Etsykids Virtual Trunk Show!! Dec 4th at 8 PM in the Etsy Labs!!

Here's our next show - a VIRTUAL one on etsy! Sponsored by the EtsyKids street team, the trunk show will show off 15 etsykids shops (including us!) as well as some of the EtsyKids shops we love! Please see details here: http://etsykids.blogspot.com/2008/11/etsykids-team-trunk-show.html

We've also supplied a prize in the 12 Days of Christmas EtsyKids promotion (a Santa finger puppet http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17772071) so be sure to play along and win a cool prize! See details here: http://etsykids.blogspot.com/

Sue...

Craft Attack 2008!

Come join us at Craft-Attack in Charlotte, on Saturday, October 11th, 9:30am - 5pm! This festival will be a fantastic chance to do your holiday shopping and see amazing crafts and art (including the Whosits!) :)

See more at http://craft-attack.com/

It's Craft Show Season!

If you're in the Carolinas this fall, come look us up at one of our shows! The schedule is:

Sept 7th through the 15th: Cabarrus County Fair (Event Center B), Cabarrus Arena, Concord, NC http://cabarruscountyfair.com/

Sept 29th: Etsy Trunk Show - Anne Springs Close Greenway, Field Trial Barn - in Fort Mill, SC 11am - 4PM

Oct 19-21: Christmas Made in the South - Cabarrus Arena, Concord NC http://carolinashows.com/

Nov 30-Dec 2: Christmas Made in the South - Exchange Park, Charleston SC http://carolinashows.com/

Hope we get to see you there!

Festival Report

Well, we're back from High Point's Celebrate Our State festival. With a first year festival, it's always a gamble to see if you will have a financially successful experience or not. For the Whosits crew, this show was more of a "marketing opportunity" than a financial success. We did make a lot of contacts among the artisans and the show visitors, passing out the neato brochure that Eileen had made that explained both etsy and Happy Whosits. Hopefully, we'll see some visitors from these contacts!

The festival itself was great -- very nice venue/facilities, very helpful and pleasant staff, excellent artisans, great bands, tasty food and interesting informational booths. We just didn't have the crowd we'd hoped for. Was the festival competing against too many graduations that weekend? Was the admission fee too high? Was it too hard to find parking in downtown High Point? Was more advertising needed? Should it be more holiday oriented? No one was sure, but we would go back again once the festival matures and finds its audience.

We also experimented with some new display options for the booth that Eileen is considering for our fall festivals. Here's the flickr url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83271516@N00/sets/72157594169920992/

Next on the agenda, I have orders to fill and I need to get the etsy site updated.

Till next time,

Sue....

Frantic, Freaked Out and Frenzied!

Three more days and we’ll be doing set-up for the Celebrate Our State show. Sue and I are both starting to freak out – there’s so much that still needs to be done.


The booth size is 13 by 8. We are used to doing 20 by 10, so the layout of the booth had to be reworked. And, we won’t be displaying Christmas ornaments, holiday merchandise or scarf and hat sets in June. So I spent an evening with my graph paper, working on how to do the set-up. I came up with several alternatives, Sue has picked which one she likes the best, and we loaded the horse trailer accordingly. Yes, horse trailer – that’s how we get all the display to the shows – Sue’s horse trailer does double duty.

Here’s a link to pictures of last year’s Southern Christmas Show booth, so that you can get an idea of our set-up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83271516@N00/sets/72057594062692542/.

The new business cards with the etsy.com address are ready. The reminder lists of what we need to bring to the show are updated. I started working on a brochure to hand out.

But there’s so much left to do! Toys to finish up. The table covers and lace that we use to cover up the crates need to be freshened. We need a non-Christmas custom sign, if Sue gets a chance to get it made. Organize all the merchandise, tag it, get it packed up. Finalize who is going to take care of the dogs. It’s going to be a busy couple of evenings!

Next time we’ll let you know how the show went.

Eileen…