Now is generally the time you want to get out the old calendar and schedule your upcoming vendor festivals you wish to participate in this coming spring. In Florida you might want to get them scheduled from February until the end of May when it just is too hot to be out there. There are…
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Slow Season For Crafters in Florida
If there is ever a slow season for us handcraft artists in business in Florida it is during the summer months. Mostly, we use this time to create new items to sell, learn new crafts, sign-up for Fall and Winter festivals and shows to sell our crafts. For Southern Women Crafts this year, we decided…
Setting Up Our Own Shop
This weekend is the initial opening of our very own little shop. We decided to open one so that we had a place to show and store all our handcrafted items on a more permanent basis. Granted, April really isn’t a good time to setup a shop in the central-west Florida area as most of…
Be Aware of Vendor Event Deadlines
As handcraft artists who sell their items to the public we have to schedule our time as wisely as possible to attend events that fit with the crafts we sell, to the audience we hope to reach and in the areas that we are willing to travel and, finally, during the time we want to…
Upcoming Fall Events
Over the next couple of weeks there are lots of different opportunities to share your handcrafted items with lots of different people. Some of these opportunities are somewhat expensive to join in and be vendors but those are the ones with the most people attending. A couple of them have already filled up on their…