this little bird's first outing!

On Saturday, November 12th, this little bird had it's first outing at a craft fair at the Oceano Elks Club, hosted by the Sigma Xi sorority.  I had a wonderful time and learned so much about set up, take down, inventory preparation and who our target market it.  Sad to say the patrons of this craft fair were not our target market but I did make some sales and got leads on a few custom orders.  The organizers of the fair were wonderful.  I did meet up with an old friend that day as well which was wonderful.  Here are some photos from the day.

Me, with my new "do", setting up.

My logo, made by Alissa!!

The set-up.

The pumpkins that started it all!



THE runner, yes, the one from THAT post!



Ready to sell, sell, sell!

It really was fun and such a great learning experience.  I'll do some things differently at my next craft fair outing, whenever that will be!  Many of the items at the craft show are not listed in my Etsy shop.  I really need to get on that with all the post-Thanksgiving shopping in the near future.  Mr. Bird was a huge help lugging all the heavy stuff, taking the pictures and even coming back to bring me lunch.  His reward for all his hard work was his favorite BBQ on the way home.

It now officially feels like this little bird is in full swing.  Last night I got my business debit card so I guess I'm official. Good news Mr. Bird, no more craft expenses coming out of our personal account! Score!

Cheers,

this little bird