St. Jude Show Results

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This was the Show Giveaway Trio for yesterday's St. Jude's Holiday Craft Sale. That tree pin is my all-time best seller so I have bunches of those made. The stitching was already done for the other pieces so I put those items together yesterday morning. They are literally one-of-a-kind pieces. One woman, my last customer of the show, really wanted to buy that Sticky Notes with the tree but I held strong. I probably could have made another to give away but since this question has come up before, I was already prepared to stand strong and Just Say No. I always explain that people have entered the giveaway drawing based on what they saw to be the prize - and then I steer them in the direction of something similar.

I mentioned in a previous post that my friend Liz and her husband organized this show at St. Jude's and hoped it would be the first annual event. By all accounts, it looks like they'll have it again. Liz is a very successful jewelry designer so I was very happy she put me right next to her. I'll take her "run-off" any day! I found it funny/irksome that several of her customers took my area to be the waiting room/annex to her booth. One woman moved a plate of pins out of her way so she could lean on my table to write her check to Liz. No harm done so I went with the flow and fixed it back as soon as she was gone.

I reached my sales goal by 191%! The place was packed in the morning and didn't seriously taper off until mid-afternoon. This church is on the complete other side of Rochester from Fairport so it was nice to reach a new audience.

I got to know a couple of new vendors and visit with some of my usual vendor friends. I got a lead on a one-day show in Syracuse in June - might be my first outdoor venue.

I was so tired by the end of the day and again after dinner, I could have cried. Not sleepy tired, but show-season exhausted. I'm keenly aware that I have just one more show to go. It's like I always tell Steve, by the time each show rolls around, I'm already on to the next one, in my head. That makes sense, because the preparation is the biggest part of it. So while I'm going to work my butt off this week to be as prepared as I can - in a way, I'm already done. It's nice having today, Sunday, off so I'm going to work like crazy on embellishing Sticky Notes and figure the more I get done today, the less I have to during the week.

December 6, 9:00-4:00

School 46 Holiday Bazaar

250 Newcastle Road, Rochester, NY 14610

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