wasn't at all confident that the business card hang tags would arrive in time for tomorrow's book fair but they did. I ordered 100 hang tags and the smallest quantity of strings I could buy was 1000. (I won't run out of those anytime soon.) They arrived in time for me to sit at the table and string them onto the keyrings. I got all of them strung and clipped the hang tags together so they hopefully won't get too tangled in transport.

 

When I picked up the camera there were four Sparrows on this feeder. By the time I got it turned on and up to my eye, there was one left. Birds. You just can't depend on them.

 

The other things that came today were the Foldie travel cross body bags. One for me and one for DD. Hers is purple and I mailed it this afternoon so it should arrive on Monday. They were buy 1, get 1 free. I had to get some. They say the belt resists cutting and it's lined with RFID fabric. You know, the stuff people can't access your credit card numbers through.

 

I didn't have much down time today but I did do a little prompt notebook reading in the next notebook. Man, I wrote a lot ten years ago. A couple of the Friday Night knitters asked when I was going to publish my short stories in a collection. I'd never thought of that. They're so different from my novel style, maybe putting them on Substack is enough.

 

At Friday Night Knitting I added an inch or so onto the Llama Boyfriend Hat. It needs at least another inch, probably two of the hat body before I start the crown decreases which will entail actual thought instead of the knit 3, purl 2 I'm doing now.

 

I had a wonderful time visiting with BV this morning at Luna Coffee Roasters in De Pere. We talked about husbands, kids, old friends, and memories from high school. She'd asked me to bring books so she could see them and ended up buying one of each title. That really blew me away. I really appreciate support like that. She plans to share them with friends to build my readership in Minnesota. Thanks a million, BV!

This morning I got an email from MK about a watercolor class at the technical school and wanted to know if I was interested. Yes! She sent me the link, I read about the class, and signed up. DT is coming too. So the three "old neighbors" are going to go painting together for 6 nights in Sept. and Oct. Should be fun. 

I've got the books, bag of tablecloth, etc., and poster loaded into the car. I filled my water bottle and started putting a few things together for lunch so I can get up, get ready, and get down to the Art Garage for the book fair tomorrow. It'll be a long day, 10-3, but hopefully it'll be busy enough to make the time pass quickly.

--Barbara