citymade

If you follow our blog faithfully (and we hope you do), you may remember that we were up-cycling with Big Bridge Studio, run by good friend-of-citymade, Kendra. She recently blogged about our blog and you can read that here.

We will once again be at the Omaha Farmer’s Market tomorrow July 9, 8:00 to 12:30 . Be sure to stop by and say hi!

Whew. That was an interesting Farmer’s Market. I am not sure what was worse, the wind or the rain?

However, we did learn a few things from the experience.

What I learned from standing in a windy, rainy storm trying to stay dry and keep all the fabric dry. (I added pictures for the fun of it. And, unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of our pathetic faces in the nasty weather)

by Carol:

1. Vendors at the Omaha Farmer’s Market are really nice people. The neighbors on both sides of our tent at different times helped us out. Especially the woman and her son selling produce. She tied up our tent to hers with weights ( to prevent it form blowing away), and helped us secure our tarp. She also held Caroline:)

2. (This is a tough one to admit) Sometimes your husband gives good advice. Christian recommended bringing a tarp with us. And I wasn’t going to, but he put it in the car and we totally used it as a wall to keep us and our products dry.

Thanks, honey.

3. The sun does come out again. O.k. I know that sounds “cheesey”, but after a couple of hours (yes, hours) the sun did come out and it ended up being a nice day. And, people made their way to the market and to our booth (which ended up looking really nice thanks to Melany).

by Melany:

1. Everything is better with a friend.  I couldn’t imagine trying to set up a booth and man it on my own…all during a rain storm.  Two is always much nicer than one! (Carol: True that!)

2.   We are pretty protective of our products.  Our booth looked pretty pathetic and skimpy for the first two hours because we were scared our stuff would get ruined.  We put a lot of heart and soul into what we do and did not want to see anything get ruined.

3. Babies can sleep through ANYTHING.  While Carol and I were literally holding our tent down through the giant wind gusts, Caroline was sound asleep in the wrap sling.  Lucky baby.

4. It is worth it to persevere.  By 9:00a.m. we were worn out and ready to quit for the day.  We were so close  to packing up and shutting down but, for some reason, we kept waiting.  Like Carol said earlier, the sun eventually came out and people started coming to our booth and made purchases.  Because we stayed, we got to meet some great people, sell some products, take some orders and stay in good report with the Omaha Farmer’s Market.

Well, those are the lessons we have learned. Hopefully, the next time we are at the Farmer’s Market it will be the perfect day. . .

We will be back at the Omaha Farmer’s Market again this Saturday, June 25th 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Come on down and say “hi” and check out the great handmade products we have.

Here is a preview:

Melany’s been working hard on our tote bags. These bags are practical and lovely.

We have been making more of our iPod/iPhone/camera cases. We have had such a positive response to these convenient and  cute cases.

More form our “heart Omaha” series. We have up-cycled baby pants and T-shirts.

And of course we have more of our Pouch with a secret/”heart Omaha” bags.

We have loads more stuff, so come on down to the Farmer’s Market this Saturday and check it all out!

What could be better than citymade being at another Omaha Farmer’s Market? (That’s right, this Saturday, June 25th 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) How about a cute baby in headbands?

Here she is. Beautiful Caroline in some of our up-cycled T-shirt headbands.

We had a request for headbands at our last farmer’s market.  We like a good challenge so we decided to try to make headbands out of up-cycled t-shirts.

We have two different kinds of flowers on our headbands: felt flowers

and fabric flowers.

Stop by our booth this Saturday to check them out. Caroline will be there!

Whew! What a great (and busy) weekend here at city made. We were at the Farmer’s Market  on Saturday.

We had a great time and met some wonderful people. Many times, at the market, people ask us if we can make something specific for them. Melany and I are willing to try almost anything,(sewing-wise that is), we just need time to do it and a way of getting in touch with those who want it. Thanks to our tech guy (Christian), we set up a Product Request Page on our site. Just click on it, fill out the easy form and we will be in touch. So exciting, as many of our ideas come from the great people we meet.

Also this weekend:

Colin won the Bubble gum contest at Springfield days! ( A second win for Colin)

(Still unclear: is it the size of the bubble or the amount of bubbles?)

Christian took the kids cherry picking at a friends house.

The result was the most delicious cherry cobbler! (Thank you Teri Lynn Schrag for letting us pick cherries and Christian for making the cobbler!)

On with the sewing and creating.