| My First Craft Show
Yesterday was our first "live" craft show at a women's club. It was quite a experience being face to face with my customer's and seeing how they looked at my products and answering their questions about what was in my candles, where I got my fragrances, etc. it helped me alot in what I sell and how I label in the future.
We made about $150.00 after our rental fee so that wasn't too bad. 75% of the sales was my candles, my dh sold one of his clocks. The high end items although everyone looked, oohed and ahhed it was the cheaper items that actually sold. We passed out our business cards and flyers from our mall so hopefully although they didn't buy yesterday they may in the future.
Doing a craft show is alot of work, labeling, pricing, presentation, gathering materials such as table cloths and table skirts.
Some items I saw that sold really well is that new yarn, I think it's called Dazzle or something like that... it's a feathery looking stuff. Several ladies had knitted very thin strip scarfs ( I would guess 1 skein) and were selling them for 10.00-15.00 each. One lady really knew her stuff, she had a hand held mirror that she would hold up so the customer could see how it looked on her neck.. she sold alot.
Another thing that sold was these little teddy bears the girl had sewn angel wings on the backs of them, some with halo's... she was selling them for $5.00 each. She also had some that had like tulip skirts on.. cute.
Anna
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