This past Saturday I participated in my first craft fair in over two years. As of Saturday I was officially 10 days from Due Date (yes it has been moved up dramatically) for my second sweet girl, and at the last craft fair I was only two weeks out from having Aislyn, must be something about the dusk of pregnancy that gets me motivated to sign up for craft fairs.
Upon arrival this craft fairs was less a craft fair and more a rummage sale, and I knew this wouldn’t exactly be my crowd. Two of my girlfriends had also rented booths next to me and we were going to have a good time none the less; especially considering one of these friends is the best one I’ve made out here and is sadly moving to Atlanta at the end of the month.
I was very excited to show off my new look for my product as I am reusing containers. I have oodles of baby food containers for the sugar scrubs and then tea bottles for the Dead Sea Salts. I was also interested to see how my bed time bath bombs and allergy bath bombs for children would be received.
The Positive Notes:
- It was great to see customers again, even if I didn’t make the most of their presence.
- We had an awesome location, directly across from the food booths.
- There was a quite a bit of foot traffic throughout the entire event.
- We were not rained out.
- I have plenty of product left over to do another craft fair after my daughter is born. (preferably indoors)
- Incredibly cheap lunch! $2 Hamburgers?!
The Realities:
- The first hour no customers even attempted to smell my product, so finally I opened a lid of each scent of various products. This brought a few passer by’s to my product to sniff.
- Due to a lack of water supply I was unable to perform demonstrations, making it difficult to explain to the few interested customers the difference between bath bombs, soaps, and oddly enough candles. Although customers mistaking my miniature bath bombs as candles did seem a bit of a strange jump, I could not judge them as I was not seeing my booth through their eyes.
- Alabama outdoors in springtime + Products that smell flowery = swarming wasps and bees. (I actually found a dead bee in my Children’s Sniffle Soak Bath Bombs upon taking down my booth)
- Condensation from the approaching storm lined the inside of my bath bomb bags.
- The Cost greatly out weighed the earning:
Approx. Cost of Ingredients: $400
Approx. Cost of Supplies: $200
Cost of Booth: $17
Sales Total Earned: $0
Very excited to go at it again with the ability of demo’s!
That sucks no revenue! Good luck and hope everything goes o.k. with the newborn.
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That’s fine much fun was had and that was what was important at this juncture. 😉
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That stinks. Hope your product did not get ruined.
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Surprisingly the bath bombs are somehow still intact despite being submersed in a battle field of water pellets! lol
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Are you part of the three percent community or just a writer/blogger?
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Merely a blogger…what is the three percent community, or is it top secret? Sounds super selective…;)
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Most of us are militant freedom activists. The 3% comes from the number of people who actually took part in the revolutionary war. Sounds scary, but we are decent and righteous people. I was wondering because we are an actual community and we buy preferentially from others within it. Some of the blog sites have over ten million hits and a lot of them host free advertising or links.
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ah I see, yes sounds far too serious for my blood. 😉
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No problem. When it comes to writing, poetry etc., there are no politics.
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