Craft Fair on Friday - eeeeeeeeeeek!

moosetastic

So, I'm back, knackered but back!! Made £103.50 tonight,:j I'm well impressed!! Got quite a lot of stuff left, got approached by a woman from a school who offered me a stall at their christmas fair in 2 weeks time so will be doing that to sell the rest.

Chuzzle wrote: »

Hi Moose, hope its all going well for you. Can I be nosy and ask how much in total you spent on the goods, and how much each item sold for? It'll be handy to know for next year seeing as I'm too late this year, and I reckon this kind of stuff will sell really well. Sorry, hope you don't mind me pinching your ideas for next year.....

Hiya Chuzzle, thats not a problem, pinch away!!! I spent just over £100 on all the items (which also included the cost of the stall which was £15) but like I've said above, I've made my money back tonight, plus still got about 4 boxes worth left to sell so will make a healthy profit!

I sold my items for -

Little bags of 5 chocolate santas (whch is what I had left) 50p - all went
Peg memo holders £1 - all went, will definately be making some more!!
Magic reindeer food, snowman poop, snowman kisses, santa kisses, reindeer poop for £1
Penguin Cones for £1.50 - all went - but believe me if I had sold these for £1 I would have sold them 10 times over!
Snowman Soup £2.00 - must have sold half of these easily
Swiss roll (yule log) flannels (my mum made these) £2.00 - only 2 left
Reindeer flannels £2.00 - only 2 left
Flannel and Socks cupcakes £2.00 - hardly sold any of these so I'm reducing these to £1 in order to sell them
Santa Smoothies and Milkshakes for £2.50 - not many of these left
Mugs with quality street and coffee sachets in (my mum made these too) £3.00 - sold nearly all of these

jpwhittle

well done on your first fair, ive got my first fair tomorrow its 10-4 so hopeing to do well out of it then got another on thursday, really hoping this will cover the kids christmas presents.
glad everything went well for you now youll be busy redoing stock for 2 weeks time.

janeym8

glad things went well for you.
id never be able to do something like that

janey xxx

moosetastic

jpwhittle wrote: »

well done on your first fair, ive got my first fair tomorrow its 10-4 so hopeing to do well out of it then got another on thursday, really hoping this will cover the kids christmas presents.
glad everything went well for you now youll be busy redoing stock for 2 weeks time.

Good luck for your fair today and thursday!!! I'm sure you will do well.


Thanks for all your good wishes peeps. I enjoyed it, just need to restock for the one on the 3rd now, plus my friends at work said they will buy some stuff form me as well so all in all I'm very happy!!!

Finally, thanks MSE and to all the people who have put these wonderful ideas on here!! :T

hollyandmatt

all your bits are fab!! i love the cheeky monkey smoothies.. love them!! will want to pinch this idea, got to find some cheap smoothie cups!!

also with your memo pegs.. where did you get little magnets for them?

i did a school craft fair also..

my best sellers were snowman soups, then the cheaper bits like rindeer poop, candy apples.. then reindeer food and then my cupcakes.. which were slower to shift.. i had SOO many people say "oh yum, how are they calorie free though?".. haha.. "umm.. its a flannel!" haha

li'l_p

Sparkly font from the tags is here if anyone wants it.

Can I just ask where you got your Chinese takeaway boxes from, please?

jpwhittle

i didnt do quite so well only made £40 but at least i have loads left for thursday, my biggest seller were peg magnets and the loo rolls, my dad couldnt believe i was about to sell loo roll for £1 a roll, he was shocked when i rang him and told him they all went.

hollyandmatt

the loo roll? haha, that suprises me too!!
well done today!!
I made £55 at mine, but was only school fair.. next year i will aim for bigger craft fairs! at least you made a profit.. i kept thinking.. oh i hope i sell at least over £5 to pay for the table! hahaha

where did you get magnets to make your pegs?

jpwhittle

I had ordered some for my tiara business from vistaprint but my details have changed so recycled them. they worked really well, just glued the printed side to the peg

mumoffour77

Hi jpwhittle:)

How did you sell loo roll for £1??