On Sunday we did our first craft show.Yipee you might say!! but we were very disappointed with the overall event.
We only just managed to scrape back the stall fee - but it took all day to do so. it could well have been the longest eight hours of our lives!
The visitor figure for the day was around 300 which is OK but it was a well publicised event and we kinda expected more.
Anyway, the point of the post is we were so very disappointed with other craft stall holders. There were many fantastic holders offering handmade cards,jams, emriodery, paintings and other amazing crafts but on the flip side there were others that were just selling blatant tatt!!!
I mean we were expecting "crafts" to be at a craft show.some stall holders looked like they had called into the wholesaler on the way, picked up a load of teddy bears(including labels/prices), bought a load of glassware, animal shaped pillows, fake flowers in vases, and other such rubbish and they were selling it as there own which utterly [email protected]$!*d me off. how can they sell it as a craft made when they get it out of boxes, unwrapp it and bung it on their stall.
We spend all day making the best handmade soap, bath bombs,herbal spa soaks, lotion bars and gift sets, designing packaging, developing products, overcoming the latest EU safety requirements only to be up against some "crafter" wannabe selling sea side resort junk! wheres the justice??
the thing that got me is that people were buying that stuff.fooled by the stall holders assurances of it being handmade the pound coins were flying in!!!
makes me wonder, sometimes is it worth you time, sweat, money(thousands of it), and general hard work when you up against money crabbing cowboys with a costco card!!!!!!
IT JUST AINT RIGHT. or is it me that is wrong??? what you think?????
We only just managed to scrape back the stall fee - but it took all day to do so. it could well have been the longest eight hours of our lives!
The visitor figure for the day was around 300 which is OK but it was a well publicised event and we kinda expected more.
Anyway, the point of the post is we were so very disappointed with other craft stall holders. There were many fantastic holders offering handmade cards,jams, emriodery, paintings and other amazing crafts but on the flip side there were others that were just selling blatant tatt!!!
I mean we were expecting "crafts" to be at a craft show.some stall holders looked like they had called into the wholesaler on the way, picked up a load of teddy bears(including labels/prices), bought a load of glassware, animal shaped pillows, fake flowers in vases, and other such rubbish and they were selling it as there own which utterly [email protected]$!*d me off. how can they sell it as a craft made when they get it out of boxes, unwrapp it and bung it on their stall.
We spend all day making the best handmade soap, bath bombs,herbal spa soaks, lotion bars and gift sets, designing packaging, developing products, overcoming the latest EU safety requirements only to be up against some "crafter" wannabe selling sea side resort junk! wheres the justice??
the thing that got me is that people were buying that stuff.fooled by the stall holders assurances of it being handmade the pound coins were flying in!!!
makes me wonder, sometimes is it worth you time, sweat, money(thousands of it), and general hard work when you up against money crabbing cowboys with a costco card!!!!!!
IT JUST AINT RIGHT. or is it me that is wrong??? what you think?????
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