Had my last shows last weekend and I finally hit the wall, but not until the last hour of the 2nd day! Five weeks of traveling! Three 2-day shows and two 1-day shows. The 2-dayer's involved travel and spending one or two nights away from home. Luckily I had family at two of the shows, with whom I could stay. One day shows are exhausting because after hauling everything in and setting up you have to tear down and haul out in 4-5 hrs. Not to mention that one show had more commercial stuff than handcrafted. Will absolutely NOT do that one again. The other was a friend and all handcrafted. All-in-all, it was a stellar season with lots of repeat customers and many new ones. Now, I'm in the throes of getting our Christmas together: trimming the tree, decorating the house and baking. In that order. Here's a pic of my set-up last weekend. By far, my favorite. Venue was a mall and I took two 6ft tables. I invested in a table skirt which took some of the work out of setting up and customers commented on it. It wasn't expensive either. All my display stuff is from around the house, dollar stores, my husband's trips to the dump. My antique pop crates came from antique stores in North Florida and I didn't pay more than $5 per crate about 15yrs ago.
