Shot in the Dark shows

Last weekend I did the first major-ish show for 2010 – the Spring Festival at Canterbury Park raceway here in the Twin Cities.

me in my booth at a previous show

It’s a big show, lots of publicity and is part of a series of shows across the US run by this particular promotion company. Well, I thought “looks kinda crafty but I’ll give it a go and see what happens”. It’s a bit of a shot-in-the-dark with shows sometimes.

Friday was great – good sales,  despite many in the crowd wearing cowboy hats and beer or car logo T-shirts. Maybe there were enough people coming through who could appreciate my work and would buy it. Optimistic for the weekend.

Sat and Sun were dreadful. For example, I sat there for 9 hours on Sat. for $65 and Sunday was only slightly better. Turns out that sales for most of the vendors were way down from previous years – no surprise there I guess, given the economic climate of late.

All in all, it was a very crafty show, not really my market, and I won’t do it again. My booth neighbors were friendly, informative and fun but I’ll stick to the ‘fine art’ shows exclusively from now on.

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