Off to the Market

Posted by: deidre421 on: July 26, 2010

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This week marked the beginning of my market career. I participated at a market in O’Fallon, MO at the Rascals stadium (small league baseball team). This farmers and artists market has been going on since April but I left some time for me to make more work and have dates set up later in the season. I participated this past Wednesday and Saturday. I plan to be there again on August 14th.

It was great to run through everything and get the tent and tables set up with all my work out to display. However, I did not do very well in terms of sales. It seems like as i was talking to some of the other artists there, that there sales vary week to week, and it took them a few times coming to break even and get a good amount of sales. So, participating in another one can’t hurt, just to see if anything changes.

The Wednesday market was smaller but a good time to practice again getting everything set up. It was pretty hot but also cloudy, about halfway through it started to sprinkle. We packed up a little, and my friend said we should just pack it all up. But then the rain stopped and optimistic me said why not wait it out and see. Then CRACK! BOOM! Thunder!! Lightening!! and it was raining cats and dogs! We proceeded to pack everything up and got super duper wet in the process.

On Saturday there was no threat of rain, but it was a hot on and super sunny. We sat between a flower stall and a barbeque tent so the smells were wonderful. There were also lots of dogs! Many of which I wanted to steal, one which I have pictures of looks like my own buddy bear! Here are some pictures from both times. Hopefully I can get pictures of all the new stuff and start listing new stuff on etsy.

Tags: art, artists, ceramics, deidreart, dogs, farmers, market, missouri, o'fallon, rain, rascals, tent