Post by davejs on Jul 1, 2009 9:48:57 GMT -5
That's me...Davejs. I live in Hayward, CA and have been doing events for the past 16 years. We started off in Arts & Crafts with my wife making jewelry and I was doing stained glass. The glass was very fragile and easy to crack, so I stopped bringing it to shows and we began introducing other 'buy and sell' items into our product line. My wife made a number of things to sell over the years, with one of the better products being 'Beaded T's" We bought the T-shirts (printed) from Flea Markets and my wife put beads on them. They sold pretty good. Now, we sell hand-made jewelry, some of my wife's creations with shells and our buy/sell items include shoulder sling bags, fannypacks, wrap-around skirts and a lot of other items.
I was born in Holyoke MA and moved to New Jersey in 1962. Enlisted in the USN and got out in 1974 in Alameda and finally settled in Hayward in 1981.
My wife are both retired postal clerks. We do about 40 events each year in CA, OR and AZ. We spend several weeks in Tyson Wells AZ in Jan/Feb and are in Oregon for a month in July/Aug doing County Fairs.
I have a number of websites and blogs. On www.dandlcreations.com we sell custom-sized hand-made shell and semi-precious necklaces, wrap skirts and a few other things.
By the way, if you get Craftmaster News, that is my picture on the cover and that was Mount Shasta in July 2007. You can see that picture here it's on the front page of CMN. BTW - a great publication to subscribe to. www.craftmasternews.com/shows.aspx?state=CA
A lot of you have been to my Starving Vendors website which tells about our shows and provide a wealth of information there. I do a review on each show I do and quite a number of people end up reading them as many of pages score quite high in Google. www.starvingvendors.com
I was born in Holyoke MA and moved to New Jersey in 1962. Enlisted in the USN and got out in 1974 in Alameda and finally settled in Hayward in 1981.
My wife are both retired postal clerks. We do about 40 events each year in CA, OR and AZ. We spend several weeks in Tyson Wells AZ in Jan/Feb and are in Oregon for a month in July/Aug doing County Fairs.
I have a number of websites and blogs. On www.dandlcreations.com we sell custom-sized hand-made shell and semi-precious necklaces, wrap skirts and a few other things.
By the way, if you get Craftmaster News, that is my picture on the cover and that was Mount Shasta in July 2007. You can see that picture here it's on the front page of CMN. BTW - a great publication to subscribe to. www.craftmasternews.com/shows.aspx?state=CA
A lot of you have been to my Starving Vendors website which tells about our shows and provide a wealth of information there. I do a review on each show I do and quite a number of people end up reading them as many of pages score quite high in Google. www.starvingvendors.com