AshleyR
Well-Known Member
Wow, I am so excited right now, I can hardly type!!! 
We just got back from our first craft fair, and it was AWESOME!!! It was only a 4 hour event in a tiny town of 2,000 - but we made $396! YAHOO! The booth fee was only $25, so we made out like bandits! I can't believe it!
(I need to calm down..... LOL!)
I was really worried I'd run out of a lot of things. Since it was my first fair, I really didn't know what to expect. We only ran out of a couple of scents of body butter in the last hour - other than that we had enough of everything. Whew! (That was the main thing I was worried about).
We made our first $100 before the show even opened - just from other vendors at the fair. That got me really excited.
What I learned....
1) People don't really ask as many questions as I thought they would. I was up until 1am last night typing out a list of my ingredients, with a clear explanation of what exactly they were, and how they contributed to my products. I just wanted to be "ready" in case someone really drilled me. Nobody did though. I hardly got any questions at all about the ingredients, actually! Most people were concerned with the scent, and that was about it.
2) People love body butter! My soaps and body butters sold the best. I only sold two bath salts, two sugar scrubs, and NO bath bombs! Oh well, I'll know for next time what to make less of! My soy wax tarts sold well too - I only had them in four scents and they almost sold out (have about 5 left of each scent).
Overall, we had a GREAT time. It was very fun and we met a lot of really nice people. As far as competition goes - there was one lady selling Soap Nuts. She approached me and was surprisingly extremely friendly and very excited for me since I told her it was my first show. She kept coming back and checking up on me, cheering me on. She was so nice! (I bought some Soap Nuts to try, and she bought $30 of stuff from me!) There was also another person selling M&P soap, but she only had about 4 different scents. She was mainly selling body mists and salts. I didn't actually talk to her. Her table didn't look very busy. :\
Anyway, enough talking.... on to some pics! I really did not get that many pics since we were super busy. We hardly had time to set up before the other vendors started coming over and buying! Here are just a few....
The table! It was a bit crowded... next time I think we'll get two.
Another pic of the table, closer up...
Another!
Me!
DH and I.... he was a great help!
Thanks again to everyone who gave me advice and encouraged me about this show! I had such an awesome time, and can't wait to do another one! My next one is in November (I have two), and I'm thinking about setting up a table in our local mall in early December!
We just got back from our first craft fair, and it was AWESOME!!! It was only a 4 hour event in a tiny town of 2,000 - but we made $396! YAHOO! The booth fee was only $25, so we made out like bandits! I can't believe it!
(I need to calm down..... LOL!)
I was really worried I'd run out of a lot of things. Since it was my first fair, I really didn't know what to expect. We only ran out of a couple of scents of body butter in the last hour - other than that we had enough of everything. Whew! (That was the main thing I was worried about).
We made our first $100 before the show even opened - just from other vendors at the fair. That got me really excited.
What I learned....
1) People don't really ask as many questions as I thought they would. I was up until 1am last night typing out a list of my ingredients, with a clear explanation of what exactly they were, and how they contributed to my products. I just wanted to be "ready" in case someone really drilled me. Nobody did though. I hardly got any questions at all about the ingredients, actually! Most people were concerned with the scent, and that was about it.
2) People love body butter! My soaps and body butters sold the best. I only sold two bath salts, two sugar scrubs, and NO bath bombs!
Oh well, I'll know for next time what to make less of! My soy wax tarts sold well too - I only had them in four scents and they almost sold out (have about 5 left of each scent).Overall, we had a GREAT time. It was very fun and we met a lot of really nice people. As far as competition goes - there was one lady selling Soap Nuts. She approached me and was surprisingly extremely friendly and very excited for me since I told her it was my first show. She kept coming back and checking up on me, cheering me on. She was so nice! (I bought some Soap Nuts to try, and she bought $30 of stuff from me!) There was also another person selling M&P soap, but she only had about 4 different scents. She was mainly selling body mists and salts. I didn't actually talk to her. Her table didn't look very busy. :\
Anyway, enough talking.... on to some pics! I really did not get that many pics since we were super busy. We hardly had time to set up before the other vendors started coming over and buying! Here are just a few....
The table! It was a bit crowded... next time I think we'll get two.
Another pic of the table, closer up...
Another!
Me!
DH and I.... he was a great help!
Thanks again to everyone who gave me advice and encouraged me about this show! I had such an awesome time, and can't wait to do another one! My next one is in November (I have two), and I'm thinking about setting up a table in our local mall in early December!
