Ferryfolkdays

Well it is another day in paridise? I have had a slow day today. I hate saying that! I have several artists that I have contacted about showing thier art but it is the height of the craft season and many do not have the inventory to show at shows and here. I just sent my wood sculpture guy home with his pieces and boy do I miss having them here. I am getting ready to bring in a few more of my pieces and we will see where we go from here. Anyway, I have been working on a desk for our public computer and I need to finish a doll for a contest that is due the end of this month. So my crafting (although limited) is going along well. I am trying to decide about how to do the desk and have yet to come up with a design I like. When I am finished it will be a one of a kind item though.
We had one of those days of synchronicity occur here this weekend. I will begin this story on Friday. I have been thinking of doing a mass mailing to try and gain a group of regulars from the community and increase my exposure here in Clinton. The mass mailing was going to cover every house in Clinton. My girlfriend said I should contact this company that does coupons in a mass mailing and they send out 10,000 of them to your community. I contacted them and they sent a representative down to the shop on Friday to discuss what i wanted in the ad and to discuss cost. During our discussion I suggested that I would also like to advertise in Mukilteo WA which is just on the other end of the ferry ride from Clinton. It is closer to Mukilteo than it is to Langley here on the island. She told me she didnt think this was a very good idea but I was still trying to decide if this was what I was going to do when she left. She said it was hard to split up your advertising market and effectively covering your home base. I was left to ruminate over this for the weekend. On Saturday, my husband and I were in the shop playing cribbage and in walks this couple. Seems they found an ad of mine down at the ferry and decided to check out the shop. They were from Mukilteo and had never been to Rockhoppers. This was kind of interesting to me and after we talked with them for a while, sharing stories about our animals, in comes another lady and her two kids also from Mukilteo. They just were visiting the island and saw the shop and decided to stop in. The mom said she loved the shop and would return when she didnt have the kids with her and she and the boys left for home. So Dan and I continued talking with this other couple and in walks this guy from Edmonds. He has a guitar and he would like to play at Rockhoppers when he comes to visit his mom (who lives here on the island). He takes out his guitar and does a wonderful audition and the couple from Mukilteo absolutely loved being in the center of it all. I sat and watched each persons face that was in this shop while he played and I knew this was synchronicity at its very best. Where else could I get things like this to occur? and what more proof did I need that Mukilteo was a great market for advertising in?
Oh, and Dan read the blog before this and tells me he does too believe in synchronicity and that it is one of the more charming things in his life. I must be synchronous?
Well, with all the ads that I am getting out it is my hope to start picking up more customers for the shop! I hope though that I will be able to do some blogging daily as well. So keep posted... there is more to come. R