Each December, our local community center hosts a fun craft fair the first weekend in December. Hailey decided that she would like to have a table there to sell some of her handiwork. She is quite a good little seamstress and she fast - it sounds like she is driving a race car when she is working away on the serger!
This is her motivation: a new MacBook. She has figured out that even if my husband and I pay for half, it will still take her 92 weeks of chores to earn enough money to buy it!
Hailey has been a busy little bee cutting, sewing, experimenting and building her presentation for the selection committee. You see, this is a juried event so not everyone gets to have a table. Criminy... she's only 9!
Here are a few of the items she is planning to sell, IF she gets a table.
Headbands:
Heater packs, filled with flax seed & lavender from our neighbors yards (with permission, of course!)
I am keeping my fingers crossed that she gets a table, because we have 60 POUNDS of flax seed on order. LOL!
Wow. What a little entrepreneur. I hope she gets her table and does well.
Posted by: Karen | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 02:57 AM
How fun!!! Good luck, Hailey! If you don't sell them all, maybe your mom will post some of your leftover items on her blog. Those headbands are darling and I would definitely like to get some heater packs as holiday gifts!
Posted by: JennyZ | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 03:07 AM
WOW! This is so awesome. I hope she gets a table. It's so wonderful to see ambition at such a young age.
Posted by: Geeta / TexasLonghorns/Craftyengineer | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Best of luck to Hailey. I'd buy a headband for my daughter!
Posted by: Elena | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 06:19 AM
How cute! She reminds me so much of Lily. Such little entrepreneurs!
Posted by: Lyndsay Neumann | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 07:01 AM
Go Hailey! You can do it!
Posted by: Ingrid | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 07:20 AM
Oh my gosh, those headbands are so CUTE and I love the idea of the heater pack. I hope the items make it past the selection committee and then sell like hotcakes!
Posted by: Novell | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 07:41 AM
OK, those headbands are just darling!! Can I buy one??? Good luck Hailey!
Posted by: sarah | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 08:26 AM
Good luck! I love the headbands and would love to relax with those heater packs.
Posted by: Denny | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 10:03 AM
Absolutely adorable, Hailey. Ask your mom if you can post these here for sale. I'm in for one of each! Bon chance.
Posted by: Janice | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 05:28 AM
I am always one to support the young entreprenuer... Maybe your mom could put some on her blog for us to buy!!!
Posted by: Amanda B. | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 01:27 PM
I wish you the best of luck Haily. You are a very talented & creative young lady. Those heater packs look WONDERFUL!!
Posted by: happy_stamper_Nancy | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 08:48 PM
Awesome!
I have done these kind of things when I was younger.
You sound more prepared than I was.
Best wishes and have fun! If I lived 6 states closer I would come. Cheers, Sasha.
Posted by: Sasha | Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 08:48 PM