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Well, I just got home from my second craft fair and this one was so much better than the first. It was only three hrs. long from 5-8PM (Friday Eve.) at an elementary school. There were mabe 25 crafters compared to the over 50 ones at the first fair. My table was only $10 tonight and the other one was $30. I sold $155 worth of stuff tonight in those three hrs. compared to the $120 in eight hrs. The customers actually looked at my stuff tonight. I still have a lot of stuff left over but I'm going to keep it for presents and pass it around to friends and family to look at. Carol
Yeah!!! After receiving your email I decided not to be a crafter but a demo instead. I did pretty well for 3 hours. I took $650 in orders sold 4 catalogs and met quite a few new customers. I had already started on some projects, not as much as you had and this weekend I will have a table set out at another Open house. We'll see what sells.
I agree...I think this New England area is hard sell...I'm in CT too, where are you? I'm in Fairfield County...lots of money but no one wants to spend it!!! Glad to hear you did better the second time around...I've done a few and the results are different every time...have another one next week...lots of stuff...hope I can unload it! If not, I may have to call it quits and stick to just doing it for gifts!
I'm in Meriden. I'm not sure I'm doing it again either. I don't want to get burnt out. I would rather just make a few things to show friends and family and have them order things from me. That way I don't have so much stuff hanging around. Carol
I agree...its fun at the start but then it becomes alot of work!!! I'm in Newtown...not too far away from you!!! Only thing, my family likes my work but they never want any of it!!! and none of them are into crafts like I am...my dh's family doesn't appreciate it or the effort that goes into it...feels like a losing battle sometimes!! Someday we'll find our niche!!!!
Good luck!
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I don't want to take over this thread, but I wanted to chime in and say hello because I see a few CT stampers here! I'm in CT, too. I live in Niantic. I don't see too many people posting here from CT.
Back on topic - I have only done one craft show and it wasn't what I hoped for. I went as a crafter and pretty much only made the money for my table back! :( Oh well.
Wa to go Carol. I'm so glad that you had a better result the second time. I'm another CT splitcoaster (west hartford) and have done two craft shows this season. One did pretty well and one did awful! In a couple of weeks my neighbor is having an open house of jewelry and asked me if I'd like to show my stuff (no fees!) so of course I said sure. My goal is to get larger orders from the craft fairs to supplement whatever I happen to sell at the fair.
Now you have some great gifts to give for the holidays!
Laura
Hi ladies! I have done 2 craft show, neither was anything to write home about! :(
On Friday night I was at a girlfriends house for our annual cookie exchange (a few friends from my craft club were going to be there and had wanted to buy some stocking stuffers and teacher gifts...I told them I'd bring them along to the exchange). Once we'd done our dinner and cookie swap I pulled out my bins (leftovers from craft shows) and they all went wild for the stuff! I sold several sets of coasters, memo cubes with matching pens were a hit and also mini legal pads w/matching pens and address books too. All told including the inventory they bought directly and the orders I took I sold $275! :shock: I was SO happy! :lol: This was WAY better than I'd done at any craft show and SO MUCh less work! You bet I'll be whipping it out again next year (hope our cookie hostess doesn't mind...). Yeah! Christmas money$$$$.
glad u did well. I did my first craft fair a few weeks ago, and it was horrendous. I am told that the spring fair they have is better, and that i should do that one too, but i dunno.....i do have alot of stuff left, i was gonna give it away as gifts. Your post made me rethink, and now i just may give it a second try!!
2nd Craft Fair Results!
