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This Saturday I had the opportunity to show my wares at the Haddonfield NJ farmer’s market. Nice atmosphere, lots of food vendors and fresh vegetables/fruits. Had a lot of good conversations with people, including some folks that might want to do commission work on an item or in their home. Nice weather too! Working on […]

So my local town does a street fair twice a year, where they have food truck vendors, craftsman, politicians, and local businesses come out. They close off main street to vehicles, and just have pedestrian traffic for the 4 blocks of downtown main street. Its a lot of fun, and one of those “small town

Well, the Craft Fair schedule has stared for the year, with me heading to Haddonfield NJ’s farmer’s market to start the year. In the months ahead, I’ll be attending several craft shows and farmer’s markets, selling some of my wares. My current schedule is: Hopefully I’ll see you at one of these in the months

Well, my regular day-time work dragged me away from the shop for a full week, so everything got put on hold. I’m finally back from Florida, and can get back to finishing up the Christmas gifts before pushing on with the items for the next Christmas market. Busy, busy, busy….. I cut out the pieces

Had a great time at the Farmer’s Market this Saturday and sold a wide variety of items (phone holders, desktop bookshelf, cutting boards, boxes, etc.). It was the first Saturday that was clear (i.e. non-rainy) for the last seven weeks, so I guess people were in a buying mood. People were very friendly, the other

Had a great time at the Farmer’s Market! A lot of the sellers are the low cost phone holders, tablet holders, etc. I had a good time talking to folks and explaining my craft, and some folks came up with some excellent ideas for other projects. As an “attention grabber” I built a wood “spinner”

Its been a couple of weeks. I have been off backpacking in New Hampshire, and we got rained out – very dramatically. While Vermont got more, New Hampshire was only slightly less, and hiking the White Mountains involves a lot of rock scrambling/climbing. At one point, we were actually hiking down the equivalent of a

The door to my shop has been in bad shape for years. It’s a wooden door, and due to way the roofline is, there is a significant “splatter” of water which ends up hitting the bottom. Over the years, the wood has rotted away to the point where it was close to falling apart at

I have had some health issues (back injury, 48-hour Flu bug, etc.) that kept me out of the shop for a while, and then I had to bust my butt to build items for the last Farmer’s market of the year, as well as complete this year’s Christmas gifts. Needless to say, its been busy!

I attended another market in Moorestown NJ today (Aug 13th) and several customers suggested I post my future visits to the market coming up. I’ll be at the Mooretown Farmer’s Market on: Sep 24th Oct 22nd Thanksgiving Market (date TBD) Christmas Market (date TBD)