We’ve wrapped our 2025 Spring season, and it’s time for Summer fun! And by summer fun, I mean that here in Texas, we’ll be hiding in our air conditioning until we’re forced out into the not-so-deathly-heat again in October. Meanwhile, it’s restock time for me.
Over the last several years, I’ve been trying to nail down the “new” routine to move forward with, since I added both Scarborough and Texas Renaissance Festivals to my docket and started working with my Dallas sewing team for the majority of my clothing designs. Sure, I still make select pieces in my sewing workshop as time and my health allows for, but I no longer can just make a couple of replacements of an item once it sells as I did when Sherwood Forest Faire was the only two month long event in my schedule. It’s not sustainable for the business, and I would be pulling my hair out due to empty shelves–I just can’t work that quickly by myself!
Now that I have my little one–now six months old!–I think that I’ve settled on doing a once-a-year restock with my team. It means that during the busy Spring of two festivals that overlap, I’ll also be sourcing materials for the summer restock run, and juggling what needs to be at the festivals and what needs to be prepped for the Summer so that I’ll have enough stock ready at the start of the online Halloween season, which would be the end of August.
I’m also looking for one-weekend events to do before October, with mainly my jewelry set-up plus select corsetry and costuming available as well. At least, as much as I can handle doing within a small setup timeframe. (I’ve found some events that have only one hour to set up for a vending day or two, and I have to pass on those immediately. My set ups usually take me at least two hours!) Due to the amount of heat exhaustion I’ve gotten over the last few years, I can only consider doing indoor events to stay in air conditioned spaces. With that, I’m mainly looking at conventions to sell at that still have openings this summer.
As I book events for the summer, I’ll be adding them into the Events post at the top of the blog. Look forward to newsletters with announcements on events as well! If you haven’t already signed up for my newsletter, find the sign up form on the right side of the page if you’re on desktop, or scroll down to the large purple box on mobile! I don’t send emails often, and you can always opt-out if you need to. <3
