Hi Jules,
You have echoed my thoughts about doing bigger shows, unfortunately down here the bigger shows are a bit few and far between, my daughter also does jewellery making as a hobby and is working full time, plus I have a hubby that works odd hours and between us we have three dogs, so travelling is something that has to be planned when hubby has time off so he can dog-sit. As far as I know there is only one big show down here, which is at Westpoint, an annual event, (on this weekend actually), and they have a craft section which is fully booked this year, I enquired about four months ago, but they invite the stallholders back every year so unless they have a drop-out we cant get in, but our name is on the list, how far down the list I don't know. I don't think there are any others in the area, we were invited to one in Salisbury but it would take us at least 2 hours to get there, that is a bit too far away, especially when you add the cost of the fuel into the equation. We are hoping that the website will attract people to buy, but you have to let people know your name to get anywhere and without going to shows you hit a brick wall. We are selling some stuff but to people we know, rather than to general public, the last three local shows have been a complete wash-out, organised by the same woman, the first one wasnt advertised well enough, the second one was the same and the third one was advertised well, but there was a huge book sale in the town on the same day and as we were a good half mile uphill people didnt come up to see the craft fair. It wasnt just us, nobody sold anything. As far as Artisan fairs, I dont think they hold those down here, never seen one advertised anyway. We were thinking about asking one of the few galleries down here if they would take some of our stuff to put on show, but havent done so yet. Perhaps now would be a good time to do it.
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