This month I'm also trying to do more events around town, which brings me to Jax Beach Art Walk and the Vagabond Flea.
Last month's Vagabond was rainy and gray, and I was under-prepared without a canopy to cover me. Luckily a few of my vintage-selling friends were there and they let me squeeze under their tent with them. Thanks Ravishing Rabbit! Y'all are life-savers. This month I've got a tent of my own (with a pink canopy, natch) so I'm excited to bring more vintage with me to share. I also have a few Halloween-themed circle skirts that would look great if you decide to opt out of the costume game this year, or if your workplace won't allow them. I've got such a soft spot for silly novelty prints, especially when they sync up with holidays.
This month will be my first Jax Beach Art Walk! I'll be selling Halloween skirts and bags, as well as my handmade wristlets and purses and anything else I make between now and then (this is a handmade/artist event, so no vintage!) I'll be at spot 95 between COS Surf Shop and Lynch's Bar, toward the end of the line of vendors. Come out and say hi!
At the end of the month Ben and I are taking a little fall holiday to celebrate Halloween- it's also the 8th anniversary of our first date! He took me to our university's Rocky Horror Picture Show interactive event and it was probably the best first date anyone has ever had, obviously, since we ended up getting married :) So it's kind of a special day for us, and we are heading out of town to have a little Halloween fun. The shop will be closed that weekend!
Ok, this post is getting loooong but I had one more thing to add. As a small business owner, all of the responsibility for my shop falls solely on my shoulders because this is a one-woman operation, and I do it on top of my 8-5 job during the week. As such, every once in a while something comes up on the weekend that I can't help or that seems more crucial than running the shop that day. Shit happens, I'll wake up with a flat tire or a sinus infection, my sisters will all be in town at the same time and we'll have the rare opportunity of spending time together, a family member will get married, Ben takes me on vacation, or whatever.... When I can't be at the shop there's no one else to run it, so there are days when I have to close on short notice. I feel awful when I learn that someone has made a special trip to the flea market just to visit my shop on a day that I'm not there, so I try to update my hours on instagram and facebook as soon as I can. All this is to say that I appreciate every one of my customers and I LOVE running Stitch Craft Vintage and I take it very seriously, but once in a while I have to let my real life take priority over my shop life. And thank you for understanding that.
Hope you have a great weekend! Don't forget to follow on instagram and/or facebook for sneak peeks of my merchandising trip (with my MIL!)
