Holiday Pop-ups 2025

This year, I'm participating in two. holiday pop-up shops! 

The first one was at the beginning of November and was sponsored by the Solon High School PTA. It was my second year participating in it. 

I'm pretty involved in the PTA and always looking for ways for E to volunteer, too, so this year, E and I helped with setup. A bonus of helping to set up at SMS was getting to see some of the trophies that E's XC team won this season!

In the sale this year, I included some of what I had on hand in stock from what I had previously created, and I also included some of my new braided cutie bookmarks.

One of my biggest draws this year was the mini claw machine!

This year, besides cuties, I also included fortunes in the claw machine. These are similar to pocket hugs. The pocket hugs and new pocket pets were popular at this sale, too.

Again, the SHS PTA did a great job and I enjoyed the day of chatting with my mom and sharing my artwork.

The second pop-up that I participated in was a Small Business Saturday Pop-Up at Adrenaline Monkey, E's home away from home.

I wasn't really sure who the shoppers at this event would be, but as it was starting during the classes for the day, I thought it would be fun to have some ninja-themed items.

I made some new hugs with the phrases: "Beat the wall!" "Hit the Buzzer!" "Parkour!" and "Crush it!" I also made some extras of other popular pocket hugs.

I just brought my smaller framed items for this event, so I had a bit of a different layout from the pop-up that I did earlier in the month.

The event was small, but my sister was visiting and kept me company. The mini claw machine again proved to be popular, and that provided me with lots of additional adorable company, as well!