Women in Business Showcase

On October 1, 2008 we participated in a showcase that was focused on women in business, and we have to say that it was a great success for us. We met a lot of great people and participated in a great networking function. This was a great event for us, we are very proud of the work that we do and it was nice to be able to share it with so many other talented women.

We finally were able to come up with a functional indoor display. We were so proud to have such a nice and professional looking table among all of the other exhibitors who have been doing this for so long. We felt that our display really stood out and helped us to be noticed by the crowd.

We were honored to be photographed and featured in the local newspaper CHECK IT OUT. Imagine our excitement to get up this morning and receive a phone call from a friend telling us that our picture and a short write up of our business had made it into the local paper. To date this may be one of our proudest moments as business owners.

Amanda and Tiffany

What We Have Been Up to Lately

Summer is winding down and the craft fair season is among us. We have both been very busy preparing for the upcoming Pumpkin Festival in Keene NH. We have added one new line of purses and are excited to showcase this on October 25th at Pumpkin Fest. Pumpkin Festival is not the only fair we have coming up we are also joining two craft fairs in November in the Lakes Region. In between all of our fairs we also have some purse parties that we have booked.

It's amazing how much there is to do when you are preparing for a show. There is the constructing of the product, tagging, pricing, inventory, and for us ironing and packing up. We both have full time day jobs so when we get home from work at night we are both in our studio's trying to get as much done in an evening as we can. While this can be exhausting the end result is rewarding.

Wishing all of our fellow crafters much luck in the craft fair season.

Amanda & Tiffany

Time Management...

So Amanda and I were just discussing or should I say complaining about not having time for anything...ever. I was just wondering if anyone else out there feels the same? We have so much going on in our lives (Amanda more than me this year and me more than her last year) that it is just suffocating us. Amanda is getting married in three weeks and she is really starting to feel the pressure but it seems that no matter how much gets done for the wedding the pressure gets stronger and stronger. I know how she feels in a sort of way since last year my life was consumed with purchasing my first home and boy the pressures of that, whew! Anyway, my biggest question is...Are we ever going to be able to have fun again or is all our time going to be consumed with the undesirables in life?

Tiffany

Introducing Tiffman Handbags

Well...we would like to introduce ourselves as new members of the blogging community. We are both very new at this and will do our best at making this blog informative, fun and entertaining. Our shop address is tiffmanhandbags.etsy.com and we are quite proud of it so we hope you will visit it often. We are still working very hard to get our internet shop out there as there are so many sellers on etsy so it is truly difficult to make ourselves seen...slowly but surely we will get there.

We hope to share all of our adventures right here on this blog with all of you. We plan on posting as often as possible and showing you the nuts and bolts of Tiffman Handbags!

Thanks for reading!

Tiffany & Amanda