Craft Fair Best Sellers

jakes-mum

My mum is picking mine up today, it seems wilkinsons have them for £3.48 according to their website so shes popped in to see if they have any left

I only stumbled on the idea when looking for battery operated poseable lamps on ebay looool

chaosweddings

cl34 wrote: »

What the hell is reindeer food please?!

Magic Reindeer food is oats and/or bird food mixed with edible glitter/sugar in a bag with a topper and poem

hth

pointofnoreturn

jill_b29 wrote: »

Thanks Jakes-Mum, thats kind of you to say. I am really hoping that I sell something!! Starting to worry that I have quite a bit of money tied up in the products and if they dont sell.......

I like the battery operated lights idea, prob is where I am we dont have any pound shops, where did you get yours from?? Were they expensive?

cl34 - Reindeer food is oats with sparkles inside that you sprinkle on the lawn on chirstmas eve for the Reindeers. If you google it you will see the poem that goes with it.

Sunday is getting closer and I feel like I still have loads to do.......

I bought a set of 15 battery lights today at a shop called Family Bargains. They were 99p - I thought they were white but they are a lovely bright red! Very Christmasy!!!

jill_b29

Today not going well at all. Think the weather has put people off. Sold 3 flannel cupcake, 2 pints of socks and 2 snowman soup. Not even covered cost of my stall. Feeling very dis heartened!!

jollymummy

I think that you are doing a great job at the craft fairs everyone, this thread is great. I fancy doing one but never have the nerve to. I would love to have a go next year. I'll probably be back asking lots of daft questions

Bitsy_Beans

jill_b29 wrote: »

Today not going well at all. Think the weather has put people off. Sold 3 flannel cupcake, 2 pints of socks and 2 snowman soup. Not even covered cost of my stall. Feeling very dis heartened!!

I suspect it is the weather. Try not to be too disheartened, it's unseasonably cold so people not venturing out.
Have you got anything else booked in the coming weeks?

jill_b29

I've got another one next Saturday so at least I don't have to worry about not having enough stock! Problem is because there hasn't been a lot of people I don't know if my things will sell. Oh well, maybe another time.

jakes-mum

jill_b29 wrote: »

Today not going well at all. Think the weather has put people off. Sold 3 flannel cupcake, 2 pints of socks and 2 snowman soup. Not even covered cost of my stall. Feeling very dis heartened!!

I've just finished mine aswell and only made £17.50, there wasnt a great footfall as its so cold. I know how you feel i'm terribly disheartened after todays fair. hopefully we will both do better next week

cat04

I haven't posted on here before, although I do have a quick look every now and again along with Flying Pig's thread, the flannel cupcake and the nappy cake threads. This is my first year of 'making' and I had my first table on Friday at a local school. £5 a table and I took £62 which I was very happy/surprised with. I haven't had time to work out how much of that is profit, but my children's things went really well, as well as pints of socks, fluffy socks in a mug, yule logs/swiss rolls and flannel reindeer.

For the kids things I've folded Fifi facecloths into a pocket shape and filled with Fifi crayons and a candy cane; done the same with other character facecloths and filled with character chocolates (the ones from B&M/Wilkos/Morrisons) and a candy cane; and also 'sweetie stockings' - mini Xmas stockings from B&M, character popping candy, 2 candy canes and haribo sweets with a character facecloth for wiping sticky faces!

I've got 2 more tables next Friday and the following Wednesday and have loads to make up again. Haven't had a go at making magic reindeer food yet - that's one of the many jobs on my list.

Edited to add: We hadn't had snow on Friday so that helped, and also nothing was priced at more than £3.50. Yule logs/flannel muffin £1; reindeer/sock cupcakes/double flannel muffin £1.50; Kids facecloth gifts/fluffy sock muffins/double sock cupcakes £2; Pint of socks/Sweetie stockings/hot choc mugs/expresso cup and saucer with flannel &mini soap £2.50; fluffy sock mugs £3 and kids mini mug gifts (mini Disney princess/Toy Story/Cars mugs filled with hair brush, hair bobbles, pencils, stamper pens, rubbers, colouring pencils, candy cane etc) £3.50. Think that everything I took!

jill_b29

Well after a 5 hour drive home to do 20 miles and only taking 30 pounds (the stall was 25) I feel like I never want to do another stall again!! Wonder if this snow will clear by next saturday, otherwise I will have loads of elf poop and snowman soup that I can't sell! Feeling rubbish!!! Sorry for the rant. X