bmabray's Journal: There's No Business Like the Craft Show Business

Angela's been doing some great craft stuff -- stationery, notepads, pens, cards, etc. She's really been making some neat things. I don't know how she comes up with so many different ways to make stuff beautiful.

My mom has also been making stuff -- silver jewelry, mostly. So, in an attempt to make money off their talents, this past weekend we had a booth at a craft show.

What a waste of a weekend. :-( We hardly sold anything. There were various reasons for it, and ours wasn't the only booth that didn't do well. But that doesn't make you feel much better when you're taking home almost all of the stuff you brought. It was pretty disappointing for everybody. Oh well -- win some, lose some. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Life is like a box of chocolates... :-)

In better news, I passed the Mensa test. They didn't tell me my scores, of course, but I wish they would have at least told me which tests I passed. So, will I join? Yeah... I have no real desire to be a Mensan, but I've been told if I join, I get to be webmaster, so that seems worth it. And, if there's anybody else out there who would like me to pay them a yearly fee for me to be their webmaster, call me... :-)

Speaking of... we got the site setup with Mensa. When we asked about a database, we were told they don't have that and that text files are good enough. Apparently they don't realize websites are more than brochures. So, we're going to dump them and pay to have the site hosted elsewhere. We found a place -- they're cheap, give us everything we want, and I found nothing but good reviews of them on the Internet. It sounds like a really small company, but I'm hoping it will work out. If hosting the Mensa site works out, we'll probably move Smart Goat there.