Online sellers who have never entered a Farmer's Market, Craft Fair or Holiday Market are often confused about where to start, so in an ongoing, when-I-feel-like-it blog about Craft Markets, my do's and don'ts, and dids, based on my own experience of several years of misfires, disasters, successes and near-misses, I'll be discussing this kind of off-line project, for the meek and discomfabulated.
We all start somewhere...I started my jewelry and crochet carreer pretty simply-like the rest of the hippies on the West Coast, I used to buy tubes of beads and make huge strands of them to be wrapped several times around the neck. My first "sale" came to a biker friend of mine, who wanted one with lots of green, to match his Norton Commando...and as far as I was concerned, of course, he could have any colour he wanted...this was Southern California, circa 1968 or thereabouts...
He really liked it, and so did several of his friends, who of course all wanted one, but didn't want to pay for them...finally, one of the biggest and meanest of them, (who I had patched up once, after a fight, with homemade butterfly bandages, before he went to the hospital) took out a ten dollar bill (a days' wages for many of us then) handed it to me, and sat there glaring til the others coughed up various amounts...
I decided that there might be a future in this beadery stuff-but of course, as was the hippy way, I usually either traded them or gave them away..
Quick forward to 2009 and here are pictures of my current "set-up" for selling at the Saturday Farmer's Market In the Square in Duncan...just got the banner (big props to Wilson Graphics, on Etsy!), and need to find a way to properly store and pack/unpack, but so far, it's working...
In future installments I'll talk about the more practical pros and cons of craft fairs, by jumping around in my own history with crafting...in the meantime, happy creating!
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