My first craft fair season is behind me, and although I didn't make booth fee at any of them, I did get a lot of contacts out and had many requests for mending and alterations. I am really excited to see what the new years brings to me.
The first fair was at the Seneca Nation day care center. The room was full of vendors, and really nice things. I wanted to do a lot of shopping, but I had to behave myself and not spend what I wasn't making. About lunch time, my sister came to give us a break and we noticed it was snowing. A wet, heavy, half freezing rain type snow. I am pretty sure that is what chased away the rest of our customers, because by shortly after lunch, all of the vendors began walking around shopping each other's booths or packing up early. It was a very slow day.
The next fair was a two day, Saturday and Sunday of Black Friday week end. Enough said. I learned my lesson on that one. Do not sit a fair when people are shopping their favorite Wal_mart for marked down treasures. They do not shop a craft fair. It's too bad, because the fair was great, we represented, full, fun. Just no customers. We had the chance to do a Lot of networking and made some great connections.
The last fair was here in town and I was already recognizing people that I had met the week before. I made many new contacts and cemented the "old" ones nicely. Many of the people gave me hints about what fairs to not miss and we had a slow but good day. I was able to display my sign this time, which really drew in the alteration requests.
An exciting season, short though it was, I am back to my Christmas sewing, with one large and a couple of small orders to finish. I feel really good about all the notes in my book about upcoming fairs and contacts to make in the next couple of months.
