For three months, I've been waiting for December 4th. It was the day of my hospital's holiday craft fair. I was granted permission to have a booth and have spent EVERY free moment of the past two months gathering supplies and starting the website.
My poor children has seen me minimally - I've been pawning them off a lot to family and friends - just to give the the time to create the baskets and have some to sell a the fair.
Today was the fair.
Bryan is out of town (figures) and it was also Olivia's class field trip to Fort Myers. I've recruited my mom and dad plus a few neighbors to help get children to school and drop off Olivia at the school at 6:30 am.
I had to pack my car late last night and leave this morning at 5:30 to get there in time to have a co-worker help me unload the car and set up the table.
I'm running on less than 4 hours sleep and I've thought of nothing else for the last two months.
We were a go!!!!!!!
Guess how many baskets I sold? Z - E - R - O !!!!!!!!
Can you believe it? Looking back - it wasn't really my fault. The hospital had us all in a side hallway and didn't have a single sign up telling people about the sale.
We'd all sit for an hour and have only 3 people walk by. If I'd have given every person who walked by a free one - I'd still have some in my car.
What a bomb! I'm totally bummed.
However, the bright side is that my big stack of business cards almost all disappeared. There were several people who took flyers or cards and mentioned that they have family who own assisted living places or run a Jewish nursing home.
They mentioned that their family may be interested in setting up something with me and my baskets.
I did take a photo of my table but I'll have to post it later...too tired.
My website keeps track of how many times it is viewed - and I'm up to 129 views so far. That is not all me, I know, so I know some people are looking at it.
Remember, it is bedsidebaskets.com.
Fingers crossed that I'll be getting some emails from interested people.
Gotta go for now, I'm just pooped out. And believe it or not, one of my bathrooms is clogged up. I spent an hour plunging and plunging.
Then I had to take a second shower and the toilet still doesn't flush.
I'll have time to work on it tomorrow... Meredith has a fever of 103 deg. and it is only me that can be here for her tomorrow... so I already called in.
Just a day in our life, right?
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