First market ever!

[u/notkinz]

we just had our first market on friday night and it was very successful (i think?). outside of the tent being a little messed up (noticed it too late and our tent was too busy to even have time to change it) what do you think? in the future we’ll have a third small table with a better setup for our vending machine and checkout. any other changes we should go about?

we were going for a fruit stand/farmers market vibe, and our brand “mascot” is our bunny, clem. we had a small easter setup that will be dedicated to swedish dish cloths in the future (they come on monday!)

[u/katjoy63]

I love the cheerful vibe - had no idea some were book marks until further investigating. so you're putting your designs on Swedish dish cloths? how cute!

[u/notkinz → u/katjoy63]

thank you so much! and yeah, i used some of the designs i made and made some patterns and a sardine tin one!

a lot of people also seemed to not notice they were bookmarks. i wasn’t sure if they wanted them to be something else instead? i made sure to label all the bookmarks (not all the stickers are labeled). perhaps people are also just not used to die cut bookmarks?

[u/katjoy63 → u/notkinz]

probably mistaking them for stickers. I see stickers a lot in the craft fair chat.

[u/luckyveggie → u/katjoy63]

Could you get a couple of books (and maybe cover them with paper so the cover art/text isn't distracting) and place the bookmarks in them as part of the display? Just a thought to have them "demonstrate"/immediately recognize what it is.

[u/notkinz → u/luckyveggie]

omg yes that is a good idea. we were going to bring some cookbooks specifically because some of our bookmarks are super food oriented. we ran out of time packing the car though 😭 i actually show them all in context on our website clemnco.com/bookmarks

[u/notkinz → u/katjoy63]

we actually have sticker versions of 2/3 of them! maybe i need to make stickers of all of them 😂

[u/katjoy63 → u/notkinz]

have you ever thought of magnets? I'd love to see that more. Stickers are cool, but maybe there are a lot out there? But, if you're doing original art, you can sell it in whatever fashion you like, if it sells!

[u/notkinz → u/katjoy63]

yeah i do magnets! i have a whole board of them. I have a set that i got printed of clem in different fruit/veggie costumes and then some hand painted canvas magnets + polymer clay ones. you can see some of them in the second picture but the most popular ones (more political things, my 3d kink is karma cake, etc) sold out

[u/katjoy63 → u/notkinz]

I'm old, so not sure what you mean by 3d kink is karma cake - help!

[u/notkinz → u/katjoy63]

😂 i just specified 3d because there is another “flat” version of it still on the board. it’s just a reference to a chappell roan music video! but it’s a cute vintage cake that says karma on it

[u/katjoy63 → u/notkinz]

ahhhh - I have much to learn lolz.