Rare Sale - Don't miss it.

If you have been thinking about getting some of my buttons, right now is a good time to do that. I rarely have a sale because it's difficult to do when most of the buttons are just $1.50.

But bills are past due and I really must have sale.

Enjoy choosing 10 buttons for just $10 with this listing.

867 listings of buttons. They are not all pictured here, but you'll see them all in the shop. Lots of new ones, not pictured here were added to the shop in the last 2 days.

Poor Neglected Wild Goose Chase

I blog so much about the buttons at Portable Graffiti that I forget to blog about Wild Goose Chase, my other shop.

This is the first time ever I am selling a photograph that I have taken.

"Stuff For Sale" by Wild Goose Chase

I could not pass up this photo opportunity when I saw it. A wonderful rusty sign hanging on a palm tree in sunny Florida.

Would look great hanging in any antique shop, resale shop, or art studio.

Signed and dated on the back.

Portable Graffiti and The Purple Rat do a craft show

Portable Graffiti and The Purple Rat do a craft show...

I have not done a craft show since 1990. So, this was an adventure. The tent and button displays, counters, banners, signs...my whole booth that I worked many years to perfect, no longer exists. So we just decided to wing it. We took our dining room table and just put buttons in tubs for people to sift through.

My daughter, The Purple Rat used the 2 chairs we brought with us and set an old board across them to make a table for her paintings and origami. I think it looked rather nice.

We stayed in the 100 degree heat all day and bought the most delicious Grouper Sandwich. We brought in $10.00 in sales, and spent $13.45 on a grouper sandwich and sweet potato fries to share.

There were even other Etsy shopkeepers there to talk to, which made for an enjoyable day.

We split at around 6 o'clock, I think; I don't wear a watch. And we got out and home just before the thunder, lightning and torrential downpour of rain.

So, all in all it was a lucky day. I had put my Etsy shop on vacation mode for the first time, and as it turns out there was no need to. As soon as I put the shop back to "open" I made several sales.

Moral of the adventure for me: Stay home and sell on Etsy. No more craft shows until I get back to the northeast.

[The rusty old "Stuff for Sale" sign was on a palm tree behind our tent.]