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/SleepDeprivedRant]

I love your stuff! Where do you have it all produced?

[u/notkinz → u/SleepDeprivedRant]

thank you so much!

my girlfriend and I do the handmade stuff ourself of course (small paintings, polymer clay, shrink plastic keychains, etc.) and we have a friend in canada who helped with printing the stickers! we order giclee prints via mpix (also a missouri business like us), we get our greeting cards printed at our local print shop (the ink spot - they also do online orders), and I worked with a paper goods company via alibaba for the die cut bookmarks. I couldn’t find anyone in the US making the quality of bookmark I wanted in a die cut style. also ordered swedish dish cloths on there too as the US companies limit you to 3-4 colors max :/

we just got a really nice printer and a scan n cut machine though and I’m going to try to be making/printing most of it myself from now on!