Well I got really bummed because twice a year they have a craft show, it’s called CHA.  It’s called the Craft and Hobby Association.  It is held once in the summer and once in the winter.  The summer CHA is held in Chicago, or at least it has been the last two years, and the winter CHA is held in California but that one is only for retailers.  Well  since my family is all from IL, just outside of Chi-town I thought it would have been great to visit with family and try to go to the show.  Well that didn’t work as planned.  We decided to not go home for a visit this year because of school and the fact that we are moving next summer.  We would have spent a decent amount of money to go home to visit.  Well that just sucked.  I totally could have met a bunch of my bloggy buddies and just had an awesome time.  Well one of these years I will attend.  Maybe I can get in on a design team with one of the manufacturers and they can invite me to go and help set up their trade show display booth.  Then I would HAVE to go right?   LOL!  Yeah well that won’t happen anytime soon because school takes any of my free time.  I had to get a design team for my blog just to keep it going.  Wishful thinking though, right.

One day, though, I will make it there!!!

Our kits are very reasonably priced for how packed they are.  They are filled with pattern papers, coordinating cardstock, and fabulous embellishments.  If you have a chance you should check it out, www.artfuldelight.com

Would you like some inspiration in your crafting, a sketch to use to create your layout.  Some incentive to scrap, well on our blog we have monthly challenges are you are playing to win one of Artful Delight’s monthly kits.  You can check that out here.    We have a team of delightful designers that help with the inspiration and we try to post something new for you daily.  Become a follower of the blog to get our daily inspiration. 

So I have been browsing the web and getting craft space ideas.  Looking for ideas on how to organize my space.  I would really like to find garage sale and thrift store items that I can refinish.   On a side note we may need to find some thrift store chairs to use in the kitchen, the chairs we have are falling apart and may not last another year.  I could get some upholstery fabric and redo the seats.

Anywho, I really want to make the space my own, where I can have all my stuff neatly organized and have a place I can craft and also be able to find my craft supplies.  Now I am so unorganized I can never find anything.  So basically that will be my fun over the next year, find fun things to fill use in my new craft room.    LOL!

So anywho, sales have progressively picked up and now I have 6 or 7 active subscribers, plus I sponsor a giveaway almost every month and I have a sketch challenge which I giveaway a kit too.  So I am super excited that things are going in the right direction.  I LOVE shopping for scrappy goodies, I love being able to sell these kits.  In addition, I had to raise the price starting last month and I was really worried people wouldn’t buy it at the higher price.  Thankfully that hasn’t stopped people.

My kits are jam packed with amazing products.  And I think for what is included the price is still reasonable.  If you are a scrapper or paper crafter, please check out www.artfuldelight.com to see the monthly kits or you can check out artfuldelight.blogspot.com for inspiration. 

Now of course I have tons of room to grow and I am by no stretch “making money”  but I think that is only because I give away 3 kits a month to the design team and I am also sponsoring a blog challenge once or twice a month.  I am at least making my money back or losing a little but again when I am giving away 4 kits that I could potentially be making $120 from, I think that is good since I am not losing that amount every month.  I hope to grow pretty big, I am having a ton of fun!

I have changed things around to sell scrapbook kits.  So I chose a list of papers and embellishments and ribbon and such and make a monthly kit.  Buyers can either buy a single purchase or subscribe for either 3 or 6 months.  I also have a design team that gets the kits for free in exchange for projects created using the kit.  It has really helped sales.  They are slowly but surely picking up. 

I am not sure if I want to advertise any other way.  I have thought about getting those car magnets or making shirts.  I might also think about rack card printing.  Maybe have some business cards made.  I dunno, but I like the way things are going this time around.  Things are getting pretty hectic with school and the kids so I really hope I can keep on the webstore as well.

BUT, the stamp set that I sold was my favorite.  It was about 5 sentiments and my favorite was the Christmas sentiment.  I wish I hadn’t sold it but overall I am happy that I don’t own the SU stamp set.

The prices are absolutely amazing for what I include in the kits.    The shipping is really reasonable too, no material handling charges.  I hope I can keep this up because I really am having a great time.  I haven’t actually used any of the kits I have sold yet, mainly because I would rather sell all of the ones I can.  I don’t purchase very many and I still haven’t gotten to a point that I am making my money back but overall it is great.