All set up, soaked and cold, our first booth ever was officially up and running. The rain finally let up but it was still pretty dreary. Not exactly pristine fair weather. The first of the three day venture was the worst, and understandably slow. Mt. Vernon gets out of school for the first day every year, but everyone else is occupied, be it a job or school elsewhere. When added to the weather it makes for a pretty small turn out, at least compared to expectations.
Preparing for Apple Butter Makin' Days was interesting. I thought that I had a decent idea of what would sell and what wouldn't. Boy, was I wrong. I had expected there to be a vast interest in sports woodburnings with our nerdy pieces catering to the specific crowd. I quickly discovered that 1. there are nerds everywhere. A lot of them. And 2. People are easily attracted to items that are unique in a crowd full of wood products. We were definitely not prepared for the reaction we received for our Perler pieces.
We had brought some of our beads to work on custom ordered pieces here and there, not really expecting much of a response. Next thing we know, we are taking orders in and rushing them out. It was absolute madness. A madness we were not exactly prepared for, but certainly welcomed. All of our beads found their way to our booth after realizing that we needed all of them and then some.
Kids loved us. Parents of the kids that loved us hated us. We were just big kids doing what we loved and it worked for us. It worked extremely well for us. So well in fact, that we ended the three day span with an award for Best Youth Vendor. We won an award for our first booth ever. Holy crap! The experience of our first booth will be tested again at this year's ABMD, and I can't wait.
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