Outdoor Craft Shows

By Mark Donaldson

When you experience the fun and excitement of making jewelry, how much more so when you're in the act of selling them? This is a great experience, having some fun and making money. One of the commonest methods to sell handcrafted jewelry is the outdoor craft show. It's critical to try identifying the clients at every craft show so selecting perfect beads for bracelet and necklace items is crucial to be more focused for that express show.

Outdoor craft shows are an excellent place to showcase all of your home made jewelries. This is an amazing great opportunity for you to present the uniqueness and creativity of your designs to people. However you've got to first make sure that it is a good time for putting up the show, one of the major concerns is the weather. The weather can change so dramatically it is important to be prepared for each eventuality.

Tents or canopies are ordinarily used at outdoor craft shows. They serve as shade from the heat of the sun and from rain. if it's not raining or the heat of the sun isn't bad, don't disregard the blowing of the wind. So always prepare a material that can weight down you canopy or tent. Material weights such as paint cans stuffed with heavy things, cinder blocks, and jugs filled with water can be used and sometimes these weighted materials need to be hanging in your canopy.

Before leaving, don't forget to bring hammer, nails, wire or string, rope, and tiny pieces of wood. Simply to be on the safe side, you need the display boards and tables soundly hammered down. Make efforts to keep all of the stock safe from water and sawdust. Keep them in water sealed bags and containers, jewelry that is on cards can be damaged if they get wet.

If possible put your jewelry item such us earrings on show boards or frames. This is an easy and faster way when packing in case of unexpected storms. Keep an eye out for any jewelry display update that will give you fresh ideas on displaying your jewelry to protect it when selling outdoors.

These ideas may appear a bit drastic, but there is not much worse than your work being damaged by a sudden storm. When you have everything you want to secure your stall and jewelry displays it doesn't take long to set everything up and you can then relax knowing that you are safe if the weather turns bad. There isn't any harm in preparing, expect the unexpected you never can tell. Always pack more hang tags for your jewelry than you will need, they turn out to be useful as business cards that you can pass out if things are quiet. - 33381

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