Moving on from the 10 years of craft shows

[myshop1044]

Today my wife and I set up our first booth in a vendor shop in the town of Breaux Bridge, home of the world famous crawfish festival.
The booth is quite small but the owner opens ever day, so it’s like a craftshow 25 days of the month with me having to be there every day.
This will give me a chance to get special order request from my web site.
This is big step for us.
Perry B.

[want2b]

Sounds like you are about to get a lot busier. I've never been able to make that step of commitment, just couldn't make myself take the risk or commit to the time. With all the work you have shared here you have the experience to provide whatever the customers want.
Good Luck, Rick H

[Digitalwoodshop]

Impressive collection of project samples. Sounds like a plan where as you get known, people will know where to find you when they need something they saw in your shop. A QR Code for phones should give them a quick way to save your info.

Good Luck,

AL

[myshop1044]

yes this could become very hectic, The craft shows, I spaced them out 5 to 6 weeks apart giving me time to redo my inventory or do special orders.
I would do 4 or 5 shows in the spring and another 4 to 5 in the fall. I did fine myself busy sometimes btwn shows, summer would give my a break.
I just finish 2 lithos for a person who found my business card after a year from one of the shows.

[fwharris]

And you only have to set one time and just replenish the stock as it is sold. Good luck on your new venue.

[oscarl48]

Best of luck and success!

[Mugsowner]

Always good to make sales without being there. Wishing you luck in your new venue

[blhutchens]

With any business location, location, location. We had a small booth at an antique mall for a few months. We did great for a few months, soon we weren't even making the rent in monthly sales. We never did near the amount of sales at the booth that we did at flea markets and craft shows. We could do a show and sell out in one day and make $800-1200.
I think the main thing was we were building what they wanted not what looked nice. Shabby sheik furniture was the bulk of our sales with a few incidental signs and plaques.
I would sell two or three carved mantels a month. The difference was people want to talk to someone about the product. Shabby is not as popular now and we quit doing shows and had to move out of the antique mall.
My remodel business is booming now so we are focusing on that waiting to figure out what the next trend will be.

It sounds like your venue gets a lot of traffic, hopefully it will generate some custom work that you can make some real money on.

[shortyscwater17]

So when it comes to the Fallen Soldier plaque you have there with the Rifle, Boots, and Helmet, how do you get the concave area where the image is? Is that available on the basic version or do I have to have the pro version?

Today my wife and I set up our first booth in a vendor shop in the town of Breaux Bridge, home of the world famous crawfish festival.
The booth is quite small but the owner opens ever day, so it’s like a craftshow 25 days of the month with me having to be there every day.
This will give me a chance to get special order request from my web site.
This is big step for us.
Perry B.

[myshop1044]

I created that dish shape using the puff tool and inverted it, I do believe it can be done using basic, it’s been a long time.
It seems some created some patterns showing ovals and rectangles showing these, you can invert each with floor feather off and it brings the dish up to the top surface.
Any help out there.