Back then, when I was in college, I was a theatre student. Every time we had a student-directed show, we used to get together with the teachers and our other mentors right after. We get together so we could analyze how the event went from start until end. This is what we called a postmortem. Let me do something similar right now with the craft fair that I attended.

Frankly, the craft fair wasn’t that much of a success for me, but it wasn’t a total failure either. You see, I’ve only done this once before; and that one was where I learned to do all the preparatory work. After all, there was the set up to think of, as well as how to sell my crafts and stuff like that. In reality, though, I don’t see it as pure selling; it’s more of chatting with people and telling them a little bit about what I do.

I guess it has something to do with how unfamiliar people are with my craftwork. You see, not a lot of people truly understand what chain mail is. So I set up a mannequin warrior, complete with eyelashes, with the outfit, and many people were drawn to my booth and began a conversation.

Sales were slow, though, so I decided to weave a new dice bag for myself. People were fascinated with the weave that I used, and started inquiring about that. I also decided to take out the DIY Necklace Kits: In the end, I was able to make decent sales with the necklaces and the dice bags, too. Sadly, the chain mail idea never truly picked up. I should have known that it wouldn’t pick up in that particular show.

I did get new contacts, at least. This dude that was costumed as a pirate approached me at one time during the show; he was there making animal balloons. He wanted to see if I was interested in a booth for an upcoming local pirate festival. Besides him, a fellow vendor invited me to a different fair held at a coffee shop outside town. I may try my luck the pirate festival, but pass on the coffee shop one. It’s just too far away; it’ll take an hour even with a car.