The second Saturday for the art and craft market and I arrived armed with extra resources including a tree stump, blocks of wood, christmas fabric and two boards for display purposes.
Myself and Becki again set up the stall and we took on board the feedback from last week and raised the work off the flat tables Posters and cards were not left flat on the table but were put on boards and also two card holders.
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| I removed the picture from a large pine frame |
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| covered the picture in green paper |
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| Reframed the now covered picture |
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| I tacked some of my brooches to see how they would look |
The weather today was worse than the previous week, regarding wind. Although we had pinned down our table cloths and secured our work, the heavier work was blowing down such was the strength of the wind.
Most of the group took a turn at manning the stall, a couple of people couldn't be there. I sold one block today. The total I made was £12. I have not made any profit really because my outgoings were around £40. Now from that £40 I do have the products to be able to make more work on to wood.
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| The early birds |
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| Becky's book marks were pinned to a board she had prepared and were clearly labelled with a price |
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| Tree stump displaying some of Lotty's boxes which actually did still blow away - blue tack didn't hold them down! Something inside of them would've done it but as they were prepared to be sold i.e. presented beautifully |
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| Rachel and Gracie's cards were displayed in a leaflet holder |
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| Luke's poster was displayed on one of the boards I brought with me, together with my hats |
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| Olly's pictures were raised and one was displayed on an easel |
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| T-shrts were positioned so the image could be clearly seen |
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| I provided 2 candle stick card holders which I use for christmas at home and these proved ideal for Gracie and Rachel's cards |
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| This is after a guest of wind had blow our stuff down, thereby flattening the display |
Overall, even though none of us were successful in selling vast amounts, I gained more experience of holding an outside market stall which mainly came down to how to display work and examples of props to use for display. I feel I was pretty organised on both days, taking useful items such as toolbox, pins, sellotape, blue tack, boards, string, pegs.
What I could have improved on was signage for the stall including making sure we had our posters on display and we should have had a3 size and framed it. I would make sure next time that whoever is designing the poster takes responsibility for the printing of it and ensuring it gets to the hands of the people who are doing the stall on the day. I did ask the poster designer (Lauren) if they were done, and the reply was that Lance was going print them and I wanted to ask "would you mind getting them so I can pack them up to take with them" but the words wouldn't come out. I still struggle to ask for what I need.
My pricing of my work I will also change for the next stall I do. I did do a sign for my work shown below, which included a write up about me and my work i.e. that some parts of the work is recycled but this was half A4 size. Next time, I will do individual prices for each item and have a separate piece about my work and me. This sign was mounted onto foam board and was a last minute thing. Although it was adequate, it definately could be improved. Any signage I do should have my brand on it, which I don't yet have.
If I continue to create and sell knitwear, especially hats, I must find a way to display them attractively. For this stall I stuffed paper into them, but this isn't really the best I can do. I have the idea of creating paper mache heads (or rather out sourcing this task to my nephews!) and then either hanging them or putting a stand on them
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| professional and expensive hat stands |
http://www.tutusteaparties.com/2011/10/tutorail-thursday-diy-hat-stand-for.html
I need to plan more for a stall. Have my work all together well before the actual day so I know what I have to sell, how I am going to display the work, and ensure that I have all the display props, price all work, label and signage clear.
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