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    Guy or girl?

    Guy.
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    Craft fair numbers

    I would say you did good as well. But this was the best time for selling and it is now over so your next 2 shows will really tell a lot to where you are. I think it takes about 3 years to learn the craft show market well. Talk to as many other vendors as you can asking how they did and what...
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    Security at the craft fair--questions questions questions

    Something I do at multi day shows is when I leave at night I hook up a cordless floodlight with a motion detector on it inside my canopy. Anyone goes inside and my canopy will light up bright and that will make it stand out to anyone else around and hopefully scare the intruder away. It even...
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    My head is spinning, which printer?

    I looked at buying bags with my company info on them but that costs an arm and a leg. So I print labels and stick them to my bags at a fraction of the cost. Bruce
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    My soap biz was on TV

    Here is a link to what played on last nights news. I am loving it. http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/274622/315/Made-in-Michigan-gift-Homebrew-Soaps Bruce P.
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    What is the largest batch you HP in Crockpot

    I just purchased an 18qt. electric roaster with a stainless steel liner and love it for doing HP. It is a giant crocpot at heart. I used 7.8 lbs. of oil in my first batch with it and I would guess 9 or maybe 10 can be done in it. Bruce
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    Mall Craft Shows

    The $450 is for a kisok. It is a good looking unit and is well lit but it is a oval shape. At least 8' long and 4' wide (maybe a little more) in the middle. It has plenty of storage behind doors around the base of the unit. If I do this I would make a oval platform in the middle to create a...
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    My beer soap experiment

    I know there are some who belive that the amino acids are good but I have always thought that any acids (low ph) loose the war with the lye (high ph) when the two are mixed directly together and the finished product being our soap has a ph above netural. Anyone else have thoughts on this?? Bruce
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    Mall Craft Shows

    There are 3 malls near me. The one is always super busy all the time and that price was for a kisok. Another one is not to busy and they wanted $200 for a weekend. I did that a year ago over the black friday weekend and made money but not enough to make it worth while. So that leaves the one...
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    Update and the wife and I were on TV

    For those of you who have been around for awhile I had some time ago was keeping you updated on my wifes breast cancer journey. It has been too long but she is doing pretty good. She is still battling with some of the side effects from some of the drugs that she has to take but over all she is...
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    Mall Craft Shows

    There is 1 very busy mall near me. I checked with them last year and could not belive the price. They would do a minium of a 45 day contract, cost was around $7,500 and once your sales topped $3,500 then they wanted 20% of your sales as well. This place is always busy but man that is a lot...
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    Mall Craft Shows

    I have only done 1 mall craft show. It was low cost and low sales. There is a guy who runs alot of them in my state but his prices are high. I have talked to 2 vendors who have done them with this guy and both have said not worth the money. I do belive there are some good ones out there...
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    What country is this from?

    On my .com site I can see referring websites to where some of my sites viewers are from. Over the last 3 months or so I have had many of them from sites that do not have a .com extension but instead a .ru extension. They are written in something other than english and I was wondering if...
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    How have your Christmas sales been this year?

    For me November was within 2% of what sales were last year so I figured Dec. would be the same. I was wrong, online sales this year for Dec. are going to be way up. I am wondering if this is the same for the rest of you soapers and how you have been doing? Bruce
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    Are you a morning person?

    I am a long time morning person. Normal wake up time is 5:00am. Sometimes it is 3:30 and if I sleep in it is 6:00am. I set my alarm sometimes but I can't remember the last time it rang. I should check it and make sure it still works. Bruce
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    Christmas Mall Kiosk - Really, REALLY Photo Heavy!

    Was that a beer growler in the 4th picture? Of course it would be me to spot that. Bruce
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    The word association game

    Hot Coco (without the marshmellows) Bruce
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    NEW wood mold is warped on the bottom

    I make all of my molds. Some of my first ones were made from 3/4" pine and despite being sealed still warped a little on the bottom. I do not use pine anymore and do not have a problem anymore either. Bruce
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    A soap and suds success

    These are pictures from my craft show I did this past weekend. This was a 2 day show with over 300 vendors. This was my 4 year doing this show and I for the first time ever I sold over 2K in product. Everything I had sold well. This is a picture of my beer soaps on the first shelf, beer...
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    The word association game

    pecan
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