Craft Shows and Festivals

Slow Season For Crafters in Florida

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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…

Results Are In For Florida Folk Festival

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We worked our butts off getting ready for the Florida Folk Festival this year and we sweated the whole three days. From what I gathered from some of the other participants last year they got stormed out. With temperature in the low 100s all three days it did affect attendance…

Crafts and Specialty Shows

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As another post in our series on treating your crafts business like a business we will tell you about our experience with this year’s Infinity Con in Lake City, Florida the first weekend in March every year. Infinity Con Mar 2019 Vendor Fee $110.50 Infinity Con Revenue Scrunchie $6.00 Earrings…

Setting Up Our Own Shop

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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…

Music and Crafts Festivals

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As part of our “Sell Your Own Crafts” business series we will be including a frank discussion on being vendors at local crafts and music festivals in the North Florida region. Now, this is by no means an absolute findings are attending these events in this area of Florida for…

Starting Your Own Craft Business

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Your New Year’s Goal is to start your very own crafting business but you really don’t know where to start. You can benefit from our experiences over the last 7 years. First off, you might want to grab a copy of this eBook series we offer on our sister site,…

Dragon Scales Gloves

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Being as we don’t have any postal deliveries today we thought we might post an article about one of the hand crocheted items that seems to be very popular this time of year and that is our dragon scales fingerless gloves. We started making them about 3 years ago when…

Be Aware of Vendor Event Deadlines

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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…

Upcoming Fall Events

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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…

Inexpensive Ways to Promote Your Craft Business

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There are inexpensive and even FREE ways to promote your craft business. One of the first you should consider is creating a separate public PAGE on Facebook. If you have a personal Facebook page now it is very simple to create a separate page for your handcraft business. You can…

Response to Craft Vending Opportunities This Fall

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We received a couple of responses for craft vending opportunities so far this month. Sadly, they are not within the North Florida area but we are posting them just in case you would like to participate anyway or know of craft vendors in the area who who like to participate….

Spring Festival WrapUp

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The Spring Festival held again at Alligator Lake Park by the Four Rivers Audobon Society was a rousing success. We have already posted a short review and pictures on our Facebook page but thought a more in-depth blog post might be helpful. The cost for a vendor space was only…

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