Preparing for Craft Fairs

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I've finally plucked up the courage to book myself some stalls at local craft fairs around Bedfordshire.  I've chosen three completely different ones so I can see what they are like:  

  1. May Fair in Houghton
  2. Table Top sale in a church in Bedford
  3. Village Party in Wixams

I'm terrified to be honest and have so many questions whirling around my head from will my stock sell to can I put the gazebo up?  And hundreds more questions in-between.

I'm planning a practice 'putting up the gazebo and table' session soon.  And then I'll need to figure out if I can get these in the car.  These are all things I guess I should have figured out some time ago but I never got around to it, you know what it's like.  There are always hundreds of other things to do first........like paint my nails or start another crochet project.  So once I've figured out if my essential table and coverage items actually fit in my teeny tiny car then I need to figure out the rest........gulp!

I've obviously been addicted to Pinterest and Instagram looking at the fantastic displays other people do and knowing full well I'll never be able to recreate it.  Plus I've read so many helpful and informative blogs, that all make perfect sense, but again I suspect I'll manage to achieve all the 'things to avoid' with great success and fail at what I should be doing.  And then there is the whole phaff of pricing.......a minefield.  But whilst I pontificate about all this, this is what I'm thinking of taking (apart from the items to sell):

  • Bags to put brought items in.
  • Marjorie and Me stickers.
  • Tissue paper for wrapping items.
  • Bunting to hang up in gazebo (if I manage to get it up and it stays up).
  • Scissors and sellotape.
  • Labels and pens.
  • Money tin with change (plus a sign explaining unfortunately cash only).
  • Drink and snacks.
  • Folding chair for me to sit on!

What else do I need?  I'm going to make a list of everything I take so next time I can figure out if it was essential or not and also add what I really need to take.  I'm guessing I'm going to learn more than I sell but, apart from all the stress and phaff, I'm actually really looking forward to it......