1st Craft show of the season tomorrow

Sheila H wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 10:37 AM

Okay, so tomorrow is the first craft show for me this year. I have even made some old fashion hard candy and some cookies to sell. Just a few to hopefully bring people in! LOL!

Also bought some plaster ornaments and wood cut outs that I have painted very patiently ( UGH! ) to sell as well as some jewelry. I found last year that booths with more variety had more sells. I did not do a lot of any one ( other than my jewelry ) thing so hopefully this will work out!

I have a craft show next Sunday ( 11-29 ) and one the Saturday after ( 12-5 ) and that is the only 3 I am doing this year. A couple of the others were just not worth the effort.

The one tomorrow is the one where last year I cut a necklace string so that I could put the focal on a plain black cord for a little girl to buy & give to her mom. When my sister went to pay for her Christmas tree this year at the library, the lady that took her money asked her if she attended last year. Sister said yes, that I had a booth. The lady asked where. When my sister told her the lady just smiled and said that they had talked about me all year! She was the grandmother of the little girl. It touched all of them so much that I would cut the string on a necklace to make the little girl happy. She informed my sister that they were all coming to buy from my booth this year! YEAH!

This is a craft show/tree auction that this library puts on as a fund raiser. Groups can pay a tree fee and then the group provides the tree, lights, decorations etc. Those trees are on display in the library for about 2 weeks prior to the craft show. Then the day of the craft show, they auction off the trees. The money for the tree goes to the group that entered it. So the library keeps only the craft booth rentals and the tree entrance fees. Last year was the first one and the turn out was really great! One tree went for $500! YIKES! Although most were going for around $100-$150! There was this one that was pink everything. Pink tree, pink lights, pink decorations, pink ribbon, Pink EVERYTHING! It was a breast cancer awareness tree. It was actually really cool.

It is a 2 hour drive one way but I will get to spend the day with my sister so it is worth it regardless. But please...wish me luck!  I'll post Sunday how it went!

MelindaB@14 wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 10:47 AM

Good Luck & have lots of fun

Sherri S. wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 10:49 AM

Best of luck, Sheila!  I hope you do well!  And how exciting that the little girl's grandmother and family are making specific plans to visit your booth.  I hope you sell out! 

The tree fundraiser sounds pretty neat, too! 

Mikki335 wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 10:55 AM

 That was so sweet of you to cut the necklace!  I hope you do really well and that all your hard work pays off.

Good luck.

cbreul wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 12:33 PM

 Sheila,

Wishing you the best of luck tomorrow and for the other two. Keep us posted.

cb

SEllen 2 wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 2:00 PM

 Sheila

 Good Luck with your shows. Hope you sell out!

Travel safe  and we look forward to hearing all about your adventures.

sellen

koolaidstains wrote

on Nov 20, 2009 7:37 PM

 Good luck, can't wait to hear how it goes.

Zerenity by Inca wrote

on Nov 21, 2009 12:19 AM

Good Luck - and have fun =)

JSmaz wrote

on Nov 21, 2009 12:25 AM

Best of luck Sheila!  Those trees sound like a neat idea.  Get some pics of this years' trees if you can, I'd like to see them.

Sheila H wrote

on Nov 22, 2009 11:36 AM

 Overall...this was not nearly as good as last year. Last year, this was my best showing. I did about half of what I did last year. There were people that did not even make back their $15 booth rental back! UGH!

There were four trees that did not even have a bid on it. I was in a different location and I don't think it was as good. So next year I will be requesting a different location. The people next to me felt the same way.

The only booth that we say that did any good was a booth of quilts and baby bibs. One lady bought ten of the full body baby bibs. They were only $6 and were a cute print on the front and a solid fabric on the back. Probably could be done in about 15 minutes once you got the hang of it.

We don't know if it was the economy or it last year was better since it was the first year?

Oh well...had fun regardless!

Sherri S. wrote

on Nov 23, 2009 11:05 AM

 What a bummer, Sheila.  I hope that your other fairs will do better for you.