Saturday, April 11, 2009

TIME TO GET SERIOUS????

We have a show coming up and now it is crunch time....Amanda and I have a tendency to lallygag when we should be working and I think now more than ever because we may just have a touch of spring fever. When we are under pressure is when the two of us really shine...not so much when have all kinds of time.

We were however, discussing our inventory the other day thinking that maybe we are a little hard on ourselves when we are preparing for shows. We have about 75 handbags and a bunch of accessories and for some reason we were thinking that wasn't enough. That is a pretty good amount and we started thinking that maybe we just need to keep making them at a normal pace but no need to push ourselves so hard when we have a very nice stock.

Anyway, wish us luck next weekend as we do a show that is new to us. If you're interested the show is at the Phanzone Sports Center in Hampstead NH. Hope to see you there.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

New Craft Show Display!

So we bit the big one and purchased an all new display for our craft shows. We have yet to set it up and think we are just going to do it for the first time at our next craft show in three weeks. Is that crazy?? It will make our space look more like a store and give us our own space so that we don't have to feel like other vendors are invading our space. It will take a little more time to set up than our old display but will be well worth it.

I think the display is key in being successful at a craft show. We started realizing that our old display was a little distracting to people (at least we came to this conclusion ourselves based on reading people in our booth). We had a small rack that held about 25 bags and then the rest were arranged on a table and that was the part that seemed to be very dysfunctional.

Well we'll take pictures of the new display and post them after our craft show.

Tiffany