Festival Fun

This past weekend I exhibited my jewelry at a local festival with my friend Alyssa of AW Jewelry Designs (She wrote about the experience here.) It was a good weekend, in that we got to spend a lot of quality time together catching up on each others lives and sharing things God is teaching us, etc. We don't have as much time to do that as we would like now that we are both married and mothers to small children.

The festival was not a good experience on the sales side of things. It seemed that most people were not there to buy anything expensive, but were instead looking for small trinkets (if they were going to buy anything at all). We think that sales might be better at a true craft fair rather than at a family festival. The weekend wasn't an entire bust. We did sell a few things and learned a lot about the set up of our booth and what layouts work best, etc. I think that next time (Yes! We are going to try again!) we'll be better prepared from the beginning and hopefully choose an event that is better suited to our product.

Once we've decided on the events (We're planning for one in November and one in December.) I'll update you all so that anyone local can make plans to come out and visit us at our booth. It would be a great opportunity to buy Christmas gifts and get some things knocked off of your holiday to-do list!