First Craft Fair

The JL Holiday Market weekend was a bust. The crowds just weren't there and even the seasoned craft fair vendors were upset over the lack of people there to shop. I only sold about 30% of what I needed to to break even :( It was a learning experience at the very least. I'm actually not that upset about losing as much on the entrance fees as I thought I would. Sure it sets me back on how much I have saved for my washer and dryer but my product won't go bad. I just won't be working my butt off for the next craft fair in the beginning of December. I've decided to concentrate on making my Zipper Box Project Bags instead of the drawstring ones and also try to get the design down for an accessory that will work with both to hopefully make it's debut by Cyber Monday. I also have decided to have a Pre-Holiday Clean Sweep Sale to help sell off some of the prints I have decided not to carry in my shop anymore. Well a few I'll relist but the majority won't. I've got my booth pictures to show soon as well!

Holiday Market Craziness!

I'm on the verge of becoming a crazy fiber luni!

The JL Holiday Market is in 10 days and I have SOOO much still left to design and get done.

I ordered my business cards from Moo yesterday morning and paid way too much for express shipping but I can't chance regular shipping from England.

I finished my booth banner design last night around 2am but was too exhausted to create the final JPEG to email to the Etsy seller who's creating the banner for me. This I'll finish before the Pres debate tonight.

I need to order my white shopping bags from an eBay supplier today during lunch (just put a post it on my monitor so I don't forget!).

I'll get all the rest of the stuff for my booth setup Saturday.

I think I might do generic price tags this go round as I don't think I could design and get cool ones done before it starts.

I'm still worried that it's going to hurt me that I won't be able to accept credit cards at the event. I wish they had a wireless connection there cause I could "borrow" our test laptop from work for the weekend and people could pay via PayPal. Oh well, I'll totally be open putting a bag on hold, sending a PayPal invoice and then meet at a mall foodcourt to deliver.

I also want to finish another 30-40 bags before the end of this weekend which is totally do-able since I have Monday off. I just have to really hunker down and do it.

I can't wait till the craft fair is over because then I'm not touching my sewing machine except to sew an awesome Halloween custom for at least 2-3 weeks. I also plan to take the month of January off from sewing. Course I say this and would totally not turn down any custom order requests.